We all don't want our kids to regress over the summer, but it's so hard to get them to read and write...and forget math!!! I have no problem getting my kids to read, but writing is like pulling teeth. So, this summer I decided to come up with a list of things they could write, not writing prompts, but interesting things they could write that would get them writing. I came up with 24, so here they are!
Write a letter to a Disney character and receive a letter
back.
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Write a book.
Write a review of the book you just read.
Write a letter to grandma.
Write a letter to a cousin.
Write in your journal each day the things you do.
Write the dialogue for a cartoon.
Fill in an All About Me page.
Make your own alphabet with symbols and sounds and then
write a message in your new alphabet.
Make a field journal complete with diagrams and observations
from nature.
Write a poem about your hands or another part of your body.
Find the 7th book on your bookshelf, find the
seventh page and the seventh sentence.
Write a poem about that sentence, or rearrange that sentence as many
ways as you can, or use that sentence to start a new story.
Write “short” summer stories.
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Write fortunes for cookies and then make them, either real
cookies or foam or felt cookies.
Make a message in a bottle to release.
Write to mom and mom writes to you book! “Nia and Mom write
to each other.”
Enter a writing contest!
see http://www.pragmaticmom.com/2013/06/creative-writing-competition-for-kids/
Write a letter to your teacher about what you’re doing this
summer.
Read a children’s book and then write the "opposite" story.
Write a newspaper article about a summer activity.
Describe your summer shoes at the beginning of the summer
and then again at the end of the summer.
Roll the dice to begin the story. Make dice with interesting words on it, maybe a verb and a noun dice.
Create a family twitter board.
Write on the driveway!