Several weeks ago my daughter Blue came up to me and asked if we could start a writing project. I was a little surprised. The girl has written a book or two on her own and publishes a monthly horse newsletter, and yet here she was asking me to direct her to write on a given topic. Actually this isn't a bad suggestion, sometimes all a writer needs is an idea, which is usually where my own writers block takes a tumble.
The object is simply for me to give one word, and each child is to go and write something about it. It doesn't matter how long or how short, it doesn't matter in what form. Just as long as you write about the given word.
The first Monday arrived for the scheduled writing and Blue came up to me and asked what the topic would be. I had forgotten all about it, so sat there a moment thinking, when I decided that the topic would be about thinking. Off the children raced to get started. They had all week to complete the composition, but within several hours they were handing them in.
Blue chose to write a short story about a very weary homeschool mother who went to lay down. Her son comes in and asks her if she is napping, but the mother replied, "No, she was just thinking." I have no idea what put such a concept into her head. Really, I don't.
Tiki decided to just find out what the defintion of thinking was and then write a few sentences with the word thinking in it. I decided to let it pass as he did use dictionary skills.
Neeto wrote a poem entitled A Thoughtful Journey, that in my eyes was quite superb. I truly have no idea where she gets her poetic talents, and that's the truth.
This week's topic is on weasels. I'll keep you posted on how those turn out!
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neat!
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