Writing has never been Tuna's favorite thing to do. Brave Writer affords Tuna the chance to write judgement-free, just letting her thoughts flow onto paper, and progress at her own rate. I love that. I don't judge her based on what any other kid is doing. That's the beauty of homeschooling: We get to do our own thing.
Free writing is completely autonomous. She doesn't have to go through the revision process if she doesn't want to. Her free writing can be seen as the final piece, mistakes and all. Of course, if she loves a piece, she is free to edit it if she wants. Right now, writing is about getting thoughts on paper and enjoying it.
If she was not enjoying it, we would stop immediately.
Here is her Friday Free Write from today. We limited it to five minutes so she didn't get bored. Some day, she will tolerate longer. Not right now.
Gantic Bugs , There was a gigantic spideron my porch, it was
a wolf spider although they are not venomis they are scary we had to shoo it
away because my sister was afraid of spiders. She screamed very loudly
There was a
humungo ant on my bed it was the size of my thumb's nail . I killed it with my
boot though
There was a
Huge beetle on a mans shoulder. It could leave a mark with its bite. It looked
about 3 inches wide and 6 inches tall!!!
All Together
those were pretty big bugs...
