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Here is the next spread from our book:
This is a little map of mystery LEGO mini-figures you can get and he checked off the two he already has. There we go. That’s all for this week. More coming soon. David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. Here are two more spreads from our book:
David’s school has this wonderful tradition called Family Friday. They have different kids, teachers, and faculty that form a family which they then get to have for the rest of their time at school. They meet on Fridays once a month. This was the paper they filled on the first meeting of the year. It was a get-to-know-you game. And the next spread:
The left side has the pictures of the lego models David got for Christmas and how much he likes them. The right side is a card David’s “big sister” made him last year when she (and he) was leaving school (she graduated to middle school and he moved to a private school.) There we go. That’s all for this week. More coming soon. David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. Here are two more spreads from our book:
The left side of this spread is a map of Legoland and the right side is an id he got there on the driving course. He wanted to write all over the page so that’s what he got to do. He loves it and so do I. And the next spread:
The left side has his ribbon of when he moved from level 2 to 3 in swim class. I blurred the name of the school just in case. The right side has some index photos from a 2009 Project Life order I’d put in. Tons of little photos of David. There we go. That’s all for this week. More coming soon. David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. Here are two more spreads from our book:
Another butterfly from Spanish class. Aren’t these magnificent? And the next spread:
More drawings and fun with his friend Ari. He and David were “selling” things at school from what I understand (not for money) but then they were told to stop. (or so David tells me weeks later.) but he still loves that they made this chart. There we go. That’s all for this week. More coming soon. David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. Here are two more spreads from our book:
This is a butterfly he made in Spanish class. Since I love butterflies so much I thought it would be awesome to glue it down as is. This page makes me happy. And the next spread:
This spread holds presents on both sides. The left side is a “remote” David’s friend Ari made for him and the right page is a drawing he made for him. He and Ari have become good friends this year which makes me happy just to think about it. There we go. That’s all for this week. More coming soon. David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. Here are two more spreads from our book:
The left side of this spread is a drawing David made (I should have photographed it, too!) and the right side is a little art project we did at the Children’s Discovery Museum. And the next spread:
The left side has two items in this case. David has some spy teams at school and he wanted a special code they could communicate in so Jake downloaded and laminated this one for him. (I can’t remember what it is but it’s some kind of code.) On the bottom is the sticker from the Exploratorium from when he and Jake went to meet Jake’s friend Geoff and his son. David got to look through a microscope there which he thought was awesome. The right side is our ticket of the Train of Lights we took during Christmastime at Niles, CA. David loves that train and the yummy cookies he eats when we takes it. There we go. That’s all for this week. More coming soon. David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. As the new year starts, so do our projects. David and I have already begun working on his Book of Good Memories. The idea behind this project is to create a book full of things that make him happy so that if he’s having a rough day or he just wants to look back and remember things that brought him joy, he can have them all in one place. It also allows us to craft a little bit together and gives him a chance to practice writing and thinking more deeply about why a particular item/memory makes him happy. We aim to do about 1-2 spreads a week. Some weeks we do more and others less. But if we end the year with one full book, I will be happy. I know these won’t be interesting to many of the readers here. That’s why I am posting on the weekend since those are quieter. These pages are meaningful to me and I want to preserve them. With that said, here are two more spreads from our book:
The left side of this spread is some tracing David did. He loves to trace and I do, too. The immediate gratification of seeing something recognizable that you created is sweet. The right side is a book he created in Spanish class which talks about butterflies and it was really beautiful so we made a little pocket for it. And the next spread:
I love this page! It’s a printout of a digital art piece he created at school. I loved it so much that we glued the whole thing down and then created a little flap on the right where we could slip in his journaling because we didn’t want to cover any of the art. We just added one piece of sticker to it and this spread was done. I love love love looking at this one. There we go. That’s all for this week. More coming soon. David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. Now that our A Book a Week with David project is over, I’ve been thinking about how to continue reading together for 2012. Here are all the books we read in 2011:
Instead of doing another 52 books this year, I decided we would focus on longer, more involved books. These books might take a month to read and that’s ok. The idea is for him to learn to stay connected to a story over a long period and to get a better feeling for the depth of experience a longer novel can provide. Or so is my hope. I picked a bunch of books that I thought were on the longer side and a few classics.
