May 1, 2013

• Count with Me!

  This year, we added… a lot of stuff to our schooling.  One of the things we are doing is learning to count to ten in a different language, every month.  It’s one of my New Year’s resolutions, if you remember: to be able to count to ten in ten languages.  But then I thought that if we did one a month, I’d meet AND exceed my goal, AND the kids would learn too!

  So I made a flip-book of the different languages.  We’re not learning to read the words in their own languages, or to write the numbers the way they do… we’re JUST learning to count in that language.  The flipbook is done phonetically, to that end.  And honestly, that in itself is a challenge.  How many can you count to ten in?

  So far, we’ve done:

  (English) – Spanish – French – German – Sign –
  Hebrew – Roman Numeral - Japanese – Russian

    We say the numbers everyday over lunch, and review every few days the other numbers… I’ll call out ‘Hebrew!’ and they’ll give me the numbers.  Or I’ll shout out ‘Uno!’ and they’ll take off with the other numbers.  And we watch a few YouTubes, the first and last weeks of the month, to be sure we’re pronouncing it correctly.

  Yet to go in our flipbook are:

  Chinese – Norwegian – Italian – Arabic

  Dutch – Greek – Hellenistic

  So far?  The kids are LOVING it.  Today being May first, I think we’re going to start on Dutch, since it’s Tulip Time here in Michigan.  It seems to fit, don’t you think?  I was thinking of adding the flipbook to ‘Keep and Share’… putting it up here.  We shall see…

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