Discere Docendo

(To Learn Through Teaching)

Latin ~ One of the foundations of a Classical Education. Sounds scary, doesn't it? And yet it is one of my favorite subjects. Yes, I realize we are learning very elementary Latin, but we are LEARNING LATIN. Even Leif has memorized full prayers in Latin.

Prima Latina is a program designed for early elementary students, and very simple to teach, even for an adult with no Latin background. In just one year, we are covering:

• Recognizing English and Latin Verbs
• Invisible Verbs
• Nouns, Proper Nouns, & Pronouns
• Prepositions
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• To Be Verbs
• Present and Future Tenses
• First Conjugation
• First Declension
• 125 Latin Vocabulary Words
• Approx. 150 Latin Derivatives
• 25 Latin Sayings
• 4 Latin Prayers
• 4 Latin Hymns
• 12 Constellations
• Latin Numbers 1-10
  
  

Are you curious as to why students should learn Latin? Read here.

Or why teach Latin to elementary students? Read here.

I am enjoying learning the Latin phrases (mea culpa, quo vadis, stupor mundi), and I recently came across a very fun (and long) list of Latin quotes and phrases. I'll have to memorize some of these, such as:

Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium.

(Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. ~Seneca)

Or possibly some of the more light-hearted translations:

Luke sum ipse patrem te.

( Luke, I am your father.)

OR

Aspice, officio fungeris sine spe honoris amplioris.

( Face it, you're stuck in a dead end job.)

See, Latin is fun.