For today’s writing prompt, your child will decide what he would want to pack if he was a pioneer traveling west.
Pioneer Days – Lesson 10
I can write about what I will pack to go west.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.1)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Talk about how the pioneers needed to take all of their belongings with them and supplies they would need for their long journey west Ask your child to write about what he will pack to go west. 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 much you liked his story.