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Can we have a Classical thread?

post #1 of 52
12/20/08 at 9:56pm
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For families who proscribe to the multum non multa way of schooling?
What curriculums are you using? Are your kids liking Latin? Anyone doing Latin and Greek?
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post #2 of 52
12/20/08 at 11:54pm
We are 90% classical, but no Latin. I don't think Classical and Latin centered have to go hand in hand. We are rather eclectic about our classical curriculum, but we do Saxon math, SOTW, HWT, McGuffey, lots of literature and non fiction to reinforce science and history studies. And for language we do Swedish because our family hasn't been off the boat for more then a couple generations and it's a big part of our family culture.

I think Classical Education is more about the Trivium which I agree with completely when is comes to the grammar stage. I take a few issues with the emphasis on the dialectic stage and I think that sometime the rhetoric stage is counter productive. This is all mostly because our family is not reformed in our theology and I think many Classical home educators "produce" children that end up applying their classical education to scripture in a way that we just don't do as Eastern Orthodox. I am sure this may not make much sense unless you take similar issue, but it's personal reflection on the trivium and all in all I think it is an excellent way of educating.

But again- no Latin
post #3 of 52
12/21/08 at 2:11am
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Originally Posted by theretohere View Post
For families who proscribe to the multum non multa way of schooling?
What curriculums are you using? Are your kids liking Latin? Anyone doing Latin and Greek?

We are doing Latin for Children primer A, but with the holidays and a move, rearranging our new school room and a few unfortunate dental visits w/ several more to come I think that our Latin practice has suffered this month. We are using HO w/ SOTW, We use Saxon math for basic practice really and we stick with it for that but have all told around 30 or 40 math books that we use for various things. We are using R.E.A.L science , right now we are using Great Science Adventures on Atoms and Molecules. I don't think that we are strict classical schoolers, but we do follow it on an eclectic scale like a lot of people
post #4 of 52
12/22/08 at 11:17am
I am more of a relaxed classical follower. No Latin. We use Story of the World, History Odyssey, Math-U-See, R.E.A.L Science, & Voyages in English. Alhtough we will be switching to a different Language Arts for next year.
post #5 of 52
12/22/08 at 6:10pm
We are pretty much neo-classical. I'd love to do more of a Latin-centered approach, but at this point, it's just not happening. We're at chapter 13 in Latin for Children Primer A and at this point our goal is to finish it in the next fifty-four weeks (by the end of 'fourth grade'). Dd is weak in spelling and handwriting, so Latin has been hard for her apart from the actual memorization of vocabulary. I'm actually thinking we'd do better to switch to Greek so that the spelling of the words wouldn't confuse her.

Apart from that - we use Growing with Grammar, HWT, SOTW, Developmental Math, and Miquon. We're almost done with both math sequences so I'm trying to figure out our next step. We're going to start chemistry in February with Real Science 4 Kids, I think. That's most of our curriculum.
post #6 of 52
12/23/08 at 12:54pm
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We're currently between pre-K and K.
This year we've been doing:
Rod and Staff preschool
Hooked on Phonics
Earlybird Mathmatics (Singapore)

This summer we're starting:
Prima Latina
Galloping the Globe
Earlybird (well, this one is continuing )
Memoria Press Copybook level K
God made Kindermusik
Art Instruction at home
and I'd really, really like to start piano, but we'll see
post #7 of 52
12/23/08 at 1:01pm
Ours are loving Latin! : We're using Omnibus, Apologia, Warriner's Fourth Course Grammar, Teaching Textbooks Algebra I, Latin for Children, and Classical Writing for our oldest. Abeka Math & Phonics, Primary & Intermediate Language Lessons, Classical Writing, Latin for Children, Story of the World & Streams of Civilisation, and an online Science course for my younger children. We're also learning Tsalagi and continuing Sign Language. My older children have started Greek lessons with their Dad.
post #8 of 52
12/23/08 at 9:40pm
I'll be lurking. Right now we are K and Pre-K so getting ready to really dive in.

