Around here lately

This is how we’ve been spending our mornings:

We’ve read so many chapter books this year already, and we’ve just added poetry to our morning time routine. We are working our way through A. A. Milne, and then we’re going to tackle Robert Louis Stevenson. For chapter books, we’ve done Charlotte’s Web, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, all of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggles, Homer Price, The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, and The Boxcar Children #3. Over the next few weeks I’m planning to read Little House in the Big Woods, Henry Huggins, The Borrowers, and James Herriot’s Treasury for Children.  Aiden will sit for hours and listen. He will also sit and listen to music like The Carnival of the Animals and Peter and the Wolf. Especially if we are doing one of these:

He LOVES puzzles! He does them so well and so quickly that we never have enough. We are up to 300 pieces if a parent is helping.

The other day as I was making dinner, he was playing around with his magnetic letters, and I challenged him to spell some words. It was a huge lightbulb moment for him!

I tried not to jump up and down, squealing with happiness.

And this comprised much of one of our days last week. Nothing like active construction at the end of his OWN street to enthrall a six-year-old boy!