After SEVERAL attempts to load the Sky News presenting video that Niamh recorded in the Sky News pod at the O2 I have temporarily given up. Maybe the file is just too large for blogger? When I have a spare seven hours of my life I will investigate further and try my hardest to get it loaded for all to see.
Today N did some Titanic themed colouring for her project and typed a page of facts she had remembered from the exhibition. She read through a DK Titanic book that we had picked up from Oxfam ages ago.
She helped her Dad with the decorating.
She baked cookies for Book Club tomorrow.
We have been reading Little House On The Prairie for Book Club and lets just say that it has not been going well. The book is just not really grasping N's interest. Infact she refuses to read it which is very unusual for her as she loves reading so much.Which leaves me with a quandry.
a) Insist she has to read it - which has the danger of putting her off Book Club
b) admit defeat and shoulder the embarassment of not finishing it, when we started Book Club in the first place!
:p Admit defeat. Reading should be a pleasure, and part of it's appeal is finding exactly which genre is ones favourite, and why. Perhaps you could use this as an opportunity to find out why she doesnt like it as much as another title, and why she thinks that is, what could make it more interesting etc etc? You could then translate this into the book club (maybe, just an idea). :)
ReplyDeleteHi Loz, we did admit defeat, and anyone who knows N won't be surprised to know she took great pleasure in telling everyone at book club what was wrong with the book and why she didn't like it!!
ReplyDeleteWe were the only ones who didn't like it.
Next month is The Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton and we are diving into that one already!