I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
It’s all downhill after Wednesdays around here. Although none of my children have class, I teach, which means they’re at home “alone” for a good chunk of the day. I’m sure they’d enjoy this IF they didn’t have to babysit five-year-old Olivia.
While I’m on campus, my two “biggest” kids take turns home-schooling their little sister. As junior instructors, they find reading to be particularly challenging – no doubt due, in part, to Olivia’s tendency to read the pictures rather than the words. Today, Quentin became so frustrated with Olivia’s refusal to sound out the words in favor of telling her own, much more engaging, story based on the pictures that he apparently told her, “Fine! Then just read to yourself, ” which she did.
When I got home, Olivia greeted me with a hug and a heartfelt “I missed you, Mommy.” Having so duly warmed me up, Olivia proceeded to spin her own version of the day’s reading lesson. “Mommy! I read inside my my head quietly because the cats were sleeping.”
Uh huh…right…just like Dr. Seusscan read with his eyes shut.
