When my children were learning parts of speech, I created a fun game called Silly Sentences that was fairly popular for a time. Then it fell into obscurity, like so many things do, and sat in a plastic bin in our storeroom for the last 20 years.
In an effort to prune through our stuff, I came across the game bin and decided it was time to open it up and get rid of things. There were a lot of homemade games in that bin that I’d forgotten about – games that the kids made when we were all enthusiastic about the idea. It was fun looking through them all. The kids probably don’t want to see those again, but I set them aside for them anyway.
But now that I’m looking at Silly Sentences, I’m not sure if I can throw it away after all. You always started with a noun and as you went along the board, you collected the other parts of speech. When you came to one of the “Silly Sentence” markers, you had to put a sentence together with what you had. There were also options to add in a rhyme or a simile if you already had a verb. Then you’d start all over again with a new noun. You might end up with more than one of each card for your sentence.
So, randomly picking the top cards from each set, I’ll give an example:
Noun: teddy bear
Verb: Fly
Adjective: Weird
Adverb: Slowly
The weird teddy bear flew slowly over the field.
The weird teddy bear flew
While the wind slowly blew
The weird teddy bear flew as slowly as a drifting feather.
This just might be too fun to throw away. I wonder if my husband would consider playing it with me?
This weird teddy blog will slowly fly away in the morning.
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