Discoveries

December 13, 2012

Recently, we have noticed our little Brooklyn has a creative streak in her. One Wednesday afternoon, after school, Brooklyn declared that she had a book report due on Friday. She said she wanted to make a game for the book June B. Jones is Not a Crook. I explained to Brooklyn that this was something she needed to do all on her own. She worked very hard all evening and Thursday day. This is what she came up with. A board game with characters from the book. Tiled spaces, a school and a tree all made up of construction paper! I was amazed that she did such a great job in such short of time. I can only imagine what she could have come up with if she had started earlier.

Brooklyn has also been writing a great deal lately. She writes in her Journal, she writes short stories and colors a lot. Some of these stories are hilarious! One was how Santa got stuck upside down in a chimney. And how she used different ways to get him unstuck. Ha ha!  Another story was our Christmas Present she made at school. It was a hard back book that she illustrated and wrote. About a little girl who wanted to buy her mom a present for Christmas but didn't have any money so she borrowed a credit card form her dad and bought her mom 2 wooden spoons in case one spoon broke. It was so funny! 

I can't believe how much our little Brooklyn is growing. She loves to read now and I can always see her with a book. Her current favorite this week is Diary of a Wimpy kid the Third Wheel. She loves to make up plays for her brothers and friends to act out together. It sure is a joy to watch our little girl grow!