Can anyone suggest a good Latin program?
post #9 of 52
12/23/08 at 9:55pm
We're using Singapore Math, Singapore My Pals are Here Science, History Odyssey, Lively Latin, Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts program, Megawords for spelling, The Learnables Spanish, Visual Link Spanish, and Atelier for art.

Latin is a big favourite here.
post #10 of 52
12/23/08 at 11:11pm
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Originally Posted by magstphil View Post
I'll be lurking. Right now we are K and Pre-K so getting ready to really dive in.

Can anyone suggest a good Latin program?
We're starting Prima Latina and I know a lot of people who like it. Other favorites are Minimus and I've heard some good stuff about Song School Latin.
post #11 of 52
12/24/08 at 10:08am
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Originally Posted by theretohere View Post
We're starting Prima Latina and I know a lot of people who like it. Other favorites are Minimus and I've heard some good stuff about Song School Latin.
I was planning on starting Latin at 3rd grade-ish level just based on recommendations from The Well-Trained Mind. Are there programs meant for younger children instead?
post #12 of 52
12/24/08 at 12:07pm
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I was planning on starting Latin at 3rd grade-ish level just based on recommendations from The Well-Trained Mind. Are there programs meant for younger children instead?
Yes, Prima Latina is for Kindgergarten to grade 4. http://www.amazon.com/Prima-Latina-S...0131171&sr=8-1
There's also teacher's books, and DVDs and CDs.
post #13 of 52
12/24/08 at 3:10pm
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Yes, Prima Latina is for Kindgergarten to grade 4. http://www.amazon.com/Prima-Latina-S...0131171&sr=8-1
There's also teacher's books, and DVDs and CDs.

Crap. Now I have more to plan for and buy. Added to my never-ending list! Thanks
post #14 of 52
12/24/08 at 7:50pm
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Crap. Now I have more to plan for and buy. Added to my never-ending list! Thanks
LOL, no problem! I love to enable others purchases.
post #15 of 52
12/25/08 at 4:00pm
Secular Latin suggestions:
To start Minimus - it is a fun introduction, not a lot of grammar but good historical and cultural information. For middle and high school: Ecce Romani. Because it is the most popular secular curriculum there are extensive free resources available on the web including: http://abney.homestead.com/ecce1.html Ecce Romani is a good fit with the National Latin Exam. The exam is available even at the intro level and it is easy to participate. http://www.nle.org/ Ecce Romani turned out to be good preparation for college Latin wth Oxford Latin. Cambridge Latin is another good choice.
post #16 of 52
12/26/08 at 12:52am
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Originally Posted by Roar View Post
Secular Latin suggestions:
To start Minimus - it is a fun introduction, not a lot of grammar but good historical and cultural information. For middle and high school: Ecce Romani. Because it is the most popular secular curriculum there are extensive free resources available on the web including: http://abney.homestead.com/ecce1.html Ecce Romani is a good fit with the National Latin Exam. The exam is available even at the intro level and it is easy to participate. http://www.nle.org/ Ecce Romani turned out to be good preparation for college Latin wth Oxford Latin. Cambridge Latin is another good choice.
: I really like Minimus for fun, but wish it had more grammar.
post #17 of 52
12/26/08 at 10:23pm
We are using Lively Latin and my son loves it.
post #18 of 52
12/27/08 at 2:37am
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Originally Posted by PumpkinSeeds View Post
We are using Lively Latin and my son loves it.
How much grammar and syntax is in Lively Latin?
post #19 of 52
12/27/08 at 4:12pm
I think the whole program is light but effective for the elementary age set. We are halfway through and have covered nouns, verbs, subject, predicate and predicate nominative. I like that it covers English derivative work as we've had some very interesting discussions when my son comes across vocabulary that he doesn't know in other settings.
post #20 of 52
1/7/09 at 11:25pm
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Originally Posted by PumpkinSeeds View Post
I think the whole program is light but effective for the elementary age set. We are halfway through and have covered nouns, verbs, subject, predicate and predicate nominative. I like that it covers English derivative work as we've had some very interesting discussions when my son comes across vocabulary that he doesn't know in other settings.
Lively Latin Big Book 2 ramps it up considerably, though presentation still is still geared towards elementary age children.
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