Reading Eggs

This is a site that my wife found called Reading Eggs. In the video, is my daughter who’s started using the site. Its a great post bath time – pre-bedtime activity.

Shes 5, so a pre-schooler. A friend bought me the ‘pig’, which is a great gadget, she loves it. It amplifies the audio and makes lots of flashing lights and movement as she interacts with the site. I really like that you have to sign up for the site. On the home page, there is plenty of clear, fast loading audio to welcome young learners.

A nice feature is that new ‘eggs’ hatch, so you can see who has joined the site as ‘hatchlings’. So from the off, there is a sense that there are lots of other kids doing it, so it cool. Sarah’s not new to a laptop, a veteran of Barbie Horse games and Dora the ‘annoying’ Explorer. She has no problem in figuring out what needs to be clicked and what needs to be dragged and dropped. Shes also happier using a track pad than a mouse right now. In the mean time, my 7 year old son is getting frustrated by World of Warcraft – it seems he has to ‘read the quests’ if he wants to get further than his level 6 he managed on day one.

I just figured after my last rant, that I should post something positive – a put back. Reading Eggs is of course a free online learning site.