Caught this photo last night during "Family Wii Night" and I have a great and important (that's a joke) post brewing about authenticity and learning to read and what's right about the way human learners learn and how foolish the teaching (and assessment) of reading can often be in school, but I have the chance right now to snuggle up with my girls and watch a really great movie and so I'm just going to post this quick and know what I know and spare you all from hearing me drone on about reading lessons (and the dreaded "Reading Log", for goodness sakes) and how wonderful and powerful is the "reading lesson" learned from (the blessing of) sitting in your dad's lap
after he's read a book to you
after he's read a book to you
and is now reading his own...
From getting him the dictionary to look up an exotic word...
...and then flipping through the thesaurus looking for more exotic words
because you want to.
From having a heart to heart discussion about why and how you choose the books you choose and hearing about how your dad chooses his, while your sister kicks butt in the Wii fit obstacle course.
Ah-em, well, I seem to have droned on a bit without even trying!
(Emma was running back to The Last Hero, by Rick Riordan
after each of her turns, too.)
*reading*
I'm jealous because I'm in between books and feeling quite desperate!
I need to hit the library tomorrow.
Now...to snuggling!
