Book discussion

We played with some friends this morning and this afternoon was a relaxed one inside since it's been so cold and windy outside today.

We baked some muffins with both kids helping and read heaps of books in front of the fire. Nathan wanted to read his early readers again and although he was sometimes predicting the story/words incorrectly, if I asked him to relook he self corrected the next time around.

This evening we read more of Heidi and I stopped to reflect on the story a few times. The other night he mentioned while I was reading that Grandfather was in fact very kind to her (he seemed surprised, because the build up of the story made out he was a gruff old man) he was also able to talk about how Heidi wasn't happy at Clara's house because the people weren't kind to her.

I find the discussions and comments that come up from reading books really cool and such an amazing way to introduce so many different ideas, concepts, history and interests that are quite different to the everyday things that we are exposed to. Some books I feel deserve more discussion, but I know that his age and understanding isn't quite there yet for a lot of the more complex writings that we come across but hope to revisit those again someday.