Written Narration

Jayden has begun to do written narrations. I thought this was going to be difficult...I mean, this is the first guide to have them do written narrations, and she's only in the third week! Here is her narration from today's reading in "Life in the Great Ice Age"

Jabeth's family had success in killing the wooly mammoth, and they had a feast. On the third day of the feast, Gath and Soren were figuring out where to paint a picture of a wooly mammoth, and Jabeth and Baylock heard them talking. Jabeth spoke up and said, "I know the perfect place to paint the wooly mammoth!" and he took Soren and Gath to their secret part of the cave. Soren said, "This is a great place! The air is dry and the drawing won't get smudged from the smoke from the fire." Then Soren started painting the wooly mammoth.

I am pleasantly surprised at her ability to narrate now after such a rocky start with oral narrations. In Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory, the first Heart of Dakota guide we used with Jayden, it was a struggle to get her to say one sentence that had anything to do with the daily reading. And in the beginning of just two guides later, she writes the above paragraph. I'm impressed!