For this journal entry, your child will write about a special Native American, Running Fox.
Wild West – Lesson 8
I can write about a Native American.
Objective: To use inventive writing to write a story. (W.K.2)
Materials: journal, pencil, crayons
Procedures: Read non-fiction books about the Native Americans who lived on the plains. Talk about their lives such as how they got their food, how they dressed, their homes, etc. Ask your child to write facts about Running Fox and how he helped the pioneer family. Encourage her 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 pretty drawings and how you liked her story about Running Fox.