There's Nothing Like Garden Creatures 2

Bonus Friday Prompt:


There’s nothing like a little mischief.  Tell a story in which you or someone you know has played the role of the fairy to stir up a little trouble.

If you would like (and if it is okay with your parent or guardian), you can sign a submission form and return the form and your writing to the library.  Stories will be posted together on this blog beginning in November and in a book in the spring of 2014.  

There's Nothing Like Garden Creatures

Preschool children: 

Fairies:  Print thispicture for your child to color and discuss with you.  One sentence lets you record your child’s thoughts at this age and has a line for you to share your own thoughts with your child.

School agers:

 Gnomes  There’s nothing like garden gnomes.  Print this page and use it to write a story.  What kinds of statues have you seen in gardens?  What do you imagine these statues would do if they were alive?

Teens/Adults:

Essay prompt:  In times past, people blamed fairies for their misfortunes.  What do people blame now and why?

Poetry prompt:  Limericks are five-line poems that are often comical or nonsensical.  Write a limerick or series of limericks about a little bit of mischief.  Specific details on the limerick’s form may be found at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5783.

Lifestory prompt 1: (Monday)  There’s nothing like a garden statues.  Tell a story about the non-growing aspects of your garden.

If you would like (and if it is okay with your parent or guardian), you can sign a submission form and return the form and your writing to the library.  Stories will be posted together on this blog beginning in November and in a book in the spring of 2014. 

There's Nothing Like Gardening 2

Bonus Friday Prompt:

There’s nothing like watching the course of a garden.  Explore how you have “planted seeds” in your life, through work, in your family, or in your community and share how they have grown over the years.

If you would like (and if it is okay with your parent or guardian), you can sign a submission form and return the form and your writing to the library.  Stories will be posted together on this blog beginning in November and in a book in the spring of 2014. 

 

There's Nothing Like Gardening

Preschool children: 

Gardening:  Print thispicture for your child to color and discuss with you.  One sentence lets you record your child’s thoughts at this age and has a line for you to share your own thoughts with your child.

School agers: 

Gardening:  There’s nothing like a garden.  Print this page and use it to write a story about a garden you’ve seen or worked in.  What did you do?  What grew there?  Did you have fun?

Teens/Adults:

Essay prompt:  People often call our childhood years the formative years when the seeds of knowledge and morals are planted in a child.  Based on your upbringing, what seeds do you feel have been planted in you, what will grow from them, and what fruit do you expect to reap?

Poetry prompt:  Write a cento (a poem made up of lines written by other poets) or a mixed canto (a poem which intersperses lines from other poets with lines of one’s own) using a “seed” line from a famous poem.

Some suggestions: 

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary (Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”)
• I like to see it lap the miles (Emily Dickinson, “I Like to See It Lap the Miles”)
• An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you/Ef you/Don't/Watch/Out! (James Whitcomb Riley, “Little Orphant Annie”)
• I am the master of my fate (William Ernest Henley, “Invictus”)

Other popular lines of poetry can be found at http://blog.inkyfool.com/2012/01/fifty-most-quoted-lines-of-poetry.html.

Lifestory prompt1:  (Monday) There’s nothing like a summer garden.  Tell us about a summer garden you have had.

If you would like (and if it is okay with your parent or guardian), you can sign a submission form and return the form and your writing to the library.  Stories will be posted together on this blog beginning in November and in a book in the spring of 2014. 

There's Nothing Like Dirt and Mud 2

Bonus Friday Prompt:

Lifestory prompt 2:  (Friday) There’s nothing like a hidden motive.  Write about a time in which you discovered you had a deeper reason for doing something (anxieties and phobias often relate to this hidden motive) or in which someone else had a secret motive behind their actions (surprise parties are good examples of such strange behaviors).

If you would like (and if it is okay with your parent or guardian), you can sign a submission form and return the form and your writing to the library.  Stories will be posted together on this blog beginning in November and in a book in the spring of 2014. 

 

There's Nothing Like Dirt and Mud!

Preschool children: 

Dirt and Mud:  Print this picture for your child to color and discuss with you.  One sentence lets you record your child’s thoughts at this age and has a line for you to share your own thoughts with your child.

School agers: 

Dirt and Mud:  There’s nothing like playing in the mud!  Print this page and use it to write a story about a time that you played in the mud. 

Teens/Adults

Essay prompt:  Each of the earth’s layers provides clues as to its history.  What do your layers tell us about you?

Poetry prompt:  Use anaphora (beginning successive lines of poetry with the same words) to give the feeling of moving through layers (see Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16404 for an example).

Lifestory prompt 1:  (Monday) There’s nothing like getting your hands dirty.  Tell about a time you were surprised by a mess.

If you would like (and if it is okay with your parent or guardian), you can sign a submission form and return the form and your writing to the library.  Stories will be posted together on this blog beginning in November and in a book in the spring of 2014.