how can I not share this stuff?
When I ask London Scout to write about a field trip we just took, she’ll give me a sentence or two. A drawing. Doodles around the corner of the page.
After handing her the black notebook we use for our writing schoolwork and assigning her a written narration of a story we just read, she sighs a little and sometimes offers a compromise to try to avoid the task of rewriting a story from memory.
But last night, when I was tucking her into bed, I saw a little notebook I had given her a while ago.
It contained a plethora of short stories and cute drawings.
I loved them all and I could share every one of them in some sort of virtual overload of motherly pride.
But I will refrain.
I have to share one though.
They’re all so funny and the stories have little plots and punch lines and I know she has inherited any sense of comedic timing from her father but I want to take credit for something in there too somehow.
This one’s about one of her stuffed animals named Tuffy.
(I present it to you without editing, mostly.)
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One night while he was asleep, Tuffy dreamed that he had made the first rocket ship known to dogkind.
In his dream he had taken off and the ride was fast. Also in his dream he stepped through the door and onto the moon …..
But sadly he woke up.
He went down the stairs to eat his breakfast. He thought it over a bit and finally decided that he would tell his mom. So he did, and she smiled.
She walked over to the iPod and turned on a song.
She told Tuffy, “You’re so cute” and she touched his nose and smiled.
The music was, “This is ground control to Major Tuffy.”
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@Fraukuech
this is really fantastic!
Gretchen
Those are so adorable! Hezekiah has ongoing writings about an octopus of Eli's called Skrapey. And in his journal when he gets to write about what he wants it is usually about Skrapey!
AWESOME!!!
Lavonne Witt
When your children are very young, younger than 8, 9, or 10, (Charlotte Mason and other Charlotte Mason homeschoolers begin written narration around 10.) you can do the written narration for your child. Do you remember from your school days, those big pieces of flimsy tan paper with big lines and dashes in the center, with a big empty space on top for a picture? And, you would practice writing your words and sentences with those fat pencils and then when you were done, you got to draw or paint a picture of your story? Well, with written narration for your youngest child, you can have him orally narrate his read aloud to you, while you write his words down for him. When he is done, he can draw a picture or pictures to go along with his story. You, then, read his story to him as point to each word you are reading. This will connect what you are saying to each word as you say it. Read this story to him routinely and then have him read it to you. It’s okay for him to memorize it and “practice read” it to you.