Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Letter "D" is for: dance, disciples, drink, duck, daisy, drawers, doll and dandelion

D stands for Duck, Doris and Drummer.
       The next letter D, came from a representation of a door - "daleth" (dahleth). It probably pictures the door of a tent. A custom that prevails among the Arabs and in a number of countries gave particular importance to the door of a tent - a stranger, or even an enemy, if he entered through the door of a tent must receive food, drink and shelter. "Daleth" became "delta" with the Greeks and D (day) with the Romans, who, of course, rounded the angle.

Our "D" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "D is for drink" alphabet coloring page, plus letter and word practice 
  2. "D is for daisy" alphabet coloring page, trace letter Dd, color a daisy, recognize the letter Dd
  3. "D is for drawers" alphabet coloring page, trace letter Dd, color a set of drawers, recognize the letter Dd
  4. "D is for dandelion" alphabet coloring page, trace letter Dd, color a flower, recognize the letter Dd
  5. "D is for doll" alphabet coloring page, trace letter Dd, color a doll, recognize the letter Dd
  6. "D is for dance" alphabet coloring page, letter and word trace, recognize Dd upper and lower case 
  7. Identify Color Words: little girl dresses because "D" stands for dresses
  8. "D is for disciples he sends" recognize letter Dd 
  9. "D is for dog" alphabet coloring page, color and trace Dd
  10. "D is for dad" alphabet coloring page, color, practice letter Dd, sentence with letter Dd
  11. "D is for drawbridge" alphabet coloring page, practice letter Dd 
  12. "D is for Saint Dominic" alphabet coloring page 
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The Letter "E" is for Eskimos and elephants

       The house picture gave us B, the door, D, and the window, E. "He" (hay) meant to look, to see, or window, and one writer asserts our familiar street cry "hey, there" can be traced to these ancient times. One side bar of the window was lost early.
       The Greeks at first used this sound for the long "e" (epsilon) but afterwards employed the character H or "eta" for the long sound. The Romans at first made no change except to call it "eh."
       This is the letter that occurs so frequently in English words, and many no doubt recall the interesting use that Poe makes of this fact in his story "The Gold Bug." 

Our "E" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "E is for elephant" alphabet coloring page, plus word and letter tracing
  2. "E is for  eskimo" alphabet coloring page, trace letter Ee, the letter E used in a sentence
  3. Color Letter Ee 
  4. "E is for evening" alphabet coloring page, letter recognition
  5. "E is for Happy Easter" Easter basket of alphabet eggs 
  6. "E is for Saint Edmund" alphabet coloring page
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The Letter "F" is for: fox, feathers, folding, freshly, frog, farmer, fire engine, fairy and fish

F stands for Fish, for Francis and Feel
       Our letter order does not agree with that of the Phoenicians or the early Greeks. Our sixth letter, F, is missing in classical Greek, but it is found in earlier writings. It comes from a Phoenician representation of a hook or nail (?) "vau." The Hebrew form resembles the latter object. The nail was important in shipbuilding, a common industry of the early traders. When the Greeks used this letter they called it "digamma" (double gamma) and its form represented one "gamma" (Greek c) superimposed over the other. The Romans called it F (ef) and during the reign of Emperor Claudius the consonant V was represented by the F inverted. This was done because the Latin alphabet had but one character to represent U and V and OCTAVIA became OCTA(F upside down)A. 

Our "F" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "F is for fast, furry, fox" alphabet coloring page, plus letter/word recognition and tracing
  2. "F is for fancy fairy" alphabet coloring page, letter recognition, sentence with word "fairy" practice upper and lower case Ff, practice tracing your letters 
  3. "F is for fish" alphabet coloring page, letter recognition, sentence with word "fish" practice upper and lower case Ff, practice tracing your letters , two versions
  4. "F is for feathers" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word " feathers ", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
  5. "F is for fire engine" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the words " fire engine ", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
  6. "F is for farmer" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "farmer ", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
  7. "F is for frog" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "frog", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
  8. "F is for fan"  alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "fan", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
  9. "F is for freshly pressed" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "freshly", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
  10. "F is for folding" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "folding", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
  11. Identify Color Words: school of fish because "F" stands for fish
  12. "F is for furry" alphabet coloring page 
  13. "F" is for friend coloring page 
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The Letter "G" is for: glasses, giant, geese, garbage, grapefruit, gingerbread, gossip and gardener

G stands for Goat, for Great and for Good.
       The "ship of the desert," the camel, gave its name to the third letter. Our name for this animal is" traceable back to the Phoenician "gimel" (ghe'mel) or "gamel" (gah'mel).The long neck and the peculiar angle of the neck in relation to the head could easily be represented. The Greeks made changes similar to those in other letters- they improved the shape and changed the name to "gamma." The Romans did not forget the curve and gave it both the hard and soft sounds (kay and gay). Later on, about the third century A. D., to distinguish the "g" sound from the "k" sound they added a little bar below the opening. Thus we get both C and G from the picture of the camel.
       Stevenson said that when he was a child the capital G always impressed him as a genii swooping down to drink out of a handsome cup. Kipling's story of the invention of the alphabet is filled with similar delightful stories of the picture origin of letter forms.

