Here's a reply to a discussion about reading journals.  One lady suggested asking specific questions after reading/studying in a subject area (history, math, science, etc).  Then, have your child write a journal entry.  Too often our kids are fuzzy about what to write in a journal.  Here's my response.
  I think you hit the  nail on the head.  When I have my younger child write something in a journal, we  usually discuss it beforehand.  My older ones who have been doing this for a few  years so they are on their own.  If they can’t think of something on their own,  they usually come talk to me.
     I really like the idea  of being specific in subject areas.  I have heard of public school students  journaling about math and thought it was crazy. . . probably because the teacher  was told it didn’t matter if they got the right answer as long as you had their  “feelings” about math UGH!!!!  I digress…  My son likes math and would probably  enjoy writing about it.  Another idea in math is to have your child read a  living book on math (Sir Cumference, Mathematicians are People Too, and so on).   Then he can journal about the math concept he learned  from that book.  I have been adding living books to our math section this year.   You can see it HERE.  I am slowly  adding the rest of the books over the next few  weeks.
 
  Kerry  
 
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