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Poetry Challenge Activity: Write a Poem with Eve
Dear readers,
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Thanksgiving Gratitude Challenge Poem – Video
This Thanksgiving poem, along with other poems and a video, are coming very soon.
Christmas Challenge coming next consisting of one poem a day. I already wrote with my daughters more than 20, and we are also designing free e-cards to share.
Many of the Christmas poems are already scheduled.
I am using these poems for homeschooling purposes, and we will talk about Lilli and Lizzie’s poetry and songwriting efforts soon.
Until the next Thanksgiving post,
Eve
12 Creative Writing Prompts for Children
I will be using these to inspire my children to create stories with me.
Here’s a list of 12 immersive and fun creative writing prompts for children, designed to spark their imagination and encourage playful storytelling. Each prompt includes character ideas, inspiration, and fun questions to fuel their creativity:
1. The Day My Pet Could Talk
- Inspiration: One morning, your pet wakes up and starts talking! But they have an important message to tell you.
- Character Ideas: A wise-talking dog, a sassy cat, or a shy hamster who knows a secret.
- Fun Questions: What does your pet sound like? What’s the first thing they say? What secret have they been hiding all this time?
2. A Trip to a Candy Planet
- Inspiration: You discover a hidden rocket ship in your backyard that takes you to a planet made entirely of candy.
- Character Ideas: A candy-loving alien, a chocolate river guide, or a gingerbread scientist.
- Fun Questions: What does everything taste like? How do you get around on a candy planet? What’s the biggest danger in a world made of sweets?
3. The Invisible Friend
- Inspiration: You make an invisible friend who helps you with school and adventures, but only you can see them.
- Character Ideas: A mischievous ghost, a friendly shadow, or a tiny, invisible fairy.
- Fun Questions: How do you introduce them to others? What do you and your invisible friend do together? What happens when they accidentally cause trouble?
4. A Dragon Moves In Next Door
- Inspiration: A family of dragons moves into the house next to yours, and they need your help fitting into human life.
- Character Ideas: A fire-breathing dragon with stage fright, a baby dragon who loves making pancakes, or a grumpy grandparent dragon.
- Fun Questions: How do the dragons hide their wings and tails? What jobs do they get in the neighborhood? What happens when they accidentally breathe fire?
5. The Secret Library in the Attic
- Inspiration: You find a secret door in your attic that leads to a magical library filled with books that come to life.
- Character Ideas: A talking book that gives you advice, a librarian wizard, or a knight from a fairy tale who’s tired of fighting dragons.
- Fun Questions: Which book do you open first? What happens when a character from a story steps out of the pages? Can you create your own story-world?
6. Superhero School
- Inspiration: You discover you have superpowers and get invited to a school for young superheroes.
- Character Ideas: A kid who can turn invisible, someone who can talk to animals, or a hero who controls the weather but sneezes and makes tornadoes.
- Fun Questions: What’s your superhero name? What’s your first mission? How do you balance saving the world with homework?
7. The Mysterious Box
- Inspiration: One day, you find a mysterious box on your doorstep with a note that says, “Do not open until midnight.”
- Character Ideas: A curious inventor, a sneaky detective, or a magical creature hiding inside the box.
- Fun Questions: Do you open the box early? What’s inside? Does it lead to an adventure or bring a surprise visitor?
8. Lost in a Maze of Giant Toys
- Inspiration: You get lost in a life-size toy store where all the toys are gigantic—and they come to life!
- Character Ideas: A helpful stuffed bear, a bossy robot, or a teddy bear who’s afraid of heights.
- Fun Questions: How do you find your way out? What’s the most amazing giant toy you meet? What happens when a toy decides it wants to be your friend forever?
9. The Treehouse Time Machine
- Inspiration: You build a treehouse in your backyard and discover it’s secretly a time machine that can take you anywhere in history.
- Character Ideas: A daring time-traveling squirrel, a kid inventor from the future, or a pirate from the past who got stuck in the wrong time.
- Fun Questions: Where do you travel first? Who do you meet? What happens if you accidentally change something important in history?
10. My Life as a Tiny Person
- Inspiration: One day, you wake up and you’ve shrunk to the size of a bug!
- Character Ideas: A talking ladybug guide, a friendly ant army, or a wise old beetle who knows the way back.
- Fun Questions: How do you get around now that you’re tiny? What everyday things are now giant-sized obstacles? How do you get back to normal?
11. The Magical Market
- Inspiration: You stumble upon a hidden marketplace where magical creatures sell enchanted objects and potions.
- Character Ideas: A potion-brewing witch, a friendly gnome shopkeeper, or a mischievous talking cat selling magic beans.
- Fun Questions: What magical item do you buy? What does it do? Does it lead to an unexpected adventure or a big mistake?
12. Underwater Adventure
- Inspiration: While swimming at the beach, you find a secret underwater kingdom that needs your help to solve a mystery.
- Character Ideas: A playful dolphin, a royal sea turtle, or a jellyfish with a glowing map.
- Fun Questions: How do you breathe underwater? What is the mystery you need to solve? What magical sea creatures do you meet along the way?
These prompts offer a blend of imagination, adventure, and mystery, giving kids fun characters and scenarios to build creative short stories from!
Words: Advice vs. advise
Dear reader,
English is my second language. learned it as an adult. Since I love to learn properly, grammar has been my best friend.
With this short poem, I was trying to make the distinction between advice and advise after I realized I had used the improper spelling of the word. Actually, I thought it was only one word long ago.
When you write, you learn. My advise if you are trying to make a distinction between the two words is to use them in writing. I know now, before, while I was confused and knew I could make a mistake, I would search the difference and find help from a blog post like this one or an article.
