I got the sweetest comment left on my blog today. How it just made my day! (Thank you, Brenda!)
Brenda asks a two part question...
Q-- Where did you get the blue and yellow boxes? ( seen in this photo from this post)
A-- Well, truth be told I got those at a Price Busters store in Honolulu. I've probably had them for 4+ years or so. They originally held various nomenclature cards (ala, Montessori Botany, Music, etc) but have been reassigned to hold the writing prompts. I'd say, however, that you could use any large size recipe box, plastic jar, pencil box, etc. Even a cardboard shoebox would work really.
Q-- ... and the things inside? (writing prompts & copywork models)
A-- I gathered various writing prompts and models from the internet. I never thought *I* would be one to use writing prompts with our daughter. Ever. Really. I always thought "prompted writing" was so contrived and unnecessary. However, our kiddo really likes to write. Her hang-up, at times, is she didn't know WHAT to write, though. So, after various other attempts I decided to "give in" to the notion that make writing prompts aren't horrible. I do leave Friday as a true FREE WRITING day where she writes whatever she wants.
I gathered from sources such as Brave Writer's Blog, Creative Writing Prompts site, Prompts by Jim Cornish-- have printable papers, but I merely copied/pasted an assortment to a plain document so they could all be cut apart. Here are a few other sites I didn't personally gather from but they might have something that is of interest to other. (Can Teach, Writer's Digest --looks for other students/adults, Write Source-- leveled by grade, Prompts by month. )
As for copywork resources... again, *I* gathered from the internet but other families use ready made copybooks that they purchased, or use books the student is reading from, or copy passages from the Bible, etc. For our current needs (strictly for handwriting practice -- it is required to be NEAT! but punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary are all tucked in there, too!) I chose to use a variety of models. Some are from books (read/not read), some from the Bible, some are "famous quotes", some are poems... just whatever grabbed my fancy. Some models are longer while some are shorter. To read more about copywork visit Ambleside Online.
A few copywork resources free online-- Simply Charlotte Mason, Homeschooling 101, Quote Garden, HomeGrownKids
And a few copywork resources for purchase (Note: that I've not used any of these so I cannot give personal recommendations)-- Queens Homeschool Supply, Character Building Copywork, Knowledge Box Central
Finally, while we merely use composition notebooks here for the freewriting/copywork (one each) Notebooking Pages sells beautiful pages that can be printed up and used to write on, thus creating a very lovely writing notebook.
Before I'm asked-- no, I'm unable to share (upload) the document I made that contains all the prompts and copywork for our own boxes. Since these were gathered from the internet I don't want to step on toes of others and violate copywrite. |
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Thank you
Beautiful blog very inspiring, I always read it.
Have a blessed day,
Brenda