all by himself, which his mother wrote for him. It takes up exactly one page. I wrote it down and handed it to him and he read it with no help.
It went like this:
Douwe is a boy.
Douwe has a car.
The car is the Mach 1.
The Mach 1 car goes fast.
Douwe wins!
Douwe is happy.
The Mach 1 is Douwe's newest fantasy acquisition. He can tell you all about it; is it possible to have an imaginary friend which is a machine? It has that feeling, the Mach 1 is always available to whisk Douwe out of a tight spot.
It is occasionally upsetting to his father and grandmother that Douwe abruptly announces (usually in the middle of being told "no" or being told he has to do something he does not want to) that "I have to go race now" and runs off to sit in the middle of the floor holding his arms in front of him at steering wheel level. Or sometimes he has to fix it before the big race starts in which case he usually crawls under something or turns over a chair and becomes very busy under it.
But he is in fact getting in the Mach 5, er, sorry, Mach 1.
He then dictated a story for me to write up for Daan which goes like this:
Daan is a boy.
Daan has a helicopter.
The helicopter is green.
The green helicopter goes high, high.
Daan wins too!
Daan is happy.
Then he read that one to Daan.
I have a feeling I am about to become an author of many children's stories, with a very devoted public of two.
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4 comments:
At least he shares winning
Jenni
That is wonderful to hear Jeannine. I am so proud of him. Give them both hugs and kisses from us.
Love ya,
Jennifer S.
Jeannine:
In what language did he read it?
Dad
Hi, dad,
In English. I only read to them in English; and I have taught him to read and write in English.
Here's a funny: they use cursive letters right away at the montessori school, not print. Douwe already knew his print letters when we got here. And so when he is writing things, he writes for me in print.
At school, and when Paul and Nel write things for him (like when he was writing letters to St. Nicholas) they do it in separated cursive, because that's what the school does and that's how they learned.
After a short period of mixing, Douwe now appears to believe that English is written in print letters and Dutch is written in cursive -- as if they had two alphabets. I have not corrected him because it seems to help him keep the languages straight.
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