Yum!!! For today’s writing prompt, your child will write about his favorite picnic food.
At the Beach – Lesson 26
I can write about a picnic.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.1)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Talk about the story and the family’s picnic. Ask your child to write about something he would like to eat if your family had a picnic. 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 nice story and how his drawings made you hungry!