our lives in small town, East Africa

Monday, October 22, 2007

writing and reading

Juma's been working hard in school. He recently won a writing award for his kindergarten-level writing.



And at home, we do extra practice reading. Each sticker represents a time he read the book. He earns a sticker a day and when the chart is filled, he gets a reward.



At home, his grandma set up a little private writing center to inspire him to write.



The first thing he did was to take everyone's orders for drinks and dinner.



(Wotr = water
ise te = iced tea
joos = juice
dr pepr = Dr Pepper
the speshl = the special)

The next writing task he wrote and drew a rendition of a dream he'd had the night before.



(Me and Tristan found jewels. Rylee tooc [took] mine.)

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