Writing basics

For the next visitation, I think I want to tell 2 things to our children.

As for the first point, as I can find a lot in children’s letters, topics are mixed up in one letter.

For example, Hello, I am in the 4th grade in such and such primary school.  How is the weather in your country, hot or cold?  I got the 1st place in my class.  I like a math class.  It’s the dry season now in Cambodia.

But it shall be neater as a composition to put sentences of the same kind of topics together.  The 4th grade, which is about a school grade, the 1st place, which is about a school record, and a math, which is about a school subject are all information regarding a school.  So put them together.  The sentences, “how is the weather in your country” and “it’s the dry season now” are both information about the weather, and so put them together.

For a practice for children to categorize topics, I think I make a composition with 8-10 sentences of various topics.

As for the 2nd point, a basic form of a sentence consists of 5w1H: who, what, when, where, why, and how.  I’ll ask children to make sentences along with this basic pattern.  For example as one of our staffs to be a model, children can describe him or her, what kind of person is doing what in what way at which time at what place for what reason.