grantmeawish Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I am planning for 3rd grade. I want to start latin this year and am trying to make it easy on myself and just follow SWB's reccomendations. At first, I thought PL for sure, but as I was researching it, I saw all these other curriculums. I don't think I want all the extras that LL has. We just want to get it done. I want my son to learn Latin for the purpose of grammar, writing etc. I feel like I should trust SWB recs on this, but something diiferent (GSWL) and shiner is pulling me away! Anyone else been through this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Well, it gets done here, and we both like and understand it. Keep in mind that SWB's recs are only a sampling. I don't think she intends for people to ONLY use her recs. They're just examples of what would work well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I happen to love GSWL like nothing else, because it was a very good fit method-wise (okay, and in price too) for my daughter and for me. I do not yet know if it will be a good fit for my son, but we will try it next year. But I really felt like we got some very solid Latin instruction from it, and it was fun, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edeemarie Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 We love GSWL and my two oldest are learning so much (well, I am too!). My only concern is that I will never be able to find something as great when we are finished with it! And you really can't beat the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Yes, GSWL really is that great. Too bad it's so short-lived. GSWL is one of the few materials I have used that I can recommend without any reservation or caveat whatsoever. As for SWB's recommendations, lots of programs weren't even in existence when WTM was last updated, and as Boscopup mentions, WTM contains only a sampling, food for thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipitous journey Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I really, really like GSWL and A. tolerates it (he's in 2nd grade). It feels old-school to me (I like old-schoolish things): clean pages, simple presentation, easy to work through, sensible, no wasted effort. And it's pretty inexpensive. It is also flexible enough to adapt to a student's interest/aptitude. You can work at the student's pace, you can crank it up by doing the English-to-Latin translations as you go, you can extend it by doing one round through the book Latin-to-English and then a second English-to-Latin, you can easily augment with something like SSL or Minimus or you can do it straight up. It is entirely possible your student won't love it, but hard to imagine that it wouldn't do a good job of teaching her. At our house it is sort of like handwriting practice: a bit of a chore to A., but occasionally he is extremely pleased with what he produces; and the incremental progress really adds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Yes, GSWL really is that great. Too bad it's so short-lived. GSWL is one of the few materials I have used that I can recommend without any reservation or caveat whatsoever. :iagree: The simplicity of it is genius. I plan to use GSWS eventually, too. I wish more things were designed like this! Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clemota Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Yup. It's awesome. And inexpensive. For $20 ($10 on a Kindle!), you get a worktext WITH answers AND mp3 files of the author going over each lesson with correct pronunciation. Written FOR homeschoolers, not re-worked from a classroom text. How cool is that?! Totally worth it's shiny-ness in every way. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abeilles Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Y'all have sold me on this! And can't beat the price. What are you using/recommending after GSWL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Y'all have sold me on this! And can't beat the price. What are you using/recommending after GSWL? I'm stretching GSWL over 2 years (3rd and 4th grade - doing Latin only a couple days per week, which is probably heresy). Then my current plan is to move to Latin Prep, from Galore Park. We'll do Latin more days per week then. ;) I got the Kindle version of GSWL. It's easy to use electronically, since each lesson is usually one page, maybe 2. You have the brief lesson material where it introduces the new word or concept, then you have 10 sentences to translate. We do it orally. When we first started, we did multiple lessons in one day, but by about lesson 10, I think there was enough interesting stuff to do just one lesson per day. And now, my son's brain would explode if I had him translate another 10 sentences. :lol: So it ramps up quickly, yet it stays gentle, only introducing one new thing at a time, and constantly reviewing previous material. It's very well done. When I initially looked at other Latin programs, I had a hard time making sense of many of them, having never studied Latin before. GSWL immediately made sense to me, and now I feel more comfortable moving to something like Latin Prep when we're done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 For us, the follow-up to GSWL is Latin Book One, an OOP book that's available in its entirety, with answer key, in an attractive format on Yahoo Groups. Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheApprentice Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Yeah, it's a hit here, as well. I'm learning tons of Latin. