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ONE OF A KIND

Truth to Teach (Source)

Isaiah 43:1b ‘Fear not, I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name,
you are mine.’

Luke 18:15-17 Jesus welcomed little children to him and he knew each one by
name.

 God knows us each by our proper names.

 Proper nouns have capital letters; common nouns have small letters.

 Days and months also need capital letters

Way to Work (Means)

1. Review the previous lessons.

2. Sit the children in a circle and ask the first child to say the name of a
person, the second child a place and the third a thing. Continue in this way
around the circle.

3. Refer to the nouns hidden around the room last week and ask why some had
capital letters and some had small. Explain that there are several kinds of
nouns. Two of these are common nouns and proper nouns.

4. The children could be given a tiny piece of chocolate from an unknown bar
and a piece cut up from a named bar. Discuss the difference. (Chocolate is a
common noun but the named bar has a capital letter because it has a proper
name.)

5. Let the children suggest some other proper nouns to write on the board.

6. Make two lists, one of common nouns such as cat, dog, boy, girl, town, sweets
then let the children suggest proper names for each of these common nouns

to create a proper noun list, e.g. Whiskers, Bonzo, Tom, Linda, Witney,
Smarties.

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