Kindergarten, Writing, Week 29

This week's practice sentence was: Piggy quickly danced a jig.

Small Muscle Development:

• Color Collage, see Writing, Week 17 for instructions

Story Development:

• Egg-Carton Tales -- from Games for Writing -- this game helps teach your child the fundamentals of story writing
• You'll Need: 2 egg cartons that hold a dozen eggs (or you can use 1 egg carton that holds 18 eggs), dime
• To prepare the egg cartons, cut them in half so you have 2 rows of three cups and the lid (you'll only need 3 of them)
• Write a setting on six small strips of paper and glue each one in a cup of one of the egg cartons. Examples: forest, park, church, castle . . .
• Do the same with characters (examples: ferocious lion, little girl, a frog . . .) and problems (examples: lost, mess, sick . . .)

• How to Play:
• Put the dime in the setting carton, shake it. Open the carton and where the dime landed is the setting for the story.
• Do the same with the character carton and the problem carton.
• Your child must tell a story that includes the setting, character, and problem.
• Now it is your turn!

Writing Practice:

• Game: Race of Words, see Writing, Week 16 for instructions
• Game: Silence is Golden from Games for Writing -- low key writing practice
• The book has rules and a way to win, but I just set our kitchen timer for 7 minutes and told K. that for 7 minutes we weren't going to talk, but just write to each other.
• Spelling doesn't matter, penmanship doesn't matter.