Linking Verbs

Just a post to prove that sometimes our projects actually teach something. Actually, they always teach something...just not always what I planned on them teaching, which I suppose is the case with a lot of things. You've just got to roll with the punches.

We have been studying the parts of speech for about a year now (yes, even in the summer, because short lessons year-round are better for us than marathon length ones for nine months out of the year), and have decided to move into more complex parts. So, rather than just verbs, we've been discussing state of being verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs. These photos are from our exploration of how linking verbs can fit nouns and pronouns with adjectives. It helps that the subjects (of the photos) were extremely cute. Case in point:

There's a "the" on there before "bird", you just can't see it.
Sometimes, as I said above, lessons get a little out of hand. Our links became handcuffs for our stuffed animals. I'm not quite sure what they did wrong, but this one looks especially guilty.