Code-breaking games:
Or...make some ambigrams! Here are some examples: Ambigram Yesterday/Tomorrow True/False Happy Birthday
Can you make one of your name? Or of another word? Carmen will work with anyone who wants to figure these out!
Fingerspelling tutor - Using this website, practice fingerspelling the alphabet. Figure out how to say "Roeper" and your name.
Sign language-first 100 signs - Using this website and/or the sign language books, learn several different words for things you like.
Create a sign for your name combining the sign for something you like with the sign for the first letter in your name.
Teach a friend some words in sign language. Can you talk to each other? What do you notice?
Translate Your Name into Hieroglyphics
Cuneiform: http://www.carolineludovici.com/uploads/3/4/5/2/3452083/648394.gif?1323747129
Ancient Egyptian Dictionary part 1
Ancient Egyptian Dictionary part 2
Pictographic symbols
In your notebooks:
Share: Pictograms vs. alphabet? What did you come up with?
The Story of How We Got Our Alphabets (BBC)
Evolution of the Roman Alphabet
Earliest glyphs came from which culture?
Research a letter using World Book Kids. Create a short report. What culture can you trace it back to? What was the original name of the letter? What did that name mean?
Ambigrams:
In your notebooks, begin sketching an ambigram for your name or another word that is important to you.
Feb 11, 13, 15 : Ancient Writing Systems
Feb 26, 28; March 4, 6, 8 : Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Messages