Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2011

Home


Today has been slow... scratch that.... today has been relaxed! I've dusted, vacuumed and washed the floors, later after rests - because boy do we ever need a rest today due to so many late nights - I'll clean the bathroom. The rugs from my boys rooms are downstairs waiting for their turn to go through the wash after the couch covers. Our home is virtually all clean and tidy awaiting our weekend to start with Dadda. This morning we're all a little bit ratty so I've canceled art with the school this afternoon in favour of a completely restful day at home. Which by the way, I'd like to introduce you to!



She is a beautiful home and I'm so grateful that our family has landed here for a while.

We don't have a lot else planned today.


They've both completed their ten minutes of music today thanks to the Music Ace program and Kookaburra has spent some of his morning discovering the delights of Matilda by Roald Dahl. I'm so proud of him. Reading has been a enormous struggle and yet now he breezes through four chapters in one sitting. He's just finished George's Marvelous Medicine also by Roald Dahl and thought it was devilishly funny. I know my boy. He's a cackle head who loves to laugh at nonsense and the ridiculous so I thought these books would strike a chord with him. I've also sought out copies of most of Mr Dahls' books and they're waiting on his bookshelf for each of their turns to be read.


Well it's time for me to make lunch for our little lads and get a cup of coffee.... and toothpicks to hold my eyes open whilst I read to them ;) then we'll nap together and play our afternoon away. Sure is a hard life ;)!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Really Reading - and it's a novel!


It's happened. Finally :) Kookaburra is really reading, successfully, without assistance, novels! What has really helped was getting his eyes tested again after he'd been complaining of headaches usually in conjunction with reading quietly for about twenty minutes. Turns out he has astigmatism, which is very common and means that when he has been reading, one eye has been blurry and the other is working harder to compensate for it. Poor little chook. But doesn't he look a treat in his new specs?! Scrumptious little man. I'm so proud of him. What has also helped on the road to reading novels was purchasing the large print read aloud editions of the Narnia series - difficult to find but well worth the trouble of relieving the strain and making the reading experience just a whole lot nicer for him.

Kookaburra only has a few chapters to go and he's finished The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which means for him that he can finally watch the movie. Kangaroo and I chatted about how he was going to feel when Kookaburra can stay up later then him and watch this special movie. Incredibly jealous but levelheaded would be an accurate description. He totally understands but wants to feel special too so in celebration of his brother's achievement Kangaroo is allowed to borrow The Cat in the Hat movie as his special treat and go to sleep in Mum and Dad's bed with me afterwards. Hopefully he'll be happy with that and everything will be swell.

Hopefully ;)