Latin (Crown)

Here’s a link to the 6th grade bulla project.

Bulla rubric

 Saturnalia was a popular Roman winter solstice celebration.  The celebration revolved around a festival for Saturn, the god of sowing seed, and Ops, the goddess of abundance.  During the holiday, the festival revolved around gift-giving and role reversal: Masters became slaves, slaves became masters, gambling was permitted, and common gifts were small, terracotta figurines or beeswax candles.  The festive meals included delicacies like dormice sprinkled with honey and poppy seeds.  In fact, the dormice were fattened for two weeks ahead of time to ensure their taste!  Hence, the 6s, 7s, and 8s made their very own dormice in honor of Saturnalia.  Ask your child about the ingredients!

Salvete omnes!

Here are the semester review materials for the 8th graders to complete during winter break. The students should complete at least 12 pages of the entire packet, 20 pages total.  Please email Magistra Vastardis if you have any questions at all.  Happy break!

Noun/Adj semester review packet

Verb semester review packet

The new 7th grade checklist and objectives are available here as PDFs.  Please feel free to download these if you forget your materials at school or lose them.

Chapter XII Objectives

Chapter XII Checklist

For the 7th grade, the Chapter XII vocabulary practice has been added to our QUIA.  The 7s will have their Chapter XII vocabulary quiz on Friday 12/12.

http://www.quia.com/pages/vastardislatin.html

The Chapter III vocabulary practice game has been uploaded to our Quia page.  The 6s will having their Chapter III vocabulary quiz this Friday 12/12.

http://www.quia.com/pages/vastardislatin.html

Attached is the new 6th grade checklist for Chapter III.  If students lose their materials or forget them at home, please download the checklist.  Gratias ago!

Chapter III Objectives

Chapter III Checklist

The Fifth Graders are coming along in their “Taste of Latin” experience.  They have been reading Chapter I of the textbook, Minimus, learning about the countries that were part of the Roman Empire in the first century C.E. (A.D.)  They have mastered the Salve song, Alphabet song and most recently, “Argus”, a song about Ulysses’ canis (dog).  They are working on their first vocabulary list, which came home Thursday and which will be due back on Thursday, December, 4.  Curate ut valeatis!

Salus in mundo antiquo! November

The Latin Happening is an interdisciplinary, multi-age, experiential project. Each year the Latin Happening is centered around one general theme related to the culture and history of the Ancient World. Past Latin Happenings have featured Ancient Cartography, Roman Comedy and Laughter, Roman Architecture, Pompeii and more.

In this year’s Latin Happening we are exploring Salūs in Mundō Antiquō (“Health in the Ancient World”) in the two days before Thanksgiving break. To do so, students will be studying movement of water in ancient cities, building a replica of an aqueduct, studying transmission of disease and its impact on population, creating amulets and votive offerings to the gods in search of protection and cure, creating puppet characters, and finally creating puppet theatre which reflects their experience over the two days.

We are hoping students come away from this event with a better understanding of Ancient Roman medical practice, both preventative and curative, health and sanitation, and the transmission of contagious disease in both the ancient and contemporary worlds.

Special activities in the Latin program will be featured in this section. Stay tuned for our Halloween activities next week! Laetus Dolus aut Donum!!