“We should make another movie on the computer, Mom. That was fun.” Logan reminded me this morning of a major project we did some time ago that involved scripting a story and making a photo slideshow: ‘The Baby Who Ate the World!” A 12″ foam model of the planet Earth and Logan’s little brother, Luke, inspired us [...]
My first grade teacher, Miss Mary Bodi, spent a lot of time bringing out the writer in her students. Regularly throughout the year, she asked us to choose a picture from a file. In it were magazine advertisements, clipped comics, and other images she’d collected. One-by-one, were called to sit next to her at a [...]
“…don’t you like to write letters? I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something.” ~Ernest Hemingway In this month’s issue of Family Fun magazine is a letter from a woman who prompted her son’s interest in writing by encouraging him to write to his favorite [...]
No more pencils No more books No more teacher’s dirty looks So goes the chorus of Alice Cooper’s anthem, School’s Out, that gets ample airplay each June. I am A-OK with doing away with the teacher’s dirty looks, but I’m a firm believer that the books and pencils should not be discarded just because school is [...]
When my middle child was in kindergarten, I stumbled upon an excellent and inexpensive resource for home study of reading and writing that we were able to put to work in the summer months. You may want to do the same. Starfall Education, a home-education supplier, sells Reading and Writing Journals and a set of Cut Up and [...]