Wednesday May 4, 2011
Adam’s first creative writing assignment. At least, the first one I found out about. The difference between boys and girls, I have been discovering during these school commutes, is that girls tell you about every ache and pain and minor incident in 500 words and they reiterate every story at least three times, “Did I ever tell you about that time I dreamed that Carson was crying in his crib …..” and boys barely remember to tell you the essentials, like the fact that someone’s having a birthday party the next day and you don’t need to pack a lunch. He finished this one at home so I got lucky enough to not only hear about it, but to see it. The assignment: To have a problem and solve it. His problem: the fence got knocked down.
I have a cornfield. It is ten miles long. But sometimes the fence gets nocked down. So I made the fence stronger. Now I have to plow the field. And now I have to plant the field. I have a big tractor. It has twenty wheels. And it is a John Deer. Now the seeds have to grow. And now I have to harvest the corn. And now we have corn day in June. Then we will eat it. And can it. And put it in jars. And stack it on shelfs. And save it and save it. Til the shelfs are full. And wate till next winter.
He did ask me later if we have corn day in June and I said more like August. But if he lived in Georgia it could be June. He says he has a special kind of corn that grows terribly fast. I figure that fits with the twenty wheel tractor and ten mile field, don’t you. And clearly by the time we hit packaging on corn day, he is out playing in the mud, not helping or observing. So just in case you are dying of curiosity, we do put our corn in the freezer. 
That is too cute! I love to hear how their little minds work!
Also, got a kick out of your “explanatory” paragraph afterwards!
Aw, love it. So fun to see the world thro’ their minds. 🙂 Thanks for settling my curiosity about how YOU do corn! I was going to ask if you actually can it! 🙂
i love the ‘save it and save it’ part.
just how generous are you with those portions you put on that boys plate, Michelle?! ;O)
kids are so great!
how cute!
LOL I especially liked the shelfs and the wate til next winter. : ) Love it! I was pretty amazed by a 10 mile corn field and a 10 wheeled tractor too! : ) It’s so cute to see how kids view things.
I was wondering about canning corn. 🙂 so cute how kids put things into words.
So cute. Like the “reality” version compared to his version. Love it.
That’s too cute! A ten mile field, and a tractor with twenty wheels? That’s super-sized, I’d say. And I was wondering about canning corn. 🙂
too cute!
yeah, the diff between the genders… last week one night we were having snack around the table and Elyse faced her daddy and Ravi so very seriously and said “let talk about things”. I laughed and told her “that’s my girl!!” That’s just how we are. let’s just talk! Would love to get together and ‘talk’ with you and hear you talk…. about the whole miscarriage thing. I’m just coming through that same (but different) valley. So glad to be seeing light again. Seriously, I just had no idea how it felt.
LOL! that’s pretty good. Wish I had Zachary’s first story, but think his teacher kept all the stories. Z’s was something about sharks and water.
Love it. Eric’s teacher gave him a paper not long ago that he wrote in school. Too funny now! 🙂 I’m just waiting till Dakota starts talking to see how he differs from the girls in this aspect. So far we have lots of talking and drama with these 2!
Last year when we were homeschooling, Wade fought every creative writing assignment. He & I both cried more tears over story writing……..until I finally gave up, deciding that it was one battle that I just didn’t have the strength to fight anymore. This year, at FBCS, I had no clue if he was doing creative writing or not—he didn’t say (yup, typical male behavior there!) and I didn’t ask. Then about 2 months ago, he brought home a notebook. He sat down on the couch with his brother and read one story after another while I listened from the kitchen in shocked disbelief! They were all written BY HIM! And they were GOOD! They were funny, creative, wild, and all boy. Later when he wasn’t looking, I sneaked off with the notebook & read the stories with my own eyes—-and thanked God.
There’s just something about reading your child’s stories, that gives you a new glimpse into his/her mind—a glimpse that you just don’t get any other way. Especially with boys. 🙂
Yes, boys! All about unrealistic BIG stuff, but you gotta LOVE it! My 9 year old wrote recently, “When I grow up, I want to be a farmer. But first I have to grow up.” (And write more than 2 sentences when you have an assignment, thank you very much!)
Cute. I read this story to Zachary. When I got to the part of the tractor having twenty wheels, his eyes got huge, and he said, “WOOOOOOOOOOOW!”