The subject refers to how Chickie feels about her Language Arts class this year. She loves her teacher (so far), and is sailing right through (so far). She's always been stronger in that class, but it's not hard to understand once you know her love of reading and anything to do with it. The child reads anything from cereal boxes to encyclopaedias. Right now, she's really into an author named Sarah Dessen. She's already read 2 of her books. Right now, it's "Keeping the Moon." She has a requirement to read 2 hours a week and she's usually met it by Tuesday. Ok, so that's one class I don't have to worry about.
So, she is working on her grammar workbook today, and starts to test me. People, do you know how long it has been since I have studied sentence structure? You could probably write what I remember on the head of a stick pin. Here are some examples of questions:
- Underline the possessive or demonstrative adjective in each sentence below, and circle the noun it modifies.
- Fill in the blank below with the appropriate possessive or demonstrative adjective.
- In each of the following sentences, a possessive adjective is underlined. Write the underlined word in the first column, then find the noun it modifies, and its antecedent, and put them in the second and third columns
- Underline the interrogative or indefinite adjective in each sentence below, and circle the noun it modifies. Then write whether the pronoun is indefinite or interrogative.
- Underline the the word "which, what or whose" in each of the sentences. If the word is used as a pronoun, write pronoun in the blank. If it is used as an adjective, write the noun it modifies.
Oh SH**! I failed miserably. But people, I am the Algebra Goddess. She had a word problem that she needed to put into an algebraic equation and I was all over it. At least I know I can rock on when it comes to Algebra. Actually, she was pretty close and I had to clear some cobwebs out (I had to try it a couple of times) before I figured out what she was doing wrong. That felt really good because people, she HIGH FIVED me! And when a 12 year old hive fives you, you are hot spit! Well I am as long as I don't give her a kiss and a hug in front of her friends.
As for Science, I'm just praying that she doesn't ask me to help with anything that has to do with dissection. On another note, did you know that her teacher feeds the snakes that are in aquariums in his class LIVE MICE? The kids love to watch it, and Chickie thinks it's cool.
Personally, I think I'll just pass anything Science related over to Dad.
Comments
*blinks* huh!, yeah, sure, no heck please NO sentence structure I have enough trouble spelling words semi correctly and put them in a coherent sentence let alone anything like that box. I could probably do it with my eyes shut ignore the actual question and take the sentences apart by word type maybe I don't know. Science leave that to dad that sounds like a plan as for the live mice well they are old enough to see that sort of thing and live mice gives the snake something to do rather than just sit there and wait for new food to be dropped in and know it won't move.
Posted by: Gopher at August 21, 2007 4:41 PM
