PEN PALS

Letter writing has always been one of our favorite ways to practice things like spelling, grammar,

handwriting, etc...and pen pals have begun to add to all of that...friendship. What a gift!

 

 

The kids have friends who live across miles and they love keeping in touch with letters. The more and more we move away from workbooks for language arts, the more I realize how much there is to learn through things as enjoyable as having a pen pal...if we're eager to point it all out and capitalize on the opportunities. There's so much to learn by simply doing life. 

 

The kids always write their own letters first from fluid thought, but then afterward we sit down to discuss things like sentence structure, spelling words on side lists that are incorrect, and appropriateness of content. It's both fun and educational (just my kind of writing lesson), so our pen pal writing is here to stay, a multifaceted blessing to our home education.

 

"And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with
the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts."
2 Corinthians 3:3