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Words from Our Young Authors at Thornhill Elementary, Grades 2-3
This winter we utilized our taste buds and sank our teeth into the food curriculum where we wrote poems and stories about our favorite cuisines. Check out some of our favorite excerpts from the session below! From an exercise about writing odes … Continue reading
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Words from Our Young Authors at West Portal
This Winter at West Portal Elementary, we’ve been exploring the theme of “secrets” using a variety of writing exercises such as secret recipes, secret identities, and secret codes. Take a look! From an exercise where each student acted as … Continue reading
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Why Not Write Wednesdays? Creative Writing Prompts for Kids!
Every Wednesday our creative writing prompt challenges you to pick up your pen and indulge your author self! What kinds of patterns do you see around you everyday? Take a journal and write down the designs on your street, at … Continue reading
Words from Our Young Authors at Sonoma Mountain Elementary
This Winter we explored the wonderful world of food in our “Peanut Butter and The Pen” curriculum. We practiced writing vivid descriptions of food, using adjectives and active verbs, similes and metaphors. Students wrote stories, advertisements, warnings and odes, as … Continue reading
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Why Not Write Wednesdays? Creative Writing Prompts for Kids!
Every Wednesday our creative writing prompt challenges you to pick up your pen and indulge your author self! Today’s prompt inspires you to get creative visually! Ever been told not to play with your food? Well we think that’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, creative writing, enrichment, food photography, food writing, homeschool, kids, tutoring, writing pompts
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Words from Our Young Authors at The Booksmith in San Francisco
This winter at the Booksmith, the kids have been exploring the magic of flight. In addition to producing imaginative free writes and participating in group writing games, students have written numerous works based on our central theme. These pieces include … Continue reading
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Why Not Write Wednesdays? Creative Writing Prompts for Kids!
Every Wednesday our creative writing prompt challenges you to pick up your pen and indulge your author self! Take a look at the image below and write a story about what comes next…
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Tagged arts education, creative education, creative writing, education, enrichment, kids, tutoring, Writing prompts
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Words from Our Young Authors at Park Day, Grades 4-6
This session’s curriculum has been Poetry Palooza! Students have thrown themselves headlong into odes, alliterative poems, free-form poems, riddle poems, nature poems and more. Students have sharpened their metaphors, honed their personifications and written through all five senses. The results … Continue reading
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The Write Stuff
How do we, as parents, create an environment at home that will encourage our kids to write? Not just the kind of writing they are assigned as homework, but creative writing for fun, discovery and self-expression. Robert Frost once said … Continue reading
Why Not Write Wednesdays? Creative Writing Prompts for Kids!
Every Wednesday our creative writing prompt challenges you to pick up your pen and indulge your author self! Write a story about meeting a civilized animal (really civilized!) How did you meet? What is his story? Are there others? Let … Continue reading