Summer reading and playing

Reading has remained somewhat of a mystery to Tristan being a late bloomer and having eyesight troubles. He continues to learn in his own way even though we are on summer vacation from any formal learning. Tristan has a magnetic board and letters upon which we all put different words for Tristan to notice and learn. Everybody enjoys surprising Tristan with a new word or phrase from time to time so you never know what will turn up. Today Tristan "wrote" his own word on the magnet board and although it is not correct he gets credit for a very reasonable guess!

Below the word says " iCarly" as in the kids show, just a very different way but he had the right idea trying to sound it out.


Later after some effort Tristan wrote this on his chalkboard:

He had only missed the K on trick so Hayley told him to add one. Great job Tristan!

I love to observe the natural learning that occurs in summer. Tristan is making sense of reading and spelling. Hayley has been doing some excellent ink drawings. Colin is improving his spelling while playing a role playing strategy game. Trevor has been learning more about the inner workings of computers while helping to upgrade an older machine so it will play his newer games.

What about the youngest member of our family, Freeze the 1 year old Labrador dog? He is learning to walk better on the leash and to calm down at least occasionally!


The kids had Freeze in our above ground pool this morning! "He really wanted to swim Mummy" Well it is not a pool meant for dogs I'm sure, it's just plastic or vinyl or something. One of the 15' easy set up pools. Freeze didn't break the pool but he did attack the chlorine tablet floater.