Fighting Flashcards

Today Xander got a bag of goodies from the Mayor Peyton's Book Club. It was a decorated reusable bag that held about 13 books about Jacksonville, a Jacksonville coloring book, alphabet flashcards, a soft flannel Book Club blanket, and a Book Club t-shirt. He was excited about it. So were some of his friends at school. One boy got his bag yesterday and wore the t-shirt to school today. That's probably going to be Xander on Monday.

So I decided to let Xander just have fun with all this stuff and do whatever he wants with it, since he is already ahead of the game in terms of reading. He wanted to play with the alphabet flashcards and he did some letter activities on his own with them. Then he wanted to play them with me. His pile of flashcards were the "good guys" and my pile of flashcards were the "bad guys" and they fought. Okay? Are you getting this? Alphabet flashcards turned into a fighting game.

Now he is looking at the one book that stood out to him from all the rest: It has fighter planes. Guess what? It's the book about saluting our military. Huge surprise.

Oh, and one of his closest friends at school is named Russell. Guess what Xander calls him (without realizing he's wrong)? "Wrestle."

I am very proud of his recall for his classmate's names, though. He has 15 other kids in his class and he wanted to make cards for them, so we had to make sure we knew each kid's name. With his help, I wrote down all of them this morning!