Rory the Writer!

We are finishing up week 4 in school these days. In Language Arts Rory is learning how to write paragraphs. It's actually a pretty cool system to teach it. The child is given a baseball diamond. They are given a subject on the pitcher's mound, and then have to name their favorite thing of that subject (drink, movie, etc.) and put them on first base, second base, and so on. The home plate is the sentence to summarize what you have on all the bases.

We've been working on this process and today, Rory wrote her first paragraph. Let me write it out for you. I even took a picture. :)

I wish I could go to Nickelodeon Hotel. The water slides are really loopy. The beds are soft and fluffy. People are always trying to catch the lizards that are outside. There are many fun things at Nickelodeon Hotel.

Isn't that great! She's in third grade, and I love how she grasped this concept so fast. She turned two other baseball diamonds into paragraphs too. They were just as great. She didn't like all the writing, but it had to be done. Tomorrow is a light day for school, so she's finishing the last paragraph then. All in all I'm pleased with what we're doing. I've only had to tweak here and there. Logan loves school, so that helps a lot. Maybe he'll be a writer too. :)

By the way...I don't know why the text gets better here at the bottom. I put them all on the same font. I just can't blog on the Mac. It's too hard.