On writing: paddling

I found this in a pile of papers while cleaning on our snow day Monday. It's been awhile since our last installment of "On Writing". Come to think about it, it has been quite some time since one of these has come home in the backpack. 

Did I mention (sniff, sniff) that we registered this one for Kindergarten (!) last week. How can that be?!?

On writing: motorcycles

February 28, 2014

He's falling in the water with his motorcycle. He went over the log. 

Pretty straight forward. My favorite part is the picture. Check out the shoes on this rugged outdoorsman who jumps logs and rides dangerously close to bodies of water. 

On writing:Sailboats

January 24, 2014

There are sailboats. They are falling into the water. 

People are falling too. They are "Oh!", a shark will 

eat them. The shark has sharp teeth. 

On writing: Danger

She is going to fall. She is dangerous. 
A bear ate her, but she climbed out.
The trees. The person will pass her. 
She is dead. She came back alive. The
tree broke when she fell to the water.

A few weeks before Christmas, one of the teachers at Bejos Boy's school, his toddler teacher last year, quite unexpectedly passed away. The only other time Bejos Boy has dealt with death was when we lost Cooper, a year ago now. This death didn't help clarify loss, but it has opened a whole new conversation strand that surfaces quite often. 

On writing: Sharks

January 17, 2014

This is the shark; that's the turtle. 

The shark is going to splash up.

The clouds will cover him up. He 

eats big jars of fish. 18 thousand 

million fish. The turtle sinks down.

It's the 18 thousand million that gets me every time. It is currently the BIGGEST number he can imagine, and it is used about 18 thousand million times a day.