Teaching Children Grammar

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Hello! 

Today, I am sharing some wonderful ways to teach your children grammar! 

There has been some discussion recently about how to teach a young child grammar and if it makes sense to do so. As usual, there are different schools of thought, buy I know that my children enjoy it.  My 6 year old loves to diagram sentences.  We are currently using First Language Lessons Book 4 and she  clearly states that this is her favorite subject.  Sadly, this is the last book in the series.  We started using this series when she was about 4 years old and we have enjoyed it a lot.  First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind: Level 1 (Second Edition) (First Language Lessons) It is very easy to use and teaches the parts of speech among other things. The lessons are completely scripted, so all you have to do is read the lesson to your child.  It makes no difference if you remember grammar at all.  It doesn't get much easier than that.

A game that all of my children have enjoyed is Madlibs.  If you are not familiar with Madlibs let me tell you what they are.  They are stories in which some of the words are left out. These words can be nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.  The child is asked to provide words for the parts of speech that are missing.  This generally results in a silly or absurd story, which they just delight in hearing, and leaves them begging to do another page.  Everyone likes to learn when learning is this much fun.  Check out some of the Madlibs at Amazon. Super Silly Mad Libs Junior.

My last recommendation for teaching grammar to young children would be to read to them 
Parts-of-Speech Tales: A Motivating Collection of Super-Funny Storybooks That Teach the Eight Parts of Speech or the delightful Grammar-Land (Yesterday's Classics).  I would start with Grammar Land before the Parts-of-Speech Tales.  I have used all of these products and I really like them all.  I am definitely partial to storybooks and Grammar Land is written is such a lovely way.  It would certainly be at the top of my list because reading together is such a wonderful experience between parent and child.  Once my child had an understanding of the parts of speech I would play Madlibs and have fun with that.

I hope you realize that it is really easy to teach your child all about grammar and have fun while doing so, and no experience is required.  If you have some resources to recommend, please comment below.

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Brillkids Product Reviews!

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Hello!

This post today is going to focus on  the wonderful products that Brillkids creates. They have produced Little Reader, Little Math, and Little Musician.

I have been using Little Musician with all of my kids. My 17, 16, 14, 12, 9, and 6 year old. Even though Little Musician is meant and designed for toddlers, as I said, I have been using it with all of my children and each one enjoys doing it. Some of the clips in the program are meant for young children. In each lesson they use animated babies in diapers. :) When some of my older kids saw this, they cracked up! My children even though they all know how to play guitar, don't know how to read music. This program has given them a little boost in learning. 

We try to do Little Musician every day. It doesn't always happen, but when we do it consistently, we find ourselves getting the review sections correct. It is like that with everything, the more you practice or do something, the more you excel!

Little Musician

My video review for Little Musician!

The next product is Little Reader! I used this with my youngest - Gabriella. Honestly, I didn't use it very much with her because she already knew how to read.  It is another GREAT product for toddlers or young children! From what I did use, I would highly recommend. The program teaches short, easy words at first, and then as you further in the program, it begins to use longer words. Also, it teaches phonetic sounds. Little Reader is a curriculum to learn English, but if you already own this program, you can download the French curriculum and the Chinese curriculum. I am so eager for them to release the Spanish curriculum!!!

Brillkids - Little Reader

Next! Little Math is deigned for toddlers to learn quantity recognition, counting, subtraction, addition, multiplication, etc... I also didn't use this product very much with my youngest. She is very good at math already. In that case, I didn't need to use it. For babies, toddlers, and young children who need to practice, learn, and review their facts, I recommend it to you! It repeats the review many times, thus causing your child to repeat and remember. :) It is a great program, as are all of Brillkids products. 

Brillkids - Little Math

You can read some great reviews for the Brillkids products here: http://www.teachingmytoddlers.com/

A review for Little Math: http://www.raisingprincessy.com/brillkids-little-math-review/

Have a wonderful day!

May God bless you...

Krista

Book Review - Chameleon, Chameleon

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I recently checked the book Chameleon, Chameleon out from the library.  This book has stunningly beautiful pictures in it.  I just marveled over our great God who created this magnificent creature.  My daughter and I read this book several times and really enjoyed it. We enjoyed the narrative and we really liked the pictures.  This is a marvelous book and I highly recommend it to all kids who have any interest in learning more about chameleons.  There is another book by this same author called Red-eyed Tree Frog (Scholastic Bookshelf)  I plan to locate this book right now to read with my children.

God Bless,

Krista!