Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor.

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CYCLE 1 FINE ARTS - DRAWING - WEEKS 1-6 This PDF has everything you need for the block of Fine Arts Drawing, for CC day! Fine Arts is divided in four blocks: -Drawing -Music -Great Artists -Science For this block, each weak has a special project that also matches what its taught during cycle 1 (Ancient Civilizations). It comes with: - list of the materials you will need for each week. - instructions on the “how to” do the art project with your class. - Instructions for both, older and younger clases, and ideas on how to do art time with them. - printable sheets for the students -week 1 OiLs printable sheet Desert printable sheet - week 2 Moses “mirror image” printable sheet - week 3 Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria printable sheet - week 4 Instructions on how to do project for this week - week 5 Perspective, Old Roman Road printable sheet Perspective, page with “one dimensional shapes come to life” printable sheet No need to spend time looking for ideas to do for each week, it’s already put together!

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Life of Fred is a fictional narrative that introduces students to essential concepts in a fun and easy way. Kids really love reading the Fred books. The Language Arts Series covers concepts on spelling, grammar, punctuation and more. This series is best suited for middle school and high school students. The books can be re-read once every year to ensure total comprehension of all the concepts covered. Lessons include the seven parts of speech, punctuation, spelling, similes, silent letters, and so much more. Why these books WORK: Language Arts concepts are weaved throughout a fictional narrative about Fred, the 5-year-old math prodigy. The books read like storybooks, but have meaningful lessons embedded within the stories. Every chapter is a daily lesson that only takes about 20 to 30 minutes to read and complete. At the end of every chapter, there is an opportunity for students to practice the concepts covered during Fred’s adventure. The Language Arts Series can be re-read once a year to keep concepts fresh in students’ minds. Kids want to actually read these books - they are so fun! Take a Look Inside Life of Fred Language Arts What customers are saying about the Life of Fred Language Arts Series: "This is a wonderful series. While it is presented in a silly, quirky manner it has a good coverage of grammar, and then some. It is an engaging story that helps you relate what you are learning to 'real' life." - Educents customer "My kids love this series. We started with Elementary Math and have used Fred for our entire schooling. Hands down, the best curriculum we have found." -Christian The Life of Fred Language Arts Series includes four titles: Australia, Begin Teaching, Classes, and Dreams. Here are a few examples of the concepts covered in each book. In Life of Fred: Australia, students will learn… The difference between a hemistich and heteronym What these abbreviations mean: p.s. ps ps. and Ps. How to experience two summers and no winters each year In Life of Fred: Begin Teaching, students will learn… The uses of 12 tenses in English The 16 ways to make plurals Why “since” is a dangerous word In Life of Fred: Classes, students will learn… The six rules for hyphenating compound adjectives How the three moods in English are used The four uses of italics In Life of Fred: Dreams, students will learn… The three uses of a dash How to pronounce “viz” The difference between metaphor and metonymy Check out the Language Arts books and the entire Life of Fred collection offered at the best price on Educents! Do your kids love Life of Fred? Have you gotten the Life of Fred Language Arts for your homeschool? Get the entire collection for the best price at Educents the entire month of October! Walking in His Grace, Laurie Each week, I am blessed to be able to link-up with the following awesome blogs. While you're here at Grace-Filled-Moments, please take some time to visit my blogging friends listed below. Sunday: Raising Samuels Homeschool; Me, Coffee, and Jesus Monday: Just Another Mom, The Modest Mom, A Life in Balance Tuesday: F. Dean Hackett ~ Tell It To Me Tuesday, Time-Warp Wife Titus 2sDay, Hip Homeschool Moms Wednesday: A Little R&R, Messy Marriage, Mom's Morning Coffee, Soul Survivor, Wholehearted Home Thursday: Hearts for Home, I Choose Joy, The Evolution of Mom Friday: A Divine Encounter, Missional Women, Women Living Well, home of Good Morning Girls

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Make learning how to diagram sentences easier with this diagramming sentences cheat sheet! Learn how to use the different parts of speech and sentences.

