Third and Fourth Week of Quarter 3

 

 

Salvete, Spartanae Familiae!

4th Grade

We've merged our conversation of the Roman Villa and Prepositions into a competition with our mini-white boards! It's been a lot of fun racing to see which teams can finish their translations first and most accurately. The prize is, of course, a trip to the highly coveted sticker-trove... the sanctuary where we found our most beloved Titus! 

Looking ahead: We'll begin talking about Latin anatomy next week. We'll learn words like Caput, Oculus, Auris, Collum, and Pes.....

5th Grade

It was quiz week in 5th grade, and we knocked it out of the park. Quizzes and tests can be stressful, but we try to couple it with fun activities like vocabulary games and puzzle sheets. Once we finished our quizzes we learned about cryptograms, a type of word puzzle that uses logic about letters to crack the code. 

Here is a copy of the code below, see if you can figure it out yourself!

F ANVQ QH B YNOQBWYBVQ QGBQ ONYPNO LYNBJMBOQ BQ BVD QFSN. OH F HYTNYNT MYNVUG QHBOQ TWYFVX QGN YNVBFOOBVUN

Looking ahead: Next week we'll begin our translation of 'In Basilica', and stage our own courtroom scene. A lot of terms we use in courts have their roots in Latin. Phrases like Quid Pro Quo and Bone fide wouldn't be unfamiliar to our Roman friends. 

6th Grade

In 6th grade we started our translation of Anulus Aegyptus, first by doing an auditory reading followed by classic translation. Reading stories out loud engage the language part of the mind and remind us that Latin is still alive. It's also an engaging puzzle to learn new vocabulary words this way- hearing words in context builds memory maps back to that information that we can use later. 

Looking ahead: We have more vocabulary coming down the line- we'll work on our derivatives and write original sentences with these new words. We'll continue to work on Anulus Aegyptus since it is one of the longest stories we've translated so far. 

The spring semester can feel like a long one- for both students and teachers alike. In order to break up the routine we have a lot of fun things planned at Western Hills. There are treasure hunts, puzzle games, and other revelry on the horizon- not just because we like to have fun, but because we all learn better when our minds our engaged and curious.

As always, if you have any questions you may contact me at emily.riedlinger@greatheartswesternhills.org.

Cura ut Valeas,

Magistra Riedlinger