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Oct. 29, 2008

Her first Creation Journal

Posted in Creekwood Academy

We have been enjoying an informal study of God's creation for years. We live in an area that experiences four distinct seasons and with that comes many opportunities to see many different things God created and observe their changes through the year.

DD is taking every opportunity she can to practice writing her letters, and her drawings are getting much more easy to recognize. She is forever asking me about the birds, animals, insects and plants we see in our neighborhood and we have been having a lot of fun learning about them in more detail. This fall I thought it might be a good time to start recording what we're learning in a Creation Journal (sometimes called a Nature Journal). We will use these for the final drafts. DD will practice her drawing and writing on loose paper, then copy her best work into her journal.

DD and I both made one. We took plain composition books - well, hers has a half page of primary lines on the bottom and blank drawing space on the top - and used pretty paper & stickers to decorate the covers. To protect the covers from regular wear and tear, I covered the finished surface with clear contact paper. Here is DD's first Creation Journal:

I chose the blue & brown color papers for mine, and DD wanted hers to look "just like" mine, so we used a more "grown up" decorating idea for her book too. The light green swirly lines are a heavy glitter paper (I can't avoid glitter of some kind with this girl!), and the green dots are the same paper, cut with a hole punch.

I printed the title on the plain brown side of one of the patterned papers so it matched the color scheme. After the background paper and title were dried completely, DD picked where she wanted me to put the swirls, violet rub-ons, and cardstock decorations (the "B" for her name, and decorative squares & rectangles). When those were securely dry, she went to town with the leaf stickers and glitter dots.

Finally, I wrote some of the things she will record in her journal along the swirly lines (she can't write that small yet). For a sample of her handwriting, see her first journal entry below:

I hope you enjoyed a glimpse into our DD's first Creation Journal. She and I have certainly enjoyed making it and journaling about all the wonders of God's creation we see around us. Today, I think we need to do an entry about the first snow of the season - my DD's favorite kind of weather!

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