Children's Classes - SCHEDULE
Level II Thursday 5:15pm to 7pm (fireside room)
Level III Saturday 2-4pm (fireside room)
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Kids Level II
Jan.: 8,15,22, 29.
Feb: 5. No class Feb 12 and 19. Classes resume on the 26th.
March: 5, 12, 19, 26
April: No class April 2, 9, 16. Classes resume the 23d of April. 23, 30
May: 7, 14 and 21 (last day of classes)
Kids Level III
Jan.: 12,17, 24, 31.
Feb: Monday 2, Monday 23, 28. No class Feb 7, 14 and 21.
March: 7, 14, 21. No class on 28th
April: No class April 4, 11, 18. Classes resume the 25th of April. 23,
May: 2, 9, 16, 23 (last day of classes)
LEVEL II BOOKS
REGISTRATION -PAYMENT
In order to complete your registration you can pay the teacher through Zelle with her phone number. Tuition for Level II, from October to December is $360 and for Level III $330. Second Sibling has a fifty percent discount. New students for the 2025-2026 academic year have to complete a Registration form.
It is important that no-one that wants to learn Greek should be discouraged by financial considerations. Please, talk to Father Steve regarding a reduction/removal of fees and/or multi class/ multi person discounts.
Tuition is $30/person/session ($15per instruction hour) from October to May for stewards/catechumens of Saint Paul's or other Greek Orthodox Churches. Tuition for January - May is $540. In case tuition causes hardship, please, contact Father Steve. For payment, talk to the teacher. The cost of your own textbooks / instruction packets may be incurred additionally.
We have completed a year of Greek School. Thank you to all the families for supporting the learning of the children and for caring that the children learn the language. If it were not for you, there would not be a Saint Paul's Greek School. As the program is developing, things will be more systematic for all levels. Your children are loveable and it has been a privilege to work with them. God bless you all!
WEEKLY HOMEWORK
For the Class of 11/20. Have your children tell you what we covered in class and read the texts we have read in class. We focused on practice of the verbs ειμαι and εχω again and were introduced to the verb παιζω. We are also talking about singular and plural of masculines, feminines and neuter names and adjectives. The children need to work on the appropriate pages from their book in addition to pages you will receive via email
Summer - Resources and Material
Why we learn Greek
This guy advises learning Greek is good for the Church and he is not even Greek or Orthodox
Please watch these educational videos with your children
Review
Go through your notebooks you kept for the whole year from the beginning. Do you remember everything? Many things? Are things way easier for you now?
Make a book with a 3 ring binder using all your handouts.
Finish any exercises you have left unfinished.
Practice the review handouts and the youtube videos below.
The handouts will enhance your reading and grammar skills and the videos will help with grammar and vocabulary.
MEMORIZE THE DIALOGUES FROM THE PAIDIKI HARA HANDOUT, THE VERB CONJUGATIONS and DO THE EXERCISES.
Learning with Songs
A fairy tale from Aesop, Ο ψεύτης βοσκός (The Liar Shepherd Boy Who Cried Wolf).
A video of the story in Greek and in English has been prepared. You can play the video in English so the kids are familiar with the story and what is being said and then repeat watching it in Greek. An exercise sheet from the fairy tale has also been posted here and you can complete it.
Please, practice reading the Aλφαβηταριο at home. Ask the children to tell you what the pictures are showing and how they relate to the content. Memorize expressions and new words.
Listen to Greek songs for kids all day long
WHILE DRIVING, SITTING, LOUNGING
Please, play a playlist of songs from Youtube from the list below while driving the children to activities, or on TV while they are playing at home so they become accustomed to the sounds of the language. The two first videos have subtitles in Greek to enhance resding abilities. You will be surprised at how much children may pick out from songs.
LEARNING GRAMMAR, PHRASES AND VOCABULARY
Study the videos below from Youtube.
Review videos:
for the alphabet https://youtube.com/shorts/oIIJ_Jo5GaE?si=JTCkbTPavUdaAs8z
for the article https://youtube.com/shorts/ygOXc2c3Qjk?si=VUgGtFPI3z_d0Epu
For the verbs εγώ και είμαι https://youtube.com/shorts/uV-r1SHxJ0E?si=q3x5OfGK4H2rtDGz
The Basics - if you need to go back to it
A. PRACTICE SOUNDS
Please keep practicing sounding out the alphabet or they forget as soon as they learn. Great work on the the alphabet song. Keep it up.
Alphabet sounds
https://youtu.be/jwTTU9r1k0I?si=OoqqfRb-PRg4WhWC
In this video, children are supposed to verbalize the letter after it appears in the screen and it is sounded out by the narrator.
Sing the alphabet song:
Alphabet song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJLipKY-LQ
Videos: https://youtu.be/J9uXor9X8KI?si=PqWpE2-lu3Y9T6An
https://youtu.be/9dtBNUofaL4?si=zhGWdW_Mt5ItqgFa
INDEX CARDS
We made flash cards with each of the letters. We wrote the capitals on one side and the small letters on the other.
