Latin Study Sheet 1-B

Latin Review 1b (pdf)

An adjective exercise and review.

Study Guide 1 -- Latin

A partial review for Unit 1 in Latin is Fun.

I will probably make up sentences with him (the only verbs so far are: est/sunt and habet/habent)

There are a bunch of adjectives in the book but I didn't write these out this time. Next time I guess.

After he studies this I will have him do a short quiz.

Languages -- Charlotte Mason

English Grammar

English is rather a logical study dealing with sentences and the positions that words occupy in them than with words and what they are in their own right. Therefore it is better that a child should begin with a sentence and not with the parts of speech, that is, he should learn a little of what is called analysis before he learns to parse.

They must be familiar with verbs and perhaps the simplest way to approach this idea is to cause them to make sentences with two words, the thing they speak of and what they say about it..

French Language -- Narration

Children in Form IIB have easy French Lessons with pictures which they describe, but in IIA while still engaged on the Primary French Course children begin to use the method which is as full of promise in the teaching of languages as in English, that is, they are expected to narrate the sentence or paragraph which has been read to them. Young children find little difficulty in using French vocables, but at this stage the teacher should with the children's help translate the little passage which is to be narrated, them re-read it in French and require the children to narrate it. This they do after a time surprisingly well.

Latin

"Latin is taught at the House of Education by means of narration after each section has been thoroughly studied in grammer, syntax and style. The literature studied increases in difficulty as the pupil advances in grammar, etc. Nothing but good Latin is ever narrated, so the pupil acquires style as well as structure. The substance of the passage is usually reproduced with the phraseology and style of the original and both students and children learn what is really Latin and realise that it is a language and not a mere grammar."

Latin Year 7: Latina Christiana

Next year I hope to put my Y7 student in Latina Christiana II. He is still a bit fuzzy on some of the paradigms from LC1 so we will have to work on reciting those this summer.

I found some good Latin links from Ruth Marshall's site.

Also, these links are to PDFs of easy interlinear Latin Bible stories:

Epitoma Historiae Sacrae Part I and Part II.

If we can start LC2 next September, outlining the course will be easy because there are 25 lessons and 5 reviews and 5 tests. So it is already in Ignatian format with even 2 extra weeks per term for extra practice, or supplemental reading, or whatever.

Latin overview here.

Latin Link, and Weekly Summaries

The Minimus website.

HT: A Bit of Bubbly.

Her weekly update also had some math games linked.... possibly nice for Kieron.

And I liked the weekly update format -- I used to do weekly summaries at Every Waking Hour last year and would like to get back to it pretty soon.

It looks like some classical-type homeschoolers are doing a kind of Weekly Report meme-type-thing -- here is Trivium Academy's and here is the list of those who are participating. It will be interesting to browse through next time I have an extra bit of time online, which may not be for a few days, since I just overspent my time budget surfing tonight.