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"Mama, I want to write a story!" four-year-old said.
"Well, that's a novel idea," Mama said with a smile.
"What's that mean?" four-year-old asked.
"It means I think you can do it, even if you can't write all of your letters yet," Mama answered.
"I can write my name, so it's going to be a story about me, and that's all the letters I have to know!" four-year-old exclaimed.
"That's using your noggin," Mama told four-year-old, while getting out paper and pencil and crayons.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Novel.
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Gosia, of Looking for Identity, has taken over Good Fences, and it's now Good Fences Around The World. Post a picture of a fence or gate, link back to her blog, and go visit other blogs to see what interesting fences there are out in this big world.
In contrast to the green privacy fence, this metal fence lets everyone know what the yard is like:
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Today is:
Bird Day and Arbor Day -- California, US (on Luther Burbank's birth anniversary)
Celebrate Your Name Week -- Thursday: Name Tag Day, celebrating those silly tags that say, "Hello, My Name is Illegible"!
Crufts Dog Show -- Birmingham, England (the World's Greatest Dog Show; Best in Show here is the most prestigious award in the world of dogs; through Sunday)
Get Grandma to Write Down Her Meatloaf Recipe -- or spaghetti, or pound cake, or whatever she specialized in, because if you don't, you will someday regret it
Impeachment of March Goblins -- Fairy Calendar
Masaryk Day -- Czech Republic; Slovakia (birth anniversary of Tomas Masaryk, politician, sociologist, philosopher, and advocate of Czechoslovakian independence)
National Be Heard Day -- originally a day for small businesses to speak up, but the website promoting the materials is no longer working
National Cereal Day
National Crown Roast of Pork Day
Nones of March -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances
Festival of Junonalia -- for Juno
Festival for Vedovus -- god of the dead, swamps, and volcanic movements
Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show and Rodeo -- Mercedes, TX, US (through the 17th)
Rockhound Roundup Gem and Mineral Show -- Deming, NM, US (through Sunday)
Say Hello Day -- Bell recieved a patent for the telephone this day in 1876 (although he always believed it should be answered by saying, "Ahoy!" Yes, really.)
St. Felicity's and St. Perpetua's Day (Patrons of cattle, martyrs; Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, Spain)
Teacher's Day -- Albania
University Mental Health and Wellbeing Day -- UK (to focus on ensuring the positive wellbeing of people with mental health difficulties)
World Book Day -- UK and Ireland (most other countries celebrate this on April 23; more information is here)
Birthdays Today:
Jenna Fischer, 1974
Denyce Graves, 1974
Rachel Weisz, 1971
Taylor Dayne, 1962
Ivan Lendl, 1960
Rik Mayall, 1958
Bryan Cranston, 1956
Franco Harris, 1950
John Heard, 1946
Peter Wolf, 1946
Michael Eisner, 1942
Tammy Faye Bakker, 1942
Daniel J. Travanti, 1940
Janet Guthrie, 1938
Willard Herman Scott, 1934
Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, 1930
Maurice Ravel, 1875
Piet Mondriaan, 1875
Luther Burbank, 1849
John Herschel, 1792
Stephen Hopkins, 1707
Rob Roy MacGregor, 1671
Henry Purcell, 1659
Kano Tanju, 1602
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Nashville Network(TV network), 1983
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"(Musical), 1967
"The Autumn Garden"(Play), 1951
"The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel"(Operetta), 1896
Today in History:
Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire, 321
King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope; Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church, 1530
Massachusetts enacts the first bicameral legislature in the colonies, 1664
The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic, 1798
Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand, 1827
Charles Miller patents the first US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes, 1854
The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil was founded, 1886
Roald Amundsen announces that, on Dec. 14, 1911, his expedition had reached the South Pole, 1912
An 8.0 earthquake strikes Tango, Japan, 1927
Bloody Sunday: Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma, 1965
Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor, 1986
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use, 1994
British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected, 2007
The largest solar flare in five years, occurring March 6, 2012, nears the Earth, threatening to disrupt airline flights, GPS systems and power grids, 2012
The UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing, 2013
Malta's famous landmark the Azure Window collaspes into the sea after a storm, 2017
Sweet child! I sense a writer in this!
ReplyDeleteBig thing starts with a small dream.
ReplyDeleteNice take! We both saw children in this cue. Fun Six!
ReplyDeleteActually, I would suggest getting Grandma to make her meatloaf (or nissu, Jz sighs) while you observe - and WRITE DOWN THE MEASUREMENTS.
ReplyDeleteAt least, that was my frustrations with Grandma's recipes.
She wrote the ingredients down... what more do you need?
*headbang*
Great story, of course he can do it!
ReplyDeleteI convinced the parents of the 5yo I watch to get her Word for her ipad. It's been amazing watching her comprehension and writing skills improve. When she is out of youtube kids time and wants to write like her big sister, I don't feel bad letting her type out a story on Word. (Though I dislike when she uses Siri. That's not really writing.)
ReplyDeleteOut of the mouths of babes... Good six. And Lord Snowden, what a piece of work. Couldn't keep that one to six sentences if ya tried!
ReplyDeleteI'll enjoy that story. Should be easy to read even for me. LOL See ya Mimi.
ReplyDeleteCruisin Paul
if only! lol
ReplyDeleteFour year olds can do most anything and mom is right to let them. I'll be happy to read all about this four year olds life.
ReplyDeleteFences make for good neighbors.
Have a fabulous day, my friend. ♥
Famous novelist in the making?😉 Time will tell!
ReplyDeleteHere, here! to National cereal Day!!
That was a fun story :)
ReplyDeleteYou nailed that wonderful childish confidence. The best is making the little one read aloud his/her story. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteMaybe a short story.
ReplyDeletewow fence with American soul
ReplyDeleteLove it! I can do that, too! Kristi Kristi Kristi Kristi Kristi Kristi Kristi :-)
ReplyDeleteI love it. I remember being four and how empowered I was when my mother taught me to spell my name. You present an empowered and powerful four year old in your six sentence story.
ReplyDeleteI love it. I remember being four and how empowered I was when my mother taught me to spell my name. You present an empowered and powerful four year old in your six sentence story.
ReplyDeleteI should start answering the phone with "Ahoy!" It should startle the telemarketers.
ReplyDeleteThat big fence certainly means "Keep Out"! Have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteCute 6 sentence story and neat fence photo ~
ReplyDeleteHappy Day to you,
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