Archive for the ‘writing’ Category

 

Daegan’s story: The Man With the Giant Purple Ear

February 18th, 2010Posted by Risa Kawchuk

  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 [...]

Gareth’s Polar Bear Story—published!

January 31st, 2010Posted by Risa Kawchuk

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 [...]

Draw Write Now

January 28th, 2010Posted by Risa Kawchuk

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 [...]