Ali in OR Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I went to the CAP website today to download some Latin worksheets and saw that they are now shipping the SfC DVD. They have a sample on the site too. I ordered it today along with next year's Latin. We are on chapter 13 in SfC, but when we get the DVD I think we're going to go back and watch all of the previous chapters and review. Thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has been waiting for the DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmaddox Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 could you post the webiste name. I am interested in learning more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisychics Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 could you post the webiste name. I am interested in learning more. here you go: http://www.classicalacademicpress.com/sfc.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Kjeld...in CA Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Thanks for posting. I've been waiting for the dvd. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the program so far. Joy! Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmaddox Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Thanks so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 We're off to gymnastics...I'll come back tonight and post my thoughts on SfC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Kjeld...in CA Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Thanks, Ali! I'll look forward to your response. Joy! Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ali in OR Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 Here's our background: I had 4 years of Spanish in high school and have wanted to teach my girls some Spanish for the last several years. I never found a program that I liked (and some seemed really expensive) so I told myself I would just wing it with some word books, books in Spanish from the library, and some CDs. Winging it does not work for me--nothing gets done. So with SfC, at least something gets done. When I chose Latin for Children for us last spring, I decided to give their Spanish for Children a try too. Latin for Children has turned out to be my kids' favorite subject. They love the DVD. They are learning a lot and retaining a lot. I like that LfC and SfC are structured similarly. When we were on the same chapter in each (we are now further ahead in Latin), sometimes the grammar lessons were the same and some of the vocab was the same. It's neat to see where the languages are the same or similar and where they differ. In my opinion, LfC is a better course right now than SfC. It's the difference between a mature program and a new one that still has a few kinks. I am hoping that the DVD will help us get a lot more out of SfC. LfC has been so successful that I am very willing to slow down or start over with SfC and to be patient with the errors and relative lack of support materials. I think it has great potential. And my 8 yo is still very interested in Spanish even though we haven't had the DVD. For both courses we go through the pages together about 4 days a week. We do the memory page on Mondays (and watch the Latin DVD grammar lesson), memory page + grammar page Tuesday, memory page + worksheet on Wednesdays, memory page + quiz on Thursdays. In Latin we watch the kids do the chant on the DVD most days. I'm just discovering the extra worksheets at the CAP website so we will start doing more of those. I'm thinking we do about 15 minutes per language per day. I'm doing most of the writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnllj7 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I am looking forward to hearing responses on the Spanish for CHildren, from what I saw on their website it looks great, I use their Latin program, and was thinking of doing both next year, anyone got suggestions or comments on that? thank you, nancyt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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