Our little household has computer as part of the curriculum, especially over the summer. What do we use? Paul is ten; his daddy is a software engineer. Paul started with COJI and MIT Scratch in first grade. We used Code Your Own Games. Initially, I sat beside Paul to work through the instructions. Those days are long gone. Paul’s daddy set up a STEAM for Paul. He is learning to program with 7 Billion Humans and Autonauts. Paul uses Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, too. Typing lessons increase his speed programming. One of the best programming toys is LEGO Boost. It is expensive. Good Will online lists LEGO Boost for much less than $159. LEGO Boost has five different projects. Once you complete the robot or guitar the child programs. Paul liked the Robot and guitar. We are finishing the auto builder toy right now. The kitty and excavator just didn’t do much. Our little household works together on each build because finding tiny Legos is frustrating. Programming it is all Paul. Want to try programming? Start with MIT Scratch. If your library is open, check out coding books for kids. Check out your library’s digital collection. Our local library online has Star Wars Coding Projects available. Kindle Unlimited also has several Scratch coding books to try. Below are pix of our latest LEGO Boost project. It’s about 50%complete.
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