Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Just the other night my Classical HS’ers Moms group got together for an evening of fellowship.  We started the evening with a delicious dinner of roasted chicken, pineapple cheese casserole—can’t wait to get the recipe for this, candied carrots, rice pilaf, vege tray, bread, artichoke dip, and for desert we had no-bake-cookies and the chocolate cheesecake I brought.  We finally finished off the chocolate cheesecake this morning and it was by-far the best one I’ve made.  SO rich, but getting back to the meeting.

Our topic for the evening was How to Teach Latin, particularly when you don’t know it yourself, and to discuss Latin programs.  Prior to going I found a great little article by Cheryl Lowe that I took along.  The points I wanted to make about teaching Latin were in there, plus a few others.  In our home I’ve found we had more success with learning Latin when we do daily chants, when we changed to thinking of Latin as a basic core course rather than added in at the end of the day or when we have time, and when the kids review their vocabulary daily.  Having all of us know grammar has made learning Latin easier too but I can’t see how one would be successful without the other key elements. 

It was nice to be out with other moms, chatting away about school and what we do, and our kids successes and failures.  I shared a few failures that we’ve had in our homeschool, which are being turned into sucesses.  If things work right that will be my next post.