I’ve got to stop promising things in the newsletter, because as soon as I do even the simplest projects throw up a whole load of tech problems! But I have finally got Mr Monkey’s Magic Corner on the site…

Magic’s a great way to get the kids interested in English as you can say the same phrases over and over again, but the magic keeps them wanting to listen again and again. Have a try a yourself. Mr Monkey will show you some presents. You think of one, make sure you don’t tell him what it is! Then he’ll use his magic powers to guess the present. All very spooky!

Of course the trick is really quite simple, but it’s taken me forever to get it to work right! When you do music or artwork, mistakes usually add to the flavour. With programming they just stop things dead! The thing that stumped me for ages on this was solved by saving it in an older flash version. Crazy. But it’s here now so I can move on to the next set of projects.

Thank you very much to Keita for the inspiration!