FUN AND LEARNING INTERSECT
This Thanksgiving poem, along with other poems and a video, are coming very soon.
Christmas Challenge coming next consisting of one poem a day. I already wrote with my daughters more than 20, and we are also designing free e-cards to share.
Many of the Christmas poems are already scheduled.
I am using these poems for homeschooling purposes, and we will talk about Lilli and Lizzie’s poetry and songwriting efforts soon.
Until the next Thanksgiving post,
Eve
We created a cute and fun song our of our two times memorization poem which is on our YouTube channel.
And here is the Three times son.
Note for Parents and Teachers:
Rhymes like these make learning math fun and memorable! When numbers become characters and stories, children connect with them on a deeper level. Encourage your little learners to recite the rhymes, act them out, or add their own verses to keep the learning playful and interactive. Math can be magical!
Additionally, sing it, or follow our songs and dance to them.
Multiplication Rhymes: The Three Times Table
Three times zero equals zero
Zero is the superhero.
Three times one equals three
Three likes to drink tea.
Three times two equals six
Six brings the honey to mix.
Three times three equals nine
Nine has a fun time.
Three times four equals twelve
Twelve likes to help his friend elves.
Three times five equals fifteen
“Between you and me,” said Twelve,
“I think the coolest is Fifteen.”
Three times six equals eighteen
Eighteen likes to dance and to be silly!
Three times seven equals twenty-one
Twenty-one wears a cool man bun.
Three times eight equals twenty-four
Twenty-four likes to travel and explore.
Three times nine equals twenty-seven
Twenty-seven bakes pies in the oven.
Three times ten equals thirty
Thirty likes to start his day bright and early.
Follow for the next poem/ songs.
I am putting these in a document as well and we will create videos about it.
This practice has already helped my kids memorize some multiplication. The asked for more.
Also coming up: Children’s poetry.
Eve
Did you know that rhyming aids memorization? I came up with this fun way to study multiplication with my daughters. It was so fun and effective that they asked for more.
Multiplication Memorization.
Two Times Table
2×0=0
𝒁𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐.
2×1=2
𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅.
2×2=4
𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔.
2×3=6
𝑺𝒊𝒙 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒇𝒊𝒙.
2×4=8
𝑬𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒌𝒂𝒕𝒆.
2×5=10
𝑻𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒏.
2×6=12
𝑻𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒍𝒇.
2×7=14
𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆.
2×8=16
𝑺𝒊𝒙𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒖𝒛 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏.
2×9=18
𝑬𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏.
2×10=20
𝑻𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚.
Eve Sanchez
Lilli & Lizzie H.
Created in collaboration with Lilli and Lizzie.
They created most of the lines, practiced rhyming, and practiced multiplication in a stress free manner.
If you need help teaching multiplication, follow us for more stress free learning.
Eve
Dear reader,
I am an Italian language student and though I love it, I learn for free. Once I know enough and want to learn more, I’d consider buying books or investing into it.
Today I will share with you several resources that I personally use. I have used every one of these and learned from all of these resources.
I changed my phone language to Italian and learned from that.
I don’t enjoy Italian on Duolingo and prefer their Latin course and music and podcasts for learning Italian.
However, Duolingo is an excellent resource and I have learned the best sentence structure using Duolingo. I have not paid them for a subscription and I finished the Latin course in less than two months.
The only negative thing is their lessons are basic and they do not have a level 2.
Duolingo is better with friends. Let us connect and I will cheer you on.
This podcast is for people who love Italian. I enjoy it very much and I have both learned Italian and it’s culturally rich.
This podcast is perfect because the guy speaks slowly and very clearly, he references other languages I know such as Spanish, English, Latin, and others I don’t know such as French.
Listening is great for training the ear, even better if you know some Spanish. Watching is great because there are English subtitles.
This is my favorite way to learn Italian. I love their music. I already listened to Italian singers as a kid in Spanish, so it was easy to fall in love with the old songs in Italian.
Listening to music led to karaoke and then I learned a lot.
I have a board for Italian learning on Pinterest full of resources. Follow below
If you have any great, free resources for learning Italian, please share in the comments.
Come back next month for more Italian and language learning tips and tricks.
