Yeh-Shien, the young maiden
Yearns for her friend.
Yanked from the pool,
He met a sad end.
Yeh-Shien, the young maiden
Yells in despair.
Yet, soon she will raise
Her arms high in prayer.
Here is Yeh-Shien, a Chinese Cinderella (in fact, the earliest recorded version of the Cinderella story). Rather than a fairy godmother, this gal had the magic bones from her pet fish. We used working with this tale to introduce the letter "Y" (in consonant form). J decided to draw her at the party (where she lost her shoe) -- that ball hanging on the right is, he says, a Chinese pinata.
Here's Zoo Boy's drawing. Of special note here, he decided to write the entire title himself, and thoroughly unprompted my me (I was no where near ready to write the title on mine). His N is reversed and on the wrong line, and his upper and lower case letters are mixed, but I was pleased to see him take such initiative with his writing. It's certainly not the norm for him.
The boys' upper and lower case Ys -- J's is on top.
J's written verse. It occured to me today how far he's come with his writing -- he's keeping his words well spaced on the page (and from each other), and he's not tiring, even with a verse this long.
My drawing -- I put her by the pool where her fish was killed by her step-mother.
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