A was an apple pie B bit it. C cut it. D dealt it. … and so on The rhyme goes back at least to the eighteenth century and has always intrigued me -all those verbs, all those things to be done with an apple pie. Sandy Brownjohn suggests the alphabet as a manageable frame … Continue reading A was an Apple Pie
Where would we be without our hands? When I have lots of things to think about, I always find that I suddenly need to keep my hands busy to somehow help my mind work through all my thoughts. I often knit or crochet or just stroke my dog's fluffy tummy. Throughout the day, we turn … Continue reading These are my hands
Today I'm working from Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones (1986) and thinking about the power of individual words. There's a lot of chatter in primary education about 'wow words' and 'powerful words', but what on earth does that actually mean? It's easy to make your writing sound like it's swallowed a thesaurus; what's more … Continue reading The power of words
Let’s collect words today. When we begin our Writing Club, we always think of words. Sometimes we each write them down in a list. Sometimes we keep one or two in our head. Then we share our words, one each around the circle. You can collect words in your head, in a list in your … Continue reading Words
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