This class is intended for students in the third and fourth grades and is designed to provide a complete background in English grammar skills. It will cover 9 main categories of grammar skills: sentences, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, punctuation, and capitalization. This class will provide a great way to supplement your homeschool or traditional classroom curriculum. Students will learn best if they come prepared to participate in the variety of activities designed to introduce a skill, practice the skill, and apply the skill learned in the lesson. These classes will cycle after 26 weeks.


Week of November 7th

Topic: Sentences
Class 1/Sentence Types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory) 
Class 2/Subjects and Predicates (complete, simple)   

Week of November 14th 

Topic: Subjects and Predicates                                                                 
Class 1/Compound Subjects and Predicates
Class 2/Compound Sentences/Run-on Sentences 

Week of November 21st
Topic: Direct Objects and Subject Complements
Class 1/Direct Objects
Class 2/Subject Complements

Week of November 28th
Topic: What is a Noun                                 
Class 1/Common and Proper Nouns
Class 2/Singular and Plural Nouns (spelling rules)

Week of December 5th
Topic: Irregular and possessive Nouns
Class 1/Irregular Plurals
Class 2/Possessive Nouns

Week of December 12th
Topic: Collective Nouns, Nouns as Subjects, Direct Objects and Subject Complements
 Class 1/Collective Nouns and Nouns as Subjects
 Class 2/Nouns as Direct Objects and Subject Complements

Week of January 2nd
Topic: Words Used as Nouns and Verbs
Class 1/Words Used as Nouns and Verbs
Class 2/Noun Review

Week of January 9th
Topic:  Personal Pronouns 
Class 1/Personal Pronouns 
Class 2/1st, 2nd, 3rd Person Pronouns and Singular or Plural Pronouns

Week of January 16th
Topic: Subject and Object Pronouns 
Class 1/Subject Pronouns
Class 2/Object Pronouns

Week of January 23rd
Topic: Possessive Pronouns, Possessive Adjectives. and Antecedents
Class 1/Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
Class 2/ Pronouns and Antecedents

Week of February 6th
Topic:  Using I, Me, We, and Us/Contractions with Pronouns
Class 1/Using I, Me, We, and Us Correctly
Class 2/ Contractions with Pronouns 

Week of February 13th
Topic: Adjectives
Class 1/Descriptive Adjectives
Class 2/Proper Adjectives

Week of February 20th
Topic: Articles and Demonstrative Adjectives
Class 1/ Articles
Class 2/Demonstrative Adjectives

Week of February 27th
Topic: Adjectives 
Class 1 /Adjectives of Quantity
Class 2/Linking Verbs and Adjectives as Subject Complements

Week of March 6th
Topic: Comparative Adjectives
Class 1/Comparative Adjectives
Class 2/More, Most, Fewer, Fewest, Less, Least

Week of March 13th
Topic: Verbs
Class 1/Action Verbs and Being Verbs
Class 2/Linking Verbs and Helping Verbs

Week of March 20th
Topic: Conjugating Verbs
Class 1/Principal Parts of Verbs
Class 2/Irregular Verbs

Week of March 27th
Topic: Simple Verb Tenses
Class 1/Simple Past, Present and Future Tenses
Class 2/Present and Past Progressive Tenses

Week of April 10th
Topic: Perfect Tenses and Verb Agreement
Class 1/Perfect Tenses
Class 2/Subject and Verb Agreement

Week of April 17th
Topic: Adverbs
Class1/Adverbs of Time and Place 
Class 2/Adverbs of Manner

Week of April 24th
Topic: Comparative Adjectives
Class 1/Comparative Adjectives
Class 2/ Good and Well; Negatives

Week of May 1st
Topic: Conjunctions
Class 1/Coordinating Conjunctions
Class 2/Adverb and Conjunction Review

Week of May 8th
Topic: Capitalization and Punctuation
Class 1/End Punctuation and Capitalization
Class 2/Titles of Publications and Personal Titles


Week of May 15th
Topic: Abbreviation and Comma Rules
Class 1/Abbreviations
Class 2/Comma Rules

Week of May 22nd
Topic: Apostrophes and Quotations
Class 1/Apostrophes and Addresses
Class 2/ Quotations

Class will recycle at this point in the schedule.