My goal is to incorporate our thoughts and feelings about each finished novel to David’s Book of Good Memories so we can have a record of our progress and continue to write down his thoughts on each book. Like last year, I would love some more suggestions. David is almost 7 so any age-appropriate books for a 7-8 year old would be excellent. A huge thank you in advance! Yey, can’t wait to start another year of reading!
David says: I liked the part where the two sisters each saved half of their cookie so baby Carrie could get some too and she ended up having a full cookie. And the part about Christmas where they got candy and presents. It was not good that she was too greedy and took too many pebbles and tore her pocket. I thought the part where the dad thought a tree stump looked like a bear was funny. So was the part where Laura tasted the snow to see if it was like sugar and it wasn’t. It was sad that they weren’t allowed to play or do anything fun on Sundays. I didn’t like the part where Charley was being naughty and ended up stung by all the yellow jackets. But my favorite part was when the Daddy didn’t shoot the deer in the woods. Reading a book a week with my six-year-old son David is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.
David says: I thought it was silly that Todd gave away Joy’s notebook instead of his. I liked that DJ always smiles and how it made everyone else smile, too and how he laughed and it made everyone else laugh too. I also liked how John could only read upside down. I loved the Miss Zarves one because it was so unexpected and funny. The story with the Erics was funny because all their nicknames were opposites of how the kids actually were. I didn’t like Kathy because she was always mean and expected things to go badly so they did. I thought it was funny that Louis offered Kathy money for her toes. And I liked how they turned Mrs. Gorf into an apple and ate her! But my favorite one was Louis because I figured out early on that it was him telling the story because that’s the author’s name. Reading a book a week with my six-year-old son David is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.
David says: I liked the part where Nick and his friends made a pact to use the word frindle every time. It was also funny that the whole school started using it even though it meant they had to stay after school. I liked the news reporter too and it was cool that she talked to Nick and published the story of the word. It was bad that the principal got involved but great that Nick’s parents were so supportive of him. I like that Nick kept acting on his good ideas and it meant the lunch in his school got so much better for everyone. My favorite part of the book is when Nick got to see his word in the dictionary (and his name was on there too!!) It was nice that Mrs. Granger was actually rooting for Nick this whole time. Reading a book a week with my six-year-old son David is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here. Last year, David and I read a book a week. This year, we plan to continue reading but in a different style (more on this later this month) and I decided I wanted to add another project for some David and Mommy time. One of the things David loves to do is go through my scrapbooks and look at his past memories. He loves reliving the moments, remembering the good things and feeling the happiness all over again. So we bought a Moleskine Sketchbook for him and started collecting some of the items that have good memories associated with them. So his project is similar to The Savor Project I’m doing with a few differences:
We plan to use this book to save special items he brings home from school as well as milestones in his life, photos I take that he loves, etc.
We haven’t decorated the cover yet so there’s nothing to see there but here are a few pages we’ve already done just to give you an idea of what we’re doing:
This is the first page. On the left side is his name, a pocket that holds a fortuneteller a friend gave him at school and a few words on why he likes it. On the right side is a ribbon from the local swim school of when he leveled up from one to two. (He is on level 3 now but we couldn’t find that ribbon. More reason to do this project!)
And here’s the next page. On the left is a photo of a card he made for Jake’s birthday two years ago and a photo of Jake, David, and Jake’s mom opening presents on Jake’s birthday. Below that is a pocket that holds a lego card he likes and a few words on why he likes it. On the right side is a photo I took during the Polar Express train ride we took last year. Since the photo was really large, we put it sideways and created a pocket on the right side which is where he put the card that has his words on it.
And there you go. We use a lot of the scraps I have accumulated and anything that makes him happy. As you can see, the pages are simple and putting two together takes us about an hour or so each week. Our goal is to do 1-2 spreads a week and fill the book up throughout the year. I will be posting photos from his page every other week. (I have a project with Nathaniel this year, too, and he will get the alternate weeks.) |
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