Our children write the future!

This summer, childrenwritethefuture.com is offering a writing enrichment newsletter that will help your child build their writing fluency. Daily writing practice (excluding handwriting) will help establish a lifelong love for writing. There is nothing better than taking pen, marker, crayon, pencil to paper and doodling down ideas.

Sign up below for our newsletter and make sure your child receives their summer enrichment writing prompts. As new prompts are delivered, selected entries will be published on the site.

Make sure your children are writing well by the end of summer!

Cindy

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We are a family of writers. Sometimes we are scribbling on napkins, ATM deposit envelopes, dollar store notepads or tapping our ideas out on a keyboard. Our children watch us.

Mia usually has a pint size notepad that fits perfectly in her uniform jumper pocket. She calls it her “just in case” notebook that goes along with her “just in case” pencil box in her backpack. The notebook is stuffed with ideas and drawings that she jots down during recess with her friends. She has started an anthology about about the land of Sweetopia. Yummy with a spoon.

Max announced this week, “I want to be a writer like Dad, but I don’t know how to write all the words.” He shrugged, shoulders plopping on the floor.

I smiled thinking to myself, “A chip off the old block and prodigious in my mind no matter what he chooses to do in life.”

“Well Max, a writer doesn’t just write the words,” I smiled. “A writer also thinks about the words that draw the pictures.”  He looked at me curiously.  “You know, like a movie in your mind.”

“A Mind Movie?”  he exclaimed.

Exactly.

“When I say words like slippery, smooth, and soft what do you think about?”

“My mint chip colored “night night” that I sleep with.”  he said.

“If I say creamy, sweet, and cold…”

“Ice cream!” he started to jump.

Without boring him with a lesson on adjectives, we “popcorned,” passing 3 describing words back and forth and making it a guessing game of which word the other was thinking about as we strolled to the library on our way to check out AUDIO BOOKS and a fresh set of stories.

Max is 4.  He IS a writer, but needs us to show him the power he possesses and guide him in a developmentally appropriate way so that he can produce the words to express all the beautiful ideas he has in the mind movie his brain is constantly creating.

Max has ideas, his pictures tell stories and most importantly, he has language – the greatest gift of all.

Max, you are a writer and we will lead you the way with an unlimited number of language experiences to help you write in your best voice.

What are some ways your family celebrates language?

Cindy

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Parents are the child’s first and best teacher. Home schooling is something that must take place whether you have opted to go the traditional private or public school route, or have decided to home school your children completely. Most traditional school years are 180 days. You must therefore ask yourself -  What is your mission for your children’s learning the remaining 185 days of the year?

As a teacher who has taught in all forums, I believe it is a parent’s responsibility to establish solid foundations, provide pillars of support for those who are teaching our children when we are not with them, and take the bull by the horns by taking care of business in the event that optimum learning is not occurring during the school day.

Summer is right around the corner. In our little corner of the world we have exactly 18 days before the dog days of summer are on our door step and life asks us the inevitable question: What do we do now that they are home all day?

Home school = Home learning.

Learning must not stop simply because summer is in the sky. Children are ravenous for knowledge, routine, and enrichment. Not to mention maintaining basic literacy and math skills. Designing a learning schedule that affords children with needed routine, high expectations and a well established work ethic is a critical life skill that cannot be started to early. For our wee ones their play is their work, but our play can have purpose as well. Primary and intermediate grades might require a bit more creativity, but we all should all know by now – if you don’t use it you will surely lose it.

You do not need a teaching credential to enrich your child’s life with all the basic content that typically occurs during a given school day. Some of us are more adaptable and naturally patient, some of us aren’t. However, it is our responsibility as parents to take the baton from this year’s teacher and continue running the relay through summer, lighting the torch for a brighter tomorrow.

What are you summer learning plans for the family? Sign up for our writer’s workshop and let us help.

Cindy

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