I usually collect pearls of childish wisdom in my email and then on occasion I curate them into one post. Here are some of Jonathan's pearls in the last half year.
Israeli schools have devised a program to help classmates get to know each other. The idea is that each child in turn invites 5 other children arbitrarily assigned by the home teacher to an afternoon at home and gets invited to theirs. Its called a hosting party. Jonathan being in the first year of school took part in this program.We were in fact one of the first families to conduct a hosting party. After that we prepared a Powerpoint with pictures from the event to show in class and Jonathan was requested to present it. About 4 month later Jonathan asked me when he is to be invited next to a hosting party. when I asked why he wanted to know he clarifies that he wants his picture to be included in a presentation. The children of the digital world...
Jonathan has an habit of mimicking lips motion when he is bored. The idea is to try to move his lips imitating the person speaking to him, sometimes he even tries to say the words. This can be quite annoying at times, but I must confess I find it amazing ho fast he reacts and how close he is to saying to me that which I am saying to him.
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
The speed of progress
Jonathan is exposed to so many triggers, that it is surprising that he can grasp them all. His DVD's are an endless source of surprising information and have recently helped unearth his talent for languages.
Jonathan has a good ear, just like his mom a talent for sounds and melody is also turned into a talent for languages. Despite the fact that Jonathan suffered from a delay in speech, it was clear that he distinguishes languages. Recently, after watching a DVD of “letters form Felix the hare” Jonathan has focused on the English-like accent of characters that come from the USA or Australia and the UK. He thus roles his R's and proclaims by such “English sounding” rolling R dominated gibberish to speak “English” and he wants me to repeat his new found words and to speak English with him...
I find this especially endearing, as I have clear memories of myself playing a similar game with my twin sister when we are about 4 or 5 years old. We imitated the American mother of one of the children form our kindergarten - rolling our R's and making gibberish sounds (or was she south African? I do not really remember, but the last time I saw her was in South Africa when I was about 10 – and by then I could speak English fluently).
My mother says that Jonathan repeats many of my quirks as a child. M
Jonathan has a good ear, just like his mom a talent for sounds and melody is also turned into a talent for languages. Despite the fact that Jonathan suffered from a delay in speech, it was clear that he distinguishes languages. Recently, after watching a DVD of “letters form Felix the hare” Jonathan has focused on the English-like accent of characters that come from the USA or Australia and the UK. He thus roles his R's and proclaims by such “English sounding” rolling R dominated gibberish to speak “English” and he wants me to repeat his new found words and to speak English with him...
I find this especially endearing, as I have clear memories of myself playing a similar game with my twin sister when we are about 4 or 5 years old. We imitated the American mother of one of the children form our kindergarten - rolling our R's and making gibberish sounds (or was she south African? I do not really remember, but the last time I saw her was in South Africa when I was about 10 – and by then I could speak English fluently).
My mother says that Jonathan repeats many of my quirks as a child. M
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