More writing.

I've been encouraging my girls to do a bit more writing lately. 

K doesn't need much encouragement to write at the moment as she's doing some most days on her book.  I'm not allowed to read any of it until it's finished though, so I have asked her to do some writing that she is willing to let me read, so we can talk about anything she might need to work on.  I asked her to focus on punctuation, as that was what was very much lacking the last time we did a similar exercise.  Today she gave me what would go on the back cover of the book she's currently working on.  It's an interesting premise!  While the punctuation has definitely improved, she still has a tendency towards overlong sentences, so I've suggested keeping an eye on that.  The spelling was also a little bit wobbly, but nothing that impeded comprehension.

M is less willing to do much writing generally, although she does occasionally surprise me.  When I suggested earlier this week that it would be helpful if she could do some (along with some suggestions of what she could write), so that we could see if there was anything we needed to do some work on.  I'm not too concerned, since K was similar and it seemed to resolve itself almost spontaneously, but M's writing is still pretty messy with a mixture of upper and lower case letters.  Given this, I suggested she concentrate on her handwriting when she did the writing.  She grumped a bit, disappeared and reappeared to tell me she'd done some handwriting and then showed me her hands on which she had written (the correct way round) 'Left hand' and 'Right hand'.  Later on, however, she gave me an origami swan, which when I unfolded it turned out to be the start of a treasure hunt.

 Go to the staircase that Bends

there you will find your feline friends

Now go to the lowest room in the House

There you will find a little Brown mouse

 

Go to the Door that has something you Ring

then Go Just Below to find a

..........THING

While there were still a few random capitals there weren't any in the middle of words, which is an improvement and the writing was pretty neat.  Here are the clues, my feline friends, the little brown mouse and the THING, which turned out to be two things, a button tree and a tiny trophy.