Art of Ancient Greece...Pots

Look at what the kids of the North County Greek Language School of Sts. Constantine and Helen, located in San Diego County, California created a few weeks ago! Thank you Andreas for sharing this wonderful art activity on the art of ancient Greece!

Letter blocks

O.K.... how cool is this?! Anyone have some old building blocks hanging around? If not, hit those garage sales this weekend and get busy making this really fun manipulative using Greek letters instead of English. I'll be making mine this weekend for my classes.

Flashcards

I found this great site that generates flashcards on a variety of topics. These can be used in many ways in class and at home. Take a look at esl-kids.com, created by a man who teaches English as a second language in Japan. He offers so much on his site that can be used in our classrooms!

Great new Kindergarten Resource

This past week, The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese held its biennial Clergy-Laity Congress in Atlanta, Georgia. The Clergy-Laity Congress is a great opportunity for Greek Orthodox Clergy, Laity and Hierarchs from throughout the United States to gather and discuss pertinent issues regarding the Archdiocese and its various departments (National Ministries, Communications, Religious Education, Greek Education etc).

My husband came home tonight with the greatest gift ever... this book (yes, he thinks I'm strange too, but he does indulge my weakness for books!) I spent the evening looking at it and have so many ideas for the next school year.

The book is broken down into 52 chapters with 52 themes. Although it is a translation from what I am assuming to be an English language book (the author is Barbara Backer), it has been well done. Just look at this song that is in the book under the chapter regarding oral hygiene:

Τραγουδήστε το παρακάτω τραγούδι στο

ρυθμό του ¨Ήτανε μια φρεγάτα, παιδιά¨

Τα δόντια μην ξεχάσεις ποτέ,

τα δόντια μην ξεχάσεις.

Βούρτσιζε τα καλά,

για να λαμποκοπάνε.

Βούρτσιζε τα,

για να 'ναι καθαρά.

Τα δόνιτα μην ξεχάσεις ποτέ,

τα δόντια μην ξεχάσεις.

Πλένε τα καλά,

ποτέ να μην πονάνε.

Πλένε τα, να ΄ναι πάντα γερά.

Loosely translated:

Don't ever forget your teeth,

don't forget your teeth.

Brush them well

so they shine

so they're clean.

Don't ever forget your teeth

don't forget your teeth.

Brush them well,

so they never ache.

Brush them well, so they are always healthy.

For the melody of the song visit the Bizeli.gr site

(look on the left had side, go down to Μπιζέλι Radio

and click the song that says Η Φρεγάτα in the yellow box.)

You can purchase the book from the Orthodox Marketplace website here.

Greek Bingo Cards

Image from bingocardscreator.com

Visit Bingo Cards Creator to make
Greek Alphabet bingo cards.

This great site allows you to make boards for
upper and lower case Greek letters.

A fun variation of bingo that can be played at home or in class. Templates can be found at the Prasini Priza website.

Lots of reading going on around here!

we love this book series!

Eugenios Trivizas.... need I say more?! We have passages of his books memorized around here! We laugh out loud just looking at these fantastic books.


We have read this award winning book so many times, the binding is coming apart.



Look what happens when you take the TV and put it in the garage. I love the house without that constant background noise of Spongebob and Elmo. So peaceful and relaxing.


Happy Reading