markk

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.