Learning Greek With A Game And A Song

Learning a whole new alphabet may plague your children as it did mine when they were first learning Koine Greek.

We added two fun and different activities to daily Greek lessons that really helped: a puzzle game and a song.

The first is a game (the Greek Alphabet Game) that can be played with only one person or expanded to include multiple children. I found that playing this game in a group actually helped to learn the alphabet as children help each other and learning from more than one person is always good.

The second is something my children’s Aunt taught them: You sing the alphabet to the tune of the nursery rhyme “Are you sleeping, Brother John.”

Alpha (Are You) , Beta (Sleeping), Gamma (Are You), Delta (Sleeping), Epsilon (Brother John),…Epsilon (Brother John)…

and so on… working your way through the song twice will take you all the way through the Greek Alphabet.

These are wonderful aids to learning and playing games and singing songs beats flashcards and worksheets any day in our house!