Difference between advice and advise
The difference between advise and advice is simple:
- Advice is a noun, meaning a suggestion or recommendation. Example: “She gave me great advice.”
- Advise is a verb, meaning to offer a suggestion. Example: “I advise you to listen carefully.”
Tip: Use “advice” when you’re talking about the suggestion itself, and use “advise” when you’re talking about giving or offering that suggestion.
To advice is a verb or a word that refers to action. The action is advising. The word is spelled with an s whenever you say TO ADVISE or ADVISING because these refer to the verb or the action of advising another.
A noun is a thing, wether a physical thing like a table or a non physical thing such as advice
Sentences and examples
When someone is giving a suggestion or recommendation, the action is called advising. So, “advising” is the act of offering advice.
Advice is the thing: the words or suggestions and to advise is the action of saying the advice.
For example:
- Verb: “The teacher is advising the students to study.”
- Noun: “The advice she gave was helpful.”
Just remember: the action of giving advice = advising!
Here are a few simple sentences for children to help them remember the difference between advise and advice:
- Advice is a thing you give.
- Example: “My mom gave me good advice on making friends.”
- Advise is an action you do.
- Example: “Teachers advise students to study hard.”
- Advice has a “c” because it’s like ice—a thing you can have.
- Example: “His advice helped me.”
- Advise has an “s” because it’s like say—something you do.
- Example: “Doctors advise us to eat healthy.”
These can make it fun and easier for children to remember the difference!
Was this helpful?
Feel free to use my poem in your lesson or class or as a reminder.
Please tell me if you would like to see more like this,
With love,
Eve
Comet Stargazing and Home Education Log
Dear reader,
This week we woke up our kids very early and took to the darkness outside looking for the comet A3. We saw it, too. It was an amazing sight even though it only lasted a few seconds and we all saw it (except for the two toddlers).
Lilli and Vivi wrote journal entries about it. Lilli, a perfect memory with 0 errors or need for improvement. Vivi in gorgeous letters. She needs to work on the legibility of her writing, but she has chosen incredibly beautiful decorated letters, which I love and I told her, I will have to copy some of her incredible letters.
My focus will be on practicing with Vivi so she can improve the legibility of her writing while keeping her wonderful letter design. I enjoyed her work so much and I was full of pride.
Lilli researched and taught us what a comet as well as a, meteor shower is, wrote this in her journal.
Both Lilli and Vivi drew the comet.
Home Education Log: Learning activities with our kids
This is not an entire list.
We discussed our ancestry, DNA, DNA tests related to ancestry, neanderthal DNA in humans in research, history of our families which interested and intrigued our oldest kid.
We did Halloween inspired art and crafts.
We watched documentaries about the history of Halloween, kids stories, and more on this topic.
I finished a Halloween paper doll: I love fashion illustration and I incorporate it into our art activities.
We found old art of mine and discussed my art progress at which point I took advantage and gave a speech about improving one’s skill. I allowed the kids to see my bad beginner art that I am ashamed to show today and explained how I learned to draw figures by watching experts and used that fuel to inspire them by assuring them they too will be much better in their art.
I helped the kids finish Math worksheets they did not finish during their week.
We studied the Celts, specially regarding our own Celtic roots.
Lilli and I did Math: skip counting, addition, multiplication, and division.
Vivi and I worked on addition.
The kids have been sick, so we have not been to Jiu-jitsu class. They have been playing in the yard and “working in the garden”.
The kids read children’s books.
Lizzie and I wrote a poem together (she created the story) and she did the ending in prose using many words that start with g. Then she wrote the poem by hand. Her intention was to improve her handwriting of the letter g and she succeeded, her g was beautiful after such practice. She will be choosing her next letter to work on and we will repeat this exercise.
Lilli started the new Duolingo Music course.
Lilli returned to her Duolingo Spanish course.
I created children’s songs inspired by Lilli. Lilli created pictures to go with the song. I added AI music to the songs. We sung and sung and danced.
Lizzie decided to write a song. She created a story and we will be working on turning it into a song.
Lilli, Lizzie, Vivi worked on Math, Science, Grammar, Art on Outschool.
Links
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-neanderthals-inherited-genome-now-extinct-lineage.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-archaeologists-ancient-neanderthal-lineage-isolated.html
And you, would you share your home education efforts with us?
With love,
Eve
Magnificent Letter G: handwriting practice with poetry.
Dear reader,
Lizzie does not want to learn cursive. I listen.
But she came to me and requested help.with her letter g, lowercase.
She collaborated with me to create this G poem and practiced until we loved her letter g.
The graceful groom
In Ancient Greece
Was in gloom all week:
Ghastly days, lost grace,
His good wife, a ghost,
In the green garden.
Heart goes grey,
Galaxies away,
Gracious goddess:
Gown, crown, greatness.
Green grape dance to the god,
Bring my wife back.
The god’s generous reply,
A glistening sun ray,
And a goose to greet.
In two years time,
Sacrifice a goat,
And your girl will grow
From the goose,
Take care and groom her
Be warned: if you neglect her,
Your guilt a curse will be
To grueling loneliness.
End of story by Lizzie
The groom agrees, he will not neglect the Goose. Two years pass slowly, the groom Has been taking good care of the goose, the Groom brings the goat to the altar, and Prays, Grape god returns, Two years have Passed, Your wish shall be granted, goose Into wife, I command. The groom reunited, He is happy again with his wife. This story Ends with a happy ending.
Lizzie practiced her letter g handwriting by writing the poem on a paper and her creative writing by creating this poem with me as well as writing the ending all by herself.
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