Bored Ellie is Bored

Ellie has different kinds of lessons now. It used to be just "Vocab". Then it was "Book" or "Vocab". Now it's Book, Vocab or Story. But she's getting bored again. She can read sentences - just the challenge of reading sentences isn't enough anymore. She wants to learn.

I tried doing some simple stories:
"This is Zed. Zed is a fish. Zed likes outside. Zed likes water. Zed likes green. Zed doesn't like grass."

That was OK - but she didn't want to keep it up. Last night we worked on body parts. She can touch Zed's eyes, his nose, she can give him a kiss, touch his tummy, and his tail.

I also have a stuffed elephant that she likes. We reviewed names (my name is Mom, your name is Ellie, her name is Isabelle, fish's name is Zed) and then I asked her if she wanted to name her elephant? ("Yes.") I figured we'd do one traditional option (Barney) and one that would help her practice the little-used X - Xerxes. She picked Barney to be his name... and now she knows Barney's big ears, that he has four feet, a long nose, and eyes.

I also taught her homonyms - know and no. Ellie knows red. Ellie knows green. Ellie knows blue. She was so cute. I said: "Do you know red?"

She kept picking "NO", so confused! Then she figured it out :) "Yes!"

Anyway, all that to say.... I'm running out of things to teach her again? She's bored - she can read sentences. She knows Zed lives in water (and Ellie lives in a house). I started to make up stories, but then thought... that would be so confusing. "Zed lives in the outside water. Outside water is called creek."

But Zed is here, next to her, and not in water. He's not outside in the creek. Barney doesn't live outside either, he's next to her too...

Maybe I'll try to say, "This is a pretend story.. Let's pretend...."

I think she challenges me at least as much as I challenge her.