Yesterday I discovered the overwhelming process of processing for my son. Lately, I have been showing him single pictures (e.g. a boy riding a bicycle, a woman eating a sandwich etc.) and I ask him to tell me about the picture using his words in a sentence. What I found was that it took him a good minute for him to process the picture! He saw everything INDIVIDUALLY and somehow had to put all of the information together. Then, IN PROPER ENGLISH somehow give me a sentence. What an exhausting process!
For me, I can look at the picture and process everything within seconds. "The boy is riding a bicycle!" My processing time is instant (most of the time, if I've had my coffee). For CJ...he sees, the bicycle. Then the boy, then the red t-shirt, then the green grass,(in which one of those may provoke a funny memory, then I lose him for a sec) then the blue sky, and oh wait what am I suppose to do again? Oh yeah..a sentence. He then flips through his categories and says, "The boy...she..(no) he is sitting.....(no), riding on the bicycle on the grass." Whew!
Great job CJ! Okay...next picture!
Wow I am confused now too, or is it (YOU) are confused? Great job teaching a difficult concept.
ReplyDeleteWe sure do take the little things in life for granted. Cute picte too!