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This afternoon during Karl's nap, Erika:

Had her first computer programming experience using Scratch -- she had a lion cub and a fox wandering around the screen making noises.

Completed lesson 95 of the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading.

Finished three lessons in Reading Eggs, and passed the quiz for map 8. She hadn't used Reading Eggs in a while, because the level of difficulty of the lessons had exceeded her comfort zone, but since the company sent me a code for 3 free months of service, I suggested she might give it a whirl and see if it was easier now. Not surprisingly, it was. She still doesn't like anything involving time pressure, though -- she freezes when there's a timer going.

She also watched educational videos on Brainpop Junior while I was helping Karl get to sleep.

Whew!
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During my exploration of Lego robotics, I happened upon mention of the Scratch project of the MIT media lab.

So I downloaded it. And within a few minutes, noticed that it contained a number of ideas familiar to me from LOGO, back when I was in junior high school.

Soon thereafter, I felt compelled to recreate a classic turtle graphics exercise )

I find myself wondering how old Erika will need to be before Scratch would be interesting to her. I look forward to finding out.

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