Here's a simple letter-story that I mailed to my grandchild. Change it to
one of your routine activities that you would like to share with
Grandchild when next he or she visits. Add a bit of whimsy. When
your story is read aloud to him or her at home, before the visit, it adds to
the youngster's anticipation.
It is morning. I look out my window. The sun is shining. It's a good
time to take a walk. I put on my sweater, leave the house and close the
door behind me. Off I go on my walk, up one street and down another.
I come to a park. All about me are trees and shrubs and open fields. I
start across the grass. A kite is high in the sky. The kite has red and
white stripes, and looks like a bird with a wide tail.
'Who is flying this enormous kite?' I wonder.
I look about to see who is holding the string that stretches from the kite
to the ground. What a surprise! It's a black and white spotted kitten.
The kitten scampers back and forth with the kite's string gripped in its
mouth.
After watching the kitten for a while, I go along on my walk. I reach the
other side of the park and see a row of houses. One house has a
window shade raised and a flowerpot on the windowsill. The pot has a
plant with a single yellow flower growing straight up.
A boy and a girl are on the lawn in front of the house. The boy is
pushing a wheelbarrow with a yellow shovel in it. The girl is holding a
pink parasol, folded closed.
'What will you put in your wheelbarrow?' I ask the boy.
He lowers the wheelbarrow and points to a pile of sand in the driveway.
'I'm helping my Dad move that pile of sand to the back yard,' he says.
'We're filling our sandbox.'