Sticky Garden Wall

Raahub Yasar!!!

Today, the plan was to make tricky word dominos (Found here http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2013/01/sight-word-dominoes-speed-racer-game.html) , which we did, but I the wrong number of dominos and it's kept blocking the game, so we abandoned it and moved onto plan b which was much more fun. 

I got the idea from another page on the No Time For Flashcards Site (find the original post here http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2013/04/alphabet-flower-garden.html) . It's a great site with lots of simple learning activities, normally based around art and crafts. 

I call is a sticky garden, but you can create any wall mural using the same idea and I'll probably do other variations of this soon as it went down well. But you basically get sticky back plastic (also called contact paper or cover film), stick it to a plain wall with the sticky side facing outwards then let your child stick things to it. 

I cut out flower heads, stems, butterflies and circles, squares and triangles in different colours of paper, but you could let your children cut their own shapes. 

I added the grass at the bottom of the plastic to give it a garden feel :-) 

If you use a good quality paper, they can stick them, then pull them off and stick them somewhere else, just like reusable stickers. I've only just put mine up so I don't know how long it lasts, but I'll probably take it down in a few days or let them create another type of scene on it like an ocean, space or jungle. 

Here are some pictures of them sticking the pieces on then the end of the first stage. They went onto use felt tip pens to draw faces on the people and butterflies they made.

The whole activity, including getting muldud involved in helping me put the plastic up, took about an hour, 20 mins set up and 40 mins of them playing with it before they drifted off to other things, which is pretty good. 

If you do one, let me know how it goes

Hatap yasar

Mut / Leah

My Most Important Work (& My Confession)

Raahubaat Yasar!!!

I saw this on Large Families On Purpose's facebook page and couldn't agree more!  Thanks for sharing. 

Just in case you can't see the picture above, the quote reads: 

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the MOST IMPORTANT WORK"

I realized this a few months ago and it literally changed my life. I remember an old song where Paa Nabab Yaanun was talking with a sister and he was saying basically that it's our job as goddesses to raise the children. Not without the help and support of our husbands, partners or their fathers of course. 

I must admit that I've always been quite career minded and put my career goals and making money above my role as a homeschooling mother too many times than I care to mention, but I've now realized that I can, in fact, fulfill my career ambitions while being a dedicated homeschooling muldudtet. 

I have also been blessed with a very supportive and successful businessmen as a husband and a supportive family, who allow me to pursue homeschooling without fear of going without anything. 

It's not easy, quick or without pitfalls and you do need support, advice and guidance. But it is very rewarding to be able to groom and teach your own children, while watching them grow and flourish in Wu Nuwaup. 

This quote is a useful meditation of us all I feel, whether you're a homeschooling Nuwaupian yasar or not. 

Hatap Yasar

Mut Bastat En Rayay

Our Nuwaupuyee for the week - Jan 2013

Raahub yasar!!!

Thanks to recommendations from the Nuwaupian family, I've upgraded our nuwaupuyee poster so it only has the words we're learning in our script.

It's an exciting and slightly nerve wracking step as I'm not great with languages, but the Paa Taraq have given me sufficient motivation to commit to speaking and studying it daily with the children.

4 days a week, we begin Mir with dance and stretching then Nuwaupuyee which has been working well for us..

I want to say a big TAWUHAAT to the teachers of the classes on http://nuwaupic.com/ , you're all doing a really good job and I appreciate you all very much.

Also tawuhaat to the family helping out on the facebook Nuwaupic study group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/nuwaupic/ 

The words we're studying this week are from the Zaman wu Garah (Day and Night) video on Nuwaup.com found here, which are

Today - Panan Zaman
Tomorrow - Ghadad
Yesterday - Barah
Before - Baa'ad
After - Qabal
Next - Tayal
Later - Fwatur
We can - Enen Qadur
Good night - Wawad Garah  


Hatap yasar
Mut Bastat En Rayay


Paa Munzal Nathur Amun Nabab Rayay Akh Ptah Djedtwy - Hu Kawan Harar!!!

What are lapbooks?

Raahub yasar,

I first discovered lapbooks about 3 years ago and since then, we've probably made close to 50 of them on different topics.

In short, they are a folder which contains mini books, worksheets and other fun activities, all teaching different parts of one topic.

