Our daughter is really getting into reading. She loves it! She now reads a book a night to us and then we read to her. We are now trying to work on comprehension while reading. Occasionally while reading, we will ask her if she knows what a word she just read means.
Usually she knows, but there are those few times when she doesn’t. (It isn’t as if we are reading high level books here!). One afternoon she was reading a book to us. She came across the words ‘row boat’. It took a moment for her to get it sounded out correctly. So, we asked her, ‘do you know what a row boat is?’. She tried to explain it, we weren’t getting it. So in frustration, she jumped up and said ‘I will show you’. Okay, that is a pretty easy one to act out. Expecting our daughter to start miming rowing a boat, we got something TOTALLY different!
She jumps up from my lap, turns to face me and as serious as a heart attack starts miming her interpretation of a row boat. I thought I was going to DIE! I could barely breath, I was laughing so hard. Tears just streaming down my face.
She stops, not knowing at all why I am laughing. Do you know????
Our dear daughter stood up and started dancing like a ROBOT! (And she was good at it, she must have seen her Dad dancing!)
It was the funniest thing I had ever seen… and for months after, when we asked her to do the Row Boat, we got the best Robot dance ever!
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