Dimitri has gone to school and the cat is sitting on a blanket on the sofa watching CBeebies. Really, it is. The blanket is on the sofa as Dimitri woke up a 4am (don't ask why) and we moved to the living room, where Dimitri took up residence on the sofa wrapped in blankets watching CBeebies until it was time for school. I drank coffee.24hour CBeebies has just returned to our house thanks to technology and the ugly satellite dish on our roof - damn and tarnation!!!!!!!!!!!
It could be worse, I do actually prefer BBC kids programs over the dredded Sponge Bob, as they seem vaguely more educational, in a doggedly politically correct, annoyingly great-auntish-polite, primary coloured, obnoxiously happy kid's TV presenterish kind of way. And it's useful at 4am.The TV screen is undoubtably the glowing hearth of the modern family, and Dimitri is very happy to potter from one hearth to another - "other" being the computer screen - smaller but just as effective.
In an attempt to wean the boy off these invading marauders, I attempted to direct his attention to the Starfall website, to do something slightly more constructive. He looked quite peeved and definitely unimpressed about the phonics lessons I suggested, but when it lead onto a drag and drop game/lesson he immediately took control of the mouse to have a go. He remembered this from the summer months at home! Dimitri actually he finds it funnier if he gets something wrong as the program makes a funny noise for mistakes, which kind of makes it hard to know how much he understands, but I have a feeling slowly but surely he is absorbing information, and that quite often he is hiding his light under a bushel (note to self - stop this misuse of idioms).
Some computer programs Dimitri likes
Starfall (ABC's and learn to read)
Help Kidz Learn (games)
and Dimitri's favourite
Dimitri loves penguins, in particular Tux, so I've put a picture of him on the blog especially for Dimitri - yeah!
OK - I got carried away with the penguins.
5 comments:
I think I'm going to check out some of those BBC programs for Charlie. He has no interest at all in Sponge Bob---the jokes and all that go right by him and the animation is hard for him to track. We used to use StarFall, will check it out again, and thank you for TuxPaint (and all the penguins).
Kristina - a lot of the BBC programs are rubbish too, but I like that they still have slower paced programs like Postman Pat, which I Dimitri can follow easier. They might be a bit young for Charlie? Turns out Dimitri likes Sponge Bob too:-( but I think he just likes the silly voices.
Tux Paint is very good - and free!
I can't comment on kids BBC programs, but I do have a blogger award that I would like to pass on to you :)
Wow, I really can't repeat it enough. Your posts are always so interesting, funny, sensitive and human, emma! how do you do it?
on another note - i thought for a second you wanted to teach dimitri linux.:D
Erika - thanks:)
Butterfly - Thx! My husband would like to teach Dimitri abot linux - when the computer is not co-operating you can hear him cursing Bill Gates:-). Once I caught Christos showing Dimitri how to write up to 10 in binary :-?
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