Our "G" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "G is for grapefruit" two alphabet coloring pages: one for letter recognition and coloring and the other for coloring and tracing a sentence
  2. "G is for gingerbread" alphabet coloring page plus letter/word and sentence tracing
  3. "G is for gardener" alphabet coloring page, word, letter sentence recognition, upper and lower case Gg
  4. "G is for gossip" alphabet coloring page
  5. Color the things that are green because "G" is for green
  6. Color the things that are grey because "G is for grey
  7. "G is for glasses"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "glasses"
  8. "G is for giant"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "giant"
  9. "G is for game"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "game"
  10. "G is for geese"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "geese"
  11. "G is for the grain He ate" alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing Gg, color the disciples eating grain in a field, plus scripture, Bible coloring sheet
  12. "G is for garbage can"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg
  13. "G is for grin"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "grin"
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The Letter "H" is for: hearing, hat, house, horse and hare

H stands for Hog, for Harry and Hood

       Two fence posts and three horizontal boards gave us our eighth letter, H. The fence was called "cheth" (haith). The Greeks omitted the upper and lower boards thus making it like our H, and called it "eta" (ata). The Romans gave it a soft sound H (hah) just as we do today. 

Our "H" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "H is for help to hear" alphabet coloring page, plus tracing a sentence and lower case letter practice
  2. "H is for house" alphabet coloring page, plus practice tracing the upper case letter "H" and writing your own sentence 
  3. "H is for horse and hare" alphabet coloring page, recognize words "horse" and "hare" in a sentence, plus upper and lower case Hh coloring
  4. "H is for honey or honeybee" alphabet coloring page 
  5. "H is for hat" alphabet coloring page 
  6. Happy Birthday alphabet coloring and writing paper (available in five languages) 
  7. "H is for Happy Easter" Easter basket of alphabet eggs
  8. H is for help when you need it most! 
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The Letter "I" is for iceskates, iron and igloo

I stands for Inn, Ivanhoe and Igloo.
       The parts of the human body also played an important part in giving form to the letters of the alphabet. The early peoples recognized the value of the hand and the head and these members gave rise to the letters I and K, and Q and R respectively. The hand in profile bent at the knuckles and wrist gives us the character "yod" (the hand) as used by the Phoenicians. The Greeks, who always liked to have their words end in vowels, added "a" and called it "Iota" (e-o'ta).
       When the Romans received it, it was simply a vertical stroke, I (ee) which represented the same long "e" sound as it did with the Greeks, but later they used it both as a consonant and vowel, differentiating the consonant by making the letter I longer, J; but they did not give a distinct letter form for the capital J until the sixteenth century.
       The small j came into being nearly a century later. The dot over the i was first introduced in a thirteenth century manuscript. 

Our "I" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "I is for iceskates" alphabet coloring page, letter Ii recognition, Ii tracing, the word "iceskates" used in a sentence
  2. "I is for igloo", alphabet coloring page, letter Ii recognition, Ii tracing, the word "igloo" used in a sentence
  3. "I is for iron" alphabet coloring page, practice Ii, I in a sentence
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The Letter "J" is for jungle, jigsaw puzzle, jacket, jack-in-the-box, Jack and Jill

J stands for Judge, for Jack and for Jill.
       The parts of the human body also played an important part in giving form to the letters of the alphabet. The early peoples recognized the value of the hand and the head and these members gave rise to the letters I and K, and Q and R respectively. The hand in profile bent at the knuckles and wrist gives us the character "yod" (the hand) as used by the Phoenicians. The Greeks, who always liked to have their words end in vowels, added "a" and called it "Iota" (e-o'ta). When the Romans received it, it was simply a vertical stroke, I (ee) which represented the same long "e" sound as it did with the Greeks, but later they used it both as a consonant and vowel, differentiating the consonant by making the letter I longer, J; but they did not give a distinct letter form for the capital J until the sixteenth century.
       The small j came into being nearly a century later. The dot over the i was first introduced in a thirteenth century manuscript.

Our "J" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "J is for jacket" alphabet coloring page, plus letter and word trace
  2. "J is for Jack-in-the-box" alphabet coloring page, plus upper and lower case "Jj" tracing and a sentence with "Jack-in-the-box" to trace 
  3. "J is for Jack and Jill" alphabet coloring page, pail of water, letter recognition, tracing upper and lower case Jj 
  4. "J is for jungle" alphabet coloring page, letter and word trace, recognize letter Jj
  5. "J is for jigsaw puzzle" alphabet coloring page, letter and word trace, recognize letter Jj
  6. "J is for Jack-o'-lantern" alphabet coloring page 
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The Letter "K" is for king and kites

K stands for King, for Kate, and for Kill.
       The silhouette of the open hand, with its radiating lines, discloses the origin of the letter K, "kaph," which signified hollow or palm. We know that palmistry was practiced by the ancients, and probably the association of reading the hand and writing influenced the inclusion of this character. The Greeks added their favorite vowel sound, "a," again and thus obtained their "Kappa." The Romans had no need for this letter at first, as C furnished the same sound. When they did accept it, they made no change.

