jumping mouse

"Journey afar," he heard a voice calling,

"Joy awaits in a far-off land.

Jump over desert, jump over mountain,

Jumping Mouse, jump as high as you can."

-from "Jumping Mouse", a Native American fairy tale modified by Enki Education

This week's curriculum story was "Jumping Mouse", a Native American fairy tale about a mouse who generously gives away his eyesight and his sense of smell to help other animals, who in turn help him. Great story, Zoo Boy in particular was very taken by it. This first drawing is J's. Check out his jiving title line.



And here's Zoo Boy's drawing. Very obviously, "J" is the consonant we were focusing on in this story.










The kids' Js.














J's verse. The formatting fell apart when he realized he couldn't fit the entire first line on the page. I think his struggle with spacing between words was a result of his slight distress over this fact. You can also see that he was using many more capital letters than he has been lately, I think also a sign of stress. Interesting.

Zoo Boy's verse -- he of course only wrote the first letter of each line (all Js, as it turns out). Although he did put in the 2nd opening quotation marks after watching me add them to his first J. Also interesting!

My drawing, in case anyone wants to see it.