My 7-year old really wants some penpals...
Heather
I'm not sure if this is an acceptable post for this group, but I hope it is. If not, then if anyone has any suggestions for where would be more appropriate I'd really appreciate it...
I have a 7-year old daughter who is really excited about writing and receiving letters, and she really wants a few penpals. She told me that she doesn't care if her penpals are boys or girls, and she's not too worried about ages either, but she would like to connect with a few other unschoolers. I told her that this is an international list and she thought that was really cool.
A little bit about my daughter: We live in Fort Collins Colorado (USA), near the mountains (and the plains, I suppose, but we never go that direction!). My daughter loves unicorns and all things magical, horses, drawing, painting, swimming, riding her bike, watching movies, skiing, camping and backpacking.
If you have a child who is interested in being her penpal, please contact me offlist (reply to sender) and we can exchange personal information. Thanks!
I have a 7-year old daughter who is really excited about writing and receiving letters, and she really wants a few penpals. She told me that she doesn't care if her penpals are boys or girls, and she's not too worried about ages either, but she would like to connect with a few other unschoolers. I told her that this is an international list and she thought that was really cool.
A little bit about my daughter: We live in Fort Collins Colorado (USA), near the mountains (and the plains, I suppose, but we never go that direction!). My daughter loves unicorns and all things magical, horses, drawing, painting, swimming, riding her bike, watching movies, skiing, camping and backpacking.
If you have a child who is interested in being her penpal, please contact me offlist (reply to sender) and we can exchange personal information. Thanks!
alma
Your daughter (and anyone else out there) might enjoy this project - http://www.facebook.com/groups/UNschooledStanley/ - we are currently hosting some American Flat children in northern Scotland.
Alison
DS1(9) and DS2(7)
Alison
DS1(9) and DS2(7)
--- In [email protected], "Heather" <tandycat@...> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is an acceptable post for this group, but I hope it is. If not, then if anyone has any suggestions for where would be more appropriate I'd really appreciate it...
>
> I have a 7-year old daughter who is really excited about writing and receiving letters, and she really wants a few penpals. She told me that she doesn't care if her penpals are boys or girls, and she's not too worried about ages either, but she would like to connect with a few other unschoolers. I told her that this is an international list and she thought that was really cool.
>
> A little bit about my daughter: We live in Fort Collins Colorado (USA), near the mountains (and the plains, I suppose, but we never go that direction!). My daughter loves unicorns and all things magical, horses, drawing, painting, swimming, riding her bike, watching movies, skiing, camping and backpacking.
>
> If you have a child who is interested in being her penpal, please contact me offlist (reply to sender) and we can exchange personal information. Thanks!
>
K
Hi,
Alison ~ The FB thing looks cool. Thanks! I did "sign" us up to be part of it, however, my boys (and I'd) would prefer it if they worked on their writing skills and wrote back and forth to someone.
Both my boys are interested in penpals too.
I have a 10 year old who likes Harry Potter, the outdoors, Legos, bike riding, tractors, "inventing", cooking, gardening, and arts and crafts.
My 8 year old likes Legos, the outdoors, all animals, tractors, movies, cooking, "inventing", looking at and reading books, and playing.
They don't care if you are a boy or girl or where you live. They just want to write someone around their age with some of the same interests.
If you are interested, please "reply to sender" me for address info. Thanks.
Alison ~ The FB thing looks cool. Thanks! I did "sign" us up to be part of it, however, my boys (and I'd) would prefer it if they worked on their writing skills and wrote back and forth to someone.
Both my boys are interested in penpals too.
I have a 10 year old who likes Harry Potter, the outdoors, Legos, bike riding, tractors, "inventing", cooking, gardening, and arts and crafts.
My 8 year old likes Legos, the outdoors, all animals, tractors, movies, cooking, "inventing", looking at and reading books, and playing.
They don't care if you are a boy or girl or where you live. They just want to write someone around their age with some of the same interests.
If you are interested, please "reply to sender" me for address info. Thanks.
--- In [email protected], "alma" <almadoing@...> wrote:
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> Your daughter (and anyone else out there) might enjoy this project - http://www.facebook.com/groups/UNschooledStanley/ - we are currently hosting some American Flat children in northern Scotland.
