Today I added to the Beginning Activities page, a short project that I always do called "Silent Movie: Acting Out the Accusative." I just finished it with my Latin I class today and it was a huge hit. Since this project has never failed, I thought that it needed to be on the website. I am looking forward to speaking at MaFla this Friday and meeting other Latin teachers!
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Well, school begins tomorrow and as usual, very little is planned. It's not really a problem since there are no students tomorrow - just long meetings - lots of Powerpoint presentations in the dark. The real fun begins on Tuesday.
In other news - I uploaded many mnemonic songs to the "Songs and Videos" tab. These have been extremely useful every year. I really should have uploaded these a long time ago - but they are here now, ready to be sung. As I say to my classes, "Ready! In a key of your choice..." Oh Summer, we hardly knew you! I clarified some of the RPG blogs based upon emails I had received from people wishing to implement it in their own classroom. I added the map to the second adventure - Land of the Lotus Eaters which was referenced but not uploaded. It's in the Google drive with the Second RPG adventure. I added a new Card and Board Game - Latinum Bellum (yes, would prefer Bellum Latinum but that would place it in the wrong place in the list of blogs-oh well) I also write a new blog under the "This I Believe Tab" entitled "The Energy Continuum."
Not added yet but I plan to create a new tab called "Ten Minutes Before the Bell" which lists various activities that can be done when there is not enough time to start something new but too much time to leave students unsupervised. Vinco - short, but intense game requiring no prep at all - added to Stuff for the Beginning student. It acquaints students with new words and gives them confidence that they might actually learn all of them.
I added a new blog under Kinetic Activities - Circus Maximus. I've been playing this one for years and it works with a variety of different levels
New blog added to "Stuff for Advanced Students" entitled "Survey Sorcery." There are three surveys added to the drive of stuff for advanced students that accompany the blog.
I added a new page to "The Stuff is Here" tab. It's called "This I Believe" and in it I hope to contain the various things that I've learned about teaching. The first blog I added is a paper I presented to CANE in 2013 about the power of storytelling.
Added a new activity to the Kinetics Activity page - Circum Mundum. This is another tried and true, play-tested with everyone activity.
New activity with pictures added to Card and Board Games! - Vocabulary puzzles. This is another tried and true activity - try it out!
Added some links to the links page. Still can't make any of the links live. Drat.
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