Update: I just saw this post with more interesting books: Teach kids programming (A collection of resources).
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Computer science books for kids
Update: I just saw this post with more interesting books: Teach kids programming (A collection of resources).
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Bootstrap
The new game will be about a mermaid dog fighting a shark:
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Animal Survival Game
I wrote the text on the cards and she drew pictures on them. She decided to draw "bad things on bad cards" (dragons and angry dogs) and "nice things on nice cards" (rainbows). The two cards with pictures I show in this post have pictures drawn jointly by me and her: the first card has a dog and two-headed dragon (I did the dragon and she added six eyes on his body); on the second card, I drew the kite on the right and Avril added everything else. At the end I added a balloon showing that the girl is thinking about a heart.
We played the game twice and really loved it.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Sand castle competitions
- September 4 in Capitola: Begonia Festival.
- September 5 in Point Reyes: Sand Sculpture Contest.
- September TBD in Carmel: Sand Castle Contest.
- October 2 in San Francisco: Sand Castle Contest.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Flash games for young kids based on books by Mo Willems
For Mo Willems fans (like my 4 year-old daughter), these games are great. She especially liked the "Hot Dog Dress Up" but we also spent some time playing "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed" and "Elephant and Piggie Dance".
in reference to: Pigeon Presents (view on Google Sidewiki)Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems is one of my 4 year-old daughter's favorite books. I also really like it and I picked it as the book to read to children in her classroom as "community reader" last week. The book is witty and smart and a joy to read both by children and adults.
But I would also like to point out that naked mole rats are fascinating animals. If, like me, you haven't heard of them, check out one of many articles about them on the web (e.g., this one on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
More research needed about impact of Internet on children
This article in NY Times is fascinating. I agree that children who grow up with today's technology will have a different understanding of the world and a different set of expectations than their parents and indeed than people just 10 years older then them.
But the exact effects are very hard to predict. And there's enough research to prove contradicting things. For instance I read a Newsweek article (http://www.newsweek.com/id/