School of Grammar for Grades 1 & 2

Grammar provides the building blocks for children to understand & express themselves in longer more complex ways and understand more complex ideas.  

Grammar will also compliment students' Linguistic development in other areas such as Vocabulary, Social Skills, Narrative Skills, Writing Skills, and even daily conversations.

School of Grammar is an Ongoing Class built for learners in Grades 1 - 2. 

This class will meet twice per week to EXPLORE all the various types of Grammar by Topics.

Grammar Worksheets will be provided prior to class for students to access via Outschool, during ALL Live Classes as part of the course material to enhance learning and interaction. These worksheets can double as comprehension and vocabulary exercises.

Learners are welcome to join this class or leave at any time because the lessons are not built on previous ones. 

                                                                                         GRAMMAR TOPICS 
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NOUNS 
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Week of  March 13:  Identifying Nouns: Students find and circle nouns from a worksheet list.
Week of  March 20:  Identifying Nouns in Sentences: through speaking & writing.
Week  of March  27: Using Nouns to complete short sentences: Students first identify the nouns in sample sentences, 
then write their own sentences with images again to identify the nouns

PLURAL NOUNS
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Week of  April 03: Introducing & Identifying Plural Nouns
Week of April 10:  Introducing & Identifying "Singular" & "Plural" Nouns
Week of April 17:  Learning when to add 's' or 'es' to make nouns plural
Week of April 24:  Learning about nouns ending in Y: we add 'ies' to its plural.
Week of  May 01: Learning about singular noun ending in a vowel or 'y', to add s to its plural: 'plays'.
Week of May 08:  Learn the differences between Plural Nouns & Verb
 
PROPER NOUNS
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Week of May 15: Learning the difference between Proper VS. Common Nouns
Week of May 22: Learn how to use Capital letters to Identify proper nouns
Week of May 29: Practice rewriting short sentences using capital letters for proper nouns

PRONOUNS
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Week of June 05: Learn to Identify Personal Pronouns by replacing the names of people
Week of June 12: Learn how to substitute Nouns with Pronouns
Week of June 19: Learn & Identify Possessive nouns
Week of June 26: Use possessive pronouns to complete sentences

VERBS
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Week of July 03: Learn & Identify Verbs as "action words", & complete simple sentences
Week of July 10: Identify & practice writing verbs in sentences
Week of July 17: Learn & practice matching subject-verb agreement

PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE TENSES
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Week of July 24: Discuss Verb Tense [Past, Present, or Furture]
Week of July 31: Learn verbs in past tense by adding 'ed' ("walk", "walked")
Week of August 07: Learn verbs in the present tense by adding 'ing' ("talk", "talking")
Week of August 14:  Learn the difference between present & past tense

ADJECTIVES
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Week of Aug 21: Learn & Identify Adjectives 
Week of Aug 28: Explore adjectives with similar meanings & matching respective sentences.
Week of Sept 04: Identifying comparative and superlative adjectives

OTHER PARTS OF SPEECH
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Week of Sept 11: Differences between nouns, verbs, adjectives.
Week of Sept 18: Introducing Articles: ('a', 'an', 'the')
Week of Sept 25: Learn when to use this, that, these or those

PREPOSITIONS
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Week of Oct 02: Learn & Identify Prepositions and Locations
Week of Oct 09: Preposition Games 1) matching propositions by pictures 2) complete the sentences

WRITING SENTENCES
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Week of Oct 16: Structuring full sentences from a group of words & unscrambling jumbled sentences from worksheets
Week of Oct 23: Learn full sentences vs fragments through discussions & worksheets

CAPITALIZATION
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Week of Oct 30: Discuss rules for using capital letters, including proper names, days & months
Week of Nov 06: Learn to capitalize sentences and the pronoun "I"

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 We'll continue to work on additional Grammar topics ongoingly.