Debbie in London Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Can I share a little story with you? This is our first year home schooling and we got off to a pretty rough start. We've had more days than I'd like to admit that consisted of math and reading with nothing else. It's just been recently that I've started slowing adding things to our day, like copywork for my youngest (just turned 7). I think he's been doing copywork for two or three weeks now. So yesterday we spent 10+ hours on an airplane and DS7 chose to do things like draw instead of watch movies. DS draws by actually creating characters and stories, but up until yesterday he always told his stories outloud while he was drawing but never actually wrote anything. Well yesterday he actually wrote some dialogue between his characters and even included quotation marks! I started using sentences from Charlotte's Web that included quotation marks and I really think that's what did it. Anyway, I was excited and just wanted to share. :) Debbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneRoomHomeSchool Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 That's great! I am very convinced that copywork is *the* thing for kids under 10. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda...inOwasso Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Congrats Debbie!! I'm a huge fan of copywork also! One of my favorite things to do is give my dd7 paragraphs from good literature for copywork. I'll select a week's worth of intriguing passages from a "good book" that dd wouldn't ordinarily be excited to read. But, it never fails.... after a few days of copying my selections she will ask, "Mom, who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?" or... "What book did this come from? Can we read it?" :) Music to my ears! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudreyTN Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 That's wonderful... I have something to look forward to! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in Central TX Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Dear Debbie, Thank you for sharing your success with us. Congratulations on a job well done! Take care, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbie in London Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 Thanks so much for letting me share. Since we got off to such a slow and bumpy start it really warms my heart to see these types of things. :) Debbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Testimony Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 That's great! Karen http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elisabeth in IL Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Yeah, a success story!!! Way to go! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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