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There are a lot of people asking me a lot of questions of what our homeschool curriculum involves. I am eager to share everything we are doing with our friends and family. Here are a few things we did last week and this week... History: Week 1: We learned about Charlemagne. My favorite coloring pages come from Google image searches and filtering for line drawings. Blaine colored these while I read about Charlemagne and practicing reciting/singing his history sentence for the week. Week 2: We learned about William the Conqueror. Blaine colored this image of William the Conqueror while I read. We also discussed feudalism and did a cut and paste activity. I can tell Blaine is definitely starting to absorb more of what I'm teaching him because last night, he jumped onto the sofa, threw all the pillows off, stomped his feet and declared that he was William the Conqueror and Vivienne was King Harold. It was basically the funniest thing ever. Geography: Week 1 - I made this "puzzle" (printable here) and laminated everything so we can reuse it. We also looked at everything on a globe and talked about how we live on the continent of North America. He really liked singing a song we downloaded from C3 and can identify all the continents and oceans! Week 2 - I made another puzzle for European bodies of water (printable here). He is doing very well with geography. He quickly (in one sitting) memorizes everything. English: Week 1 - We memorized 8 parts of speech. I made this pirate ship visual (printable here) with flaps that reveal parts of speech with a short description of their purpose. I laminated it so we can refer back to it throughout the year. Week 2 - We talked about how pronouns replace nouns, so I came up with this cut and paste activity. Blaine really seems to enjoy cut and paste activities, so we will probably be doing a lot of those. Art: Week 1 - We learned about the 5 shapes used to "build" a drawing (boy terminology). I made another cut and paste activity to categorize shapes. Week 2 - We did this mirror image exercise and took a trip to the tattoo shop to play on the big light table to create mirror images. Math: Week 1 and 2 - Skip counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s. I brought out the scissors and glue stick again with these projects. This was actually the first time I've let Blaine use scissors on his own. So far, he is ambidextrous but insists on cutting with his left hand. Maybe I should find some preschool lefty scissors if this keeps up. Science: Week 1 - Blaine memorized 7 of the world's biomes - this was one of his favorite subjects this week mostly because of a catchy song on C3. He is still asking to listen to it. I found a color by number project of North American biomes that he really enjoyed. I'm not sharing it because I really don't think it was accurate. But, at his age - I think the purpose was mostly to understand the world is made up of different biomes with various climates, animals and plants (more importantly being able to name them). And seriously - there is nothing cuter than a 4 year old saying "deciduous forest" Week 2 - We are learning herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. I made this with random clipart found online and we did some other worksheets that I downloaded from C3. He is connecting that the chicken we eat is/was an actual chicken. He did seem a little troubled by that. Latin: We are learning present tense verb conjugation endings. Nothing really fun to show along with that, but he knows it! I am starting to consider future foreign language curriculums to add on at home. Maybe in a year or 2. Suggestions welcome! Considering Spanish, French, or possibly Mandarin. That's it! Hopefully I will be posting every 2 weeks with what we are learning! Next week we start Hands On with Vivienne too!

This product is aligned to the First grade CCSS. Be sure to check out the preview! Animals- 8 animals to attach at the top of the paper a Black and white version of each animal is also included. This works well for students to work as partners or in small groups. KWL chart Students use the graphic organizer to answer the following questions: What do I already know about this animal? What do I want to know about this animal?What did I learn about this animal? (two versions included – lined or unlined) Note Sheets- Students write the name of the animal they are Writing about on top of the note sheets. There are 2 styles of note Paper. Students will be discovering and writing about what their animal looks like, where it lives and what it eats. Students are also given a spot to write an interesting fact about their animal. Staple sheets together as a packet. Final Copy Paper- 2 styles of paper provided. The 1st allows students to fill in sentence frames on final writing paper. The 2nd is for student who are ready to independently write a paragraph about their animal. Posters- A poster explaining each section of the notes. Posters are in color and titled : What does it look like including Special Features, Habitat, Diet, and

We are full into the swing of things here in Mrs. Jones’ Class! Yesterday during writing we talked about the rules and expectations of writing and we practiced some sustained writing time in our journals. Today, I wanted to kick things off with a fun lesson! I saw the book, Rocket Writes a Story, […]

