It was a fun way for her to learn alliterations and we randomly shout out new ones as we think of them. While reading what Julie wrote about alliterations I was inspired to teach Raeca about them and now we like to make up silly alliterations about people, like: Robot Riding Raeca, Finger Fighting Phillip, Carrot Kicker Chloe, Bouncing Ball Billy, Jumbo Jumping Jilly, etc. With The Writer’s Jungle it’s not about learning different techniques just to know them but to enrich a child’s writing. Julie includes a number of different ideas and activities that will help your child fall in love with writing. The Writer’s Jungle is a huge ebook (or binder if you buy that copy) that is designed to teach the homeschool parent how to teach writing.
As I was reading through The Writer’s Jungle I just kept thinking, if only I would have had this when I was teaching! It would have been so helpful.Īnd while I can’t go back and fix my mistakes as a teacher in the classroom I can make sure I don’t make those same mistakes as a homeschooling mom, and The Writer’s Jungle is definitely going to be a part of making sure that doesn’t happen! Oh man, looking back now I feel so sorry for those kids. Honestly, there were very limited courses that I took in university that were actually beneficial to me in the classroom (home economics and social studies to be exact), I came out with a degree in education with an English minor and had no idea how to teach kids to write.Īfter graduating university and before having kids I was covering a maternity leave and my main classes I taught were grade 7 & 8 English. When people find out that I’m actually a teacher by education they always comment on how it must be so helpful for homeschooling. I recently received The Writer’s Jungle from Brave Writer after hearing so many people rave about it. Remember when I was talking about Poetry Tea Time and how much my kids adore it (if I forget one week they are bound to remember)? Well, Poetry Tea Time is the brain child of Julie over at Brave Writer.
If you read around homeschool blogs for more than five minutes you are going to hear about someone raving about Julie and Brave Writer. I’m honestly not sure if one can be involved in the homeschool community in any way online without quickly hearing about Brave Writer.
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