This quiet blog must make it obvious I’m still taking it slow and easy after last week’s excitement.
We’ve kept mostly to home, except for piano lessons. Our old high-tide
mood is upon us, has been for a couple of weeks, so there are lots of
read-alouds and lively discussions going on (this I can do from the
sofa!), and Jane is in love with a giant tome on chemistry, and Beanie
and Rose are elbowing each other for FlashMath turns on my iPod Touch,
unaware that this game is nothing but math drills. I guess if it’s on
the Touch, it’s automatically fun?

Yesterday Beanie asked for a turn on the computer to play “the
typing game,” which means the Mavis Beacon typing tutorial CD-rom. Jane
hunted it up for her. But I think she might enjoy this new discovery even more: the BBC’s online Dance Mat Typing site. I found the link at Educating Emme. Personally, I’m a little mixed on these lessons—the whole rock-and-roller goat thing wears thin very quickly. I mean, he’s a goat.
On the other hand, I love his Scottish accent. On his tongue, banal
phrases like “use either of your thumbs on the space bar” become
delightful dialogue.

On the other hand, he’s a goat.

(And his cartoon hands—a goat with hands?—in the keyboard demos: shudder.)

But I guarantee Beanie’s gonna love it.