Daily Writing Journal

I believe that it is very important for students to express their creativity and practice writing daily. One of our first homeschool projects was to create and customize a blog to be used as a daily writing journal.

Each day I give my son a writing prompt that he may use for his daily post. He also has the option to use a topic of his own instead. The daily writing prompts come from a variety of sources:

The Homeschool Learning Network, provides a daily writing prompt to members.

CanTeach has a list of writing prompts on their site.

Alternately, I may use an interesting topic from the media or our daily life.

My son's daily writing journal is called El Blogo and he really enjoys posting to it.

For those of you concerned about your child's privacy online, there is no need to include personal information on the blog, and blogs are easy for parents to monitor.

Blogger is an excellent free blogging tool from Google that is easy for anyone to setup and use. I have been creating Blogger blogs for years.