Primary School (PreK to Third) MAC Lab Ideas

[Carol Boehm]

Calling all Techies! I am going to be receiving funds to purchase 4 MAC computers and software. I teach Pre-K to Third Grade with more than half of my population bilingual in Spanish. I would love to find some interactive music games that I could use to create a center for 8 students to work on while I work with the other students. I am also looking into buying finale - but not sure if that would be too difficult for this age. Also wondering how to incorporate Garage Band/iMovie into some projects. ANY thoughts/ideas/suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance!

[Brenda Muench]

I'd go with Groovy Shapes and some sets of good headphones. Shapes is really well done and my 1st graders can run it completely on their own.

[Yoon S. Lim]

I agree with Brenda about Groovy series. Two students use one station with a splitter with 2 headphones. It's kids-friendly and easy. You can easily give students to "explore" lessons and assess their weakness/strengths. The assessment does become hard if there are multiple kids on one station! My 1-5th grade uses Groovy Shapes, Jungle, and City and love them.
I use "computer" days to reiterate my teaching days and they work great.