112 page in-depth novel study for Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr that covers many of the common core standards for Language Arts in grade 3-5. This unit contains 112 pages and includes 4 main parts: Unit Essentials (literary posters, chapter summary cards, word wall cards, task cards, etc.) Student Workbook (Over 25 different printables) Notebook Interactives (5 different notebook interactives) Teacher Answer Key You will also receive literary posters for character traits, simile, metaphor, author's purpose, and biography genre, as well as a 6 page informational tab booklet on Japan, student bookmarks, and a complete list of common core standards that are addressed in the unit for grade 3, 4, and 5. Please open preview file to get a glimpse of all the activities. FREE set of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes task cards are included-30 cards in all with a student recording sheet and answer key. Task cards are ELA Common Core aligned. ***************************************************************************** For more comprehensive novel study units, use the links below: Year of the Panda 26 Fairmount Avenue Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Revolutionary War on Wednesday Because of Winn Dixie Hour of the Olympics Dolphin Tale Striped Ice Cream Muggie Maggie Vacation Under the Volcano Novel Study The Diving Bell Novel Study Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors ***************************************************************************** Thank you for visiting Classroom Panda-monium. Did You Know: By providing feedback, you can get TPT credits to lower your cost of future products. Just log-in and go to your "My Purchases" page. Click provide feedback button next to the item your purchased. Leave a positive feedback and receive credits for future purchases. Plus, it helps me know exactly what you like about the product. Interested in being the first to know about sales, freebies, and new products. Click the green star at the top of my page near the store logo and become a follower. You'll receive e-mail updates about this store.

