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Save the Zed

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Blogging through the Alphabet.  Ah it’s been a good 26 week run hasn’t it?  I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as Amanda and I have!   This week we celebrate the letter Z.

In case you missed any posts:

A: Sidney Altman.
B: Beavers.
C: O Canada.
D: DogSledding in Canada.
E: Edgewalk.
F: Frogs.
G: The Greats of Canada.
H: Henry Hudson.
I: Igloos and Inukshuks Work.
J: J starts with Jump Canada.
K: Karst.
L: Loonies and Twonies.
M: Maple Syrup.
N: Miss Natalie.
O: OHIP
P: Prickly Pear Cactus.
Q: Questions about Canada.
R: Raving, Rabid, Rabbits.
S: Skating.
T: Toque.
U: UFO Landing Page.
V: V, Canadian Style.
W: Winnie the Pooh.
X: Excellent Time to Celebrate Canada’s Birthday.
Y: Yukon.
Z is for Zed!

In Canada, we pronounce the letter Z as Zed.    Zed is how the British do it, so we do too.  Dating way back to the 15th century!

While British and American English have distinct vocabularies, Canadian English
vocabulary is informed by both. For the most part, however, Canadian
English follows the American influence, with Canadians preferring flashlight to torch and diaper to nappy, for example. Zed is perhaps the most iconic instance of Canadians preferring the British term to the American.  (source)

Much of our spelling is done the British way to, eh?

I have to admit to feeling a bit alarmed part way through this video… will the insidiousness of American childrens programming speak to the end of the proper way to say Z?   I really hope not.  It’s good to love our American neighbours, but also very good to be different from them as well.  🙂

Long may our ZED survive!!!!!

 

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Y is for Yukon!

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Hello!   Welcome to the second last week of Blogging through the alphabet!   Can you believe it?  Wow… it’s been a whirl wind hasn’t it?

This week Amanda and I bring you the letter Y!

Since I have been bringing you all things Canadian during this alphabetic tour, this week I’m going to talk with you about the Yukon!

Think Jack London, Call of the Wild, Snow, tundra, permafrost, Inuit, snow, sun, frontiersmen, cold winters, sled dogs and the northern lights.

Or take a photographers viewpoint:

The Yukon is located up north.
It is host to Canada’s largest mountain, Mount Logan.
AND the smallest desert in the world (yes, under all that snow is a desert) called Carcross.

It is located right next door to Alaska (the USA) and the Northwest Territories.

The population of the Yukon is 33, 897 with 2/3’s of that living in Whitehorse.  Sparsely populated, with year round snow (even if in summer it falls sparsely), interesting animals (polar bears, moose, artic fox, stone sheep etc.), hunting, fishing, a large film and tourist industry, forestry and more.  

 

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Bible study, stay at home study and play dates

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This morning I had bible study at the local Christian Reformed Church. We are going to study Colossians using the Infuse bible study. it’s available from Faith Alive resources.

Before I left I set the lad up with his bookwork with his dad.

he did Four pages in each of these books.
My heavenly Helper

The Complete book of Numbers and Counting

Complete Canadian Curriculum 1

and two pages in My Book of Numbers 1-120. It was supposed to be four pages but dad says “this book is highly repetitive and boring”. 🙂

they also went through the alphabet and did some word and number matching with some flashcards.

When I came home the lad was quite happily playing with Reflex Math. Hubby said the highest he got was 8,000 feet in the game that he particularly enjoys doing which is a good achievement for a lad just gaining confidence with his addition and subtraction abilities. Thus far I am impressed with this on-line game. Time will tell if I choose to purchase it. Checking out the pricing, for me it would be $35/year. Affordable I think. But I have one more week to play with it yet. 🙂

So we had a quick lunch and then scampered off to London for a playdate with his friend Adella from HOPE. We went to Adventures in Wonderland. They had a hoot. I got discounted tickets through WagJag.

Today… a good learning day

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Despite the “I can’t do this mommy” .. he did. 🙂 Just needed some encouragement.

Despite the “the letters are all mixed up mommy!”… he managed to sort them out. And yes, the letters are all mixed up as I have “garage sale” numbers so don’t have full sets of lower and upper cases letters so we make do with what we have. 🙂

here I asked him to match the numbers with the words and then spell them out.

He even made up a game afterwards with them where he had to practice his memory. It was interesting watching him work through it.

We finished our timeline of transportation.

I don’t recall where I found the pictures or the timeline.
We added kites, dugout canoes, and walking.
He was even able to tell his dad about the timeline abit too!

We did math. Pages 89-91 out of the complete book of numbers and counting

We did the alphabet. He knew ALL of them today! woot woot!

I will note that he stumbled on d, g, e, f today, but when he saw the picture on the
back of the card he knew them immediately.
This is a HUGE improvement over two weeks ago. 🙂

He also did a lower case alphabet dot to dot out of the My Heavenly Helper book.

We finished “It’s True, Pigs do Fly” book. It was fun. He learned a ton and asked TONS of questions. This book was written in a humourous style with fun captions of pigs doing the various things that inventors were doing throughout the history of aircraft. An enjoyable book. It did not cover every facet of airplane history, but it gave an excellent overview.

He asked if people ever made a car that can fly and we learned the answer to that is YES! It’s called the Skycar.


We did have to take a break at one point to catch these two that escaped from their lawn pen. Silly little boogers. 🙂 Just the two black ones, the broken black was good and stayed put!