That much I understand, but his homework paper asks him to underline the noun in the sentence and finish it with an "exact noun", but some of those blanks don't call for a proper noun. For example:
The campers build a ____________________
The boys carry the ___________________
Now, the logical answers to those (to me) would be "fire" and "wood", but are those considered "exact nouns"???
ditto to above
with excellent example here:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_exact_noun
Isn't it funny how things are different then when we were in school? Never heard of such things! We go through that stuff too....thank goodness I have an 11 year old short of genius son! (He had to help my 18 year old balance his checkbook!)
I learn so much through my 10 year old! I swear I didn't do half the stuff he did when I was in school. And here is the sad part - at 32 I am back in college and when I do my Algebra homework, he looks and says....I know how to do that! ACK! Makes me feel really stupid! So glad he is getting a great education, though, I thank God for great teachers!
Thanks everyone for your time and responses.
Again, his paper wasn't calling for proper nouns, ie names, places, etc., that's why I was confused as to what the heck it wanted, but Doug's second post pretty much cleared things up for us. I hope. We'll see when the grade comes home.
So today my first graders hw was to identify the "telling word" in each sentence. I was a 1st grade teacher about 7 years ago and I have never heard about "telling nouns!" The sentences were Zack slides and Zack runs and I missed you mom. Seriously, Wth?!? I actually called another mom in the class and after conferring with her 2nd grader we decided the "telling word" meant tell what he was doing. I mean seriously - why not call it the action word or something?!
Okay, thanks for letting me rant 
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