Bursting with writing...

Honeypie has been attempting writing on her own with plenty of gusto.  Here are some of her first attempts .

I think letter writing is a great way to get kids excited about writing, being that the inspiration always comes from love and the need to communicate. That eagerness can erase the worry of the "am I spelling it right?" fear.   The anxiety of "spelling it right" can  halt the flow of writing to focus more on correcting. I focus more on getting kids excited about writing without correcting (inventive spelling)... there will always be time later for that.  

Keeping a list of sight words that they have memorized or can write correctly can always happen simultaneously to this process.  But the focus is to let writing flow.  

Story writing is a great way to get kids imaginations and writing flowing too. Kids that love to read, also love to have their own story read aloud! 

I work next to honeypie as she comes up with a story first,  draws her story pages second and then she writes her words . 

We focus on the beginning of the story (introducing characters and main idea), middle (what happens next in the story) and end (resolution).  

Here's a list of words she feels confident she can write...

(Lunch box, leaf, ladder, horse, secret, sticker, goldfish and napkin.)

A Van Gogh painting...

A letter to her fairy...

an icepack for uniqua...

Rainbow brite

(A letter to her swimming teacher...)

"I love you brian so much.  

I'm going to be a swimming teacher when i grow up.  

You are so nice."

and here's a story written by honeypie...

"Unicorn Wishes" 

The unicorn was walking in the woods and then she planted a money tree.

She picked up a twig and pocked it... nothing happened

and crystal felt braver

She ran home as fast as she could

What's wrong my little one?  (said the mama unicorn)

She turns into a star

"watch this!", (she says)

"Come back this instant!!", (says the mama unicorn)

I think I'll keep you little rock!

The end

In retrospect... I'm a crappy speller.  

If it wasn't for spell check, I don't know where I would be... seriously.

but i do love to write and it is always the first type of communication I chose, when my mind is crowded and I need to express...

I think journal keeping is amazing, (as is blogging to the masses of who knows who reads this...) ;)

and i think "that" is more important than stuffing it all inside......... just sayin'.

^_^