Day 38: Epic Reading!

Wednesday, 29th April 2020
Weather: Raining on and off

We have been writing the previous day's blog the following morning for the past few days so Isabella can help writing it too. At the moment she is busy with her school work next to me, so you've got me (aka mummy) writing today.

Isabella managed to complete her school work in record time. The trick was to pay her with a sour sweet after each activity!

We managed to take out 30 books from the library before it closed for lockdown, but we have read through them a long time ago already and we were all ready for some fresh books to read. Andre found the app called 'Epic' which has loads of amazing books, both for Isabella to read herself and for us to read to her at bedtime from the iPad. It also has educational videos on a large range of interesting topics. It has a free trial for a month so we will see how much we make use of it and whether to continue after the free month. It keeps track of the time spent reading and awards points for each book completed which is also fun. We were able to see that Isabella spent 2 hours reading yesterday morning! And that was mainly due to her being able to find loads of books on animals which she enjoys reading. We all prefer reading something that interests us. Some books even have the "Read to me" option. It highlights the words as it is being read to you so you can follow. It's a bit slow though and luckily Isabella prefers reading it herself.

This book is about Mr Putter and his cat called Tabby!

Isabella taught Tabby to play hide and seek using treats to come and find her. And she introduced Tabby to fidget spinners which he found very interesting! 

Tabby loves a bit of a pamper session in the evenings! He gets so relaxed while I comb out the tangles in his fur.