The news tonight has been all-consuming, but over dinner Atticus riveted our attention for a few minutes.
My mom was sitting directly across from him. We had finished dinner, and Atticus drew an oval to represent the dining room table. He then drew a horizontal line to represent where he was sitting and wrote his name on it.
“Where’s Grandma sitting?” my mom asked. Atticus drew a horizontal line on the opposite side of the oval, and without hesitation he wrote her name — May — upside down from right to left, so she could read it from where she sat.
Talk about spatial reasoning.
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