Thank you for reading,
Eve
Dear reader,
I didn’t want to share my Athena paper doll because the fashion illustration was historically inaccurate. It was silly, so here it is in its imperfect glory.
Minerva was Athena in Rome
Atenea is Spanish
Atena in Italian
Since Athena’s name is extremely ancient, the sound of the letter Eta (uppercase Η, lowercase η) has changed in the thousands of years of Athena’s reach. This is why she has been Athena, Athene. I have to look more into this because I also saw her name spelled with an Alpha at the end, which corresponds to our modern Athena.
Now that I have shown you my defective work, I will have to finish it. I have a second page where I stopped. It has a shield and another dress that also made me feel I had done a poor job.
The ancient Greeks didn’t have sewing machines. They used fabrics and tied them into dresses.
Even in Rome, dresses called Stolas in Latin (the equivalent of togas for males) were very large tied fabrics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_in_ancient_Greece
The reason why my design is wrong is that it doesn’t look tied, which should give a very pleated look that fell very close to the body.
I tried, but I created a modern look, which is alright, but I will try my hand at this again.
I will perfect this design, and we will talk more about ancient Greek clothing. The next paper doll will be better, I promise.
Of course, you can print this one and use it in your homeschooling practice.
With Love,
Eve
Dear reader,
I didn’t want to share my Athena paper doll because the fashion illustration was historically inaccurate. It was silly, so here it is in its imperfect glory.
Now that I have shown you my defective work, I will have to finish it. I have a second page where I stopped. It has a shield and another dress.
The ancient Greeks didn’t have sewing machines. They used fabrics and tied them into dresses.
Even in Rome, dresses, called Stolas in Latin, were very large tied fabrics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_in_ancient_Greece
The reason why my design is wrong is that it doesn’t look tied, which should give a very pleated look that fell very close to the body.
I tried, but I created a modern look, which is alright, but I will try my hand at this again.
I will perfect this design, and we will talk more about ancient Greek clothing. The next paper doll will be better, I promise.
Of course, you can print this one and use it in your homeschooling practice.
With Love,
Eve
We loved learning about Athena, and we drew lots of Athena images. I did not share with you, my Athena paper doll. I have a bad excuse. It was imperfect… I get it, it is not a good trait to teach my daughters, to be a perfectionist, so, I will show you on my next post. I will re-create my Athena paper doll until it is perfect. Those are opposing statements, but I will show you the imperfect job, then I will recreate and perfect.
But this is not about me, or my perfectionism.
This is about Lilli.
I sent Lilli to the computer to work on her Duolingo lesson. But I got distracted by a funny picture of one of the Duolingo characters “dressed” as the Venus of Boticelli. I had been meaning to show Lilli because of how funny it looks and the fact that Lilli knows about Venus and that painting (I am a bit obsessed with the goddess).
Since we learned about Athena, the next goddess we were going to learn about was Aphrodite. Of course, Venus is the Roman name for Aphrodite. Lilli likes Aphrodite even more than Athena, she said. I realized that we must not forget Artemis….
I started with Athena on purpose. I intended to initiate the ancient goddess club with the wise one. Obviously.
About Lilli’s Boticelli inspired Venus:
I was making fun of this hilarious Venus inspired character when I started talking to Lilli of the famous painting which she already knows and considers sus(picious), because, well, Venus is undressed in the painting and covering up with her fabulous hair, just like this hilarious character is covering up with his beard.
The painting is of her birth. According to myth, she was born fully grown like Athena, with one difference, Athena was born in full armor, Venus, was born fully grown and without clothes. Int he very gorgeous Boticelli painting, Venus is being offered a gorgeous cloth to cover herself up.
Between one joke and the next, we were looking up the famous Boticelli picture. We saw that there were countless pictures of it for sale and Lilli was amazed at how expensive they were, and I told her that is really nothing for a copy of one of the most famous paintings in the world. One of the most reproduced paintings ever.
I realized that the original painting is so old that it precedes copyright laws and thus it is completely free to be copied and used in any way and even to sell. I immediately told Lilli that she should draw her, not thinking anything of it. I opened Duolingo and went to work with Lizzie on her story, I will write about that story as soon as she is ready, but it is a marvelous project.
