She put together a kit to help warriors when they're hurt or their swords break. It has a flashlight, scissors, several rolls of tape, her magicband...
She watched a bunch of Pokemon.
She played with her Monopoly Crazy Cash game. (She got this as a birthday present from a friend and has messed around with the pieces pretty much every day since then. Possibly because all the other board games are put away out of her reach so she can't lose the pieces...)
She and I had a very illuminating conversation at the library
me: [trying to think of books she might like to check out] You know there's some Fancy Nancy books where she's a grown up kid and she's a detective?
Lucy: Yeah, I know! I have one!
me: [remembering that I bought one at last year's library book sale] Oh, yeah, right.
Lucy: I'm not sure detecting stuff is for kids.
me: ??? Well, they write the books about kids detecting for kids to read...
Lucy: Yeah, I read it. It was about a lost marble.
me: Really?? Did she find it?
Lucy: Yeah, she found the marble.
me: Oh! I'm just surprised -- I didn't know you read it because I didn't ever see you reading it.
Lucy: Yeah, I read it really fast. I read really fast, so it was kinda...
me: Well, they have more -- do you want another one?
Lucy: Yeah, sure. Get me the longest one.
me: [goes over and gets all three that they have on the shelf]
Lucy: Yeah, I already read this one -- this is the one about the marble. [The first one: "Nancy Clancy: Super Sleuth"]
me: Oh, okay. Do you want the other two?
Lucy: Sure.Okay, I typed this whole thing out because I really, really had NO idea that she had read the book. Or that she had ever sat down by herself and read a chapter book. I had been working on the assumption that although her reading ability is up to the challenge of almost any book, her attention span and perhaps her physical mechanisms involved (eyes, etc) where not up to it. But no -- apparently it turns out that all the books she has are just too short?? She goes through them too fast so they're boring?? I also talked her into getting the second Boxcar Children book (since she loves the first one, and the rest are mysteries). We'll see if she reads them, I guess. At the same time, she's always turning down my offers to read Narnia or Harry Potter or Mysterious Benedict Society, etc, etc, to her at bedtime. Sometimes I think she just needs to make her own way so badly that she'll turn down anything as long as I suggested it.
Oh, and she also used the library DVD alphabetizing to find the movies she was looking for. (She pretty much has first letters down pat. The rest of the spelling, not so much.)
Also I don't think I've mentioned here yet that she now has her own library card, and she knows how to check to see if things are due and how to put things on hold with her library account on her tablet.
She built this hotel room furniture. I love it! The bed is so fancy, and all the luggage is on top of the A/C window seat combo.
Also we gave her a flashlight and she's been reading her Pokemon handbook in her bed every night before she goes to sleep.
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