I saw this fun grammar idea here a few weeks back, and we finally got around to trying it out. First, Daegan created 6 sentences which I wrote out on construction paper. I wrote the subject part of the sentences on pink paper, and the predicates on yellow. Here’s our sentences: We talked briefly about [...]
It was World Poetry Day recently (March 21), and my friend Alicia wrote up some fun ways to celebrate. Both she and my friend Tiffany reported “Dice poetry” being a big hit with their kids, so I thought we’d give it a go this morning as well. I went first, picking a topic I love [...]
Gareth also created a story using Alicia’s pictoral story starters for February; I shared Daegan’s story, The Man with the Giant Purple Ear, here. Here’s Gareth’s story, which he dictated to me. It was based on this story starter picture: The Hippo Runs Wild by Gareth Once upon a time there was a hippo [...]
I found out about a writing contest for kids from Alicia’s homeschooling column, a contest that is right up our dinosaur-loving alley. To enter, kids need to look at the cover art for Toni Buzzeo’s forthcoming book No T Rex in the Library, and write a 50-750 word story explaining how Tess got on the [...]
My friend Alicia, who writes an online homeschooling column, offered some new pictoral story starters for February, and Daegan wrote a story about an evil magician and a man with a giant purple ear. It’s been published in Alicia’s column, just as Gareth’s polar bear story was last month. Here is the text of [...]
My friend Alicia writes an online column about homeschooling for the Examiner in Minnesota, and a few weeks ago she published some wonderful pictoral story starters. Gareth was amused by the photo of a polar bear lying down beside a Christmas present, and wrote a story about it, which Alicia published here. (You can see [...]
Daegan has been working from the Draw Write Now series of books, to learn both his lower case letters (one of his goals for the year—that HE picked) and to further improve his drawing skills, which, truth be told, already surpass my own. Draw Write Now is a series of drawings on different themes (barnyard [...]