Reid is in second grade and his teacher is pro-journal.
As in second graders writing regular journal entries.
As in second grade BOY writing regular journal entries.
*sigh*
It isn’t that I am anti-journal…I mean I write a blog! But that is just it. I write a blog.
Second grade boys aren’t journal-prolific.
Reid’s prolific nature is more concentrated on Lego-building, DS playing and general tactics of brotherly war.
*sigh*
It isn’t so bad when the assigned journal entry revolves around something that Reid has seen or done. It is the life application entries that may kill me before the year is over.
Yes, I said me.
Reid, like most second grade boys, is pretty concrete in his thinking unless he is daydreaming. Drawing a life lesson from anything is a full blown struggle, let alone writing it in a complete sentence with a capital letter, end mark and no reversal of b’s and d’s.
So, what I have been doing is to have a conversation with him about whatever story we are suppose to be translating into journal gold. I take a sentence or two from our discussion and write it out for him to copy and then he draws a picture. Often the life application is a little abstract and will fall on the grace of a certain second grade teacher.
That all changed last Thursday. I read the story of Samson to Reid.
Samson was strong, but not so smart. He let the secret of his strength slip to his heathen wife who took this information and used it for evil.
I asked Reid (halfheartedly) what he learned from this story that he could apply to his own life. He replied without hesitation…
Don’t get married.
Your boys are hilarious!
It might be just me but I don’t see problem with getting any child, boy or girl, to express themselves through writing or drawing. The life lesson he came up with was not wrong, it was what he thought.
LOL I am SO glad I was not drinking coffee when I read that!
LOL.
I definitely think “Don’t marry Heathens” wraps it up better…BUT Samson WAS supposed to be set aside by God…so maybe Reid is right (at least for Samson). : )
I can’t even imagine trying to inspire a second grade boy to write about the life application of stories…lets just get them listening well enough to get the story right first!
Have Fun : p
Well really, that is what I get out of it too. Or “don’t marry heathens”.
Havoc’s teacher has them journal but there are no life lessons. There are topics though. And they do it at school so I never deal with it or see it except on rare occasions
Best blog line of the week: “….general tactics of brotherly war.”
Ha!
reid is going to make a kick-ass blogger one day ….
bwahahahahahahahahhaa…..
Well, I can see his point.
Luke’s 2nd grade teacher is pretty pro journal, too. Regardless of what he writes about, the illustrations almost always have a battleship, a rocket, or some sort of war related paraphenalia. I’m waiting for a call from the school counselor any day now…
Jase says dont become a blog stedman
LOL That is hilarious!