Words Within Words: February

How many words can you find within February?

Words Within Words: Chocolate

How many words can you find within Chocolate?

Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Words Within Words: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Words Within Words: LATKES

How many words can you find within LATKES?

Words Within Words: COBWEB

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Hydromagnaphone? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

Geosynth (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Geosynth? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

Pyrostasis (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Pyrostasis? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

Greekymon Studies – Round 1

What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?

Words Within Words: ORNAMENT

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Words Within Words: STUFFING

How many words are hiding inside STUFFING? More than you think.

Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)

Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?

Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Prefixes and Suffixes in Other Languages

Let’s go beyond merely memorizing word parts and instead analyze across languages. How do other languages make a word the opposite?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Analyze Suffixes: -en

What exactly does adding -en to a word do? Find the pattern. Then find the words that break it.

Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful

What exactly does adding -less do to a word?

Words Within Words: AIRPLANE

How many words can you find within airplane?

Words Within Words: SATURN

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to Patch

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Greek and Latin Word Part Paths

How can we go from Biology to Immobile?

Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Ghost

Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?

Greekymon

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.