As you practice your alpha, beta, gammas, get someone to help you. For some online help, head on over to this cool website and check out the Getting To Know the Greek Alphabet activity for more information.
With a little practice, we believe you could memorize the Greek alphabet. If today's Wonder of the Day was all Greek to you, that's OK! Continue your exploration by asking a friend or family member to help you check out the following activities: These groups form what is known as the Greek system at colleges and universities and form their names from combinations of Greek letters. If you've ever been on a college campus, you may have also seen Greek letters on the houses of secret societies called fraternities and sororities. As the first letter of the Greek alphabet, “alpha" is sometimes used to refer to something as first or primary, such as in the phrase “alpha dog." You may have also seen “alpha" used in various places. For example, the letter pi is used as the name and symbol for a mathematical constant. In looking at the letters of the Greek alphabet, a few of them probably already look familiar. So, if you want to say the Greek alphabet from A to Z, you'll actually need to say it from alpha to omega! Here they are…in alphabetical order, of course! While the English alphabet has 26 letters, the Greek alphabet has 24 letters. In fact, our word “alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta! You probably remember the vowels as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. Like the Greek alphabet, the English alphabet also has vowels. It's from these old written stories that we know so much about ancient Greek culture. Once they had a written language, the ancient Greeks began to write down all their myths and legends. The Greeks borrowed the idea of a written language from the Phoenicians and then improved upon it by adding vowels to their alphabet. 
That honor goes to an ancient culture known as the Phoenicians.
The Greek alphabet is over 2,500 years old and it still works today! Even though it's quite old, the Greeks weren't the first to invent an alphabet.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G…OK, so you know how the song goes, right? But what if you lived in Greece? How would the song go then? Want to find out? Let's learn about the Greek alphabet!
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