Correcting the Daily Journal in Homeschooling

"Correcting the daily journal. Now, in the beginning when children start writing on their own, of course you want to encourage creativity and some people feel that correcting every little thing they do wrong is going to snub their creativity and make them frustrated. I don't think that is necessarily true, but I think in the beginning it is fun to just let them write however they write and to save the journals and they can look back on it even a year later and laugh and say look at how I use to write, that's so neat. And you can save, it so nostalgic. But at some point you want to start correcting them. As soon as they ask you, you want to give them a correction. So in this case the child wrote wun. The way it should be written phonetically but that's not the right way so. If they ask you how do I write it? You can tell them, and when you're ready to start correcting their journal, like I said you don't have to do it in the first few but, after a while you can stat correcting them. What you do is you underwrite underneath and you would write the correct way in a different color one time and praise them on all the words that they wrote correctly and then show them. Talk about why that's spelled a little differently than they thought. One time I went to the store (remember silent E and tell them about each thing) and I got a jug of milk. Almost perfect. And that's how you can correct. Now sometimes you can even have them write the whole thing over again, but that kind of ruins the fun in this case cause it's a journal. But other times when you have them practice writing and then you correct their writing, it's not a bad idea to have them say, now write this whole thing over with the corrections put in and that more reinforces in their mind the correct to write things."