“Mommy, look at me!”
I anticipated the ridiculous. The ridiculous delivered in the form of this:
“You have ten eyes,” I said.
I could sense Ari skip counting by twos.
After a few beats he declared, “I do have ten eyes!”
Everyone’s a Comedian
Published by Stacey Shubitz
I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island. I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010). I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels. View all posts by Stacey Shubitz
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Ah, THAT (cute) kid! Could you argue that he had 12 eyes?
BTW, I always love how you watercolor your photos for your blog.
Waterlogue was the best $2.99 I’ve ever spent!
Ari gives you a lot to laugh and slice about. Love the skip counting!
It’s only a matter of time before he stops me from doing it so I’ve got to get as much on as possible right now!
Skip counting to ten eyes! That’s funny and impressive.
Best skip counting practice ever!
Look at him using those tools in the bright sun in the car! I have 5 pairs in the back seat in hope that 1 is in reach when we turn into the sun. And skip counting?! What a win!
Only the pair on his eyes was his. The rest belonged to Isabelle. Hab
Oh, you are not the only one….but our kids spent their energy telling us how miserable we were making them, rather than using props for entertainment!
Believe me, there’s plenty of “I’m bored!”
That said, I have recently gotten Ari into audiobooks. The three of us drove to King of Prussia the other day. Ari was finishing Henry Huggins, Isabelle was listening to and reading a print version of More All-of-a-Kind Family, and I was listening to Escape Artist. I made sure they couldn’t hear my book since it’s a harrowing one about a man who broke out of Auschewicz to warn the world.
ARI! ARI! ARI! she chanted softly. xxoo
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Ha! Yes! No DVD player seems to create some awesome creativity, right? LOVE IT
I have posited to the kids that they’ll know where they’re going when it comes time to drive since they’ll have spent so much time looking out of the window.
Haha I have almost an identical picture of my daughter in her car seat too! No DVD player either and not sure why so many sunglasses!
This app is too cool!! I have to check it out. I’ve never heard it called skip counting – going to have to use that from now on.