Discoveries made by children about their language Casa They discover a great deal of vocabulary through the ‘enrichment of vocabulary’ That they can make their thoughts, feelings and ideas visible to others with the Sand Paper Letters and Moveable Alphabets They can find out what other people are thinking with the use of the …
The Story of Communication through Signs
Setting the Scene; Remember how we talked about the creation of the Earth? And how the plants came, and frog with it’s voice, and the insects, the animals and at last, when the Earth was ready for them the Humans came. Then we had another story about the Coming of Humans, the story of the …
The Development of Written Symbols
Story Remember the Greek Alphabet, the story of the Ox and the House and how it all came down to us, eventually we were given the Sandpaper letters. When I told you the story I said that some people wrote on the barks of trees, some wrote on clay, others wrote on stone, some people …
The Story of the Families leading to the English Language
Story “Remember how we looked at how much time passed before human beings came to Earth and how they arrived when everything was ready. We think that humans spoke to each other from the beginning wonder what did they think about and what did they talk about. Perhaps they talked about the food …
Story on the Development of the English Language
Story English is an amalgamation of many languages, remember how we said there was a group of people who moved over from Russia to the west, three groups of peoples came to England an brought their language with them, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. Each group divided England into different regions, seven kingdoms …
Etymology
Etymology is the study of the origins of a particular word, it comes from Etymos (Greek) for true. Material Description: It might be found in the booklets of Nomenclature cards, dictionaries and Etymological dictionaries. Method: We give it when it is helpful to the understanding, it is an integral part of the presentation, to …
Grammar and Syntax Introduction
Why do we teach the elementary child about grammar? The aim is to enrich the child’s language, develop the art of communication and stimulate their interest. This meets the child’s needs during this sensitive period for socialisation. It helps the child become conscious of aspects of the language they already know, especially the order, structure …
Introduction to Parts of Speech
We consider nine parts of speech; noun family article adjective noun verb family Adverb verb joining words prepositions conjunctions The interjection or exclamation The pronoun In Casa the symbols are given to show the patterns in language, the words change but the patterns of the function remain the same. The symbols are …
Word Study, suffixes, prefixes and compound words and word families
Introduction This work meets the needs of the child in this plane, it is based on the natural development of children and language. Word study includes: Analysing the structure of words Analysing aspects of words which are not available to children’s senses Classifying words according to their structure Exploring the relationship between words …
The Story of the Naming Word – the noun
Story of the Naming Word Material Description: Black pyramid symbol, bible, telephone directory Method: This story is given to a small group of children, it can be told with drama. ‘Remember that we said it was so useful when the human being named the things around them in their environment. It was as though they …