So, after Kelvin's fascination with yesterday's impromptu "lecture" given by his dad about how the internet works and how one can access email and other things available online (such as episodes of Word Girl or Peep and the Big Wide World**) from almost anywhere in the world, and also how we can get online in different ways -- plugged to the cable connection in the desktop and wirelessly with the laptop and ipod touch...
... today I finally got him an email account and he has already emailed his maternal grandparents. Tomorrow I'll have him send an email to his aunts and uncles and the paternal grandparents. I think he'll enjoy emailing, particularly after he learns to type and gets better in spelling, both in English and Portuguese (for the record, he can read in Portuguese too, without ever being taught, just from knowing how to read in English -- YAY to bilingualism!!). So, the milestones are growing exponentially here!
** if you have young children and haven't checked Peep out, you should, it's AWESOME! Loaded with child friendly, and yet, enjoyable to adults, science discussions. And it's extremely cute too!
Wow! What a big boy! Should we add him to the family mailing list now?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link-- I will definitely check it out!!!
ReplyDeleteHow do you do Portuguese characters on your keyboard? (I mean like ç and the ones like ñ but over vowels not "n"?) Email is a great way for him to practice reading and writing. I wonder if Pedro would be interested.
Congratulations on the reading! I just posted something very similar (about how Pedro has transferred his Spanish reading skills to English.) I was thinking of your "milestones" posts as I wrote mine yesterday, even though I didn't actually get around to commenting on them (oops!) So, a belated congratulations to the boys on the bike riding, and sympathies to you with on the new unfun attitude of Kelvin (we've been dealing with that here as well!)
Oooh. Will check it out!
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