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Originally Posted by non dignus  Our kids go to a good school that doesn't include Latin. So I'm self-learning and teaching Latin to my 7 and 9 year olds. I started with the Latina Christiana series from Veritas Press. Now I'm sorry we didn't begin with classical pronunciation instead of the ecclesiastical pronunciation which Veritas prescribes. I wish I hadn't started with that series even though it helped very much.
The best little gem of a book I found is Jenney's First Year Latin, published by Allyn and Bacon. It is your regular hardbound school text book. This is my curriculum guide now, and I supplement it with various other books from Latin for Dummies all the way up to Wheelock's Latin.
My 9 year old is doing 3rd declension and they are both conjugating 4 verb kinds in the imperfect tense. Our vocabulary now has about 75 words. The best part is they are miles ahead in English grammar as a result of this study. |
Hey David,
How many times per week do your children work on Latin? That's amazing that they're already doing three declensions and four verb conjugations in multiple tenses at ages 7 and 9. It's encouraging to me as well because the students I know who are around that age aren't making very much progress at all and I'm trying to figure out why. They're very intelligent children.
By the way, Wheelock is a great text!
As far as books which were not made specifically for homeschoolers go, I've also found one called
Latin via Ovid to be helpful. Thank you for the
Jenney's recommendation