You can either buy lapbook packs where all the piece are laid out for you or you can make them yourself.

I like Hands of a child's lapbook packs and Homeschool share's. Here are their sites:
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/
http://www.handsofachild.com/

Here are some videos of other mothers showing the lapbooks they have made and a few videos showing how to make your own.  Soon I'll share some we've made.

A Plant lapbook: I have never made such an big lapbook, I was so impressed



A little boys train Lapbook - very cute


How to make a lapbook



One example of how to make mini books to put into a lapbook, there are lots of these minibooks you can use



If you decide to make one, enjoy!

Hatap yasar

Mut Bastat En Rayay

Our budding scientist at work

Raahub yasar!!!

Just as I was about to buy an elaborate jewellery box for Mut Tiy En Rayay's (7yrs old) kharadu zamam (children's day) gift, she told me she wanted a chemistry set for her birthday in March. So for her birthday we'll probably take her to a science fair and for kharadu zamam she got this chemistry lab. It's for 10 year old's and over, but she's definitely ready for it's concepts.

We've read through the safety instructions and we're doing the first experiments now, which are introducing her to soluble and insoluble substances, dissolving, solutions, solvents and solutes.

The only drawback is that we opened the kit ready to get started, only to find there's a whole shopping list of stuff you need that aren't in the kit. Many are found around your home (i.e. salt, hydrogen peroxide, ground pepper etc) but quite a few we don't have (ie white sugar, food colouring, methylated spirit etc).

What she'll learn and experience by doing the experiments is worth the extra effort of getting the additional materials and she'll be able to perform 100 experiments in total.

It might be worth finding out the additional materials your desired kit needs before you buy it so you don't get off to a false start like we did.

As she is really into science right now, I got her to do a complete write up of the experiment, complete with a materials and equipment list, an explanation of what she did and a results table, just like I remember doing in secondary school. 

It was music to my ears when she said to me the next day "Muldudtet, we didn't do any Mir work yesterday morning", so I told her the experiment was Mir work and she said "THAT was work, that's my favorite work ever"!!!

We got ours for £26 from Amazon.co.uk (click here) though I've noticed the price is currently just £19, if you want it get it while it's reduced.

Hatap yasar 

Mut Bastat En Rayay

Preschool Curriculum Guide I found

Raahub Yasar!

Years ago when I started teaching our eldest at home, I tried to find as many plans and guidelines from nurseries and preschools as I could so that I could make sure I was "in line" with what her age group would be doing at school. I care MUCH LESS about staying on track with what the kharadu would be doing at school now, but some things I found were helpful.

Here's a Preschool Curriculum guide I found somewhere online. I found it useful in some ways as there were some things I realized she couldn't do as I'd never shown her them. But there were also some things that I don't think are necessary at all, which I've highlighted below.

Preschool Curriculum Guide - Things children up to 5 yrs old should know:

Size

* Understands big and little.
* Understands long and short.
* Matches shapes or objects based on size.

Colors and Shapes

* Recognizes and names primary colors.
* Recognizes circles.
* Recognizes rectangles.
* Matches shapes or objects based on shape.
* Copies shapes.

Numbers

* Counts orally through 10.
* Counts objects in one-to-one correspondence.
* Understands empty and full.
* Understands more and less.

Reading Readiness

* Remembers objects from a given picture.
* Knows what a letter is.
* Has been read to frequently.
* Has been read to daily.
* Looks at books and magazines.
* Recognizes some nursery rhymes.
* Identifies parts of the body.
* Identifies objects that have a functional use.
* Knows common farm and zoo animals.
* Pronounces own first name.
* Pronounces own last name.
* Expresses self verbally.
* Identifies other children by name
* Tells the meaning of simple words.
* Repeats a sentence of 6-8 words.
* Completes incomplete sentence with proper word.
* Has own books.
* Understands that print carries a message.
* Pretends to read.
* Uses left-to-right progression.
* Answers questions about a short story.
* Tells the meaning of words heard in story.
* Looks at pictures and tells a story.
* Identifies own first name in manuscript.
* Prints own first name.

Position and Direction

* Understands up and down.
* Understands in and out.
* Understands front and back.
* Understands over (on) and under.
* Understands top, bottom, middle.
* Understands beside and next to.
* Understands hot and cold.
* Understands fast and slow.

