Nouns! More than Just a Person, Place, or Thing

As the school year winds down, I have been going over the educational goals for my children and planning for the upcoming year. From years of teaching, I have found from experience it’s best to do this well before summer break begins, while everything is fresh in my head. I look at the thing that did (and didn’t!) work, concepts we will be working on next, and materials we may need.

Which brings me to nouns! We have a lot of grammar material, as I knew I’d need it in the upcoming years. For a bulk of our grammar work, we use traditional Montessori materials. We actually have this grammar card set from Montessori Print Shop. This option is color borders only, but there is another bundle that is solid color, which is closer to traditional Montessori grammar materials; I prefer the borders to save on ink!

All I find lacking in the traditional grammar material set is the noun exploration. There are so many types of nouns! I typically see these learned through additional grammar materials in Montessori classrooms. After the noun work is mastered from the grammar boxes, I move on to further noun work. We explore irregular plurals, masculine and feminine, and more.

Further Noun Work

With help from my older daughter, I came up with sets of cards for different types of nouns. If you need to add it to your collection, you can find it in my Teacher’s Pay Teachers shop.

This material features sets of cards for the following types of nouns:

• Irregular Singular and Plural nouns
• Common and Proper Nouns
• Concrete and Abstract Nouns
• Masculine and Feminine Nouns
• Plural Noun and Collective Nouns
• Countable and Uncountable Nouns
• Simple Nouns: Person, Place, Thing
• Animals: Animal, male, female, young

All of these materials feature cards to sort into the various categories presented. When applicable, words in each of the categories match one another- something I found lacking in other materials I looked at. For example, when children are practicing common and proper nouns, each common noun has a related proper noun. The common noun, “country,” names a particular country. For the common noun of “city,” a city is named.

I hope this material is useful for your homeschool or classroom experience! If you like it, please leave a review on the product page.