Caterpillar Name Tags

A very cute craft that will help your child learn how to spell his name in Greek.

You will need card paper in different colours cut in circles for the caterpillar's body (as many as the letters which spell your child's name) and another one shaped like the caterpillar's head. You can then get your child to draw the caterpillar's face and the letters which spell her name on each of the coloured circles. When all the letters are ready you can glue the circles together to form the caterpillar! Alternatively you could pin them together and your little caterpillar would wiggle!

Here are some of ours:

 

 

our caterpillars

Greek4Kids in action!

Greek4Kids has started lessons! They take place on Friday afternoons. Hope to see you there!

We had a wonderful Open Day on the 30th of September.

Here is what we have been up to:

 

Our classroom

You can find Greek4Kids on Friday afternoons at The Foundation of Cultural Creativity for Children and Young People who have kindly offered to host our weekly sessions. Thank you so much for everything!

Our activities

In our classroom we read stories

we sing songs

we do crafts

and play games

We have a great time learning Greek! Come by and join the fun!

Our resources

The Early Learning Center is the sponsor for our arts and crafts activities! Thank you for the lovely, child friendly arts and crafts materials!

Our photos

All those amazing photos were taken on Greek4Kids Open Day by my lovely friend Vanja. You can find her blogging and taking gorgeous photos at her blog - Emma's Lunch. Many many thanks! They are perfect!

 

Thanks to all for being there! It was a great day! 

Open Day!

Greek4Kids is having an Open Day session

this Friday 30th September

from 3pm to 5pm!

Visit our classroom at the  

Foundation of Cultural Creativity for Children and Young People

Have lots of fun 

painting, singing, listening to stories and playing fun games 

 with other kids 

while practicing your Greek! :)

Parents are welcome to stay and play with the children, 

meet and chat with the teacher (miss Eri).

See you all there!

This is the way!

Another song to sing along with your child! You can use this song when she brushes her teeth, when she combs her hair, when he gets dressed to go to school or washes his face in the morning.

A lovely song about daily routines that can be sung to the tune of "This is the way...".

Click here to download the printable to laminate or even add it to a booklet where you would keep all the songs for your little one to sing!

Greek4Kids Registration Day!

Greek4Kids Registration Day!

When? Friday 23/09/2011, from 3pm to 4 pm

Where? At the Foundation of Cultural Creativity for Children and Young People, 81-83 St.Lazarus str., 6020 Larnaca

Come to meet the teacher, have a look at Greek4Kids classroom and enroll your child!

More on the numbers

This is a lovely activity and it will get your child hooked on the numbers! Cut out the numbers (symbols and words) and then stick them on the wall at an appropriate level for your child to be able to reach them and pick them up. Shuffle them around and then help your child put them back in the right order and match the symbol with the correct word!

At the beginning you can use the colour matching version (click here for symbols and words). This way your child will practice the numbers and the respective words for them by matching the colours. Later or for children who can already recognise the words you could use the B&W version (click here for symbols and words).

Alternatively you could play this game on the floor or even take it with you when you go out for more fun learning!

Five Little Ducks - Τα 5 παπάκια

This is a lovely song to practice the numbers. It is called "5 παπάκια". You sing it to the tune of the nursery rhyme 5 little ducks. 

 Use the printable to laminate it or print it on a card paper and hold it for your child to look at it while you are doing the singing. It is a very cute song and you can do some lovely crafts to accompany your singing too!

My dear friend Vanja has a lovely blog called Emma's Lunch, full of craft and other child-friendly activities! Great inspiration! Here is an easy tutorial on how to make a very cute chick that you could use to make your own little family of Mummy Duck and Ducklings. Make sure you search through her blog for more fun, adorable, child-friendly activities and ideas!