Day One Hundred Seventy-Five: Making it onto the Thankful Board

This year, we are trying to be very intentional about being thankful and filling our home with positivity. One of the things we've done is to transform our school white board into a Thankful Board. Anything may be written on the board by any person as long as it is positive and reflects a spirit of thankfulness. Being a stay-at-home mom/homeschool teacher can sometimes feel like a very thankless job, so I was thrilled to see that I made the board! I do know my family appreciates me, but it's nice to see it in writing. Plus, you know you're doing something right when you see your name sitting there next to "croty" (karate)! 😀

So much to be thankful for!

Day One Hundred Ten: Mad Lib

Today, in my Essentials class, I used a Mad Lib that I wrote myself to review some of the concepts we've been working on this semester. I have never written a Mad Lib before, and it was fun but harder than I thought it would be. As with all Mad Libs, it was so silly when we filled in the blanks, and we had lots of laughs.

Day Eighty-Four: Expletives

One of Weston's (and my) favorite things to do in Grammar class is to "stump the teacher" by coming up with the wackiest, most verbose sentences he can think of and then have me parse and diagram them. Sometimes he'll have a very wordy, but not overly complicated, sentence that I can work through quickly, and this is disappointing to him because "there were so many words." But sometimes, he comes up with a doozy, and I truly have to work my tail off and employ all kinds of online and offline resources to figure it out. And this is, of course, thrilling for him. Today, he really gave me a challenging one, and I had to search around for quite a while to figure out one part of it. When I finally found the answer, I had to do a double take because the thing was called an expletive. I have seen countless sentences with these so-called expletives but, until today, never knew what they were called or how to diagram them. It was an exciting discovery! So, the next time English Grammar makes you want to use a four-letter word, you'll know that expletives are indeed acceptable.  😉

*Explanation of expletives from Grammar Revolution*