Posts Tagged ‘Harris’

School Closed Due To Bomb Threats

My son will not go to school today, or tomorrow. When we discussed this in front of him today, he immediately said, "Coz there is a bomb". The school administration have received specific bomb threats and have decided to keep the school closed for the next two days. Of course, the topic must have been […]

CBeebies and UptoTen.com – Fun With Your Kid(s)

The Cbeebies storytime website or UptoTen is where you should be headed to spend a few fun interactive minutes each day with your kid… the website can also give you a few moments of peace and quiet if you have a computer savvy kid (like my 5ish year old son). Better than TV or XBox […]

Happy Birthday LOGO

It was LOGO’s 40th birthday a couple of days ago. Interestingly, last week, I installed the free version from Microsoft on my laptop and played for a few hours with my son (who is four, has his own computer and prefers playing games to watching TV). We made lines, triangles and squares with turtle graphics, […]

B(ack)log Links – Part One

I just took a look at my 'FOR BLOG' bookmarks folder and was amazed to see the number of pages (66) I have bookmarked during August, with the intention to write about them here, but never got the chance. So, in an attempt to cross that task from my TODO list, I'm posting some of […]

I Built the Empire State Building

There this Indonesian Lotte Puzzle gum sold for Rs.10 (18 cents) these days which comes with two gum sticks and a cardboard/plastic model/puzzle pieces that my son really likes. Last week we got the Taj Mahal, this week it was the Empire State Building. There are no instructions (uh its a puzzle), so I saved […]