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The Week #278
by James- ๐ We made a visit to our local Yokohama city library and I think I want to make it part of our weekly routine. There is a English books corner in the kids section which is nice (though I think we'll read them it in no time). It's amazing the transformation of people by place, incuding boyo. While he didn't suddenly sit down and start reading heaps of books, his mind seemed to open up towards reading. In some ways, we're clones of each other, me and Leo. In others he's entirely different.ย I was always stuck in books, organized a library in my room, and read the most number of books in my class at his age.
- ๐ One of the reasons why this could be is the format of a physical book. When you're struggling reading a book it can be quite discouraging. Turning each page you see how little progress you're making. Realizing this I experimented by putting the Kindle app (where we had a Dragon Ball manga sample) on his iPad and Leo sat down and read the entire 33 pages. Success!
Building on this, I've taken an ancient iPad Mini that's been sitting around discharged and loaded some manga into the Books app. This will become Leo's e-reader for now and I hope it will enable him to enjoy reading more. I also started loading kids books on to my Kindle so we can read them at night before bed. Surprisingly, it's the first time he's actually listened to chapter books in English when I've tried to read them. I think it's the format. We shall see if a new routine and an easier way to read without the discouraging affordances get him over the reader hump.Captain Underpants
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The Week #277
by James- ๐โโ๏ธ We had sports day this week and Leo's school. Similar to last year he had a dance and a race. The weather played along where it wasn't super hot, which was nice as well. I took this opportunity to pull out my actual camera and, like every time I stop carrying it for whatever reason, I was reminded how much better the photos look from it than from any cellphone.ย
- ๐ We went to Chigasaki Satoyama Park, a favorite huge park that's only accessible by bus/car. It's been far too long since we went out to large park (i.e. has grass) with our sunshade and junk hung out for 4 hours. Now that it's cooler, we plan to visit more of the big parks around Kanagawa.
Big skies
Fresh off of the sports day the previous day, I brought my actual camera. I tried fiddling with the settings to take a shot when Leo was bouncing on the giant white bouncy thing that showed the motion and I was quasi-successful. I versions of him being nothing but a blur, but the best one has Leo jumping with his arms a blur and his face not blurred. It would have been better if he was at the very top of the bouncy bit so there was a distinct gap between bounce and the blur. - ๐บ I started watching Only Murders in the Building and I think it will hook me. Steven Martin and Marty Short โ you can't go wrong. They've been a favorite of mine since Three Amigos.
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Post park latte and half-a-sweet. Been ages since Iโve been to this one, itโs huge and has a drive thru like America.
