When creativity explodes…

Sometimes creativity happens…

and dinnertime interferes.

But on causal “breakfast for dinner nights”, mom might be OK with letting the “spur of the moment” writer’s workshop continue…

 

in spite of the eggs being served…

because who wants to stop the flow of creativity? 

So dinner might just look a little bit like a newsroom, with reporters working late.

Of course, I wish we were all eating carry-out during our overtime…

The Frog Prince

K (age 7) wrote a summary for, "The Frog Prince." It wasn't an assignment from me. She was a bit fascinated with the idea of a book report, so she just disappeared into the other room and came back with a "book report".

For a first written summary done completely on her own, I thought it was pretty good. I appears that Writing With Ease is working well for us this year!

Note Journal

And the notes just keep coming...


(love the squeezed in "Best Mom", which was an afterthought)

And coming...


And coming...


Writing is becoming her constant hobby. If you can't find K (age 6), then she is off writing a note to someone.

And she ALWAYS wants a note back.

So I figured it was time to harness this hobby into a notebook. I took a bunch of her handwriting paper (see last note) and punched holes in it. I put the stack of paper in a folder with the 3 paper clasps and I wrote her the first note introducing our "notebook".

She got up the next morning and found it at the foot of her bed. Immediately she sat at her desk and wrote me back. We have continued with these simple notes this week and it is become such a JOY to both of us.

There is no judgment in spelling, handwriting, or punctuation. But this is truly "school" at its finest!

Maybe it is sinking in....

So I really haven't changed anything since I posted that note yesterday. K (age 6) wrote that about 3 weeks ago and I haven't been the "quickest" lately about posting.

In that time, she began, "Handwriting without Tears," Grade one. The Grade One book does a lot more copywork of sentences and we have had a little chat or two about end punctuation and spacing.

This morning, she wanted to write a note to her bible study teacher, so she quickly wrote one while I got D (age 2) dressed:


It appears that our little chats here and there are sinking in! There is some good spacing and I see some end punctuation!

(and the spelling was great too!)

Long Winded

K, age 6, is getting more and more excited about writing. She writes notes, lists, and information for us all of the time.

I found this letter the other day sitting on a shelf.


Either that is the longest sentence known to mankind

OR

It's time to begin some simple grammar. Like the use of a period.

It is so much fun to see her writing and spelling develop, with or without periods!