Tammy is working hard on her speech and painting (colouring in ) lots of flags. Today we cut out all 32 medium sized flags and matched them with the names of the countries. Many flags look very similar, so to help along memory, we made various associations between the flags and the countries: Here are some:
- Honduras: the stars in the middle look like an H.
- Slovenia: Venia sounds a bit like venue (one of Tammy's latest vocabulary words) and there are mountains (i.e. places/ venues) on the flag.
- Slovakia: The flag looks like Slovenia's flag except this one has crosses in the emblem. A cross in Afrikaans is a "kruis" and matches the k in Slovakia.
- Serbia: Similar flag colours as Slovenia and Slovakia, but white is at the bottom. A SERvant serves the king. There is a crown on the flag. (Servant = Serbia)
- Côte d'Ivoire: The orange elephant has white ivory and he eats green leaves.
- Ghana, Cameroon, Chile, Algeria: Ghana is in Africa and has a black star, Cameroon a yellow star and Chile a white star. Algeria has both moon and star (ALL evening lights -ALgeria)
It was great fun and in no time, Tammy was able to name all 32 flags.
Thank you God for her happy face and cheerful giggles. Please help her when she types her italics for Romans 1: 13- 15.
(For Bible homework she is going to write how she would explain Jesus and why we should believe to a non-believer. She did it verbally verby spontaneously and understandably this morning.)
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Looking forward to Tammy's explanation of why we should believe in Jesus.
Great flag associations, especially for Slovenia and Slovakia.
Hi Adelaide
Thanks for your comments - I don't know why the 2nd one did not publish - I clicked on publish and nothing happened. Strange. When I tried to open it again, it said no unmoderated comments found. Hopefully this comment moderation is not going to give trouble again - but the Japanese (Chinese?) comments were suspect, so for the first time I felt it was necessary.
Anyway, we are holding thumbs for S.A. all the way - not just the team. Shame, they want to use the "Madiba Magic" and get him to go and watch the opening game - in midwinter at nearly 92 years! My mother was very fit, but she died just before she turned 92 and there is no way she would have wanted to go out to something like that! The noise alone would have it very unpleasant for her, let alone the cold. If only President Zuma had the respect, dignity and leadership he had had.
I have just read an article about Zuma and his wives, and more importantly the impact he is having on good South Africans, forget their colours.
Mandela can watch it on TV like everyone else. I am sure a lot of dignitaries are coming, like Prince Charles.
Hi Adelaide
Apparently Pres Mandela is going to greet the teams and then go home.
Zuma with his wives and affairs, is such an embarrasment! But I guess he is not the first head of state to have questionable morals. The corruption case against him, which was dropped because he is the president, bothers me much more.
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