Home School Resources
Bring Ideas to the Table with a Conversation Potluck
As I’ve prepared this summer for another year of directing a Classical Conversations challenge program, I have really loved contemplating the idea of our Challenge community days involving a feast of ideas to discuss. As tutors and students prepare the work, it is similar to them preparing for a lovely dinner party to enjoy together.…
Read MoreHenle 2 Resources on Latin with Andy
If learning Latin with my kids has taught me anything, it’s that you’re never too old to ask for help. I’ve had to do a lot of that. Thankfully, though, seeking help from each other is a wonderful way to build relationship—something that is especially important with highschool students. Today I want to share with…
Read MoreMental Horticulture: Writing an Original Story in Latin
I’ve joked with Andy over the last year as we’ve developed Latin with Andy that all along, my maniacal mom plan was to get Andy to work Henle’s First Year Latin book a fourth time—and you always learn something in a deeper way when you have to teach it. The training and toiling Andy invested in his…
Read MoreJona et Piscis Grandis – A Big Fish Translating Adventure
From the time students start learning their first vocabulary words and noun declensions, they are itching for a translating adventure—something to translate from Latin into English. The challenge is that even once they’ve spent years soaking up the grammar, it can still be very challenging to head to a text originally written in Latin and…
Read MoreMaster Latin Verbs with 4 Principal Parts Tests & Quizzes
When Andy and I first encountered Latin verbs, we felt lost and confused. He started to gain some understanding when he started copying Latin conjugation charts. However, we still didn’t understand the importance of memorizing the 4 Principal Parts of every verb in the vocabulary. After we discovered the vast importance of knowing each of these…
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