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I signed myself up. I've been collecting snippets of facts for a historical fiction for a while. Maybe attempting the Na No Wri Mo will actually get me started in the writing rather than just shopping for factoids. Maybe I'll procrastinate and not do it though.

 

I signed my son up for Na No Wri Mo. His storytelling skills are highly improved from last year. We sporadically do the Reading Eggs Story Factory. He gets to choose pictures from a bank, arrange them how he'd like, the write a story to go with the pictures. We just got the same writing prompt we got last year (I guess they recycle annually). I was able to see how his story telling has much more story in it, the pages continue on from the page before it much better. They're still heavily dependant on the picture to help tell the story. If I could easily upload the pictures to show you, you'd think it was actually kind of a funny story. If I typed it up, it'd be more Meh.

 

Grammer- wise he can pick the "doing words", "naming words", and "describing words" out. He has main charachters picked out from beloved cartoons. He's been cutting out interesting pictures from magazines for about a month since I signed up for Na No Wri Mo. I just had him tape them to a large cardboard. He has a great ending in mind for the charachters. I guess we start writing tomorrow. I'll ask him to tell the story of what happens when the charachters encounter the pictures he has on his storyboard. Then we'll end up with a story to revise.

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Ds is signed up for his third year of NaNoWriMo. His writing class at the PPP we belong to participates every year. The kids all have a ton of fun. The teacher brings in hot chocolate and parents bring snacks. The kids come to class comfy and hunker down for writing sessions and mutual encouragement.

 

I've finally decided to do it along side him this year. He's older now and will need less direction from me, so I have little excuse not to! Now, if I could just solidify what I want to write about...:tongue_smilie:

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I've been doing NaNoWriMo for a few years now and my daughter does it too. She started in 1st grade. It's awesome to see how much she's grown, writing wise, by reading her stories. Crazy!

 

I tend to gain weight in November, and it has nothing to do with Thanksgiving. LOL

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A few questions for those of you that have done this before:

How do you schedule it?

Does this count as all your Language Arts for October & November?

 

I would love to do this, but I'm not sure about dropping all of our other "skill-building" work: outlining, spelling, grammar, etc. I would love to hear your thoughts about this.

 

Thanks!

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I'm not going to print the thing. I'm just going to read parts if it out loud to my kid. He's a beginner so I will be walking him through it, giving him promots, correcting his grammer, helping him see how to structure and create and keep writing. I actually pitched the idea to him by saying, "you want to help me write a story in a contest?" (by "help me" of course i meant "you do the work").

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