MOHeather
02-20-2009, 01:19 AM
I have a great story to share. My oldest son is eight and receives speech services once a week at our local ps. Usually my younger son, who is six, and I sit in the teacher's lounge right by the speech room and do a lesson while we wait.
Well, today I didn't have anything ready, so we went down to the library and asked if we could read books for a half an hour. The librarian said it was fine, though she would be teaching a group of third graders a lesson and it would be pretty noisy.
The lesson consisted of basic dictionary skills. The kind of thing my boys just know due to our frequent use of reference materials. At one point, the teacher asked if they knew what the small "v" meant next to the word in the dictionary. My son whispered to me "verb". I nodded my head in approval. The teacher then started to tell them what parts of speech are. She acknowledged that she didn't expect anyone to know parts of speech, since they only were in third grade. She asked if anyone in the class knew what a verb was. No one voluntered an answer. My son leaned into my ear and whispered again, "an action word telling what a noun is doing".
I was so proud of him. More than anything, he was proud of himself. He couldn't believe that as a first grader, he could answer a question in an older class. We got in the car and he said, "Those third graders must not be doing Growing with Grammar 3 times a week like we do." :lol:
Thanks for listening!
Heather
Well, today I didn't have anything ready, so we went down to the library and asked if we could read books for a half an hour. The librarian said it was fine, though she would be teaching a group of third graders a lesson and it would be pretty noisy.
The lesson consisted of basic dictionary skills. The kind of thing my boys just know due to our frequent use of reference materials. At one point, the teacher asked if they knew what the small "v" meant next to the word in the dictionary. My son whispered to me "verb". I nodded my head in approval. The teacher then started to tell them what parts of speech are. She acknowledged that she didn't expect anyone to know parts of speech, since they only were in third grade. She asked if anyone in the class knew what a verb was. No one voluntered an answer. My son leaned into my ear and whispered again, "an action word telling what a noun is doing".
I was so proud of him. More than anything, he was proud of himself. He couldn't believe that as a first grader, he could answer a question in an older class. We got in the car and he said, "Those third graders must not be doing Growing with Grammar 3 times a week like we do." :lol:
Thanks for listening!
Heather