For this writing prompt, you and your child can talk about the role of the sheriff. Then your child will write about a sheriff in his journal.
Wild West – Lesson 4
I can write about a sheriff.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Talk about the role of a sheriff and how he keeps his town safe. Ask your child to write facts about a sheriff. 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 great illustrations and how you liked reading his sheriff facts.