After lunch, JediBoy wandered upstairs to listen to his Jim Weiss King Arthur cd. Apparently it’s not enough that he listens to this cd every night at bedtime, because he often listens to it at least once during the day too! That gave me a lovely reading break (finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides). When he came downstairs, we played four rousing games of Sum Swamp - he was upset that I handily won the first two games and kept switching his creature pawn, until he won using the red turtle. Then won again with the turtle, and declared the turtle the king of the swamp.
We each read a book - he read his TMNT reader, “Pizza Party,” and then asked me to read one of our two Electric Company books, “Fargo North, Decoder, and his Coat and Hat.” He loves that book, and loves the Electric Company, and is just at the perfect stage for it right now. So keep an eye out for Electric Company books at yard sales and library sales!
Then he asked for a “project” - I’m glad I had something up my sleeves. First, inspired by Melissa at The Lilting House and Theresa at LaPaz Home Learning, I pulled out the real watercolors for JediBoy. He loved the story about the little gnome who wants his beard to be treated with care (gentle use of the paintbrush) and enjoyed cleaning his brush and wiping it on the cloth diaper beside him.
Once he’d finished his painting (and yes, we had the talk about carefully choosing to use “good” paper), he wanted to do something else so I pulled out a pile of old magazines and we made collages.
Two of his were fairly random collections of pictures that caught his eye, but the third tells me it’s time to put something together for supper:
