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.