Parts of Speech

When I came into the kitchen this morning, Caleb was giving Sierra lessons on the parts of speech. He is a very strict teacher. I wish I could capture his professorial voice, but he tends to tone things down when he's being recorded. He really does explain things well, but now about an hour into lessons, I think Sierra is wilting. When she sneezed, she asked if she could get a tissue, and he told her that first she needed to finish ten more pages of Mad Libs and take a test. A minute later, she told him her sneeze was running down her face, and he still wouldn't let her get up! (I intervened on her behalf.) They've just gone head-to-head on whether princess is an adjective or noun when used to describe a lovely princess room. I finally suggested that even the public school system allows for recess and meal breaks, and so Caleb is taking his pupil down for a timed breakfast.

After a long morning of instruction

Getting started with grammar lessons