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April 30th - May 27th, 2012

Watched Let's Play videos - YouTube.com House of Anubis - Nickelodeon The Avengers - movie Special Effects videos - YouTube.com Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - CartoonNetwork.com Battleship - movie Mythbusters - Netflix America's Funniest Videos - Netflix MAD TV - Netflix Super Mario mod videos - YouTube.com Cake - Netflix Sgt. Frog - Netflix Skunk Fu - Netflix Reaper - Netflix A.N.T. Farm - Netflix House of Anubis - Netflix Played Nitrome.com games Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Lego Wii Sports - Wii Homemade Lego board game - board game Dominoes w/ Michele - game Mine Shift w/ Bethany - tile-based board game Rory's Story Cubes - story dice game Angry Birds - iPad App Doodle Train - iPad App Various Online Games - Internet Minecraft - Computer Read/Researched/ Discussed Valve Employee Handbook ( would be a fantastic place to work! ) Ranger Rick Magazine National Geographic Kids Magazine Homophone, Homonyms et al

April 16th - April 29th, 2012

Watched The Troop - Netflix Sgt. Frog - Netflix Let's Play Minecraft videos by YogCast - YouTube Spotlight Vlogcast by Indie Statik - YouTube Jimmy Two-Shoes - YouTube Soul Eater (an anime) - Netflix Played Minecraft - Computer Plants vs. Zombies - Computer Peggle - Computer Bejeweled 2 - Computer Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Various physics based games on physicsgames.com - Online Equate - Board Game Lego: Ninjago - Board Game Lego: Creationary - Board Game ModNation Racing - PS3 Castle Keep - Tile-based Board Game E playing Lego: Creationary Read/Researched What does 'linguistics' mean? Ranger Rick Magazine Lego Club Magazine Hanna Andersson Catalogue What do 'elijah', 'uriel' and 'parham' mean? Discussed Why do they call studying languages linguistics? Wrote Words to a song about a gamer nerd Labelled bags for our bulk food purchases at the food co-op Wrote & illustrated instructions to Spin-Jisto, a made up game

Mid-February - April 15th, 2012

So, it's time to play catch up, somewhat. I've got a new laptop, so I can actually type up things, unlike with the iPad! Here's a little bit of what we've been up to since mid February until now. Watched Let's Play videos (Minecraft, et al.) Vi Hart videos Netflix (various animated children's cartoons) Psych Monk Animated Ghostbusters Mythbusters Skunk Ninja iCarly Tin Tin (series) Robocop - Movie Played WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Minecraft - iPad and Computer Physicsgames.com - online Mine Shift - Tile-based board game Angry Birds - iPad Fruit Ninja - iPad Rory's Story Cubes - Dice-based story game Lego Creationary - iPad Whizzball - iPad Doodle Find - iPad Tamagotchi Connection 2 - 3DS Carcassonne - Tile-based board game Bingo - Board game Peggle - Computer Iggle Pop - Computer Plants vs. Zombies - Computer Minesweeper - Computer Various logic-based games - iPad Wand Charades Word With Friends (wit

October 3rd - October 16th, 2011

Watch Let's Play videos Rounding Numbers - BrainPOP Money - BrainPOP Sgt. Frog Pucca Beatles - BrainPOP Adventure Time Carbon Dating - BrainPOP Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 (w/ M & W) WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Farkle - iPad (w/ M) Read/Research "Poon Trees" (Calophyllum) MadLibs Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2 Rodrick Rules Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3 The Last Straw Discuss How ball point pens work Hyperthermia Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Occupy Pittsburgh (OccupyPgh) 1% vs. 99% Racial inequality in social movements like OccupyPgh & the world in general Fashion Looking Like Awesome Write MadLibs Newspaper Story Listen Voice recordings Create Voice recordings MadLibs w/ W Newspaper w/ W Buttered Toast Little Big Planet 2 level design WarioWare D.I.Y. microgames Illustrated story (marker on paper) Go/Community Burger King Starbucks Burgatory Barnes & Noble Bookstore Java House Trader Joe's East End Food Co-op Heal

September 19th - October 2nd, 2011

Watch Spy Kids - movie Wizards of Waxerly Place Sgt. Frog Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide New Electric Company iCarly Beakman's World Let's Play videos Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 (w/ W) Quoridor - board game (w/ W & M) Various online flash games Read/Research Ranger Rick Magazine ASK! Magazine Discuss Apple sauce, apple juice, cider & hard cider Write 'Crime Report' Listen Joker by Steve Miller Band Various music - Pandora Radio Ambient music - Pandora Radio History of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics (watch this, it's good!) Create Little Big Planet 2 level designs A fake crime report & weather report (complete w/ recorded sound effects) Noodle Bowl Soup Go/Community Oh Yeah! Ice Cream & Waffle Shoppe D's Six Pax & Dogz Visited w/ neighbor Amelia Health/PE/Safety Playing in the rain Helped make grocery list Other Rearranged media center in front room

September 5th - September 18th, 2011

Watch Dude, What Would Happen? Let's Play videos - Minecraft Adventure Time Drake and Josh Pucca The New Adventures of Nanoboy Homestar Runner iCarly Cyberchase The New Electric Company Wizards of Waverly Place Futurama Play Pencil Kids Games - online Farkle w/ M - iPad Scrabble w/ M (beat M) - iPad Electric Box 2 - online Nitrome.com games - online Various online flash games Lego Pirates of The Caribean - 3DS Lego Homemade Board Games Cooking Mama - 3DS Civiballs - online Powder Game - online Scribblenaughts - 3DS WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Candy Land States & Capitals Puzzle Blocks & Ball Run Read/Research Lego Catalog 3 Laws of Robotics Newspaper GameInformer Magazine Discuss Realities of our family food budget Pricing strategies for E's business W explained to E the circuitry of a contact microphone power supply/amp Why the 1st letters of most words in a show/episode title are capitalized Flooding in Pennsylvania Why cacti