Passing the computer in the living room just now my two six year olds intent with the mouse, I heard an American accent coming out of the speakers saying, “you’re a great tosser”, I rushed to the scene thinking the filtering software had gone wrong only to find them on an American children’s site playing Beanbag Toss.
American is truly another language, when an American says, “I’m mad about my flat,” it means they are angry about their puncture, for any Americans in the UK it would mean, "I like my apartment."
Click on the link below and go onto the third page of games to play beanbag toss.
http://www.agkidzone.com/games.action
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I can highly recommend the site:
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for young - school age - children, 5+
It has good music, but no voices - thankfully no US accents!
Unfortunately, this does mean reading - which my son is not keen on.
"Mum! Can you read this!"
His maths has improved greatly over the 6 month he has been playing on the site which I am sure is because of a motivation to understand.
Through the games he earn 'coins' which he can spend on virtual clothes, etc...
He is motivated to know how many coins he needs and how much he will have left after he has spent some.
Dear mrs tp, stereo 6 yr old not that easy. Went on site recommended. When you have 2 6 yr olds, you are always 3 people so all 3 tried to join & log on but it seems oversubscribed. Anyway I’ve sent them to bed. Worse parents would have taught them the yogi bear song, If you wave your arms about or something next time you come in the shop possibly find your children a nice little book.
ReplyDeleteIn America, always think before you respond to "If you do that again, I'm going to get pissed with you"
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