I have a 5 year old who is a pretty good reader and seems to be naturally interested in math and computers/tablets. He'll get really interested in one thing for a while then float to something else.
I set him up on a super old laptop to run the desktop version of Scratch. I picked up a set of books by this publisher at Costco. He made it through 3 of the game tutorials and thought it was fun. The hardest thing for him was clicking/using the mouse and touchpad. https://www.amazon.com/DK-Workbooks-Coding-Scratch-Workbook/... We passed the books to some friends after he found something else to explore.
Currently, he's avidly playing a game called "Box Island" on iPad. It's a coding game with several free levels. I was pleasantly surprised when he finished the free levels after a few weeks (we limit iPad time) and requested I buy the remaining levels. Before this game, he was playing Kodable, which was free but had terrible graphics, imho.
We were gifted Robot Turtles but that didn't take.
I set him up on a super old laptop to run the desktop version of Scratch. I picked up a set of books by this publisher at Costco. He made it through 3 of the game tutorials and thought it was fun. The hardest thing for him was clicking/using the mouse and touchpad. https://www.amazon.com/DK-Workbooks-Coding-Scratch-Workbook/... We passed the books to some friends after he found something else to explore.
Currently, he's avidly playing a game called "Box Island" on iPad. It's a coding game with several free levels. I was pleasantly surprised when he finished the free levels after a few weeks (we limit iPad time) and requested I buy the remaining levels. Before this game, he was playing Kodable, which was free but had terrible graphics, imho.
We were gifted Robot Turtles but that didn't take.