August 11, 2008 @ 6:25 am | Filed under: Family Adventures, Fun Educational Stuff, Fun Learning Stuff, Games, Language Arts
Originally published in November, 2005 as “The Purple Cow Hula-Hooped Boisterously.”
This is a game we played in the car yesterday, all the way to town and back. I assigned each of the girls a part of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb (one girl had to take two parts in each round). From there it went something like this:
Me: Miss Noun, what is it?
Beanie: A giraffe!
Me: Miss Adjective, what kind of giraffe?
Jane: A hungry giraffe.
Me: Miss Verb, what did the hungry giraffe do?
Rose: It bounced!
Me: Miss Adverb, how did the hungry giraffe bounce?
Jane: Enthusiastically!
All together: THE HUNGRY GIRAFFE BOUNCED ENTHUSIASTICALLY!
Wonderboy: Huh?
Games, grammar, parts of speech
March 10, 2008 @ 6:50 am | Filed under: Links
- DadHacker » Blog Archive » Donkey Kong and Me - Fascinating account by a game programmer at Atari in the 80s. He writes of blowing off a semester of college to code his own game, which eventually leads to his job at Atari. I was especially interested in the part about programmers putting helpful explanatory comments into the code.
- Our Hearts’ Haven: Poetry Proud - Cool news about the son of a homeschooling pal of ours. Congratulations, Matthew!