Write on the board: The boy yelled “Help!” and he saw a brave dog quickly run to the rescue. 112 chart Sample sentences from below WELCOME to Essentials. 3 parts – Essentials of the English Language Math Games IEW – or Institute for Excellence in Writing Let’s open in prayer Colossians 3:17: And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Let’s study English grammar to the glory of God. Let’s go over what will be expected of you in this class: • Be open to learning • Participate in a positive and encouraging way • Take ownership and responsibility for keeping all your stuff together and bringing it each week to class. It is not your mom’s job! What do you need to bring to this class? Essentials guide Trivium tables IEW books – student and teacher When you come to class each week: • Be prompt and early. To be on time is to be late • Place IEW homework on the back table in the box • Take a dry erase board • Sit down and work on punctuation and capitalization or activity problem on the board. • Return all to the box at the end of class OK. Now that our housekeeping is out of the way, let’s get to know each other a little bit. Snowballs. Write one thing about yourself that no one here would know. Throw the snowballs at each other. Grab one; read it and try to figure out who’s it is. OK. Now that we know each other a little bit better, let’s get started. • Who has studied Grammar before? • What curriculum did you use? • What’s the last thing you remember studying? • How many parts of speech can you remember? • Noun • Verb • Pronoun • Adjective • Interjection • Conjunction • Adverb • Preposition Let’s see what you know: (write on board) The boy yelled “Help!” and he saw a brave dog quickly run to the rescue. Why does it even matter? • When people want to communicate with one another, whether it’s talking with them or writing to them, they do it with sentences. • Understanding sentences helps to get your ideas across to other people. So sentences are important! You need to know that EEL studies the English Language a bit differently than we may be used to… Let’s check it out: • EEL teaches the English Language in a similar way to building a puzzle. • We are going to spend this school year putting the “puzzle” together. Weeks 1 & 2 • The outer edges of the puzzle – An overview of the entire English language. – The “Big Picture” Week 3 and onwards • The inner pieces of the puzzle – The details of the material Most importantly, this is a three year class. If this is your first tour through Essentials, you will be overwhelmed. It will be ok. It will all start to make sense. You don’t have to know it all your first year. The English Language is actually quite concrete and fixed. It is precise, defined and specific, not vague and ambiguous (as some suspect). Like the rest of God’s creation, language has structure and order. (I believe that this is because God is the author of language, as we can read in the book of Genesis.) Because it has structure and order, it can be mastered through studying and understanding its rules and parameters. If this is the first time that you’ve opened this book, I encourage you to read through pages 9-15, 19-23. Also, if you haven’t read through this first lesson, it is a good idea to do so before teaching at home tomorrow. The big picture – sentences. (Look at the first trivium chart p. 398. And lesson one p. 25) What do we already know about sentences? • A sentence is - A group of words that express a complete thought • Each sentence must: 1. contain a subject (who or what the sentence is about) 2. contain a predicate (includes the verb, and tells what the subject is doing or being) 3. make complete sense 4. start with a capital letter 5. end with a punctuation mark We will study sentences in great detail in order to classify (categorize) them. Sentence classification is the backbone of EEL. We classify using three components: structure, purpose and pattern. - Now, just to warn you, there are 112 unique sentence classifications. It might sound daunting, but it’s really not that hard if we break it down. - Break out your trivium table – English Grammar. - There are four structures – how is the sentence built? (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex - Four purposes – the intent or function of the sentence (declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, imperative) - Finally, there are seven patterns – this is the arrangement of words in a sentence. This is possibly the most important aspect of mastering grammar. The seven patterns are: S-Vi, S-Vt-DO, S-Vl-PN, S-Vl-PA, S-Vt-IO-DO, S-Vt-DO-OCN, S-Vt-DO-OCA. - Can you figure out how we can make 112 different combinations from this chart? Let kids try to come up with a few examples Ex – Jesus wept. Jesus wept! --------changed purpose Jesus wept? (Write on board before class.) Weep. Jesus wept. Jesus wept for Mary and Martha mourned. -------------changed structure Jesus wept while Mary and Martha mourned. Jesus wept while Mary and Martha mourned, but Lazarus would live again. Jesus wept. Jesus loves me. Jesus is God. Jesus is loving. -----------------changed pattern Jesus gave me a new heart. Jesus made me his child. Jesus made me happy. One more thing – let’s break these sentences down just a little bit and talk about Subject and Predicate. Can anyone tell me ---- Subject – the part of the sentence about which something is being said. Predicate – the part of the sentence which says something about the subject. Look at a few examples - sentences already on board. (Have students mark them – one at a time) Every sentence has both a subject and a predicate. Subject may be more than one word. S P (The fat orange cat) (loves lasagna.) OK. So there is your overview of the entire English language! It might seem daunting now, but remember that this was just the forest. During the course of the year, we will be examining the trees. Also, remember that there are three tours. Don’t expect to understand it all the first year! Mastery charts - If you memorize this now, it will make the rest of the year easier - Either use the table and copy it on a separate piece of paper, or use the blank chart on page 399 (have your mom make a copy first) and fill in the blanks. - Either way, fill out the chart every day to achieve mastery. We’ll have a race next week to see who can fill it our first. - Chart B isn’t on your Trivium tablet, it’s only on page 401. This has the first 28 sentence model sentences – all the possible simple sentence purposes and patterns. Again, also copy this one from the chart on page 400 every day this week. The point of mastering these charts is that, at the end of three tours, you shouldn’t need them anymore. Editing –p. 31 If you choose to have your child edit the Bible passage provided in each lesson, use the mastery method. Don’t expect your child to correct everything that’s wrong in each passage the first week. Rather, use the Editing Rules on page 457. Teach one rule a week. The first week, only use rule #1 (capitalize the 1st word of a sentence). Week two, use rules #1 and #2 (capitalize the 1st word and use the appropriate end mark on each sentence). Week three, use rules #1 - #3, and so on. Spelling – If you wish to use this guide for spelling, memorize one spelling rule a week (p. 463) and 3 phonograms a week (p. 479). Spelling lists for each week begin on p. 467. For homework, look at the section that says, “at home”. It will tell you what to this week. Then, if you look at p. 22, it will give you a daily schedule.

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If you are a Charlotte Mason homeschooler, then chances are the words copywork and dictation have come up repeatedly in homeschool discussions. The late Charlotte Mason, an educator who inspired an entire homeschool philosophy, advocated copywork and dictation as two of the key components to educating children in language arts. But, what are copywork and dictation and how do you do if you are doing them in the correct way?