Time

* Understands day and night.
* Knows age and birthday.

Listening and Sequencing

* Follows simple directions.
* Listens to a short story.
* Listens carefully.
* Recognizes common sounds.
* Repeats a sequence of sounds.
* Repeats a sequence of orally given numbers.
* Retells simple stories in sequence.

Motor Skills

* Is able to run.
* Is able to walk a straight line.
* Is able to jump.
* Is able to hop.
* Is able to alternate feet walking down stairs.
* Is able to march.
* Is able to stand on one foot for 5-10 seconds.
* Is able to walk backwards for five feet.
* Is able to throw a ball.
* Pastes objects.
* Claps hands.
* Matches simple objects.
* Touches fingers.
* Able to button a garment.
* Builds with blocks.
* Completes simple puzzles (5 pieces or less).
* Draws and colors beyond
* a simple scribble.
* Able to zip a zipper.
* Controls pencil and crayon well.
* Cuts simple shapes.
* Handles scissors well.
* Able to copy simple shapes.

Social-Emotional Development

* Can be away from parents or primary care givers for 2-3 hours without being upset.
* Takes care of toilet needs independently.
* Feels good about self.
* Is not afraid to go to school.
* Cares for own belongings.
* Knows full name.
* Dresses self.
* Knows how to use handkerchief or tissue.
* Knows own sex.
* Brushes teeth.
* Crosses residential street safely.
* Asks to go to school.
* Knows parents' names.
* Knows home address.
* Knows home phone number.
* Enters into casual conversation.
* Carries a plate of food.
* Maintains self-control.
* Gets along well with other children.
* Plays with other children.
* Recognizes authority.
* Shares with others.
* Talks easily.
* Likes teachers.
* Meets visitors without shyness.
* Puts away toys.
* Able to stay on task.
* Able to work independently.
* Helps family with chores.

I hope you find this useful and feel free to comment and let me know what you think of this list below. 

Hatap Yasar

Mut Bastat En Rayay

How to make your barbie doll's hair Afro-licious

Raahub yasar!!!

My wonderful hamat (husband) Shaep Afaf Rayay Sen Em Manthu, found this video for me when I told him I wanted to curl up the hair on a hair styling doll our daughters had been given for kharadu zamam (children's day) this year.

Here's the very simple instructional video, we'll be doing this to all our nuwaupian dolls that currently have cacasu hair and share pictures as we go!




Enjoy yasar and please share with others who could use it

Hatep

Mut Bastat En Rayay :-)

How to make a mini book

Raahub yasar

Here's a really quick video I found on how to make and little book that your kharadu can use to write a short story in or use to write out points on a particular topic you're learning about.

If you make lapbooks, you can easily stick this into your lapbook.

Enjoy



Hatap Yasar

Mut Bastat En Rayay

Oldie but goodie Primary Mathematics Workbook

Raahub yasar!

A few years ago my cousin gave me a load of old books that she used with her children when they were younger.  One of which was this text book. At the tome it was too advanced for anyone, but my 7 year old started with it s few months ago and loves many of the activities it has.

You can tell it's quite old as the pictures and prices of some food in one if the pictures reminds me of when I was little, 10p crisps and 20p coke :-)

I'm not sure if you can get them anymore, so here are a few of the pages with activities for you to use with your children.

I hope your little ones enjoy and if I find where you can get a copy I'll let you know.

Hatep yasar

Mut :-)

Where we get our books from

Raahub Yasar!!!

It's no secret that we love books!!!

Paa Naabab Yaanun instilled the importance of reading and learning in us before we had children and for many years so when we decided to teach our kharadu at home, it was a goal of mine to fill the house with books,

Even before the children came, I had always dreamed of having a room in my home which was just a study / library/ temple , which was full of books that I could go to to read uninterrupted for hours.

That dream hasn't transpired yet, but we do have a whole heap of books. This is a picture of one of the 4 book shelves in our home and we were talking about need another one soon.

Now I'm sure you already know that books can cost quite a bit, and I even heard a homeschooling mother advise AGAINST buying lots of books because of the cost.

