For this journal entry, your child will explore animal tracks and then write about them.
Wild West – Lesson 12
I can write about animal tracks.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read non-fiction books about animal tracks. Talk about the different tracks. Possibly look for animal tracks outdoors. Ask your child to draw some animal tracks and to write about what animal made the tracks. 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.
Conclusion: Have your child read his story to you again. Talk about his cool animal tracks and how you liked learning about the different types of tracks that animals make.