Jimmy's imagination

Today, we read My Blue Boat. Jimmy understood right away that the story was actually about a little girl pretending with her toy boat in the bathtub. After reading the book, we made up our own non-fiction-that-becomes-fiction story. We started describing our morning, and then we made up a silly little story about Jimmy falling off of something... up! He went to the moon, fell in the ocean, got run over by a boat, washed into a river, and traveled down a few waterfalls. The story ended by him crashing his head at the bottom of one of the waterfalls. *rolls eyes*

We started reviewing calendar work first thing in the morning. Randy asked him today's date as soon as Jimmy came to get us in the morning. He had trouble remembering Thursday, but Randy helped him repeat the days of the week. By the time we had our lessons, Jimmy remembered Thursday very easily. I'm going to keep drilling him on the days of the week. For our lesson, we introduced the demonstration clock. As I suspected, Jimmy was a little bored with this since he's been wearing & using his watch (thanks, Grandma!) for quite some time now. The book discusses both digital displays & conventional clocks, so Jimmy will definitely learn something new.

For LotW, Jimmy opted to write quite a bit this morning. He practiced K, k, J, & j, but also reviewed B, b, and D. He was a writing fanatic! I think he's almost ready to start copying words and short sentences. It's really amazing to see how much his confidence has grown. He really enjoys writing his letters now.