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Dec. 8, 2005
Contest?
I don't know how many of you have been following my Writer's Workshop, but I have been considering having a contest in conjunction with it. I love the contest idea that Grannie Annie is doing for 9-14 year olds, and would like to have similar guidelines but for 6-8 year olds, because I think they would also have much to gain from collecting stories from relatives and retelling them, whether written or dictated.
I even have a prize...a DVD of Colin Buchannan that was double shipped and they said that we could keep. I'm just not sure how to go about it. Any ideas?
Two things I'm concerned about is safety, seeing as we are talking about young children, and some fair judging standard. I was thinking of taking email submissions and putting them together to email to all contestants. And since it really is more about the experience and the process than polished writing with this age group, I was considering just doing a simple drawing from all contestants.
Next week's topic is setting up a Writer's Workshop with your child to teach and explore writing together as a family. This works very well with multiple children at varying levels...I loved doing this with my second graders, and some of my writer's were quite good while I had two who were barely reading, let alone writing.
And on my other blog, I finally am getting around to making that lamb. I posted the lesson notes that will be leading up to making this lamb and I will be putting up instructions as soon as we actually have made it. Even if you are not interested in making a clay lamb, you should check out the little study.
And if you ever wanted to know what Christmas is like in Germany, at least from my perspective, you can check that out here. The links are to an online visual dictionary, so you can see pictures of what I am talking about.
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