What Is Danish for Rocket? Find RAKET and Five More

What is Danish for rocket? A child who works through this grid finds out, and will probably not forget: RAKET. The other five hidden words are PLANET, JORDEN, KOMET, METEOR and GALAKSE, each shown beside its picture — a rocket, a planet, the Earth, a comet, a meteor, a galaxy. The task is to read the letters row by row and circle every Danish word as it surfaces.

Five of the six are close cousins of their English forms, so the sheet is generous to a beginner. The interesting one is JORDEN, which is not Earth borrowed from Latin but the ordinary Danish word for the ground with a definite ending stuck on the back. Children do not need that explanation to find it, but a curious eight-year-old will enjoy hearing it once the circling is done.

Space vocabulary tends to be the vocabulary children actually want, which makes it a sound place to begin a language they are not yet sure about. Print it alongside a poster of the planets, or keep a copy in the bag for a long car journey. No score, no timer, no correct speed — just six Danish words and a grid to dig them out of.