the switch LC1 to LC2

[littlesister]

I used LC1 last year with great success with my 7th and 3rd grade boys.
Now my 8th grader is ready to move on, but after a long summer, my 4th grader is struggling with mere vocabulary, and can't do the translations. He's experiencing some real frutration.
If I let my little guy drop Latin'for now", he could pick it up again later with his little sister.
But my 8th grader would have to work on his own, without a group to do the recitations, etc. Better than nothing, though.
(Please don't suggest I form a cottage group; I live outside the there are only a few americans doing home-school at my location.)
What would you-all do?

[adnilpress]

HI - Well, with such a gap between the two, I think I'd let the older one go on alone - either with LCII or Henle Latin I.

Have you used Lingua Angelica? This really adds to these programs, and I've used it with great success 'in between' books - it really brings Latin 'alive' - thus far, we've simply sung some of the songs, and not yet done the translations - I'm letting them enjoy the Latin.

Perhaps your younger one simply needs to re-do LC1, maybe at a quicker pace, but mastery is better than rushing it through.

Hope that helps!