>
> Alison
> DS1(9) and DS2(7)
>
> --- In [email protected], "Heather" <tandycat@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is an acceptable post for this group, but I hope it is. If not, then if anyone has any suggestions for where would be more appropriate I'd really appreciate it...
> >
> > I have a 7-year old daughter who is really excited about writing and receiving letters, and she really wants a few penpals. She told me that she doesn't care if her penpals are boys or girls, and she's not too worried about ages either, but she would like to connect with a few other unschoolers. I told her that this is an international list and she thought that was really cool.
> >
> > A little bit about my daughter: We live in Fort Collins Colorado (USA), near the mountains (and the plains, I suppose, but we never go that direction!). My daughter loves unicorns and all things magical, horses, drawing, painting, swimming, riding her bike, watching movies, skiing, camping and backpacking.
> >
> > If you have a child who is interested in being her penpal, please contact me offlist (reply to sender) and we can exchange personal information. Thanks!
> >
>
Joyce Fetteroll
On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:15 AM, K wrote:
Why do they feel like their "writing skills" need improved? Who is setting a bar between good enough and not good enough? And why?
Where did they even get the idea of needing "writing skills"? Why is the need to write to someone coming after a need to work on the skill of writing? That's backwards.
In real life the skill of writing isn't separate from the need to communicate with someone.
Joyce
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> my boys (and I'd) would prefer it if they workedWhy do they want to work on their writing skills?
> on their writing skills and wrote back and forth to someone.
Why do they feel like their "writing skills" need improved? Who is setting a bar between good enough and not good enough? And why?
Where did they even get the idea of needing "writing skills"? Why is the need to write to someone coming after a need to work on the skill of writing? That's backwards.
In real life the skill of writing isn't separate from the need to communicate with someone.
Joyce
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Meredith
Joyce Fetteroll <jfetteroll@...> wrote:
"Writing skills" aren't even one thing - even in the schoolish sense the phrase could apply to penmanship, spelling, grammar, or style - and style will vary considerably depending on the reason one is writing. For that matter, so will grammar!
My daughter does a fair amount of writing. Sometimes she'll ask me to read over what she writes because she wants to share something with me, other times she wants input because she's planning on other people seeing it - a sign, a card, a game walkthrough, a comic strip or story. All of those take a different kind of writing - she knows that, no-one needed to teach her what kind of style one uses for a game walkthrough versus a comic strip, and she didn't need to "work on" those skills in the sense of inventing reasons to write. She has reasons to write - and because the Reasons are important to her, she cares about the results. If she's writing for someone else then she wants to be understood - and because of that, sometimes she'll ask me for feedback: how is this? does the writing do what it's intended to do? And then I can point out things like punctuation and spacing, talk about fonts and pitch, let her know the spell checker doesn't catch mistakes like witch/which or their/there/they're.
But she doesn't think of any of that as "working on writing skills" - she's writing, really writing for real reasons of her own - and like other writers she cares about her potential readers. Skills grow out of that care.
---Meredith
>> Why do they feel like their "writing skills" need improved?Tagging on to what Joyce wrote.
"Writing skills" aren't even one thing - even in the schoolish sense the phrase could apply to penmanship, spelling, grammar, or style - and style will vary considerably depending on the reason one is writing. For that matter, so will grammar!
My daughter does a fair amount of writing. Sometimes she'll ask me to read over what she writes because she wants to share something with me, other times she wants input because she's planning on other people seeing it - a sign, a card, a game walkthrough, a comic strip or story. All of those take a different kind of writing - she knows that, no-one needed to teach her what kind of style one uses for a game walkthrough versus a comic strip, and she didn't need to "work on" those skills in the sense of inventing reasons to write. She has reasons to write - and because the Reasons are important to her, she cares about the results. If she's writing for someone else then she wants to be understood - and because of that, sometimes she'll ask me for feedback: how is this? does the writing do what it's intended to do? And then I can point out things like punctuation and spacing, talk about fonts and pitch, let her know the spell checker doesn't catch mistakes like witch/which or their/there/they're.
But she doesn't think of any of that as "working on writing skills" - she's writing, really writing for real reasons of her own - and like other writers she cares about her potential readers. Skills grow out of that care.
---Meredith