Combining LCI with LA1

[dsdv63]

Does anybody here combine Latina Christiana I with Lingua Angelica? If so, do you have a lesson plan that you'd be willing to share or a basic plan that you follow that you could share.
I am about to write up my lesson plan for the year but I thought I'd get some ideas for others on this first.
Thanks!

BTW - I'm new! Been homeschooling for 10 years now. Currently trying to get my new 7th and 9th graders to finish LCI so that we can move into LCII.:)

[hsingmama]

I'm wanting to start planning this out but not sure how to go about. My head is spinning from all the curriculum plans I've been working on this week. Honestly, I haven't even opened it up yet to see if it already has suggestions on how to approach it. Its one of the last things I'm working on later this week. We're hoping to do this in the evenings when dad gets home. He really wants to be apart of it.

I don't have any answers for you, but if you've happened to come up with any good ideas, I'd love to hear 'em. :o)

[oral deaf ed]

I'd like to second (or third) that request. We've been doing Prima and are moving into LC I this year. I will be using LA I for my 4th grade daughter. Upon reading all the info, it says to allow a half an hour a day for her Latin between the two. What I understand is that we listen to the music every day and practice memorizing (7 things the first year). If I understand correctly, there are only 2 pages in the entire workbook for her to do in the first year. So what else does she do? How else do we incorporate LA into our Latin time? I'm confused.

Ruth Mann

[jeremiah213]

There are two ways to incorporate LA with LCI. The first and milder of the two options is simply to memorize the LA songs as part of your Latin curriculum which gets Latin phrasing, endings, and phonetic sounds into your student's mind, making them sound less foreign (let's face it English ears have trouble not laughing at "matribus") The second and more intense option is to incorporate the entire LA curriculum into your week. Listening to the CD all week and then working on translating the songs maybe once or twice a week (it's a good 5th day/Friday activity). LA has an entire student bk, teacher bk, as well as the songbook and CD the later two of which I'm sure you're familiar with.

For your 4th grader I would recommend just memorizing the songs this year and working on translating next year... or just do very little translating near the end of this year. Adding on the entire LA curriculum is a significant increase in writing and translation work is hard, I think it may be frustrating for her.

So for this year or at least the beginning of this year, just enjoy the music. You might want to order the LA set and review it to see if it will be something that you guys will want to do as a full curriculum in the future.

glen

[oral deaf ed]

Thanks so much. I'm still a bit confused. I have purchased the LA set. It sounds like I have two options: either I just acquaint her with the CD by playing it often and having her memorize the seven pieces recommended, or I could do all this, plus frequent translation? How do you do frequent translation, since there are only a couple pages that apply to this year? Would it involve memorizing the vocab lists at the bottom of the pages? I read through the material but I think I missed something. I'm inclined to take your advice on just memorizing this year, but wondered about the translating. Thanks again for clarifying.

One more question. Foreign languages will come more easily for this daughter and she doesn't have to work hard. But next in line is a son (3rd grade this year) who won't find any of this easy. He'll struggle. When would you recommend starting him? And perhaps for more intel, I should add that he is deaf (with a cochlear implant) and though he hears thanks to modern technology, he doesn't pick up things by osmosis (if you will) like hearing people do. This is all the more reason in my mind to push Latin, so that he will be able to pick up new vocab more easily. Your thoughts? Thanks.

Ruth Mann