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 We moved to level 3 of Latin's Not So Tough after GSWL and like it too. Level 3 doesn't have much (any?) new grammar in it, but I opted to use it because it has quite a bit of new vocabulary. DD found it to be an easy transition; she finished Level 3 easily and is now on to Level 4 and loving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grantmeawish Posted April 3, 2013 Author Share Posted April 3, 2013 Ok!! I am sold on it. Thank you for your replies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckabella Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 For us, the follow-up to GSWL is Latin Book One, an OOP book that's available in its entirety, with answer key, in an attractive format on Yahoo Groups. Tara Would you mind sharing which Yahoo group this would be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Latinbk1/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latinbooktwo/ Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckabella Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Latinbk1/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latinbooktwo/ Tara Thanks so much Tara! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagglelim Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I'm stretching GSWL over 2 years (3rd and 4th grade - doing Latin only a couple days per week, which is probably heresy). I'm a heretic too, then! :lol: We do the exact same thing. We are stretching GSWL over 2 years, 3rd and 4th grade, and do Latin only a couple days per week! Though I don't know where to go after this..... OP, GSWL is AWESOME. Effective, brilliant, non-intimidating. AWESOME. We have learned sooooo much. As we progress through the lessons, I'm constantly amazed that we can look at the sentences and actually understand them. My daughter just said to me yesterday, "Mom, I've really learned a lot in this book." Also, I saw on the website that Mr. Linney (the author) is creating a downloadable lecture series to follow GSWL. He uses an ancient book called The First Year of Latin. His lectures aren't complete yet, but here is the info in case anyone is interested: http://www.linneyslatinclass.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I resisted purchasing it for a long time, but now it is the first thing I recommend to anyone wanting to start Latin !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 It is the BEST! We tried LL and LfC and neither worked. It just didn't stick. GSWL was freaking amazing. He got it. I got it. Something about the method just stuck. We went through it in about 24 weeks and then moved to Galore Park's Latin Prep I. The beginning is mostly review with a few new vocab words. The only thing we're having issues with the fact that the cases are in a different order in LP, than they were in GSWL, but they gave us a funny little way to remember them and it always makes Indy giggle, so that's good. LP is also pretty funny in its own quirky British way. As much as we like LP, we both really miss GSWL. I wish he would write follow up books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLittleWonders Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 We love it here too! It is easy, enjoyable (my boys love to diagram the English translations), and gets done. We are going to go into LfC A next year, mostly because we like that program too (we had been doing it before it got to be too much and we broke to do GSwL). I'm thinking we will fly through LfC A as much of it will just be review, but I am fine with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloha2U Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Honestly, I think Latin for Children is a *far* better resource. We're learning and taking away much more from it, than we did with GSWL. That being said, GSWL is quite complementary to LfC. But I would definitely use LfC first and just use GSWL as a supplement/review. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 The simplicity of it is genius. I plan to use GSWS eventually, too. I wish more things were designed like this! Jackie I have used both GSWL and GSWS. Both are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Getting Started with French will be released soon. Woohoo! I should brush up on the little I used to know. (Scroll down to see the announcement posted on March 12, 2013.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Getting start with French will be released soon. Woohoo! I should brush up on the little I used to know. (Scroll down to see the announcement posted on March 12.) Oh, that is excited! Indy wants to add French (because Greek and Latin apparently aren't enough) and I was wishing they'd come out with a French version. I'm hoping it won't be long before it comes out. Indy really wants to add Arabic (what is with my child?????), so I need them to work on that next. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoo_keeper Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Getting start with French will be released soon. Woohoo! I should brush up on the little I used to know. Awesome, thanks! My first foreign language love (happy sigh)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Awesome, thanks! My first foreign language love (happy sigh)... Same here! And YVW. I can't wait to get it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 No way! I'm so glad I clicked back on this thread; I've been hoping for a GSWFrench for a long time -- so glad to see it's going to happen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandmsmom Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 We absolutely love it! It's so easy to do and the kids really have fun with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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