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The highlight of my day

Tales in Time: The Man Who Walked Home and Other Stories - Peter Crowther, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Padgett, Garry Douglas Kilworth, James Tiptree Jr., Charles de Lint, Spider Robinson, Jack Finney, L. Sprague de Camp, Brian W. Aldiss, H.G. Wells

We're in the middle of our third week of homeschooling, and it hasn't gone as well as I would have hoped. I don't know how well I'm doing with reinforcing skills; Spanish is especially challenging, as I can't provide him with the conversational opportunities that he requires. His teachers have been trying to provide support, but they've inundated us with so many emails that I just don't have the energy to wade through them.

 

All that being said, the experience hasn't been without its fun parts. Today I decided to build my son's reading/ELA activity around Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," which was part of the Tales in Time collection that I had (finally!) finished reading. He was a little uncertain, but agreed to go along with it, and given the choice between reading it on his own or having it read to him he chose the latter, so I spent about a half hour reading the story to him.

 

And I had an absolute blast doing so. Though for a couple of minutes I worried that he was drifting off, he was engaged throughout the story, and at one point asked a question that anticipated a plot development a few paragraphs later. His review of the story was less than glowing (it earned a solid "meh" from him) and we had a little difficulty with the writing activity afterward, he seemed to enjoy the experience. Best of all, as I was tucking him in tonight he asked if we could read another story for tomorrow. I couldn't have asked for a better confirmation of what was the highlight of my day.