Recently Adelais' reading has taken a shift. She has, for a long time, really enjoyed looking at books. She use to turn the pages as quick as she could, stop on one picture and stare at it, then continue. But, over the last week or so she has been looking more intently at each page and pointing to different things on the page. As she points to something she wants you to say what it is. She will point at one thing, then another, then the first thing again and so forth. Recently we were reading a book that has a different dog on each page. Our reading went something like this: point, "ear", point, "nose", point, "ear", point, "paw", point, "ear", point, "nose", point, "ear", turn the page, point, "nose", point, "ear", turn back the page, point, "ear", "nose", turn the page, point, "nose", point, "paw", etc.... What is amazing to watch is how Adelais is teaching us how she wants to learn right now. Obviously she doesn't know that, but clearly through repetition she is making connections. On one page this is an ear, on the next page this is also an ear even though one looks much different than the other. You can see her thinking and starting to make those connections. Just another reason to find her utterly amazing. : )
Friday, May 30, 2008
New Reading Techniques
Recently Adelais' reading has taken a shift. She has, for a long time, really enjoyed looking at books. She use to turn the pages as quick as she could, stop on one picture and stare at it, then continue. But, over the last week or so she has been looking more intently at each page and pointing to different things on the page. As she points to something she wants you to say what it is. She will point at one thing, then another, then the first thing again and so forth. Recently we were reading a book that has a different dog on each page. Our reading went something like this: point, "ear", point, "nose", point, "ear", point, "paw", point, "ear", point, "nose", point, "ear", turn the page, point, "nose", point, "ear", turn back the page, point, "ear", "nose", turn the page, point, "nose", point, "paw", etc.... What is amazing to watch is how Adelais is teaching us how she wants to learn right now. Obviously she doesn't know that, but clearly through repetition she is making connections. On one page this is an ear, on the next page this is also an ear even though one looks much different than the other. You can see her thinking and starting to make those connections. Just another reason to find her utterly amazing. : )
Friday, May 16, 2008
Birthday Celebration
On May 10th Adelais turned 1 year old! Grandma Sally and Grandpa De came up from Florida, Grandma and Grandpa C come in from Baltimore and Uncle Boyd came down from NYC. We all hung out and were immensely entertained by Adelais who seemed to have a great time. The above picture is her sitting in the rocking chair that Grandma Sally and Grandpa De got her.
See Adelais practicing the piano that Grandpa C got her - she's really into free-form improvisational music right now.
Smiling as she unwraps a present. : )
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