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By MARCIA MURRAY
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Ripples of giggles, three-yearolds wiggle in their seats, the constellation Taurus trots across a computer screen. Saturn hops into place between Jupiter and Uranus. A four-year-old designs a rocket. A quick switch, and Goldilocks chases the letter “R” down a path. More giggles. “Look, I made that!" A nascent computer hotshot controls of the screen.
Summer means fun for area kids, from three to twelve years old, when computer classes come to Rappahannock. Developed from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Project for Young Children, the computer offerings will be once a week, scheduled for groups of three, four or five children at a time.
Kids from three to five may join Computertots and play at estimating weights and measures, alphabet hunts, ecological and solar system games, story-writing and reading, spelling, counting, and much more in a parade of sophisticated educational software.
Those from six to twelve may join a class of Computer Explorers. They will run a newsroom, design their own comics, or play logic, math, and writing games at an advanced level.
If parents would like to join their youngsters, Parent Garden classes will be offered. In them kids tackle logic and puzzles games (as well as the Computertots and explorers programs), and parents take turns at the same games with incresed levels of challenge.
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