One of my goals for this year is to have JB narrate (Charlotte Mason (CM) style) from at least one subject each day. For some reason, she does not seem to enjoy narrating orally. However, she asked if she could do a written narration for one exercise this week (a narration of the first chapter of The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornton Burgess), and it was so nice! Much more expressive and detailed than the verbal narrations that she has done. :-) Being the proud mamma, I just thought I'd share. I'm going to type it up exactly as she wrote it----spelling, capitalization and punctuation are hers. :-) The only thing I've changed is typing JB where she actually wrote her first and last name. :-)
Danny Meadow Mouse is Worried
Narrated by JB age 7
Danny Meadow Mouse was sitting on his doorstep thinking and thinking. But of course he was only thinking because he was worried. He was worried because his tail was so short! The reason he was worrieing about that was becasue---well nobody knows not even Danny himself. But I can tell you somthing. When he had met his cousin Whitefoot the day before Danny saw how elegantly he was dressed. And Danny thought the most wonderful thing about him was his long slim tail. And since then he was jealous about that long tail couisn Whitefoot had and the short tail he had himself.
At the bottom of her composition she drew a quick sketch of Danny.
Since this chapter and narration was a part of her Classical Writing Primer (Spring) work, she has already asked when she can do another from that book. :-) We'll continue to work on verbal narrations, but I will also allow her to write anything by request (though this is not a requirement of CM at her age).
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