Learning computer skills

A computer game that I just bought Erika has her completely enthralled and although she still needs directing through it, she is picking it up very well and her mouse skills are coming along very nicely.

The game has a tractor pulling a trailor which appears on the screen with a letter on the trailor. A voice-over says 'the letter J - pick the orange with the word that starts with a 'J' sound'. As she hovers the mouse pointer over each orange with a different picture on it the voice-over says what it is. Once she has decided that the correct orange has a picture of a Jam jar on it she has to click on the orange pull it down to the tractor and click on the trailor. Then the tractor chugs away and returns with a new letter. She has to get 26 stars filled in at the top of the screen to get a certificate which you can print out and colour in if you want.

There are other games but the videos below are of her doing this game.

Here she is concentrating so hard on picking the right word:

Her delight at getting the right orange into the trailor:

These are a couple of videos I took of her doing one of the games on the first day she got them.

One is quite long so it will take a while to load, but perservere as they are worth looking at even though the person operating the camera (me) could do with more lessons:

Showtime at Bright Minds

The kids staged a half hour concert at daycare where they wore costumes, some that they made themselves, danced and sang songs - either to musical backing or alone with the microphone they made.

Here is Erikas masterpiece costume:

Some of her friends dressed up: Zoe and Liam.
Erikas awesome headgear would have made a red indian jealous!

Complete with cellophane and feathers she outshone them all...

And the fairy wings and wrist band that rivalled the one worn by Zena warrior princess completed her ensemble.

Though she wouldnt take to the stage, she danced and clapped and sang on the floor, and that was plenty enough for me!