What is Experiential Learning?

Homeschoolers do this all the time. And, so do families. Experiential learning is learning through experiences rather than lecture or reading. While both lectures and reading have value, we remember most what have experienced just as we remember most how we feel. Experiential learning is about creating memorable learning experiences and positive feelings about learning that will help solidify one's pursuit of life-long learning. This blog is intended to be a free resource for teachers, families, homeschoolers and other who want to reach 5th graders through life experiences. Over the summer, I will slowly add lesson plans on the following topics: language arts, history, culture, technology, math, science, manners/etiquette, creative thinking, art, drama, and music. I invite your participation and hope that you enjoy the resources I share. Please share them freely but recognize that they are protected under a Creative Commons Copyright and please give credit where credit is due.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Creative Writing Exercises

Sometimes it is hard to get children to write, so think outside of the box:

1. Encourage them stand on their head and write (a trick that I learned from Bravewriter

2. Issue a challenge to participate in NANOWRIMO

3. Write a tweet.

4. Write in teams -- each person writes three lines and then covers up all but the last line and the general topic and then the next person does the same. Repeat until the "story" is done.

5. Use the mad-lib approach -- it makes writing fun. Do it in reverse: have your student write a story and then remove the words and let someone else fill in the blanks.

6. Put on a blindfold and dictate a story to someone else.

7. Go to p. 57, line 4 in 3 different books and create a story using the ines from all 3 books.

8. Use a picture as a story prompt.

9. Rewrite a fairy tale.

10. Rewrite a folk tale.
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