Our "K" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "K is for king" alphabet coloring page, plus practice tracing the upper case K and a sentence including the word "king"
  2. Identify Color Words: flying kites because "K" also stands for kites
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the Letter "L" is for lantern, laugh, lost time, and lemur

L stands for Lion, for Lawyer, and Land.
       The ox goad or whip lash, "lamed" (lah' med) gave rise to the next letter. Herding oxen and sheep was the important occupation of the slaves of the Phoenicians and hence the last, an object so unfamiliar to us, was easily recognized by them. The Greeks again added an "a" and called it "lambda" and made it in the form of an inverted V. The Romans, strangely, adhered more closely to the original form than did the Greeks.

Our "L" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "L is for lantern" alphabet coloring page, plus a sentence including the word "lantern" and upper case "L" for tracing
  2. Identify Color Words: fall leaves because "L" stands for leaves
  3. "L is for lemur" alphabet coloring page, coloring and letter recognition of Ll, two versions
  4. "L is for lost time" alphabet coloring page
  5. "L is for laugh" alphabet coloring page
  6. "L is for Liberty Bell" alphabet coloring page, identify the upper and lower case Ll, tracing the letter Ll
  7. "L is for lick" alphabet coloring page, practice tracing letter Ll, and identify the word "lick" in a sentence
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The Letter "M" is for music and market

M stands for Magpie, for Martha and Mend.
       The Phoenicians were lovers of the sea, and from this source two letters were derived, M and N. They explored not only all of the Mediterranean shore at an early date, but they also sailed boldly through the gates of Gibraltar, and "beyond the world" where they found Britain. They were the first navigators that sailed by night and it is said they discovered the north star. Therefore it is not surprising that water "mem" (maim) is the source of M and that fish, "nun" (noon) the source of N. The letter M has changed but little in form, it is the Greek letter "Mu" and the Roman M (em). The head of the fish, from which the letter N is pictured, was simplified even more than the head of the ox, in A. It no doubt represents the fisherman's viewpoint - not a swimming fish but a suspended one. The Greeks reversed the stroke and called it "Nu" and the Romans did not change its form but called it N (en).

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The Letter "N" is for nest and native

N stands for Nag, for Nanny, and Notes.
       The Phoenicians were lovers of the sea, and from this source two letters were derived, M and N. They explored not only all of the Mediterranean shore at an early date, but they also sailed boldly through the gates of Gibraltar, and "beyond the world" where they found Britain. They were the first navigators that sailed by night and it is said they discovered the north star. Therefore it is not surprising that water "mem" (maim) is the source of M and that fish, "nun" (noon) the source of N. The letter M has changed but little in form, it is the Greek letter "Mu" and the Roman M (em). The head of the fish, from which the letter N is pictured, was simplified even more than the head of the ox, in A. It no doubt represents the fisherman's viewpoint - not a swimming fish but a suspended one. The Greeks reversed the stroke and called it "Nu" and the Romans did not change its form but called it N (en).

Our "N" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "N is for native" alphabet coloring page, plus upper and lower case for "Nn" tracing practice
  2. "N is for nest" alphabet coloring page, letter and word trace, recognize letter Nn
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The Letter "O" is for: octupus, owl, ornaments, overalls, office workers and opera

O stands for Owl, for Orchard, and Oats.
       In Phoenicia, as in Egypt, China and Mexico, the eye is one of the commonest elements found in the writing. It was called "Ayin" (ah-yin). The Greeks used it for two sounds now designated by "omicron," little "o," and "omega," great "o," the letter which, strangely, was placed at the end of the Greek alphabet. We find in the Bible: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." How many today would think of using the alphabet for such an important illustration? It is easy to trace the Roman O (oh) from its Greek parent, "omicron."

Our "O" Coloring Pages Thus Far:
  1. "O is for owl" alphabet coloring page, plus letter recognition and upper/lower case letter "Oo" trace practice
  2. "O is for overalls" alphabet coloring page, letter and word recognition, trace and color Oo, upper and lower case Oo
  3. "O is for office workers" alphabet coloring page, trace the letter Oo, use Oo in a sentence
  4. "O is for otter" alphabet coloring page
  5. "O is for opera" alphabet coloring page, letter recognition, the word "opera" used in a sentence, upper case trace 
  6. "O is for ornaments" alphabet coloring page, plus letter trace and practice, recognize letter Oo, upper and lower case Oo, Christmas themed alphabet page
  7. Color the things that are orange because "O" is for orange
  8. "O is for octupus" alphabet coloring page, identify Oo, word and letter trace
  9. "O is for obey" alphabet coloring page
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