February 16 2010
Food of the Day:
Games of the Day
Albums of the Day:
Adventure of the Day:
I bet you can't guess what we did today.
Showing posts with label Album of the Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Album of the Day. Show all posts
February 15 2010
Teaching Link of the Day:
Take Apart Party, or Teaching kids to tinker
The kids had a "talking" book with pen that teaches word preliminary reading techniques like rhyming, initial sounds, etc. It got an odd short where it would randomly start and start playing the games by itself, so I rescued the book from the electronic part. The kids watched me remove screws and slice through the contact pad that connected the plastic electronics part to the book cover. I walked away to get the tape and mend the raw edge of the book and when I returned the boy had the screwdriver and was deep in reassembly. During the course of the next few days, the toy was taken apart and put together countless times. The circuit boards were removed and inspected. Capacitors were removed, buttons dissected. "Mom, can we explore this [part of a light-up bouncy ball]?" They brought out a dead calculator and a display phone. They laid on the floor with a set of small screwdrivers and removed every part from every other part.
Album of the Day:
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa covered by Peter Gabriel, recorded for though not included on his cover album, Scratch My Back.
February 13 2010
Teaching Link of the Day:
As a writing tool, this helps a reluctant writer to verify that their handwriting is legible. They get instant recognition results: if their lowercase "a" is built with a circle and a line to its right and the line is too far away, the result is a "oi" instead of an "a." If their cursive letters are disproportionate, they will see an instant mis-translation.
Games of the Day:
Roiworld: where fashion meets games--hers
Zuma--mine
Viva Pinata--his
Album of the Day:
Matched disks, organized, shelved, and cleaned the highly-used media area of my house and did not find my album. Grooveshark had it, though. I nearly put in Daredevil just to hear her.
February 12 2010
From little band-aid kits and computer screen cleaners to coloring books and iron-on coloring sheets, a seat in an excavator to a seat in a cop car, a dog suit to a talking fire engine, and electrocuted hot-dogs to a tornado in a bottle, this was a fantastic way to spend an afternoon with my 5- and 7-year-olds and their 8- and 13-year old cousins. The stack of coloring books will keep them occupied for many days to come, and will also encourage continuing discussion of the safety tips and warnings we learned while we were there.
Two things topped the list of terrifying for me, the adult:
1) Stay out of large vessels of grains. You will suffocate, and struggling will only pull you in deeper, and no one is strong enough to pull you out.
2) The "don't talk to strangers" guy was horrifyingly creepy. I suspect he will crop up in my nightmares.
- Colorado Farm Bureau
- Western Colorado Contractor's Association
- Xcel Energy
- Pinnacol Assurance
- Operation Lifesaver
- Bureau of Reclamation
- Grand Valley Training
- Mesa County Animal Services
- Mesa County Health Department
- Mesa County Road and Bridge
- Mesa County Solid Waste
- Brain Injury Support Group
- Local Emergency Planning Committee
- National Weather Service
- Colorado State Patrol
- Crime Stoppers
- Grand Junction Fire Department
- Colorado State Parks
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