Research facts about sheep with your child. Then your child will write about sheep in his journal.
Barnyard Buddies – Lesson 20
I can write about a sheep.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read a nonfiction story about a sheep or research sheep together online. Ask your child to write facts about a sheep. Encourage him to use spaces between words, punctuation at the end of the sentence and to use letter-sounds that he hears in words. Write the real words under his sentence. Then he will illustrate his story.
Conclusion: Have your child read his story to you again. Talk about his cool illustrations and how you like his nonfiction story.