Dissecting Sentences and Random Pictures

Last night Brenna got her "Silly Sentences" game out and played with it for a long time. It's a cool game that teaches nouns, verbs, prepositions, articles and adjectives. She's had it for a while and usually she'll just use all the words and see what kind of weird non-sense sentence she can make and that's pretty much it. Something along the lines of, "A green cow jumped over the spotty banana." :) You should see her laugh! It's great. I've never tried to actually teach her the parts of a sentence using it before. We have been getting into Mad Libs recently though so she has already learned what a noun, verb and adjective is using the stories.

So last night I decided to get on the floor and play with her. As I was making my sentences I started nonchalantly mentioning articles and prepositions to see if she would be interested at all. I would say things like, "Hmm, I need an article to start my sentence. Oh, here's one!!" It kinda peaked her interest a little and she asked questions and we made a little game out of it. We spent about 30 minutes dissecting sentences and then trying to make sentences better by adding more descriptive words. I also held up words and asked her what kind it was. I was so proud of her.

Apparently 30 minutes is about all she can take though (see picture below!).

"ENOUGH MOM!! No more articles and verbs and nouns!!!" LOL

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Here's a couple more pictures that Brenna wanted me to put on here. One is of a mermaid that she drew and the other of her ironing. I was ironing Brendon's shirts one night and she wanted to do it soooo bad. With a little help she completed one shirt by herself. She was very proud and made Brendon wear her shirt the next day. :)