Jonathan has been wanting our family to put on a Star Wars play ever since he started reading his Syar Wars book. I keep telling him, "You write the script first, and then we can figure out more details." So he finally decided to write the script, based on the movie Star Wars Episode IV:A New Hope, which we watched with the boys for the first time the other week. It's more like a plot summary, but it's wonderful! He asks me for a spelling every once in a while, and after asking how to quote a person's speech once, he has done all subsequent ones on his own. After working long and hard one day, he asked if he could skip handwriting in school since he was doing this, and I answered a resounding "yes!" So this has been his writing project and I am thrilled with it.
For your (or at least Grandma's) viewing pleasure:
This is from the boy who, not too long ago, said there was no way he could ever think of anything to write. All you need is a topic you're excited about!
In other news, we got out the bikes and took a walk to the nearby street that gets no traffic. Jonathan was a bit rusty after no riding over the winter, but by the end of our afternoon, he could start without stepping on a platform (stump, step, etc.) and could ride in large circles. He's still not comfortable turning around at the end of the street, nor stopping ("it's handy if there's a hill nearby") but I'm sure he'll be doing both soon. He's still a tad short, but that may even be "fixed" by the end of summer, too.
Jonathan requests to write now:
i was having fun wen was riding mi bike o ya i was wen i was zoo-m'n along. i was on the 1st geer then i was on the 2nd geer
then i was on the 3rd geer then on the 4th geer then on the 5th geer and then the 6th!!! geer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mommy's turn again:
Jonathan has been working very quickly on his school and usually ends up spending less time on school than Noah, which seems backwards from how it should be. I am now ready to add official science to Jonathan's school work and I will start by trying out Pandia Press's try before you buy for their R.E.A.L Science - Life (Level 1). We are both excited about this. It looks like lots of fun for both of us.
I had been giving Jonathan one page a day from Lollipop Logic, and then one day as I was copying more lessons, Jonathan asked to do them and he ended up finishing the book! He likes analogies and deductions, but not inference (maybe those examples were too easy?). I got out my old logic book If This and That, Then What? and he got most of them.
He also likes big numbers. He's been working on some Miquon pages with greater than and less than and invariably a problem like "4<[ ]" gets a 1,000,000 or 10,000 written in. When he is a superhero, he can run/fly at 2 billion miles per hour. Things like that. Googol is also a favorite number.
Well, those are the notes on Jonathan for now that I can think of. In conclusion, Jonathan will write some more:
i'v been taking tons of picshers all around the House ! i was having fun wen i was taking picshers.!!! i'm havig
fun raeding my starwars book to.!!!!!! {wheaet are you doing????}
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Heather Daley on
March 28, 2010, 5:04 pm
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