Our friends Dominic and Molly who run The Shoreham Inn in Vemont hosted a Jewish family for Passover. They asked if Dominic could make them matzah brei for breakfast and Dominic being the consumate short order cook with encyclopedic knowledge of traditional Jewish cooking, replied “What's that?” Here's he is getting lessons. Notice the Blue Nun looking on approvingly.
Monthly Archive for May, 2004
Page 3 of 3
Abigail at age 3-1/4 has started writing her own stories. Invented spelling wasn't a concept when I was learning to read and write and I know people who blame their inability to spell on being allowed to spell anyway they chose for too long. But now that I'm witnessing Abby's first attempts at writing (I've been taking dictation since she was two) it's really amazing.
When Abby says brang I usually repeat what she said, saying brought instead. But writing would be no fun at all if I tried to correct her spelling. So I just let her go – ocassionally adding a space between words or a period at the end of a sentence. Here's her first story (March 23, 2004):
Wsa apn ttym lld dk a mommy be abby lda wotr brij komn stret
Here's what she said as she typed:
Once upon a time there was a little duck. A mommy read a book and the abby listened. Go down Common Street, across the bridge, to the water.
Three weeks later she typed “once upon a time” as
Wso apn a tim
This is very addictive – part construction part composition. Too bad I wasn't taught physics with something like this.
http://www.balldroppings.com/
Recent Comments