Vero, the little grits from the scholae Grit have begun their studies in Latin. With a TEACHER.
Ita vero, you read that right. Her name shall be Lingua Latina and she comes round once a fortnight.
As a real proper ex-teacher of the retired variety and the spit of Giles' Grandma, she wears a gabardine coat, flat woolly hat and a stern expression of grim control. She is to sit at the kitchen table on a stash of Cambridge Latin Book 1 whereupon she will lay down the law regarding glue sticks and pencils.
But I know it for what it is, this teacherly authority over the crayons and the six-year olds, thus cannot help but love her for her weaknesses. I know they exist. I am looking forward to Latin lessons enormously. I have quietly resolved to learn mischievous Latin phrases and drop them in our innocent games of Snap! at unguarded moments. And in this naughty provoking endeavour, I am finding X-treme Latin is helping, enormously.
Sit iucundus tibi dies.
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The Cambridge books are good, and the gritlets will probably love the witty twists in the Latin stories as much as my kids did. If one of them has a yen to know how to put words together into sentences in Latin, though, the best book out there is Getting Started in Latin. Even my 6 year old got it. And no, I'm not selling anything -- I just really like that book, especially beside the Cambridge with its pretty pictures.
Brilliant, thank you. everything helps!
I think you should call her Veronica (Vero for short, of course).
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