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Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 2, 2012
We are doing lots of spelling review over the holidays just to keep things fresh. Today and tomorrow I’ll share some of the spelling things we’re doing to keep things fresh. Every now and then we pull out our spelling word sorts. LD goes over the rules he has learned for spelling. DD is just now becoming familiar with the rules. We use these to supplement the wonderful program we...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 9, 2011
DD just finished up a lesson on plurals in her spelling program (we use All About Spelling which we love, love, love!). I saw this game over at First Grade and Fabulous which has the kids decide whether to add an -s or an -es. We played over and over. It was absolutely perfect timing for us, plus it’s really cute! Thank you so much, Deanne!
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we started using First Language Lessons. DD really, really loves the memory work. So much so, that we’ve added in some other poems from this poetry book to the left. It has cute, short poems just perfect in length and in subject matter for DD. She really likes the Ladybug by Joan Walsh Anglund and memorized it within a day or so:...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Reading
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 16, 2011
We are using the Five in a Row book list to add some spice to our children’s literature readings this summer and into the fall. We bought two of the FIAR curriculum guides (for vol. 2 and 3) and will use the other two lists as a reference to bring great books into the house. We also will be going through the children’s literature author’s list suggested by Lucy Calkins...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 9, 2011 · Last modified December 29, 2014
The kids are working on the different forms of to, too, two. Here’s a quick exercise I made for them. You can print this out here: to, too, two practice worksheets You can also find a free file folder game called “to,too,two much glue” at File Folder Fun which practices these same skills.
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 6, 2011
A few weeks ago we started using First Language Lessons. The kids — and DD (age 5) in particular — are enjoying it. We’ve memorized three poems and are enjoying the leisurely introduction to common and proper nouns. This curriculum suits us at this point. The lessons are in small bits (we spent about 10 minutes, but often do more than one lesson) and most importantly DD enjoys them a...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified February 24, 2016
The main focus of our language arts is always reading — both independently and aloud together. I really feel there’s no better way to increase your vocabulary, learn about the eloquence of language. We talk about what we read, we memorize poetry and all that. But since we have some standardized testing coming up, we’re doing some more formal language arts review (thus all the worksheets). A quick, straightforward sheet...
LD has been reviewing his punctuation and capitalization rules this past week or so. Here’s a new sheet he did about our family holiday a year or so ago (or go to my downloads page). The playground we went to was amazing!! The kids still talk about this playground. You probably won’t care that much about LD’s worksheet, but I bet some will be amazed by this public playground! I’ll...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Reading
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 18, 2011
I’ve made a few worksheets to go with our language and spelling lessons, but only just started writing them on google docs. I’ll post them in my Free Downloads area if anyone is ever interested. They’re plain old worksheets, but this seems to work really well for my son to help review language rules with an absolute minimum of writing (which we do in other areas of our homeschool day)....
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