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grandparents as teachers
" Grandpa, look. We already have this book, but
what does that one say? " After reading through
Franklin Goes to School during Reading Time with
Grandpa, Luka had noticed 12 little pictures and corresponding
titles, advertising more Franklin books.
He could quickly identify a book by its cover picture,
but he needed Grandpa to read him the words of
the new titles. One of his developing " pre-reading "
skills involved noticing that both pictures and words
tell a story; in fact, Luka informed Grandpa that a
boring story is " not colorful, " and in every good story,
" Something happens! " Also, he quickly became aware
when Grandpa summarized a page too freely, pointing
at the words I'd passed over and saying, " But,
Grandpa, what do those words say?! " So began Luka's
infatuation with Franklin the Turtle and all his animal
friends. He especially went for the scary ones: Franklin's
Halloween, Franklin in the Dark, and Franklin and
the Thunderstorm. Grandpa liked the way Paulette
Bourgeois and illustrator Brenda Clark showcase and
coach children through very real fears they face in their
young lives.
Grandpa and Grandma teaching Luka building skills and how to follow plans.
Luka liked to hide, and once while both Grandma
and Grandpa were distracted, he disappeared. We
discovered him whispering his own story (as he also
enjoyed doing out loud for his 2-year-old brother,
Niko) from the pictures of a Franklin book underneath
the triangle-folded tent of a large cardboard
box in the corner of our little apartment. So,
Grandpa and Grandma set up other little
nooks and secret caches of children's books
for Luka to discover. While Grandpa read,
Luka would both point and talk, indicating
how a child naturally learns to analyze and
question. For example, in the book When a
DRAGON Moves In (by Moore & McWilliam),
Luka was charmed by a magical dragon
friend who moves into a little boy's sandcastle
on the beach. The boy could float
on his back because of his friendly dragon
holding him up from underneath, and Luka
loved the dragon scaring off bigger bullies
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coming to destroy his castle even while he also blamed
the dragon for eating his sister's peanut butter sandwich.
After many re-readings, however, Luka chuckled,
" Hmm, was that REALLY the dragon... or are those arm
floats holding him up? Was the dragon scaring off the
bullies... or is that his dad shouting and waving his arms
at them? Did the dragon eat the sandwich...or HIM?! "
Together the three of us gradually invented even
more school " times " : breakfast time, science, recess,
movies, field trips to the arboretum, zoo, the fire station,
and a sculpture museum (his favorite was " Big
Hands " ). Music time happened on the twenty-minute
ride to and from school with Luka choosing which
songs he wanted to hear and sing, including the
soundtracks from Sing, The Little Mermaid, Beauty,
and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
and many albums of wonderful sing-along music for
young children by Greg & Steve Productions,
www.gregandsteve.com. For our own 2021 annotated
list of pre-K curriculum, games, and basic skills we
researched and tested, email Grandma and Grandpa
Kerry and Tim Conrad at tconrad@weber.edu.
Kerry and Tim Conrad are recently retired
(January 1, 2020) English and Spanish
instructors, having taught both PreK-12 and
college students in Utah and other countries,
Mexico, Bolivia, Bosnia, and Turkey. When
many schools closed because of the Covid
epidemic, Kerry and Tim left their Utah
home from September 2020 through May
2021 to set up their own little school in a
Dallas apartment to teach their five-year-old
grandson's PreK curriculum.
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