Family reading time

After reading a large number of Christian biographies together, we have picked up a fictional series which Grant and Linda gave to Eden for her birthday. She has read them, but enjoys listening to me reading them a second time around, and it is so much fun for all the others to get to hear it too. The first book was extremely gripping for us all, albeit very scary towards the end. The second book is quite surreal and I can understand how Eden gets more out of me reading, and stopping along the way with explanation. We haven't got to the third one yet.
And Eden, Niamh and Ciara love to draw while I read, so they get lots of practice nearly every night.
Pirates, by Eden.
Swan, by Eden.

Ciara learning!

She is so excited that she can read simple words. She has never been very interested in learning letters or numbers, but of course she knows quite a few from looking through letterland books and listening to the cd, but she has never wanted to take it further than that. So imagine my suprise when she read the first time I wrote some three letter words up on the board. We are now just adding a few new letters each week and she seems to be just fine with that.
We also had some writing practice in flour. She is actually great with writing all the letters I show her to write, aswell as all the numbers, but all kids love playing a bit messy, and she had fun just forming the letters in flour.
Every time we make a new colour playdough it renews their interest in playing with it, and who can resist this lovely bright orange playdough. Thanks to gel food colourings the possibilities are endless.
She had fun making biscuits with her big sister, as well as rolling the balls for the biscuits.
And I think we have another budding little artist, she spends hours just like her big sister Eden used to when she was that age.