Educating Risa

I saw this fun grammar idea here a few weeks back, and we finally got around to trying it out. First, Daegan created 6 sentences which I wrote out on construction paper. I wrote the subject part of the sentences on pink paper, and the predicates on yellow. Here’s our sentences:

We talked briefly about what subjects and predicates were, and then mixed the subjects and predicates up, and put them face down into piles:

Daegan then made “silly sentences”, learning that subjects and predicates can be mixed and matched. This activity was met with lots of smiles and giggles, and even rolling on the floor at one point:

Here’s some of the silly sentences he made:

And I’d like it noted, for the record, that not one of these sentences was about dinosaurs! We’ll build on this activity in future, changing out nouns and verbs a la Mad Libs, adding in adjectives and adverbs, etc.