While I was sitting with Lizzie at her computer, Lilli calls me, and she shows me this incredible Venus art! I was speechless.
Lilli dressed her Venus! That was sweet. Something about her wearing rags, though, she said since the Greeks tied their clothes. But I am not certain why she dressed Venus in rags but for a child, it is much better than in her birth suit. So, I take her creativity, and I loved it.
I am simply in love with that hair, and you bet I will spend the better of the next 5 years drawing my Venus of Boticelli. That was a joke….
Take advantage and learn some art history through the links below:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Birth-of-Venus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli Learn everything about Boticelli, the painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus Learn everything about the painting.
(How are the kids’ language learning going? Lizzie did her first ever Duolingo class today, that was a huge success, and she noticed what she didn’t know, of course, but I noticed how much she actually knew. Perspectives.). Lilli and Vivi both do Duolingo Spanish. I have to remind them, but they understand so much. I am getting Alex (4) to understand what it means that other language Spanish, huh, he doesn’t fully get it yet, but he likes papas fritas (fried potatoes)….
Meanwhile, I am learning three languages. I will have to go back to the drawing board with my initiative for teaching the children languages. However, the children have learned Spanish, they simply are not language “nerds” like me. The thing is I love language learning. They love art and games. To me language is art and fun.
NOTE: I used the word nerd full of love and with no judgement. I think language nerds are some of the coolest people ever. Perspectives.
Let us talk again soon,
Eve
I am a language student and I want to offer you some tips that work for me.
I call my way of language learning Emotional Learning. When I engage emotionally with a language, I learn it faster and stress free.
Emotional Learning is engaging with material in the new language in an emotional way with poetry, music, and literature. It is fun and entertaining. This is not the boring learning at school.
The goal of emotional learning is to have fun and to really enjoy each interaction. For example, if I love magazines and start getting magazines in Italian, I’d enjoy and learn. Or if I was a fan of comics and started getting comics in some other language, I’d expect every new issue, and I would enjoy it so much.
1. Use fun literature for reading in your target language. I use poetry because it is short, beautiful, and rhyming aids memorization.
2. Listen to music on your target language. I love Italian music, and most of my Italian interactions are with their awesome music. Choose your favorite songs and karaoke! It will be awful at first, but you will be so proud when you learn a little bit of the song, but most importantly, you will learn a bunch of words and phrases.
3. Use free and easy to use apps and tools. I use Duolingo every day. I also use Spotify to listen to Italian music. I listen to Italian and Latin podcasts on YouTube. I gave collections of language learning graphics on Pinterest and more. I follow people who speak languages I want to learn on X. This is easy free learning.
4. Write by hand on the new language. Handwriting aids in memorization. Create flash cards and flip through them for study. Create art or a meme. I wrote an Italian poem, and it helped me learn.
5. Teach someone. When you teach yo in learn twice.
6. Change your phone’s language. I learned so much Italian from doing this.
7. Change your passwords to a powerful phrase in the target language.
If you study Spanish, consider my Spanish with poetry lesson Rima y Ritmo
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Follow my language learning blog posts on my Creative Children blog.
Eve
I changed my phone’s language to Italian for free and stress free language learning.
I had doubts, and in my worst nightmare, I saw myself lost and not being able to understand or change my GPS. Actually, I could get lost if the GPS gives me directions in Italian, so I have to test it and change it to English prior to use because driving is no joke.
I have been doing this for two days and it has been a great success and worth the slight discomfort.
Words I learned from changing the language on my phone:
I changed my password to another language.
Do karaoke in my target language
Write in my target language then use AI to review your accuracy
Have set up passwords in languages I study
Jokes using vocabulary from language class
If you speak Spanish and need to learn English, join me on Sundays for the free English class courtesy of Family Help.
If you are learning Spanish:
What non ordinary language learning tips do you have?
Eve
I changed my phone’s language to Italian for free and stress free language learning.
I had doubts, and in my worst nightmare, I saw myself lost and not being able to understand or change my GPS. Actually, I could get lost if the GPS gives me directions in Italian, so I have to test it and change it to English prior to use because driving is no joke.
I have been doing this for two days and it has been a great success and worth the slight discomfort.
Words I learned from changing the language on my phone:
I changed my password to another language.
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