I love it when I can find a good resource for informal learning. I found a SlimeKids website that offers several games to help your child practice grammar. These games tend to be best for kids who have studied some grammar already which would make them more appropriate for grades…
As eclectic homeschoolers, it is common for me to take bits and pieces of one thing and combine it with something else to create something that better suits my child. So this year when we started running into issues with a curriculum, I took a step back and looked at…
When my son was in second grade, I discovered some living grammar books at my local library. As a first grader he was introduced to grammatical terms through Mad Libs which was very much enjoyed. These books were an excellent tool that allowed me to further introduce him to…
What do you get when you combine potty humor with grammar? You get some pretty strange and interesting stories like this one: Nothing ever goes my way on my messy birthday. This year for my birthday party, we were supposed to go mining at the pool. But it rained cats…
Teaching grammar visually to visual-spatial learners can make the learning process a bit easier. I had been working on a difficult grammatical concept with my visual-spatial learner in our foreign language curriculum recently and he wasn’t really connecting with the concept. When I pulled out the cuisenaire rods and used…
We are using Michael Clay Thompson’s Language Arts Island Level this year. My son had his first writing assignment today. He was given a list of words containing different parts of speech and had to create a story based on the first sentence. His chosen words were: The (adj) fat…
I am using Bob Jones English 3 with my oldest son this year. Bob Jones English covers grammar and writing. I really love the thoroughness of the grammar, but we are on the second unit of writing right now and I’m not loving the writing section. Neither does my son.…
