Scratch is a freeware program that allows you to create interactive games or animation. the Spawn and I fired it up for the first time last night and I am floored at how easy it was to use and the Spawn absolutely loves making his own cartoons with it. Within the first 15 minutes of [...]
It’s election day! I hope you’ve all cast you’re votes already. Whoever you voted for, I hope you exercised your right and voted for whoever you believe is right for the job. The Spawn kept asking people who they voted for and gave out a shout of glee every time someone said Noy Noy. Personally, [...]
Generations in the past that had penmanship classes in school had such gorgeous writing it could make any document looks so romantic you could cry. These days, some schools still push a particular writing style but not with as much strict enforcement as before. The Spawn’s previous school seemed to be pushing for D’Nealian style [...]
Christmas is less than a week away! The biggest challenge this year was to think of what to give the Spawn’s classmates at school. There are too many of them to bake my mini cupcakes for and handmaking a present for each and every one of them would take us forever. *_* A bit of [...]
I’m lucky that at 6 years old, the Spawn is an avid reader already. Although he much prefers being read to by myself at bedtime, he is also eager to read to himself selections from his book of “365 Stories and Rhymes for Boys: A Story a Day” and has even been trying to read [...]
For the past few grading periods, I have been getting comments from the Spawn’s teachers that he needs to improve his handwriting. I have never really been strict about the neatness of his handwriting because I didn’t want to discourage him from writing at all by forcing him to do repetitive penmanship exercises. I have [...]
I was watching the film Little Ashes starring Robert Pattinson as Spanish Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali. The Spawn saw me watching and became interested in the artist. Unfortunately, I couldn’t let him watch the entire movie with me because it contains nudity, sexual content and other themes that are not appropriate for a 6 year [...]
My first free eBook is ready for download from DocStoc.com DocStoc boasts a massive collection of user-uploaded digital documents that range from everything from legal contract templates, to children’s coloring books and whatever you can think of in-between. The ebooks can be previewed for free on most browsers but you’ll need to register for a [...]
This website has been around for quite some time now but it’s still a good share. Just play a game where you have to guess the synonym of the displayed word and each correct answer donates 10 grains of rice courtesy of the site’s sponsors. There are even varying levels of difficulty to challenge your [...]
