January has been filled with family fun... Kaiden and I playing the Headbands game together. His favorite games are the Headbands, Guess Who and Battle ship. Every Sunday we race down stairs in the morning to watch the Brojects show. It's 2 brothers from Canada that build some interesting projects around their cabin property. All 4 of us are hooked on the show. We don't usually have the TV on except at night before bedtime, but for the Brojects we make an exception. Usually at night the boys will watch a Netflix or Disney cartoon clip before bed, sometimes we'll watch a family movie or lately we've been into watching the Battle Bots (robot competition), Mythbuster (science experiments), Penn and Tellers Fool Me magic show or Forged in Fire (bladesmith show).
Second picture is Kaiden inventing a fort while watching the Brojects. Both boys are currently still doing school virtually on-line, but that's about to change. Connor starts hybrid school Monday. He will be in school 2 days a week and on-line at home 3 days a week. He's excited and nervous. New school... this will be his first time in the middle school. Kaiden will remain on-line 5 days a week until mid March and then he'll be in school 5 days a week. Kaiden and I have been spending a lot of time working on his reading. He confuses his B D and G. Connor had the same issue. But he's getting really good at knowing his sight words and being able to read more fluently. I try to create new games to keep his interest and to distract him from knowing that the "game" we're playing is really all about him practicing his reading skills. I think its working though. Last night (1/29/2021) Kaiden asked if HE could read me a book before bed instead of me reading a book to him! He chose Go Dog Go and read the entire book with very little help. He reads books to me on a regular basis, but this was the first time it was his idea to read and he chose the book from his book shelf (not one of the practice books we work on). Connor still loves to read. He's currently working on his Spirit Animal series. He usually reads quietly in his room for 30-45 minutes before he goes to sleep at night. I hope this is a habit that Kaiden decides to adopt too.