Here are my 3 main thoughts on buying books


1)"If you think education (in the form of buying books in this case) is expensive, try ignorance"

2) 1 book, read in the right way, can teach your child about possible every subject you want to teach them and spark discussion on countless other subject too, entertaining, educating and stimulating your child for hours, which to me is priceless

3) If you see the value in books but simply don't have the finance to buy lots of brand new books, find other ways of getting them.

We have roughly 200 books ( at the last count), of them I've probably bought 30 at their full retail price.

Here are the main places  I get books for our Mir from (all books including fiction, educational, workbooks, dictionaries & encyclopedias)

1) Second hand shops - normally costing 25p - £1.99 tops for big encyclopedias, we always wipe them down before giving the children

2) Pound Shops /Dollar stores - Every few months, the pound shops or low cost stores like Poundstretcher or Wilkinson will have loads of story and educational books for £1 - £2 so we'll normally stock up on every title they have.

2) Requested as gifts - Whenever their birthday's are coming up and family ask us what they children want or need, we'll normally ask for books or clothes

3) Ebay - I discovered job lots on ebay a few years ago and bought a box of 40 books for £15. When they came, about 15 were unsuitable so we gave them away but 25 books for £15 is pretty good. I'm sure craiglist.com and gumtree.com would have these too

4) Library sales - our library has little sales where they'll sell their old books for 30-50p and we'll pick up lots of good at these

5)  Ask the ancestors - There has been the odd occasion when I've randomly asked the ancestors to help me with new ideas or resources to bulk up or add a boost to the Mir and we'll get a call from someone saying they've got a load of books etc to get rid of, so do we want to take them, or we'll go to a relative's home and they'll have a box of books and teaching stuff waiting for us. So even the ancestors can hook you up.

You can also get them in markets and car boot sales too, but I've never bought them from there personally

Our oldest will now read the Paa Taraq to us during discussion time and we'll read it to them too, so they get plenty of variety and have really grown to love books and reading.

So if you want to stock up on books but funds are tight, now you can do it for less.

I hope this helps, hatep yasar

Mut Bast.tet En Re
(Leah Salmon)

Our Nuwaupuyee of the week poster

Raahub Yasar,

To make learning new nuwaupuyee (our language) easier, the kharadu (children) and I made this little poster.

It's 4 pieces of black craft/sugar paper stuck together then decorated with ankhs. The words of the week are stuck on with tape that we carefully remove and replace with new words or sentences each week.

If you are teaching your kharadu or yourself, you may find it helpful to have something like this up so that you can see it very regularly. We have ours up in our living room, which is also the dining room and mir (school) room too, so we see it all the time. I aim to practice the words with them daily, just by getting them to look at them and we'll all say them out loud in Nuwaupuyee and english.

This picture is of last week's words, this week (commencing Mon 16th Oct 2012) our words are

Yakax - take
Safaf - see
Sawaf - look
radad - give
and the sentence - Panan zamam enen eahaw aalam nahaw... - today we will learn about ... ( I can use this every day during our mir studies several times and even get them to say it to me and let them teach me something :-)

Hatep yasar and be sure to subscribe to the blog by adding your email address in the box at the top right of the page and share with anyone you think would like it.

Mut Bast.tet En Re
(Leah Salmon)

Our Children's Daily Routine :-)

Raahub Yasar,

Sounds like my children's daily routine already!!!

Hatep Yasar, have a wonderful day

Mut 

(Leah Salmon) 

When I look in the mirror

Raahub yasar

I will admit that there are days when not a lot of 'teaching' or 'structured lessons' goes on in our mir,  but I've always made a point of filling our home with books. 

This one of the books that I've had since Mut Tiy En Re was small and it's just about got all it's pages :-) 

The front image is stunning in my humble opinion and so are many other illustrations in it, though a few of them aren't that great (i.e a little girl in an extremely short skirt, a grown mane in a belly top and a reference to thank God blah blah blah). 

Apart from those few things, it's a good book with a very positive message for our children. 

You can get it here in the UK - http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/isbn/9781881316282?cm_mmc=sws-_-sws-_-bd-_-serp&afn_sr=para&para_l=90 

Or here in the US - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-i-look-in-the-mirror-sopoeia-greywolf/1001738600 

Or try Ebay to get a cheaper second hand copy or a nubian or children's book shop. 

