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Sep. 23, 2009 - Song School Latin: A Review
"Latin for Children" offers an inexpensive, FUN Latin curriculum for your preschoolers through 1st grade students called "SongSchool Latin"
Latin isn't generally introduced until about the 2nd grade level in the classical model of education (of course, this depends on who you talk to), but for those who'd like to get a gentle "headstart" with their youngest children, this is the PERFECT curriculum for just that.
The curriculum contains a Student Workbook with a cd of songs containing each lesson's words and phrases for $23 and a Teacher's Manual for $23 (a bundle of the two manuals, cd ,and a memory-type game retails at $65).
Our boys are 6, 5, and 3 years old, but they all participate in Latin "class" during our homeschool week. We've been listening to the cd of songs all throughout the summer, so most of them were already memorized going into our school year. SInce the boys are not at the same reading levels, and the workbook sheets are for beginning readers, I decided not to focus on the worksheets this year. Instead, I purchased a big bulletin-board "sun" decoration from Oriental Trading and with each weekly lesson, we add the words and phrases to a "sun ray" onto our sun each week. here is the end of week one:
In subsequent years, the boys will be able to fill out their workbook sheets as their reading continues to grow.
I love that I'm learning along with my kids (there is no foreign language that has been easy for me to learn!), and I adore listening to our 3-year-old singing, "Here comes Magistra, Salve! Salve!...." when he colors or eats dinner, or as he looks out the window riding in the car. I'm enjoying the gentle, hands-on approach as the boys have fun learning the language. I can't wait to see how they transition into formal Latin Lessons in the years to come!
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