What do you call a person with only a nose and no body?
Nobody Nose.
What do you call an alligator wearing a vest?
An investigator.
Why did the chicken cross the road? TO HUNT SOMEONE DOWN!
Knock-knock. Who’s there? THE CHICKEN (insert image of menacing chicken for full effect)
New joke book is highly recommended by Ivan as hilarious.
We’ve started making these piles of completed reading.
This is our most recent.
I only have one book in it. Most of them are Ivan’s reading – though Ezri contributes strongly. Eric occasionally adds to the pile too.
Ivan’s most exciting literary discovery is probably the Danger is Everywhere series he loves the weird acronyms and the page 9 scorpion. Don’t turn to page 9! He checked other books outside the series around our house and informed me that he hasn’t found any page 9 scorpions in them. But he hasn’t checked them all yet.
Dogman by Dav Pilkey – the third book is just out and Ivan is thrilled there will be a fourth in December
Lunch Lady Comics by Krosoczka – The last time a brought one of these home from the library he found it first thing in the morning and did not speak to me or pause for breakfast until he completed reading the book.
Jaden Toussaint by Marti Dumas – Jaden quests for more screen time, loves science, has an older sister, has a geeky family and is an expert at ninja dancing. This character resonates with Ivan.
He is also spending a lot of time reading all of the stats and facts on the Pokemon cards that are now organized into a binder. He received many new cards for his birthday and looks at them for hours.
Here are some recent independently read titles – all very simple picture books that Ivan can read ALL BY HIMSELF! “This is NOT a Cat!” is probably his favorite though “Rhyming Dust Bunnies” is also repeatedly loved and sometimes recited without the book in sight.
Smick! by Doreen Cronin
Toto’s Apple by Mathieu Lavoie
Plants vs. Zombies: Save Your Brain by Catherine Hapka
This is NOT a Cat by David Larochelle
Pug Meets Pig by Sue Lowell Gallion
Pants for Chuck by Pat Schories
Pie for Chuck by Pat Schories
Pete Likes Bunny by Emily Arnold McCully
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas