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EXPLORING WITH JOURNALS.

Ideas for journal themes and prompts to lead your children to green, exciting pastures in their imaginations.....

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Writing prompts from photos: free ebook to follow from linky

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Brian Fox Ellis is a gifted storyteller, poet, artist, and raconteur who draws on traditions in American history to bring nature to life and cultivate love. He is currently working on a documentary about John James Audobon, and you can watch him in character here. Brian blogs about everything from his latest publications to his love for the most recent Green Day album, no subject is too off-kilter for his narrative tapestry.

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Journal prompt about plant life cycles.

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What does Walt Whitman mean in this quote?

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Max immediately identified with Durand's painting which shows fellow Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant in the Catskills. He noticed the stick and conjectured that the two men were having a lively conversation. So he devoted a journal entry to sharing the conversation between these two kindred spirits.

It brings to mind images of a project I did with Kindergarten children on the idea of seeing. I asked, How do we see? Do we see with more than our eyes? What does “seeing” look like?

This is not the happiest beginning to our An Art Work A Day series, but the painting stirred something profound in my soul and it seemed a wonderful vehicle for discussing how children are affected by divorce. Though I love my stepmother, I remember vividly feeling despondent and despairing at my father's wedding.

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Carla Gibson Did you paint this, @alina coryell?

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alina coryell I wish Carla. John Kelly, a family friend, painted it.

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Carla Gibson It's beautiful, and I remember feeling the same way. (But I was forced to wear a pink cowgirl outfit). :P

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alina coryell It's complicated. I love the new people in my life, but there is something so backwards about a little girl preparing her father for HIs wedding...

deeply true

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♥ i absolutely LOVE this.

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Roundabouts are all the rage in Romania. Share the wiki with your child (it's pretty hefty) and encourage them to journal about roundabouts.

Make a chance collage inspired by Jean Arp.

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An Emerson-inspired journal prompt.

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Journal theme with gnome.

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Today's journal theme. Max had fun with this one...

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