Jar Jar's Victory

The kids and I go to the library just about every week. We love story time and checking out new books to read. For the past several months Joshua has been getting better and better at his reading. And he's worked really hard to get there. He will read early readers to himself for his entire rest time. Then, when he gets up, he asks me to read with him any of the books he was not able to read by himself. All of it is very thought out.

The other day I was telling Joshua once again how proud I was of him, but I asked him why he was working so hard at his reading. Much to my surprise, he had a very clear answer. He said, "I want to read a Star Wars book." I had forgotten that several weeks ago when we were at the library, Joshua found an entire section of Star Wars books. He was so excited, but I told him he wasn't quite ready to read those books by himself. I didn't realize this had made such an impact. 

This week, the work paid off. Joshua found a book called "Jar Jar's Mistake." He brought it to me and asked if he could try it out. Of course, I said yes, thinking I would need to read it to him in the end. 32 pages later, Joshua had read the whole thing needing only limited help. I'm not sure who was more proud, him or me?! 

Here's a portion for your enjoyment. At the end of the video, we ALL got a little stuck on the word Gungan. Go figure.