Polish Lesson 2 - Days of the week

Well, here is something interesting. The origin of the names of the days of the week in Polish calendar is different than in the English calendar. Where as the days of the week in English are based around Roman and Norse Gods, in Polish they generally signify the position of the day (its numeral value) in the calendar.. which makes a bunch more sense. (like third day, Middle day of week etc)

Poniedzialek (Monday) - po niedzieli means "after Sunday" 

Wtorek (Tuesday) - wtory means "the second" 

Środa (Wednesday) - w środku means "in the middle" (of the week) 

Czwartek (Thursday) - czwarty means "the fourth"

Piątek (Friday) - piaty means "the fifth"

Sobota (Saturday) - Sabbath it originates from Jewish Sabbath

Niedziela (Sunday) - nie dzialać means "do not work" or "not a working day" since Sunday was a day when people generally do not do any physical work.

I found a site that has an audio - to help prompt me with the sounds here 

Polish Lesson 1 - Numbers

Given I am encouraging ( making) the kids blog their language lessons ( I have 12 set language lessons for all the languages we have been using while we are in Europe - Spanish, German, French, Italian) I will follow suit and use that format, but also add in any other things I am learning along the way.

I have to say, this is an arduous task and I really need to change my attitude towards my ability to learn it. I'm blogging my lessons as a reminder to myself as much as a check up.

Lesson 1 looks at numbers.

I'm all for using technology - especially apps on the phone and youtube to gather as much information and assistance with things like language skills.  The accent and pronunciation is really getting me.

I found a great resource here which plays an audio on the numbers when you press it. 

1. JEDEN [ yeden]
2. DWA [dva]
3. TRZY [ tshi]
4. CZTERY [chiteri]
5. PIĘĆ [piench]
6. SZEŚĆ [sheshch]
7. SIEDEM [shedem]
8. OSIEM [oshem]
9. DZIEWIĘĆ [dchieviench]
10. DZIESIĘĆ [dshieshiench]

The sounds are a challenge for me.. practice practice I guess

Bare foot walk park at Wambacher Mühle in Schlangenbad

Bare Feet Parks.. We really need to get some of these in Australia. I can think of a dozen groups of people who would immedialty benefit from an hour of wandering and exploring these sensory spaces.

This one is a small one compared to the ones in have heard about in Germany.  In anycase - Morgan and Lilly enjoyed the time to take their shoes off and balance, jump, climb and explore the space. 

There was a millpond which hosts a number of hand hydraulic water pumps - obviously set up for children to experiment and explore the different systems. Of course we did an impromptu science lesson in this and will research further when we get home for homeschooling..

After a few days of being cooped up in the apartment just doing homeschooling, ti was a welcome retreat to get some fresh air and grass underfoot.