Monday, March 18, 2013

What You Will

About 45 minutes after we put the kids to bed, we heard a funny noise from their room. Turns out, the Girl was still awake, and the noise we heard was a sheet of paper being ripped out of a spiral notebook. She was awake, with a booklight, writing a play.

She will be unbearably tired tomorrow, but I must admit that I am excited by how engaged she was in her writing process. I went in to kiss her goodnight (again), and she told me that she wants to videotape the play and that she thinks I would be perfect for the parts of Mom 1 and Mom 2.

One of the weekly activity centers in her class has been "reader's theater," and I can tell that she has internalized (at least to some extent) the dramatic format.

I just finished prepping Twelfth Night for tomorrow, so her playwrighting (not a word?) makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

3 comments:

This Ro(a)mantic Life said...

Awwww :). The idea of the Girl and her notebook warms my creative-writer's heart. I've totally been there with a bedside lamp instead of the booklight.

Fie upon this quiet life! said...

That is awesome. I have dreams of my kids being little writers. :)

Anonymous said...

I'm sure you'll be a shoo-in for those parts!