We make the last big turn on the drive home and I say to my second grader, “I need help with my writing.”
She perks up, awake from humming tires and drowsy daydreams. “What do you need help with?”
“For my challenge ‘…but I turned it off…’ I don’t know what…I need a list of everything that can be turned off.”
“With a switch? Like a car or cell phone?”
“Yes, but those are boring.”
“An engine?”
“A roller coaster.”
“A boat.”
“A fish finder.”
“A bilge pump.”
“A faucet.”
“A waterfall.”
“A waterfall?” She laughs.
One hundred and five words later, we are happy.
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The “Meta” for this…but I turned it off…only negative prompts came to mind. Not what I wanted to write, so instead my pre-write activity becomes my entry. She and I should make lists more often on the way home from school.
A novel take on the prompt. Made me smile.
Apologies for the formal ‘Mrs’! I was commenting on the children’s challenge & it just carries the name forward!
This is such fun! How clever. Sometimes we make things more complicated than necessary! Thank you for joining this silliness that is 100WCGU!
BTW – you had not linked the right URL so I changed it.