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Curriculum Pick: Foreign Languages

Grade 5

For French, we’re going to stick with Speaking French with Miss Mason and François from Cherrydale Press. I like that it’s easy and fast.

As for Latin? Well, I almost dropped it this year. I love learning Latin with River, but our schedule felt too full and Latin seemed like the least practical of our subjects. My friends disagreed. “Don’t drop something you love!” they argued. I’m pretty sure that they told me to drop science instead, given that River does it on her own time anyway. I wonder how that would have gone over with my family…

I wanted another opinion, so I asked River if she thought we should cut Latin.

“No, I like Latin.”

So it looks like we’re still doing Latin.

I’m so glad, though. I enjoyed our Latin for Children books, and River and I both liked the accompanying Headventures Land website. We moved pretty slowly last year because the grammar is a bit intense. This year, I plan to do a lot of reviewing before we continue on in our book.

Grade 1

I might see if Harbour is interested in doing Song School Latin, or maybe French using Little Pim. She’s usually game to watch anything on TV, but we’ll see. Teaching Harbour a foreign language is just not a priority for me this year.

Pre-School

If you read my blog, you already know that Forest is learning more Spanish than I will ever know. Gracias, Dora. Gracias, Diego.

Jump Ahead: Our Curriculum Pick for 2017/2018

Introduction
Math: Beast Academy and RightStart
Language Arts: Barefoot Ragamuffin and Brave Writer curriculums
History: Wayfarers: Ancient History
Geography: Wayfarers: Ancient History
Science: Science in the Ancient World
Bible: Episcopal Children’s Curriculum
Foreign Languages: Speaking French with Miss Mason and François and Latin for Children
Miscellaneous: Wayfarers: Ancient History