Today was language arts day. We had some vocabulary to learn and we also talked more about personification. We discussed not only the physical human attributes that were used, but also other things such as emotions and abilities that make an object in a story human-like. The FIAR manual recommended having the child write their own story with personification, which I knew would be totally easy for him considering all his creative writing stories he’s been writing are about inanimate objects that do things (mostly go get pizza). He also pointed out lots of examples of personification throughout our day, which was exciting. We were at Target this afternoon and he saw a pair of shoes with eyes on them and he said, “Look, Mommy! Personification! Shoes don’t normally have eyes!” He feels so proud of himself to know such a big word.
“I need to find my pencil so I can write my vocabulary words…”
“Oh yeah! I forgot I put it there!”
This is the longest story he’s written yet. He had to use two pages!
On Thursday, our art day, we’re going to add a drawing of all of the characters in his story and give them some very human-like physical features to add to the bottom of the page.