My daughter finished the third book of the Harry Potter series, The Prisoner of Azkaban, yesterday, and she proceeded to start it all over again. In a way that hasn’t been true with the first two books, my daughter has started identifying with Hermione Grainger. I gotta tell you, it’s a great thing to see.
In this third book in the series, Hermione gets a pet cat. For our daughter, the cat lover, this sealed the deal. Hermione spends a lot of this book studying, so while she stayed in her room yesterday, my daughter put together a backpack worth of “textbooks” and even completed some “homework” (complete with the necessary words and phrases to combat her greatest fears—spiders). She did the same this morning as she relistened to the book.
To be clear, it’s Saturday morning in July during summer break, and my daughter is willingly doing math homework as part of a game while she relistens to an 11.5 hour book.
We’ll take it.
Learning Together 