Max the Fisherman

We have a “catch-and-release” fishing lake near where we live and Max has wanted to go fishing for a long time. So, yesterday and today, we took Max fishing. He recently received his first fishing pole, because he's been working on learning how to read, and we used the fishing pole to motivate him enough to learn how to read short words ending in the following letters, -at, -an, -ap, -ag, -ad, -id, -ip, and -it. (Think sentences like “Big Cat can dig.”) We didn't do so well on our first day of fishing, but on the second day, Max caught three fish (which Papa had to subsequently get off the hook and toss back in the lake)! Max was very proud (and rightly so)!

Here is Max walking to the lake with his fishing pole.



Here he is with one of the fish that he caught.



And, here is a close-up of that fish.



More photos are available at the Max the Fisherman photo set.

Enjoy,

Ken