One of the students ’ favorites is an edible Roman temple building project that they get to eat at the end of class . This gingerbread house style project could not be done this year since it involves food and group work so this year we had a column building contest in which each student had to build a model of each of the 3 types of columns using only 3 index cards , 2 sheets of paper , scissors , clear tape , and a glue stick . In some cases , I have liked the new ways better and will probably still do them after the pandemic is over .
3rd and 4th Grade Google Classroom Assignments
An example of this was our house project . In the past , the 6th-grade students worked in groups to draw the floorplan of a Roman house and then label the rooms in Latin and demonstrate their knowledge of the rooms ’ uses by furnishing the rooms with magazine pictures imagining that their family moved in today . This year I gave each student a 12x18 printed floorplan to label and furnish .
The silver lining to the pandemic has been finding new and sometimes better ways to teach students .
6th Grade House Project
3rd Grade Mosaic
Catherine Stancil ( cstancil @ calvaryday . school ) earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wake Forest University in 1989 where she majored in Latin and minored in Education . Catherine has taught Latin to 2nd through 12th grade students in Winston- Salem and Chapel Hill , North Carolina . She currently serves on the Exploratory Latin Committee of Excellence Through Classics .
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