Monday, July 24, 2017

Third Grade Language Arts

Language Arts
Seneca continued to read classic fables, fairy tales, and poetry. She read passages in The Story of the World.  We did a shared reading of Who Was Charles Darwin?.
Books read by Seneca:
Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
Peter in Blueberry Land by Elsa Beskow
Pele’s New Suit by Elsa Beskow
The Salamander Room
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Bible Stories: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah’s Ark, Abraham and Isaac

Concepts of nouns, pronouns, verbs, first person/second person/third person singular and plural, direct objects, subjects, and predicates were covered.
Grammar lessons mostly correlated to the grammar lessons in Latina Christiana.

Celie and the Harvest Fiddler (short story)
Understood Betsy (213 pages)

St. George and The Dragon retold by Margaret Hodges (short story)  

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