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Debbie in London
02-21-2008, 10:04 PM
Can I share a little story with you? This is our first year home schooling and we got off to a pretty rough start. We've had more days than I'd like to admit that consisted of math and reading with nothing else. It's just been recently that I've started slowing adding things to our day, like copywork for my youngest (just turned 7). I think he's been doing copywork for two or three weeks now.

So yesterday we spent 10+ hours on an airplane and DS7 chose to do things like draw instead of watch movies. DS draws by actually creating characters and stories, but up until yesterday he always told his stories outloud while he was drawing but never actually wrote anything. Well yesterday he actually wrote some dialogue between his characters and even included quotation marks! I started using sentences from Charlotte's Web that included quotation marks and I really think that's what did it. Anyway, I was excited and just wanted to share. :)

Debbie

OneRoomHomeSchool
02-21-2008, 10:14 PM
That's great! I am very convinced that copywork is *the* thing for kids under 10. ;)

Linda...inOwasso
02-21-2008, 11:20 PM
Congrats Debbie!! I'm a huge fan of copywork also! One of my favorite things to do is give my dd7 paragraphs from good literature for copywork. I'll select a week's worth of intriguing passages from a "good book" that dd wouldn't ordinarily be excited to read. But, it never fails.... after a few days of copying my selections she will ask, "Mom, who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?" or... "What book did this come from? Can we read it?" :)

Music to my ears!

AudreyTN
02-21-2008, 11:33 PM
That's wonderful... I have something to look forward to! :D

Beth in Central TX
02-21-2008, 11:34 PM
Dear Debbie,

Thank you for sharing your success with us. Congratulations on a job well done!

Take care,

Debbie in London
02-22-2008, 09:25 AM
Thanks so much for letting me share. Since we got off to such a slow and bumpy start it really warms my heart to see these types of things. :)

Debbie

Testimony
02-22-2008, 09:57 AM
That's great!

Karen
www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony

Elisabeth in IL
02-22-2008, 10:12 AM
Yeah, a success story!!! Way to go! :D