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Mary Chris
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Posted: June 14 2005 at 7:42am | IP Logged Quote Mary Chris
This summer we are going to continue reading, math, and handwriting. I would also like to have my children start a journal. I have heard of a journal jar, now I just need some ideas to get started.

Do you have any tried and true journal prompts you would like to share?

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For prompts, there's a nifty little book by Lorraine M. Dahlstrom called "Doing the Days: A Year's Worth of Creative Journaling, Drawing, Listening, Reading, Thinking, Arts & Crafts Activities for Children 8-12. It is divided up by months and dates, starting Jan 1, with interesting info pertinent to the date, and suggested activities built around that date. Before each activity are icons indicating what type of activities are listed. Every date has a writing activity, some have several. It looks like it would be fairly easy to incorporate into any journaling/composition program.

That being said, we've mostly been successful in our family with Travel Journals covering our vacations and jaunts. Besides trip-specific journals, the children each have a Florida Journal that has pages on field trips we take around Florida. Besides pictures and postcards, these journals will also hold things like the children's synopses about the places we visit, or creative stories/"historical fiction" they write about the places, pictures they draw, poems etc. Some are lavish, some are pretty stark (like ds's commentary on our visit to the Mulberry Phosphate Museum: 'Our visit...to NOWHERE!"---Hey, *I* thought it was pretty neat .)

As for "regular" journals, I think they 've all been scared off that idea by the oft-repeated family tale of how their great-aunt would read aloud their grandmother's diary to her suitors for an Indian Head nickel.

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