Comments on: Take Note… http://www.bonavitablog.com/2008/10/take-note/ Renaissance life in a post-modern world Thu, 28 May 2009 10:24:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Organizing Mommy http://www.bonavitablog.com/2008/10/take-note/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Organizing Mommy Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:58:18 +0000 http://bonavita.wordpress.com/?p=706#comment-123 I have my 4th--6th graders starting their own journal, and the 7th and 8th graders doing a blog. They have to write 5 times a week. I know it's hard for some of them, but it's good to make them start! They have to write enough to make it easy to write. I've been a journal writer since the 3rd grade, which is a nice time to start. Mrs. P, when the kids are little, you can have them dictate their stories and ideas to you. You can write down the words and even draw a few pictures for them. Once they are old enough to express themselves, they can draw pictures or write on their own. If you read a lot to your children, they will get frustrated because their spoken vocabulary is so large compared to what they can actually write. Great post. Glad you're back! Hope you had fun in CO. I have my 4th–6th graders starting their own journal, and the 7th and 8th graders doing a blog. They have to write 5 times a week. I know it’s hard for some of them, but it’s good to make them start! They have to write enough to make it easy to write. I’ve been a journal writer since the 3rd grade, which is a nice time to start. Mrs. P, when the kids are little, you can have them dictate their stories and ideas to you. You can write down the words and even draw a few pictures for them. Once they are old enough to express themselves, they can draw pictures or write on their own. If you read a lot to your children, they will get frustrated because their spoken vocabulary is so large compared to what they can actually write.

Great post. Glad you’re back! Hope you had fun in CO.

]]> By: Mrs. Parunak http://www.bonavitablog.com/2008/10/take-note/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Mrs. Parunak Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:06:55 +0000 http://bonavita.wordpress.com/?p=706#comment-122 Some good thoughts. Maybe a way to start this with very young children would be to have them draw their own picture of something important that happened in a story. Some good thoughts. Maybe a way to start this with very young children would be to have them draw their own picture of something important that happened in a story.

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