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By Amanda Pelser

Jonathan’s First Story

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A Street Story

Once upon a time, there was a fire engine and a fireman putting out a fire.  Then the steamroller made the road flat.  Then the van and the man were driving back home.  The bulldozer was coming to push the dirt off the road.  The excavator got to get dirt in a pile.

The End.

Jonathan wrote his first story this week.  We used the picture of a street from the Usborne First Thousand Words book (a part of our Sonlight P 4/5 curriculum) as our story starter.  He needed a few prompts along the way – What else do you see?  What are they doing?  And then what?  – but otherwise he dictated this entire story to me.  Not sure how the school bus illustration fits with the story, but he insisted that he needed to draw a school bus.

Filed Under: Homeschooling Tagged With: Jonathan, reading, Sonlight, writing

About Amanda Pelser

Amanda is a former church communications director turned work-at-home(schooling)-mom. She has a MA in Old Testament Studies and a BA in Bible. She's married to her high school sweetheart and they have four boys. She writes about faith, motherhood, and homeschooling at The Pelsers.

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