For this journal entry, your child will be writing about kangaroos.
Jumping Jungle – Lesson 31
“I can write about kangaroos.”
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read non-fiction books about kangaroos with your child and talk about kangaroo facts. For this writing prompt, ask your child to write a fact about a kangaroo. 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.
Conclusion: Have your child read her story to you again. Talk about her nice illustrations and how you liked her kangaroo fact.