Stuff I forgot to mention yesterday part 2

When I got in from reading group Tarly was already asleep. Davies had been in bed but came back downstairs to show me his book. Ady had made him a comb-bound blank paged book of about 15 pages with a Ben 10 picture as the front cover and Davies had made a book of drawings to tell the story inside. The pictures themselves were good but also very impressive was the way he had ‘written’ a couple of complete stories just with illustrations. They were action packed, employed various artistic methods of convey the action and all but animated themselves off the page. After he’d told me he went on to tell Ady and told the story pretty much verbatim from how he’d told me. It’s going to be quite a while before his ability to write things down comes anywhere close to catching up with all the words going on his head and spewing forth from his imagination but if it ever does the results will be well worth reading! 🙂

Davies went off to bed then and then reappeared to check what 12 plus 12 was. Ady verbally told him one way to work it out and then I told him to bring me a pen and paper and I’d show him another. I was in the bath and he brought a tiny pink post-it note and a felt tip but I showed him how to add up two numbers by writing them down and then showed him how to add up three figures in a column too. He got it straight away and when I showed him 24 +24 +24 to ensure he had to carry over a digit he got that too. I didn’t bother talking to him about tens and units as it wouldn’t have had any context for him at this stage but he totally got how to do it and could probably now add up a much longer column of numbers.

Bedtime avoidance is probably one of our most productive times of the day educationally ;).