Hatep Yasar and remember to enter your email address above to subscribe to the blog. 

Mut Bast.tet En Re

45 Inspiring and Interesting Learning & Education Quotes

Raahub yasar,

Ok, I blatently ripped this from the Lesson Planet facebook fan page the other day!!! 

They asked people what their favorite educational quotes were and when I saw the post, 131 people had already commented,  so I wanted to share my favorite ones from among them, thanks to all the lovely people whose comments I'm sharing here.

Let me know what you think of them and feel free to share this post with any parent or anyone you think would appreciate them:

1 - I am not a teacher for the income but for the outcome. (I love this one)

2 - Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm - Joe Clark

3 - No one can be good at everything, but everyone is good at something.

4 - My education was interrupted only by my schooling- Winston Churchill

5 - The only dumb question is the one not asked. (I love this one)

6 - If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (I love this one)

7 - Do or do not, there is no try - Yoda (I love this one)

8  - When I was 5 my mum told me that happiness was the key to life, When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wrote down 'happy', They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life. (I really love this one)

9 - Those who can, teach.

10 - Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will spend it's whole life believing that it is stupid - Einstein

11 - It's easier to build strong children than it is to fix broken men - Frederick Douglass (I absolutely love this one)

12 - Students don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care - John C Maxwell (I love this one)

13 - Teaching is not a profession, it's a passion

14 - When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece - John Ruskin

15 - If you can't explain it well enough, you don't understand it well enough - Einstein

16 - Do one thing better today than you did it yesterday

17 - What we learn with pleasure we never forget

18 - The children that deserve our love the least are probably the ones who need it the most

19 -  Art leaves no child behind

20 - Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

21 - In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.

22 - Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go

23 - Intelligence plus character, That is the goal of true education - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

24 - Minds are like parachute, they only work when they're open.

25 - You only need to be one day smarter than what you are teaching (Advice from one homeschooling mother to another mother considering homeschooling)

26 - Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn - Ben Franklin

27 - What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing - Aristotle

28 - Education is the most powerful tool used to change the world - Nelson Mandela (I've always been very weary of Nelson Mandela, I feel this powerful change can be for the better or worse, the education system can indoctrinate our children so well that they literally build a docile army of drones, ready to do what they say and even defend their corrupt decisions)

29 - Be the change you hope to see (not exactly focused on education but a good quote all the same)

30 - Good, better best, never let it rest, until your good is your better and your better is your best (I love this one)

31 - Doing what is right is not always popular, doing what is popular is not always right

32 - Aspire to inspire (I love this one)

33 - It takes a village to raise a child  - (I love this one)

34 - Every child can learn, just not the same way or on the same day

35 - If you think reading is boring, your doing it wrong (I'd say that this is true of most things, you can always find a way to enjoy what you are doing and make it enjoyable for children)

36 - Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do

37 - A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after a success (I love this one)

38 - Fair and equal are not the same - I will always be fair and that won't look equal.

39 - Develop a passion for learning, if you do you will never cease to grow - Anthony D'Angelo

40 - The more you read the better you read, the better you read the more you read.

41 - The difference between try and triumph is a little "umph" - (I love this one)

42- Adults often underestimate the wisdom of children

43 - Those who teach must never cease to learn - (I love this one)

44 - The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him - Maria Montessori

45 - The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality - Maria Montessori.


Here are a few from Sayings Of Malachi Z York - Paa Nabab Yaanun

It is a wise man that learns his studies before the class commences

Teach your children they are the best and they will fit it. 

One does not learn by thinking out loud, but by listening. Now class. 

Let the children have their fun, you were once one. 

Hard work is good exercise.

The best exercise for your body is to work your mind.



Let me know which ones you like or add your own below and make sure you add your email address to the box at the top right of the page to be updated of new posts added to the blog. 

Hatep yasar (peace family) 

Mut Bast.tet En Re

Seed Dropper Home School Network Radioshow

Raahub Yasar

This show was just recommended by another inspirational homeschooling sister Khepera Ma'at on facebook who you can find at http://www.facebook.com/HolisticHomeschoolingIya . The show is almost 3hrs, but the first hours was most focused on homeschooling. It says it was a A-Z on how to start a homeschool, I think it was a bit general, but did share some good viewpoints and definitely made you realized that it is possible and important to teach our own children.

