Robots and Reading

Jaclyn is what I’d term a reluctant reader. She’s proficient* and enjoys reading aloud together (if she must do it) but it’s not in her top fav things to do. 

Until December that is, when her third grade teacher (the same awesome teacher Leia and Leo had) started reading “The Wild Robot” by Peter Brown to the class. Jac was hooked. The teacher wasn’t going to read them volumes 2 and 3, so Jac checked them out from the library to read on her own…

while we waited for a doctor’s appointment (she had her phone but chose to read 😳) ⬆️ … and curled up in my craft room instead of hanging out with the big girls. ⬇️

She received two sets of the books for Christmas and, asked if she wanted to return one and pick a different gift, chose to keep both - one for her mom’s house and one for here. 

This week she decided that I needed to know about Roz The Robot too, so we are reading the books aloud each night. Sometimes she does the reading, sometimes we take turns (I get the first paragraph, she insists on reading the rest of the chapter 😂)

and sometimes, like tonight, she turns it into a dramatic performance art “Reading”.

Standing on the bed, reading with gestures and emphasis

I love this kid. 

* Jac struggled with reading at first - thank you, 2020 pandemic for closing all the pre-schools - so we’ve paid for her to go to a local tutoring center for the last 3-ish years. I’ve never seen a business get, and deserve, all 5 star reviews before but Tutorific does. And their methods work. Jac, and now Donovan, love going there.