A Noun Game

What do you see in this photo?  

Whatever you answered,

I am certain you didn't guess "a grammar lesson".

But that is exactly what is taking place.  

We are playing a noun game.

I merely told her nouns named things.  

Me: "Nouns are labels.  Let's label everything around us with their noun labels.  I'll go first. 'tree'."

Bear: "Root."

Me: "J-jo, can you name something?"

J-jo: "Mo-mo mo (more)." I think he just wanted me to push him more on the swing at this point.
Me: "Mmm, more isn't a noun. It doesn't name something. Name something."

J-jo: "Sing (swing)."

Me: "Good one.  Bush. Your turn Bear."

Bear: "Grass."

Well, you get the idea.  J-jo can't really name much yet.  Most of his words are sound effects.  He'll be a great cartoonist one day if this is how his vocabulary continues!  But he even seemed to get that he was supposed to say object words.

Learning can happen everywhere and anytime.  This is why when people ask if we homeschool through the summer, I always say yes.  We play outside a lot and hopefully we will be parked at the poolside most of the summer, but during those little moments, I'll squeeze in a lot of teaching.  I like to call it power-teaching. 

How do you sneak teaching into the day?