Category: Pre-School (3-5)
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What should I tell my daughter about religion?
My four-year old daughter skipped into the lounge last week and declared ‘baby Jesus’ is coming to school. My heart skipped a beat as this was a conversation that I wasn’t prepared for. It’s time for the Christmas Nativity. As it’s not a church school, I do question why they’re doing the birth of Christ.…
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Ipad Apps for Kids: Puppet Pals HD
Yet, another fantastic Ipad app recommendation from my mate Danny Nicholson from The Whiteboard Blog. I absolutely love this app Puppet Pals, it’s also available for iphones but can’t help thinking the screen would be too small and fiddly for little fingers. Simply choose your characters, a background, resize the images and when you’re ready…
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Kids don’t watch TV!
I found this comment from Alice Taylor, a Bafta award-winning gamer, very interesting. It was during a panel discussion at Microsoft Soho Studios. Kinect has recently added National Geographic and Sesame Street to the Xbox peripheral allowing children to be more interactive with the games. They’re trying to move away from the Dora style attempt…
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Ipad Apps for Kids: Jellybean Count
I absolutely love this Ipad app, Jellybean Count and to boot, it’s FREE! It was recommended by my mate Danny Nicholson from The Whiteboard Blog. Children count the different colour of jellybeans and then use the same number of fingers to input their answers. For example, if there are 4 green jellybeans, they need to…
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Iphone Apps for Kids: Casper’s Scare School
People must think I’m in the back pocket of Mindshapes as I’m always raving about their apps. However, I think there success it due to the fact that they have consultant teachers on board so you end up with fun apps that are also educational. I was sent a promo code for their latest iPhone…