It's here, It's here! The Latin program finally came!

When we came home from a trip the other day we found a box waiting for us.  It had the best tell tale signs on the outside, a stack of books.  I love getting books in the mail!

Turns out it was the kit for teaching Latin!  I was so excited, the kids rather tired from our trip were less so.

I asked for the complete kit because Dude wanted to learn Latin, and nothing I found for free was very clear on all the many (many) endings.  Over the years I have done some random learning on my own, But without someone giving me the context I cannot translate Latin.  The endings make a huge difference between ' the man kicked the dog' and 'the dog kicked the man'.  So I figured the endings were pretty important for translation.

Though I am sure knowing the root words is more important for learning the 'big fancy sci-ency' words in English.

Anyway they wanted to watch the video so we popped that in, the intro is almost the same information as lesson one.  So don't watch both in the same time.

Other than the repeat information the kids enjoyed the video.  Lesson one ends with the first part of 'How the West was Unas'  which is quite silly.  The kids loved it.  It begins with several children chanting the latin words for the week.  The kids really didn't understand what they were saying until later we went and read the words and talked about the motions that the video used along with them.

We didn't fully write out the workbook pages, but we have done lots of verbal translation and practiced the chants.

Yesterday Dude came and asked me if all the Harry Potter Spells were based on Latin.  He noticed 'Aguamenti' has 'agua' in it (water) and wanted to know what the other spells were.

I tried to figure out how to guess the Latin root and use a translator on it, then I thought about looking up what the spell did and then finding the Latin word for that to see if it was similar.  Which all sounded like a lot of work.  So I cheated, I asked my Dad.  He found this wiki site that gives the roots to some of the spells.  Turns out none are proper Latin, but many were meant to sound Latinish.