I am so excited, I just had to post this. Our Greek texts finally arrived in the mail. I know I’m getting ahead of myself. I had planned on telling you why we chose to teach Greek and then how we have taught it up to this point, but these books look like so much fun, I just had to share. Our children already know the Greek alphabet and they have been learning to read decode Greek, but we finally received our order from of “Hey Andrew, Teach Me Some Greek.” These workbooks are going to be fun, especially since our children are exposed to very few workbooks.
Don’t think that you can’t teach Greek. The goal of this series is to enable children to be able to read and translate the book of John. We will be incorporating our Greek vocabulary with our memorization box every morning at breakfast, so consistent review should be straight forward.
I’m only starting our fluent-chapter-book-readers in these workbooks, our beginning readers will continue to practice reading Greek before we start them in the workbooks, but they will be learning vocabulary with us, so should have a head start when they begin. I’ll let you know how it goes.
How many of you are studying Greek also? Comments and advice are welcome, as always.
I know I’ve been slower than some of you would like on adding homeschooling posts, but I am working on it, so hang in there. 
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We LOVE “Hey Andrew!” My hubby is usually shown as endorsing it on their website. He has been a greek professor.
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What did you use to teach them the greek alphabet? I am game for greek but still not optimistic. A good friend recommended this book I am reading :>) with a pretty cover of a drawing by the authors daughter and it goes on and on about teaching greek……after I recovered from the thought of teaching greek I decided to keep reading and maybe think about giving it a try. ha! Even a lady at church suggested greek over latin….latin just seems easier. I am not sure why. More suggestions on greek would be great and possibly convincing! Not that this certain book hasn’t been very convincing! :>)
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MomStarr,
I simply downloaded a page from the internet that had the Greek alphabet, the name of the letter and the sound that it made. I had the children do one letter a day. They wrote 3-4 lines of the letter and each time they wrote it they said the letter name and the sound it made out loud. If you prefer, you may simply buy some of the lower levels of “Hey Andrew”, it introduces all the letters and has work pages for reviewing. I purchased Level 2 for our 8 year old and level 3 for everyone else and even in those levels it has alphabet review.
Also we listened to the first chapter of the book of John in Greek everyday. Then moved on to the next chapter. It get the kids familiar with how Greek sounds and they are also beginning to memorize John in Greek. I think I’m going to get this into a regular post with links and all. Everything I’ve used up until the other day has been free online.
You really can do this and the rewards will be well worth it.
Heather,
Hmm, wonder who pointed us in the direction of “Hey Andrew” I missed Dan’s endorsement on the website. I need to go back and look. Thanks.
Blessings,
Kimberly
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Great post! I myself want to learn Greek…so maybe I could learn along with my kids. They attend our Christian School, but I still want to teach them some things at home – such as greek that they wouldn’t get there. I am actually a homeschool graduate myself. I never spent a day anywhere else.
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We used Hey Andrew Levels 1 and 2 and then switched to Elementary Greek by Open Texture. It is a super program. I found that it is more sequential than Hey Andrew. Unfortunately, we are midway through book 2 and I haven’t got started back with it this school year. I have no idea why! LOL
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