As we've been getting back into a daily routine and table time again, I realized that Daniel was doing busywork with his previous notebook (state flowers & birds). He had kinda fizzled out on his plushie notebook.
He asked to work on his blog a couple weeks ago, updating and adding some things. I thought that was fine to do for writing time instead of continuing on with the state flower/bird notebook (which I knew would end up being an interim thing).
So last week, I asked him to sit at the table and do some writing in the state flower/bird notebook. His face scrunched up and he refused. This led to a discussion, I asked him some questions, told him I realized the notebook was boring, but it was necessary to give him a platform to practice writing. Then he told me what he really wanted to do!
He said, "Mom, what I really want to do is perfect my plushie notebook. I want to take all new photos, and I want to have two photos, one main photo and another photo of a goofy or sticky situation that they get into, and I want at least a half page of lines so I can write more or write what is on my blog already onto the notebook pages".
I casually picked my jaw off the table and said, "sure, so today for your writing, I want you to take some new photos and then I can help you format the pages for the new notebook pages".
He went right to work for a few days taking the photos of his plushies. Then yesterday, he spent some time doing some cool photo editing (which he has only dabbled with in the past). He added blood spatters and other effects.
We printed some pages and he is highly motivated to write on his new pages! Here's a photo from this morning! He has the laptop so he can pull info from his blog. He wrote more today than he ever has in the past!
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