Mandylubug Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 So, I decided to let my girls sit in on our Grammar Island readings. I am attempting to go through the system as recommended by the publisher so I am not adding on anything else at the moment. I was quite nervous about the girls attention span but I honestly think they could outlast my 9 year old adhd boy, ha ha. It went really well. We stopped our readings right after the introduction of Nouns and then discussed on our own Nouns and named nouns from made up sentences outloud. It went really well and they seem to all understand the lesson thus far! Now, if we can just continue this path of understanding. I know the lessons will get to be too difficult for the girls when it comes to the writing; especially since they aren't truly reading yet but they are obviously ready for the concepts of grammar! I look forward to hearing about everyone else's first sessions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 We just finished the first chapter of SI, and since I know a bunch of us are starting with this at the same time, I thought I'd share a really fun way we did one of the Writing Activities: We each wrote 5 subjects and 5 predicates on 3x5 cards. Then, we created a bunch of fun games that involved putting them together - first randomly, without looking, and giggling at the funny combinations, then matching one group of subs & 1 group of preds, then dealing them out and seeing who could put together the most sentences (these had to make sense) using the cards she was dealt. It was really fun, and I feel like we have an extremely solid grasp of subjects & predicates now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 We just finished the first chapter of SI, and since I know a bunch of us are starting with this at the same time, I thought I'd share a really fun way we did one of the Writing Activities: We each wrote 5 subjects and 5 predicates on 3x5 cards. Then, we created a bunch of fun games that involved putting them together - first randomly, without looking, and giggling at the funny combinations, then matching one group of subs & 1 group of preds, then dealing them out and seeing who could put together the most sentences (these had to make sense) using the cards she was dealt. It was really fun, and I feel like we have an extremely solid grasp of subjects & predicates now! So are you not using Grammer Island in addition to Sentence Island? We aren't going to start Sentence Island yet but make it through the first book. However, none of mine have had much formal grammar instruction this past year being that I just couldn't find a good fit for our family! Great idea with the index cards! We will be doing something similar :) We have been naming nouns all day in discussions. They particularly found it humorous when I told them to go to their noun and clean up all the nouns ha ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 We are doing First Language Lessons and Grammar Land for grammar this year; I am planning to do the full MCT program at the Towns level next year (starting in August). I wasn't going to do the Island level at all, but a couple of people here said that Sentence Island was so wonderful we shouldn't miss it - and I'm glad I took their advice! We probably could have gotten by without it, but I can see we will really enjoy it, so I'm glad to have it. I'm trying hard to keep from buying the Town level before August . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 We are doing First Language Lessons and Grammar Land for grammar this year; I am planning to do the full MCT program at the Towns level next year (starting in August). I wasn't going to do the Island level at all, but a couple of people here said that Sentence Island was so wonderful we shouldn't miss it - and I'm glad I took their advice! We probably could have gotten by without it, but I can see we will really enjoy it, so I'm glad to have it. I'm trying hard to keep from buying the Town level before August . . . gotcha! That makes sense! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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