My son is in 4th grade and is allowed this year to begin writing projects on the school’s computers. As with most boys, writing is not his favorite subject, but using the computer as a path to encourage the children to write, is genius to me.
As a blogger I have many leftover flash drives and contributed most of them to the class. I just warned the teacher they all had product images on them and to erase them or work around them.
While at Toy Fair last week I saw a booth with my favorite characters, I mean my son’s favorite characters from TV! And they were USB Flash Drives made by Mimico! I immediately asked for a sample from my son’s favorite Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time! He loves the character of Finn and even has the same hat as pictured above.
Having this flash drive is an extra reminder for my son to write. He transports his USB from school to home and works on computers at both venues. For this dad, anything that encourages my son’s interest in writing is a Must Have Item! Thanks to the crew at Toy Fair for sharing this with me!
Follow them on Facebook and Twitter and buy them for your children, I am telling you it will hep them to want to do their writing assignments!
Disclosure: I received the above USB Flash Drive as a promotional item and was not asked to write about the product. I then received the flash drive from Cartoon Network as part of a DVD review that is also posted today on the blog!
Would love to win it.
Great idea- I am going to find one my grandson will love- My son was the same about writing even worse because he was dyslexic-His teacher reccomended putting everything on computer -so he could type- had very hard time writing ,Thanks for serious good suggestion.
Love this idea! My son is in the 3rd grade and ,just like Paul, writing is his least favorite (and most time consuming!) subject!