Click here to listen now on Blogtalk Radio - Seed Dropper Home School Network 09/15 by UHURU NATION X REAL TALK RADIO | Blog Talk Radio

Here are the points that struck me most from this recording:
 * Firstly, at 2hours 2mins - the brother James mentions our master teacher Paa Nabab Yaanun and how our Nuwaupian nation successfully separated ourselves from a system that didn't serve us so we could build our community together.

During the first hour in the homeschooling section they spoke about:
*  Many of us use school as daycare to get rid of our children for 8hrs a day
* The schools are really just preparing our children to enter the prison system, schools are decorated the same as prisons
* Our children are locked in the school, they can't get out and parents can't get in unless they unlock the door for us.
* One parent was told by her childs school that she had to make an appointment 24hrs before they want to visit their child at school
* Our children would be better off at home pretty much doing nothing rather than send them to school to be indoctrinated
* Black women have to lose the fear of not being able to do it because we already have everything we need to teach our children
* Black mothers need to come together so we can look after our children together
* The sisters shared what they did in their homes with their children and how to get started.
* To get started you should find out what your state requirements are (US based show by the way) to start  homeschooling.
* If the state laws don't suit your needs or they are too strict for you, get up and move to another state - we are not trees, we can move, we own the whole earth!!! (I loved this)
* The only reason they make children sit SATs is to see how indoctrinated they are, the higher the grade, the more successful the system has been at indoctrinated you.
* Teaching our children a trade is very important so that our children can come back and help build and rebuild our society - it's a shame that we can't build our own homes.
* Growing our own food and making sure our diet is right is very important to our community too.

So check it our now at - Seed Dropper Home School Network 09/15 by UHURU NATION X REAL TALK RADIO | Blog Talk Radio

Remember to subscribe to the blog in the box up on the right, take care, stay healthy and hatep yasar

Mut Bast,tet En Re

Parenting is like archery

I found this on The Busy Homeschooling Mum's facebook page the other day (http://www.facebook.com/busyhomeschoolmom) who got it from www.fiveinarow.com ,

I think this is true in many ways, but I also feel that even if you do everything to keep your child on Paa Taraq, they have a destiny, path and the ability to make decision of their own. The "worst" homes can spit out the "best" children and vice versa, if you know what I mean :-)

Hatep yasar!!!

Mut Bast.tet En Re 

(Leah Salmon)

P.S. I just joined twitter, so if you're on there, let's connect. My twitter handle is https://twitter.com/anuwaupianmir

Teach Your Children They Are The Best...

Our Nuwaupuyee for the week

Raahub yasar,

The recent update that was delivered to us last week called Nimrod (at http://wu-nuwaup.com/outformation-class/nimrod/) from Mursal.tat Nysut.tat: Nerua Nafur.tat Atum-Rayay wu Mursal Nysut: Ptah Khaf Rayay Hepet Atum Rayay (Nerua's dress was lovely by the way), focused on the importance of our language Nuwaupuyee (formerly known as Nuwaupic). - The video of the update is at the bottom of this post.

If you didn't already know, there is a whole website now with Nuwaupuyee lessons on it at http://nuwaupic.com/

We aim to speak as much nuwaupuyee as we can, but this update really did give us a wake up call as to just how important it is, so we're going to learn a few words and phrases a week ans build from there.

So last week we learnt these words:

Nawam - Sleep
Jabab - Bring
Please - Ealal
No - Nual
What - Sanas
Here - Hunanu
That - Pafaf
What is that? Sanas kawan pafaf?
What colour is that? Sanas lawun kawan pafaf?

I'm going to spend another week on these then move onto 5 new words and 2 sentences a week from next week.

We went on a family walk which lasted about an hour in total,during the walk we went through the words then did lots of practice. As we walked I'd ask them "sanas kawan pafaf? and point at different things, or I'd ask "sanas lawun kawan pafaf? and they know most of the colours in nuwaupuyee so they could answer in nuwaupyee too, which allowed us to have a little nuwaupuyee conversation as we walked.

Homeschooling and learning can happen everywhere you go :-)

Hatep yasar

Mut