Tomorrow is a school day as the holidays are now over. It’s also going to be the first rainy day we’ve had in about two weeks! That at least means I shouldn’t have to go out and water the peas, carrots, strawberries and flowers. I’ve been peering at these practically daily but no sign of anything growing yet!

Enid Blyton’s Tell-A-Story-Books

and

Malory Towers on TV series 4

Not really new from this week, but I’ll share it this week anyway. In a small way Brodie has now started reading Blyton too! We are still reading the Caravan Family series and from part-way through The Pole Star Family and into The Seaside Family he has been reading a paragraph on most pages. Hopefully we can progress to taking turns by page.

These books have the sort of writing where he can now read some of the sentences without any sounding out, and he can sound out most of the trickier words. Somehow he managed to read marvellous and fortunately by making educated guesses, though!

There’s often a lot of laughter when he guesses wrong. Sunday night Benjy was very fond of his bother. I told him to try again. Brother. It was actually mother! 

I really hope he will enjoy reading by himself once he’s a bit more fluent at it – though we will still read together at bedtime.