Scissor Skills and Latin

E loves any excuse to use scissors. Here's a heart she cut out when she learnt the Latin word 'Amo':

 

We've taken a break from working through our 'learn Latin' book and are just picking up new words from songs like this for now. This one is still our favourite.

 

As I said, E loves to use scissors. She's still getting the hang of cutting well, so I bought her a book called "More Cutting Skills". The Mr photocopied all the pages for us. She has only done the first two exercises as yet, but is having great fun with it.

 

Vale, for now.

 

-Polly

A Farmer and his Tractor

Another activity that E worked on this week was this tractor picture:

I got the idea from here, although I didn't use their printout (we don't have a working printer, so I didn't even look at it). I just cut out the shapes myself. It was good practice for E in identifying colours, shapes and sizes, as well as a little bit of counting. It was all pretty easy for her, though.

The farmer and speech bubbles were hand-drawn by me and were to reinforce our latest Latin lessons.

-Polly

Learning Latin

Another book that we bought recently is "Getting Started with Latin," by William E. Linney. No-one in our family has ever studied Latin before, so we plan to work through the book at a snail's pace. That way even 2-year-old E can keep up. Here's an activity that we did after learning the Latin word for 'sailor':

We made basic origami sailboats and little cardboard sailors to sit in them. Here's the folding instructions:

 



We have also watched this [three pigs] cute video a few times. It's fun to watch even if you aren't learning Latin.

vale!

-Polly