Separate the Consonants from the vowels (Aα, Eε, Iι, Hη, Yυ, Oο, Ωω).
Combine one consonant card with each of the vowels. Sound out the syllable.
Use small consonants with small vowels, capital consonants with capital vowels.
Capital consonant with small vowels.
This exercise will continue as we add complex sounds and letters until great facility in recognizing the syllables and small words is acquired.
We made flash cards with words and expressions. Please, practice them and copy them to your notebooks.
B. WRITING SKILLS
Please, bring your index cards to class as well as new empty index cards to be used there.
We will be making index cards with the new words we learn in class and you can help your children make index cards with sentences at home, in addition to writing things down in the homework notebook (see below)
Make index cards with ου, μπ, ντ, αι, οι, ει, and we will practice these sounds in class and at home.
Please make 2 more sets of alphabet cards at home so can combine the syllables to make words as a game in class.
C. To learn syllables and increase simple vocabulary: https://www.youtube.com/@busybeeclub
D. Dictionary: https://en.wiktionary.org
During the 2025-2026 School Year - New and Continuing Students
Materials needed:
pencil
eraser
pencil sharpener (though one exists in class)
index cards
index card box
2 composition style notebooks one for class and one for home
a bag for Greek School only
a plastic envelope (letter sized) to carry index cards and new class materials
a three ring binder to keep handouts together. This is will become your book for the year
VIDEOS
Every week, look for updates on the website.
New useful videos that are posted need to be viewed at home.
Watch any new videos posted here, related to their new lessons
3. NOTEBOOKS
Notes take in the class notebook need to be copied at home in the home notebook. Each child needs to have 2 notebooks. Composition notebooks are highly preferred for home notes. I will be checking both notebooks.
That will be standard homework every week.
Do not worry! Children are not being asked to keep college level notes nor should the amount of work be overwhelming but copying things out will help them improve their writing skills and it will help with memorization.
Again, clean copying of ALL previous class notes and handout material is homework and will be so every week. This will be strictly enforced starting in the year 2025-2026.
Check your children᾽s class notebooks.
The children need to: study and copy in a clean home notebook their class notes, (vocabulary, grammar and expressions).
4. INDEX CARDS
Every week, the children need to make index cards with new words
Some of the handouts can be cut up to make index cards
5. HANDOUTS
Practice reading from the handouts
Fill out any exercises in the new handouts
For some of the handouts there is no digital copy.
You need to check what is in your children's bag and handout folders.
You need to pick up handouts when a digital copy is not available. Pick it up on the missed week or request it to be mailed to you.
Once a week is not enough class instruction for children. Children learn very fast and forget even faster. Missed classes and no work at home means the student falls behind. One student falling behind throws the whole class behind.
If you child is ill or for serious reasons needs to miss class, please make arrangements for an in-person, makeup class.
Availability of make up classes will be limited and, subject to teacher availability.
If parents do not follow instructions, the children cannot learn.
IMPORTANT CLASS ISSUES
Bring back to class in the GREEK SCHOOL BAG all materials the children brought from class so we can keep working on it.
Bring ALL their index cards and notebooks.
Please, take your children to the bathroom before class. There are too many people in the building and my taking them to the bathroom during class is very disruptive.
Please, arrive on time or we lose class instruction.
Please provide a healthy (not sugary) snack and drink for the children. Or sign up to bring snacks and drinks for the whole class, taking turns with other parents
The children take a long break. Therefore class will go on from 5:15pm until 7:00pm with a 20-25min break.
25th of March, National Holiday
The 25th of March, we celebrate the double holiday of the Annunciation (please, watch the video with the children and the National Holiday for the Greek Revolution. We talked about the motto of Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος and how this is represented on the Greek flag which is blue like the sea and white like the foam of the waves, blue like the sky and white like the clouds. Each of the blue lines stands for a syllable of the word Ελευθερία and each of te White lines stands for the syllables of the phrase ή Θάνατος. We talked about the Motto of the American Revolution being similar: Live Free or die. We talked about the Greek Flag in both its versions, with the stripes or without them has a White cross on it because this is what the Greeks fought for: "Για του Χριστού την πίστη την Αγία και της Πατρίδος την Ελευθερία". For the faith of Christ first, then for the freedom of the Fatherland. This is why the Greeks chose the day of the Annunciation, the day of the Ευαγγελισμός, when Mary received the good news, Ευαγγέλιον, that God would also become Man through her, to announce the good news that they would seek their freedom from the shackles of Islam and the Ottoman Empire.
On January 30th we celebrate the protectors of Greek Letters, Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory the Theologian and Saint John Chrysostom. Greek Schools and Greek Education celebrate.