Archive for the ‘grammar’ Category

 

Mad Libs–Free App

September 7th, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk

Over the past few days the boys have been playing with the free Mad Libs app we found and downloaded on their iPad. I’m assuming most of you know how Mad Libs work—basically, they are a series of stories with blanks you fill in, often with riotous results. You begin by typing in answers to [...]

Cursive Pokemon Farts, aka the Joys of Boys and Their Writing

August 25th, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk

We’ve finished our first week of easing back into the homeschooling routine, and overall it has gone well. There have been proud moments, like when Daegan grabbed his Handwriting Without Tears book and practiced his cursive, while I was working with Gareth—something I neither assigned nor even knew about til I found this on the [...]

Silly Sentences: Subjects and Predicates

March 26th, 2010Posted by Risa Kawchuk

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 [...]