Pronoun Worksheet

I've been using Shurley English for years and found the pronoun chants a little confusing (since they all sound exactly the same). I created the first chart to help with a little distinction visually. The charts are not set up in the same order as the chants, but they are set-up according to a regular verb conjugation in any other language. There are three pronoun charts on one page: "7 Subject Pronouns," "7 Possessive Pronouns," and "7 Object Pronouns." The students can fill these in for a grade, or fill them in as reference before a test.

Now that we're well into our first year of Latin (using "Latin for Children: Primer A" by Larsen & Perrin), I've adapted the chart to include the noun cases from Latin. I truly believe one learns more about the English language while studying foreign languages than one ever does in English class.

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So, if you're studying Latin (or Greek), this chart will help you explain the concepts of Genitive, Dative, Accusative and Ablative to your children while reinforcing the Shurley English chants & labels. Enjoy!

With Parts of Speech & Noun Case Labels:


Without Labels:


Completed:

Resource-full Sites!

Forsyth County Online Resoures
www.forsyth.cc/Library/online_resources.aspx

Linoit! (Online Post-it Notes)
www.linoit.com

Modern Monasticism

St. Anthony's Egyptian Coptic Monastery at Coma, Egypt.

I'm teaching the history of the Middle Ages this year, and some of our first lessons are about monasteries. I thought it might be interesting to visit a modern monastery, if there were one nearby. You can click this link for a List of American Monasteries. Once you're on the page, the quickest way to locate a monastery in your area is to search for your state on the page (ctrl+F). You can then copy the name of the monastery and paste it into a google search. This will generate links to the monastery's web site. From there you can learn about visitor's hours, dress codes, and behavioral guidelines.

Here are links to a couple of the monasteries I found in North Carolina:

1. Protection of the Theotokos Monastery (Weaverville, North Carolina)
2. Panagia Prousiotissa Greek Orthodox Monastery (Troy, North Carolina)

Digestive System Online Resources

 When I was searching for resources to help review the digestive system with my favorite (and only) student, I discovered some pretty cool tools! Watch the video first, and then let your child play the online game as a review. The game actually has more detailed information than the video, but the video provides a firm foundation from which to launch the fun.

VIDEO: Science on the Brain: How Does Your Body Digest Food?

Here's a quick, visually-engaging lesson using common household props to explain how the body digests food. While this is more like an overview of the digestive system, it will keep a child's attention until the end. Children will love learning where "farts" come from, and I'm pretty sure they will enjoy timing the digestive experiment (with corn) he suggests at the end.

ONLINE GAME: Interactive Human - Digestion Interactive Game for Kids

This is a great online resource for teaching your child about digestion of a variety of foods. Not only is the game interactive, it is also rich with vocabulary words and fantastic animation to illustrate the information which is given in bite-sized chunks so as not to overwhelm the child. (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun!)

A Beginner Blog from a Lifetime Learner

I'm not really sure where this blog will go, or if anyone in the world will ever view it, but I'm committing myself to posting links to the "cool tools" I find online (or create myself) to help make the lives of us teachers a little easier. Lately, I've been learning a lot about Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. After listening to a mini-lecture by Dr. Karen Newtzie and Harriet Dawson from Rappahannock Community College entitled, "Using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy to Improve Instruction," I created the following PDF document for my own reference. The chart is based on one of the slides in the lecture, and I added a few notes as to how this chart can be used in lesson planning. I hope you like it. 

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Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Grid