RSS feed4.17.08 It’s a Mother-Daughter Thing
Ok, so I’m the owner of MyRight2Write.com and my daughter, Molly, is a 5th grader finishing her last year at Piney Branch Elementary, our first donor school. All that means is that we are the guinea pigs for road-testing the journals, and seeing how they can make a difference in our lives!
One day, Molly was telling me that while creative writing came very easily to her, it was harder to write something on demand (in class, for example)… that was an immediate response to a question. It was hard, she said, to think of something on the spot.
I suggested we use a pair of MR2W journals and that we make daily entries together in our own books. Each evening after dinner, one of us would think of a question and we’d both write an answer. Then we’d trade books. It was Molly’s idea that we write little comments in each other’s journals about our entries. This would give us practice not just in writing our ideas and thoughts, but in reading and commenting on other’s.
Here is one of our first questions: Why was your day so hard? We had both come home feeling tired and moody and maybe a little bit cranky. You know how that is after a long day at school or work! An unexpected bonus to writing in our journals was that we felt so much better after putting our feelings down on paper and sharing with each other. We decided to go out for ice cream to make us feel even BETTER and below you can see Molly’s comment on my journal entry. Great idea!
