First Narration

Tonight, after we got DS to bed, we sat down with DD and started her very first narration session. We haven't done this before, so we were not sure whether it would go well or not. We started off by explaining to her that Mommy is going to read her a short story (we picked one from The Early Reader's Bible), and then she will tell the story to us in her own words.

Mommy read the story slowly with frequeny pauses, with a formal attitude that properly drew her attention into the work at hand. After the story was read, it was time for her to repeat the story back to us. Being a somewhat perfectionist like mommy, she was a little bit frustrated at first, wanting to start the story off exactly as she heard it. But we reassured her that we wanted to hear the story, in her own words. We wrote down her first narration word-for-word:

God Made The World
Long time ago, there was no world.
There was no sun. There was no moon.
There was no stars.
God said, "I am going to make a world."
So God made a world.
"Now I am going to make a sun," said God.
"Now I am going to make a moon, and
I am going to make some stars," said God.
God made the fish in the sea.
God created big animals and small animals.
Last of all, He made one man and one one girl.

She had so much fun hearing us read her story back to her, we narrated two more stories. Thanks be to God that this went off so well. Mommy now plans to do this with her everyday.

-- post by Lorraine's DH