Grammar Workshop: Nouns that name people

Every week we do what we call a "grammar workshop" where we work together and learn different grammar rules using books and other ideas to work with the information and make sure we have it down. For example, while doing nouns one day we might identify nouns in a passage from a book and another day we might write a sentence with a noun we found in our passage and again another day we might draw a picture of the noun. Just different things. I use First Language Lessons for the grammar rules and a good order to present them in but I present the material and work with it in my own way and to fit our themes. Today we continued our discussion on nouns that name people and as an assignment we listed as many different common nouns for people that we could come up with. At first it was rather slow getting the kids to be excited about it and I had to help them by asking things like "Who helps you at the library?" Then they got to thinking and remembering that Halloween is coming up so our final list included nouns like:

vampires, witches, zombies, monsters, goblins, dryads, fairies, naiads, princesses, princes, queens, kings, and commoners

I wish I could have learned nouns like that when I went to school. Halloween nouns- I love it!