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I love, love, love being an eclectic homeschool mom. I love having the flexibility to change horses (or get on one) mid-stream.
Wednesday I found a wonderful resource for encouraging my kids to write. It’s a blog devoted to providing a weekly writing assignment for homeschool kids.
The Author @ Homeschool Kids Write posts a new writing assignment every Monday. Your child writes their assignment and posts it on their own (your child’s) blog, or they can post it on your blog like KimC had her girls do. (Click here, here, here,and here to read them.) Then your child (or you) link the post on the Mister Linky at Homeschool Kids Write. After that, you spend a few minutes reading all of the posts that the other kids linked.
We thought this was the greatest thing since Story Starters, only this doesn’t cost $29.95 + s & h. This is free. I am so in love with free stuff!
And to facilitate this writing and linking of weekly posts for at least 4 Pirates I created a whole blog just for these weekly assignments. The Pirates’ new blog is called Ship’s Blog. (It’s a WordPressBlog – they’re free!) Feel free to run right over and read their first posts, and leave nice, encouraging comments for each of them.
The most important part of learning to write is to write, and write, and write. And the best incentive for doing the writing is being published and knowing that someone will read it. This wonderful blog accomplishes both.
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Another resource for free homeschooling http://www.homeschoolshare.com free literature based unit studies, lapbooks, etc. Thought you might like to take a peek.
Thanks for the link. Sounds interesting.
That’s super! Send me a link when y’all get it all set up. I’d love to read his 50 words.
I was excited to see this post about encouraging our children in their writing skills. I looked at the site & read their work. My middle son, Chef has written 50 words about why he wants to be a chef when he grows up! Now we need time to figure out how to start up his own blog!
Mandy (UK)
Thanks! This sounds like a fun resource!