Quack, Quack! Have fun researching ducks with your child.Then have your child write about ducks in her journal.
Barnyard Buddies – Lesson 24
I can write about a duck.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Sing songs about ducks such as, “Five Little Ducks” or “Little White Duck”. Read a nonfiction story about a duck or research ducks together online. Ask your child to write facts about a duck. Encourage her to use spaces between words, punctuation at the end of the sentence and to use letter-sounds that she hears in words. Write the real words under her sentence. Then she will illustrate her story.
Conclusion: Have your child read her story to you again. Talk about her pretty illustrations and how you like her nonfiction story.