Dora and Diego

My son four years old likes to see Dora The Explorer. He can watch it 3-4 times a day. Arriving home from school it’s his time for watching and playing game. Almost all the dialogs in some episodes, has memorized by him. Dora is a little girl. Dora has a friend named Boots and has a bag pack from her parent, it’s a magic bag pack, that contains everything that Dora needs.  Boots is a little monkey.

Dora has a nephew named Diego who likes to save the animal. If Dora has a bag pack, Diego has a rescue pack. My son likes to say this sentences “Rescue Pack for rescues”. From Diego he knows about the river dolphin, or jaguar. Or sometimes he retold the episodes that he’s just watched, of course in his own language and understanding. Dora turn back the books to library, and Diego saving the baby dolphin river, are the episodes that he likes most. I bought the cd in Kupang last couple month ago. There are many episodes but he just has 3 for each of both Dora and Diego. Actually I can download but the bad connection makes it never success.  

Usually arrived from school I just let him in front of the laptop for playing game and watching Dora. He usually playing an online game, I got this link from my friend. It’s an edugame and useful for kids to learn English. Here is the link. http://concurso.cnice.mec.es/cnice2005/132_English_for_Little_children/presentacion/presentacion.html. At least there are 8 words that he can learns for a day, and 4 words he can memorized for one time playing. It’s a simulation game, so by listening continually he can absorbs to his mind.

There are also Dora and Diego games. It’s good to practice his brain how to classify by colors, shape and counting. He can also learn about animal, dinosaur, dolphin, jaguar and many more.

I prefer the episodes of Dora and Diego to be watched than the serial TV that sometimes not good for kids. In Dora and Diego they learn something new in each episode. Sometimes we need to accompany them when they are watching, to explain the meaning of some words that he doesn’t understand.

The episodes of Dora and Diego, and also some edugames is good to kids growth in order their learning of English or life. So mom start to make all of that as your kids show too. Of course without disregard the kids learning time for schooling.