This journal entry integrates some counting fun for your child.
Jumping Jungle – Lesson 23
“I can write a story that involves counting.”
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.1)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Talk about how the anteater liked to eat ants and how he counted them. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write a number sentence about how many ants her anteater sees. Encourage your child 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 with the same number of ants as her sentence. Keep the journal in a safe place for her next story.
Conclusion: Have your child read her story to you again. Tell her you like how her illustrations match her number sentence and how much you enjoyed her number story.