Storytelling
Here’s the latest on Mika’s (English) writing at school. The Kindergarteners have frequent writing workshops where they try to bring a whole narrative to paper. They use some studied common words, a lot of “invented spelling”, and draw matching illustrations to add more details to their stories.
The first story is about Easter (Jan 12, 2010 – 3 pages):
IT WAS EASTER TIME AND WE ALL GOED (= went) INTO THE GARDEN
I WAS EATING A CANDY FROM MY EASTER BAG. TOBIN DID TOO.
WE GOT SOMETHING TO SCRATCH ON.
The second story is about bedtime (Dec 14, 2009 – 2 pages):
ME FEEDING MY CAT. NAME IS LUNA. AND I WAS STILL AWAKE.
I AM IN BED AND I AM SLEEPING.
I don’t know where she got the “zzz” as symbol for sleeping, but love the aerial view of her in bed and Tobin in his crib. She even included the leaf over her bed.
Posted in Daily Musings, Drawings, Writings
P. ;-))) responded on January 26th, 2010 at 1:18 am
Witzig auch die kleinen Vögel ! Und mit Datum ! Wunderbar !!
sooki responded on January 26th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
It’s awesome!! R u going to save all this for her to see when she grows up? We were forced to write diaries in korea; they would even check it periodically at school. I wish i still had those…. (typing with one hand is hard…Lukas is sleeping on my left shoulder u see…)
ninja responded on January 26th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
My parents didn’t have to move every 4 years, so they were able to hold on to things like that a lot better. This past summer i had to cut down on boxes and boxes of childhood drawings, writings, and elementary school stuff. We kept a few major milestones and bid farewell to the rest.
Btw, our formal writing education started in first grade and it was all about learning how to spell words correctly – in cursive. In the two years before that, i did “inventive spelling” in all-caps letters on my own, just like Mika. Guess it runs in the family…
ninja responded on January 26th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Re: “R u going to save all this”
We hang on to the milestones so far, but have edited significantly already. You wouldn’t believe the amount of drawings, writings, and craft projects a Kindergartener can churn out on a daily basis! Just imagine the turnout when Tobin is 5 and Mika 8! Luckily for them, a lot of it is being documented with photos as well. They won’t be able to say their lives have gone by UNdocumented (!)
sooki responded on January 27th, 2010 at 7:10 am
No never.. the kids these days get really documented don’t they? Lukas is being flipped ( http://www.theflip.com/en-us/ ) a lot these days :P Got it as a xmas present from Kokokaka.
jason responded on January 28th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
the aerial view is very imaginative! page 4 looks like she took some inspiration from the tim burton exhibit.
ninja responded on January 28th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
The purple dress girl does look a bit Burton-eque … but Mika has been giving her dresses these curly treatments for a little while already, whenever they’re supposed to be ‘extra fancy’, or princess dresses.