That's great, thanks!

Thanks, that is reassuring!

Well, after doing some research, I have decided to purchase All Things Fun and Fascinating and we can bounce back and forth between SWI Level A and ATFF as we need to. I think this will work out really well for us and, after reviewing ATFF, I am excited to use it.

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Yes, thanks, I have seen it but it was good to look at it again. I'm thinking maybe we need to start the theme book ATFF and use it for a while to do more of what we have been doing before moving forward past where we currently are. I was hoping to hear what others thought who have more experience with IEW than I do though.

I am doing IEW with my two 9.5 year old boys. First we did the Bible Heroes theme book and it worked pretty well for us as an introduction to IEW's method. Now we are doing the Student Writing Intensive Level A. I feel that my sons could use some extra practice at the point where we are now, which is where they have to include at least one strong verb, adjective, adverb, a who/which clause and a because clause. They especially need more practice with putting in the who/which and the because clauses. So I am hesitant to just continue to move forward before they really have this mastered. I am wondering if maybe I should purchase another theme book and start it from the beginning but using the checklist for where they are now, instead of how they normally start off a theme book with a smaller check list. I'm not sure if that makes sense or not and not sure if that is the right way to go. What do you IEW experts think would be the best thing to do at this point?

Thanks, this sounds like good advice. I ordered the workbook.

I totally understand. I stopped updating mine also. Just not enough time in the day to get it all done.

Checking out Quizlet now, thanks! (p.s. I still miss your blog:)

Thanks Jana, I appreciate your help. So, the text book, the work book the answer key and the audio CD. I will make my own flash cards, if we need them. We make our own now and play a round of the memory game several times a week to stay fresh on our vocabulary.

I think this may be the direction we are headed. Thanks for the suggestions.

We tried them early on and didn't much care for them but thanks for the suggestion.

Actually I had not looked at Linney's Latin Class so thanks for bringing it to my attention. I looked at it and I think I would rather try to go with something that we can stick with for a while. When we first started Latin, we started with Prima Latina and didn't much care for it. So I ruled out Memoria Press early on but thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for posting. I have not looked at Cambridge because I was thinking it was whole to parts but I will check it out. I may be missing something good:). Thanks!

OK, thanks for the feedback and setting expectations. I am planning to work with them and learn it alongside of them and we will likely take it very slowly at first. I was all set to order this until I saw that Henle has a pronunciation DVD but then realized it is ecclesiastical pronunciation and I would rather have classical, so I think I am back to Latin Prep as our best option. What parts of Latin Prep do you guys use? (text, workbooks, answer book, pronunciation CD?)

I was just about sold on this until I saw that the pronunciation DVD is for ecclesiastical rather than classical. Do you know if anyone sells a classical pronunciation CD or DVD (or even on-line files) with classical pronunciation for Henle Latin 1?

I noticed that Henle Latin 1 starts with 5th graders so that might work if there is pronunciation help. Does anyone know if that exists?

Latin Prep was one I was considering. Do you think I could go from GSWL to LP with 9.5 year olds?

Do you know how far into Lively Latin 1 you have to get before they start sentence translation?

To be able to read Latin works in high school. I am learning along with them and we have really been enjoying it (or at least I have:). We really enjoy the translation exercises. I guess they also need to be able to converse in it to be counted as a foreign language credit?

Do you know what people use before Wheelock?

I have only really looked at the first two units of Lively Latin but noticed that it did not have sentence translation. Does it add sentence translation later in the course?

I have been researching various Latin curricula for what seems like forever and still am not sure which way to go when we finish Getting Started with Latin, which we love. My sons are approx. 9.5 years old (one is pencil phobic) and we are about half way through 4th grade. I am looking for a Latin curriculum that is: parts to whole, grammar approach has translation exercises (would be nice to have both Latin to English and English to Latin) has a CD or DVD for pronunciation help is Classical pronunciation. We have tried Latin for Children but I did not like the DVD lessons because they chanted so fast it was hard to understand and keep up with them and I don't recall seeing translation practice. I also have Lively Latin which I may need to look at again. I also just purchased Latin Book One (which was described as "Henle lite" in a review on Paula's archives) from Amazon because it sounded pretty good but then I realized that we won't have any pronunciation help with it. I am wondering if we could go straight to Henle but thinking it might be too much at this point (does it have classical pronunciation help?). Any suggestions?

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I totally get what you are saying and was lol about your idea to call him once a day. Very funny.