Sunday May 1, 2005
This afternoon Zach took Zane to the playground for a while and let me take a nap. It was wonderful. I felt so much better when I got up! They had fun too. They played on the equipment for a while and then decided to sort rocks. Zane picked up the different rocks, named the color, and then stacked them in different piles. Now Zane is playing a computer game, Zach is programming, and I am doing laundry. Excititng stuff.
The computer game Zane is playing is one that we bought last spring for a quarter at a garage sale. It has turned out to be a great investment. It is called Big Thinkers Kindergarten He absolutely adores several of the activities on it and will giggle so hard that he will occasionally fall off his chair. It is so cute! I went on line to look for it so I could share and found out two things. First, the jewel case we have is not from the game we have and second, there are free downloads to try out the game, which made me really want to share it since I am always looking for free stuff that I like and figured some other people might like it too.
I found a picture of the back of the case (that I don’t have) that shows some of the games on it, but not his favorite. His favorite has a guy in the foreground holding up both hands…one hand is a shape (square, triangle, circle) and the other hand is a color (red, blue, green, purple & yellow I believe) and you click on them to change them. When you click on the face it makes a shape that you choose in the color that you chose and spits it out of it’s mouth like a bubble. (this is the point of hysterical laughter) The colored shape then floats up to the line of patterned shapes and colors to complete the pattern shown. He also loves just going around the main room and watching things move, the maze, and the drawing program.
