Kit Kitteridge and her best friend Ruthie love to read the newspaper and write stories about the "news" happening in thier own lives. The Great Depression is affecting everyone in the country, and Kit is tired of only seeing bad news on the paper, so she and Ruthie set out to write a newspaper of their own that is filled with good news.
One of the things I want to encourage Reese to do is keep a journal. After reading about Kit, we decided it would be fun for Reese to make a "good news" record of her own. I copied and stapled together a booklet of kinder-lined paper so she can have a page for each day of summer. Each page has the date, a "headline", a sentence or two about something she did that day, and a picture. I hope this will help keep her creative writing skills sharp during the break from school. At the end of summer, she will have a nice keepsake to help her remember her 2011 summer adventures.
2 comments:
This is such a great idea! (I love that it also focuses on the positive.)
You're such a fun mom.
LUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE this...so awesome! she is going to love having these when she gets older.
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