To combine my kids or not - Lively Latin

[luuknam]

I don't think my youngest is ready for the Big Book of Lively Latin (entering 2nd grade, skill-wise), whereas my oldest is entering 4th grade.

 

Do I:

 

1) Wait a year and hope I can combine them then?

2) Start oldest now and start youngest in 1 or more years?

3) Something else?

 

We're also currently dealing with the ancient Greeks in history, so starting Latin at the time we start the Roman history could potentially be neat for the oldest (but, if I do that, youngest won't be ready).

 

We currently do do Dutch (using Rosetta Stone), and youngest is actually ahead in that compared to my oldest (my oldest has possible apraxia of speech and possible stealth dyslexia, and had a massive speech/language/communication delay, though this month actually scored in the gifted range for verbal, albeit just barely).

[HomeAgain]

We are starting Latin with Roman history as well.  For mine (same age as your youngest) we're doing Latin's Not So Tough, and will be going through the first three levels before switching to something else. 
In your place I would probably start the oldest, letting the younger tag along with modified work.  Start him at the beginning in a year or two.

[deBij]

We did Getting Started with Latin with my second and fourth grader this year. The second grader did better in word translation and remembering the endings but applying the different cases at the end became a challenge. I created sheets for them to write their translation and the simple writing speed difference was significant so the younger did less.

 

We are also going onto Lively Latin and I expect to keep them together because they are social learners. It is fun to learn together. If it doesn't work out they can go on own pace but they do several programs together and prefer to group learn. They are also learning Dutch.

[luuknam]

Thanks. I'm inclined to think I should split them up, just because learning Latin is just so different from learning a living language*. I doubt tagging along with modified work would work for long... without grammar it'd very quickly devolve into just vocabulary lists, which would probably be boring.

 

*I know there's Rosetta Stone Latin, so I *could* do Latin just like Dutch, but I don't want to.

[lorisuewho]

We use Lively Latin.  All my children are about 1.5 years apart.  I decided just to let each work at his/her own pace.  So my oldest started last year and did about 1/2 of the first book.  My second is starting this year while my first will finish up book 1.  I'll start my next child the following year.