My happy campers made a little camping scene during snack today. I intended it to go home, but it appeared that many of them were eaten between the house and the car. One works up an appetite running through the woods.
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Take a look-
Let's move to post kindergarten. I sat down to work with this wee turtle lover, again noticing all the details he was giving his picture. I asked him if he'd like for me to write while he told me his ideas . He rattled this off to me, hardly without a break. Getting from this spot of having a head full of ideas, to the mental and physical demand of putting it on paper is often just way too much for a busy mind and a busy body. Still, obviously the the whole piece is there. He dictated this to me yesterday, then read it to his camp counselor today.
Then you go to first grade and find out that you start with a capital, end with punctuation, capitalize proper nouns, etc, etc. So what do you do? You condense your amazing story into a very small one since it takes so much to keep all that in mind. Oy vey.
What a great job remembering everything she needed. |
Sometimes, kids take to cursive and it gives them speed. Then they can get their thoughts down in a reasonable amount of time. If your kiddo can write in cursive, I would encourage you to have them write something everyday. It is so important to develop that hand strength and all the better if they have a real reason to write, like to you, or a grandparent, or their camp counselor, who is writing to them.
All this to say, having great thoughts is not hard for little children. Being expected to write all those thoughts down is very challenging.
Another day of beautiful play- all praise to our heavenly Father.
Tomorrow, we're off to the creek!
Thank you this is awesome.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad she's having a good time.
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