First Declension Noun Chant?

[Miss Tick]

I am working through GSWL with my dc. We need to start chanting first declension endings so that we (I) can remember them. We've got verb conjugations with hand motions down, but I am stuck on the order and what exactly to say for the nouns.

 

Should we chant singular then circle back for plural?

Should we pick a noun (like nauta) and decline it - or just say the endings?

 

I'm not big on singing them, but I will if I must - one of the many little sacrifices we make for our dc education!

 

Any thoughts, experience, BTDT, ideas from other curriculum?

 

Thanks.

[RootAnn]

Should we chant singular then circle back for plural?

Should we pick a noun (like nauta) and decline it - or just say the endings?

 

We go down singular and then plural.

We also chant "nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative" as a separate activity to remind ourselves of the order. (And I make sure we know what each one of those means.)

We chant both the endings by themselves and a model noun declined.

 

We have no hand motions.

[Miss Tick]

Thanks, RootAnn.

 

That's the kind of decisive answer I needed today!

 

For verb hand motions I just meant the vague wave to indicate me, you, he/she/it, etc.

[KrissiK]

We go down singular and then plural, too. If you do it right, it does have a sort of rhythm that sticks in your head. MP's model noun for 1st declension is mensa.

[Miss Tick]

We go down singular and then plural, too. If you do it right, it does have a sort of rhythm that sticks in your head. MP's model noun for 1st declension is mensa.

Thanks! Rhythm is just what I need. Today has been very syncopated. :-)

[clemota]

My DD 11 and I really like the first two verses of this song for remembering the noun order/names and the endings.  We're just getting to second declensions in GSWL, so we still need to learn the next couple of verses.

 

You can see a

here.

 

And yes, my husband gets very annoyed at us when we burst out singing, "Now in Latin there are only 5 declensions..."

 

 

[nwlivingmom]

We go down and do the singular and then the plural too.  The farther I'm getting into Latin, the more I'm understanding how important it is to know what each function does.  Take the time now to figure out what part of speech nominative is (subject), genitive (shows possession), dative (indirect object), accusative (direct object), and ablative (many uses).  You must understand these in order to translate correctly.  And, yes, we chant.  The 1st declension is known as the feminine.  So, I came up with a way to remember it: the first one is "a".  Most feminine words end in "a", so that will help you get started and remember that it is feminine.  Then, "ae", "ae", think of a woman who has long eyelashes, since "ae" sounds like eye.  We make the hand motion of a big curly eyelash in front of our own faces.  Once we have the "a", "ae", "ae", we can remember the rest of the chant just fine.  I don't know if that makes sense, but good luck!

[cintinative]

There is something for CC Cycle 1. I am sure you can find it on youtube or pinterest. There were songs for the declension endings.

 

Here is something: