Almost every January hubby and I have made a decision to not watch movies or television or anything for a month. Usually we don't include the children, but this year we decided to have them join us. Ryan is not really much of a watcher anyway. He'd much rather be playing with his toys or a game or something, so this wasn't a big deal to him...at first. Abigail has said every day that she wants to watch something, but this week was the first time Ryan has admitted he would like to watch a movie too. I suggested I could build a fort for them or they could play one of their new games, but next thing I know, Ryan is reading to Abby out of a Disney storybook we have. He was reading Toy Story, just the movie he wanted to watch! I got a kick out of them huddled over the book enjoying the story. I have noticed this week that he has been reading to her quite a bit and he's even been reading more to himself than usual. I'm loving the quietness and am ready to get rid of the television completely, but I think I'm the only one!
It's also been neat to see how much progress Ryan has been making in his reading. He is loving a series of books written by Arthur Scott Bailey. A few are included on his reading list for his homeschool curriculum, but I've printed out more of them from Gutenberg.org (love that site!) since they are old, rare and usually too expensive to buy. When he first started reading his first book in the series it took him about 20 to 30 minutes to get through one chapter, and today he whipped through five chapters in 30 minutes!
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