Love those links!
I looooooove to interview Bugga! I've been doing it once a month for about 18 months now, with a few gaps. Of course mostly it's been really silly because she's only now 5.5 but I love to get things in her words!
I usually start by covering the basics like her favorites (song, book, movie, toy, activity, etc). I do some variation of "the stats" like,
Right Now: Five Years Old.
Listening to: Jack's Big Music Show.
Loving: Cuddles with Daddy
Saying: 100 as in "Oooh! Look there's 100 birds!" "I want to eat 100 cookies!"
Playing: with crayons, practicing her letters
Giggling: at Jake (our dog)
Friends with: Emily
I usually ask her simple questions about how she is feeling, what's happening for her (we've interviewed about school, going to school, etc), or about something she loves. For a couple GWL prompts I've asked her to talk about a loved one (we've done daddy, nana and me so far).
But it's one of my goals to get a little more organized this year with the interviews. A couple ideas I have brewing are to list things (i.e. 10 things Bugga loves on the 10th) and to ask her to share her imagination more..go beyond the biography kind of stuff I've been doing mostly so far. Like asking her: if she could be any animal what would she be? etc.
I've noticed it's really helpful to be pretty specific with my questions otherwise I end up with a lot of "I don't know". And it's kind of like simply hitting the "record" button in my mind as I have a conversation as I normally would.
