http://thek5.com/blog/2009/09/13/the-food-journal-a-great-way-to-encourage-writing/ Advice to parents of elementary school-age children Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:40:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://thek5.com/blog/2009/09/13/the-food-journal-a-great-way-to-encourage-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-4626 susan crosbini Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:01:23 +0000 http://thek5.com/blog/?p=1407#comment-4626 This idea neatly combines two of my own favorite things: eating and words. For most kids, the main obstacle to writing is not being able to think of anything to write about. In the Food Journal, they've got that recent experience to refer to -- with plenty of information about how things look, smell, taste, feel and in some cases, even sound. Crunch, slurp. If there's a lapse of memory, they can refer to the stains on the tablecloth! This idea neatly combines two of my own favorite things: eating and words. For most kids, the main obstacle to writing is not being able to think of anything to write about. In the Food Journal, they’ve got that recent experience to refer to — with plenty of information about how things look, smell, taste, feel and in some cases, even sound. Crunch, slurp. If there’s a lapse of memory, they can refer to the stains on the tablecloth!

]]> http://thek5.com/blog/2009/09/13/the-food-journal-a-great-way-to-encourage-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-4603 chowmama | Weekly Digest Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:07:26 +0000 http://thek5.com/blog/?p=1407#comment-4603 [...] Awesome idea! Have the kids keep a food journal—you encourage writing AND have a log of what they do and don’t like for dinner (no more blank stares when you ask them what they want to eat)! (via The K5) [...] [...] Awesome idea! Have the kids keep a food journal—you encourage writing AND have a log of what they do and don’t like for dinner (no more blank stares when you ask them what they want to eat)! (via The K5) [...]

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