Another way to reinforce the material is to give the student English sentences (from the answer key) to translate back into Latin. It's much more challenging, so I'd only do a couple of sentences a day in addition to the Latin-to-English.

We call these "fountain pens." :) I don't know of any American schools that teach students to use them unless it's in art class for calligraphy. They're not something most people, adults or children, use here, although some people do collect them. I did a teaching internship in Germany years ago, and I loved that every child used fountain pens.

I don't mind being a queen bee, but "larvae" makes me twitchy because it's plural. The singular is "larva." The idea of being not just one but a bunch of immature insects is kind of off-putting. :ack2:

I've listened to the first couple of lectures and am enjoying the course so far. :001_smile:

This is how we handle it. If pressed, I give the grade that dd's age-peers would be in, which is also the grade we have chosen to list on our paperwork for the local school district (our state requires district approval for homeschoolers). That grade level does not correspond with the level of any curriculum she's using, but that's really not what's being asked in most circumstances - and certainly not in the one the OP described.

This is our situation as well. I'm not up for the theatrics that ensue after too long a break. :glare: We do take short breaks during the summer - dd is going to a one-week sleep-away camp, for example - but we keep up math and Latin at the very least, and she participates in our library's summer reading program.

My dd's troop meets twice a month through June. I don't think they have any summer activities planned, but some of the girls go to local GS summer camps.

None is singular: not one. :)

:iagree: Same here.

Buddhist scriptures reference ancient Indian units of time that, if taken literally, would make the universe vastly older than scientists know it to be. I have never met any Buddhists who take these descriptions literally or who discount modern scientific understandings of the origins of the universe, evolution, etc.

Thanks! :)

Academics.

My dd is going into 5th grade, but because she was in a cottage school in 2nd grade and a private school in 3rd, she's pretty far out of the normal LCC sequence for history and literature. She did Greek myths in 2nd grade and lots of Greek, Roman, and medieval history and lit. in 3rd. When we came back home this year for 4th grade, I decided to take advantage of her sudden enthusiasm for history, and we have read our way through SOTW 3 and 4 plus a variety of novels (The Prince and Pauper, Stories from Don Quixote, Tom Sawyer, Around the World in 80 Days). So next year we're returning to the Ancients, but with some Asian classics added in, since dd has had very little exposure to them. We'll continue on in the historical sequence as far as we can. I'm also considering beginning a modern foreign language with her (Mandarin), as an extra challenge, but I'm not 100% sure about that yet. Here's what I have so far: Latin: Henle First Year. Beginning next week and continuing through the summer. Hoping to finish at least through Unit II by June 2012. Math: LOF. Decimals & Percents this summer, Pre-Algebra in the fall. Composition: CW Homer A w/Hake Grammar 7 History: Suzanne Strauss Art Early Times series; Kingfisher and SOTW as references/review Literature: Gilgamesh the Hero, Black Ships before Troy, Ramayana, Jataka Tales, Magical Monkey King, Julius Caesar (Young Readers Shakespeare), In Search of a Homeland... Science: Evolution Revolution; Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be; Hakim's Story of Science; Thames & Kosmos Milestones of Science

Core Knowledge assigns it in 5th grade. Here's their edition.

I didn't read any of the other responses, but no, I don't find it funny at all.

The teens I know almost all have summer jobs or are involved in things like community theater.

Almost all U.S. colleges accept Latin as a foreign language. A few specify a modern (spoken) language; I know a few military schools want this. When in doubt, check with the colleges your students are interested in, as requirements vary.

I consider it a back-handed compliment at best. Mostly it's an expression of envy.

I do. Our system isn't perfect, but I can get most of what I want through ILL. We do have books at home (and very limited living space), and dd has by far the largest collection. But I don't need to own even a small fraction of what I read in a year. I only keep books I will re-read or refer to regularly. We also only have one child, so when she outgrows books, we don't have a reason to keep them around for the next one. That makes a big difference.

I'm an "other." I'm busy planning a Pre-K-12 curriculum for our classical school in New Hampshire! If all goes well and the school opens as planned, dd will be entering 3rd grade there. :)

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Online translation tools are notorious awful. "Garden of hope" is "hortus spei" in Latin. (There is no grammatical or pronunciation difference between classical and ecclesiastical in this phrase.)

:D I go to a Polish church and there was just a piece in the bulletin about this. Have fun!

Some of the models are drawn from retellings of Homeric stories, but actual translations of the Iliad and Odyssey are not assigned.

$10 for two paperbacks: Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and Tales of Ancient Egypt. Next year's history budget is $40 for MP's FMOG set.