Writing

Spirit – stallion of the Cimarron is his most favourite movie since long and his love for horses developed by watching this movie. He see dreams of horse, draws pictures of horses, sometimes enjoys rides, makes stories and sometimes visits stables near our home with Nikhil. We have books about different horses and horse care which are his favourite too. He wanted to write about horse and needs lines on bond paper, so I have given him this page and like it was difficult to control enthusiasm he wrote whole page within few minutes. That’s magic of passion.

I like horse. I like horse since I have seen movie ‘Stallion’. It is so loyal and strong. I love it’s loyalty and for that I see that movie again and again. I’m thinking about having one horse and it will be like stallion. My horse will be white & black. I have seen horse eating grass. I want Kathiyawadi horse and I will have. Horse knows swimming since birth. I will never use bridle with my horse.

Writing is a skill which requires practice but practice with and without will is totally different. When we started homeschooling Ashna was a reluctant writer, how can 3-4 yr old child in close classroom would like repetitive writing? At least not easy for my free spirited daughter. Classroom environment was suffocating for her. It took longer to remove her mental blocks against writing but today I can see ‘I love writing’ in almost all her books.

Megh loves to make books. He often writes his magazine ‘Ravi’ and give us for reading on Sunday but not regularly. Ravi might contains 2-3 pages and some writings, drawings, games or whatever comes to his mind. Sometimes back he had written a recipe book….Khao,Pio, Jalsa Karo! In this 3 recipes book he has shared items he can prepare independently and really tasty!

Creative writing comes from within. Language readiness for writing comes with reading and practice but development of fine motor skill is required for writing skill. Megh is a child who loves activity and you can find him busy with his own carpentry, gardening, machine designing, knowing things ….means one or other way always using his hands so even I know Montessori methods and have many equipments ,I have hardly used them with Megh….but yes, sandpaper letters found effective to know curves of letters by fingers.