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Days of the Week & Basic Hiragana
Today Sam and I started working on days of the week in Japanese. We even made sound file (WMA) of the English days of the week song using the Japanese words. It takes the equivalent of 2 verses to get all the syllables in but it works… kinda. I’m desperately searching for ways to jump [...]
Posted in Games, Homeschooling, Japanese
Games on the cheap
I’ve bearching for some frugal ways to augment our history lessons by playing games that people would have played then. I found some great resources: Egyptian Life: an online Senet game http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/activity/main.html Nine Man Morris: printable game board http://www.themathlab.com/games/Nine%20Man%20Morris/nineman.htm Royal Game of UR: freeware version to play on your computer http://www.xmission.com/~psneeley/Shareware/ur.htm Bryanna’s Treasure Box: inexpensive [...]
Posted in Games, Homeschooling