Skyler the Journalist

Sky took paper, stapled some sheets together and started to draw. He asked me how to spell some words: earthquake, house, police. When he was done writing something on each page he said, "here", and handed it to me. The first page had a small rectangle with a stick figure holding a bat in it. Skyler had written "A bas bol plar ws plaen basbol ahe mst the bol". Each page has a different story with a little picture. The next page is about a star exploding, then page three is "a man dug in hole. a house got built" (he asked me how to spell some of those words). The other pages are about a man catching a baseball, a bad guy broke into a house, there was an earthquake, a tree 'foldaon', the police help a girl... all with a cute picture and spelled as it sounds.

I asked him why he was drawing such scary things and he said "it's the news, this is my magazine". Matt and I said "no more news in the background around him!" But then we took it as an opportunity to talk about scary things that he hears or sees. Some of his news was good, and as Skyler pointed out "some things just happen, like trees falling down in the wind. That's not bad!" I'm going to save his magazine forever :)