Storybook Latin 1: Fables

Mixed Feelings

Having never studied Latin, I chose this curriculum in part because I liked the idea of reading stories, as well as the advertising that it was no prep/prior Latin knowledge required. While I did like the story structure of the book, my children and I were all disappointed that the curriculum did not have actual pictures with the stories, they leave it blank for the students to draw the pictures so it was far less visually engaging than anticipated. It also had some serious errors in editing: words that students were expected to know that they had never learned and were missing from the vocab list in the back of the book, as well as a lack of explanation on quite a bit of structure. I found myself looking up Youtube explanation videos whenever it was time to learn a new declension, case, adjectives, prepositions, etc. Over all, now that we have a better understanding of sentence structure, I will purchase the next level of this curriculum in hopes that it will make more sense but for the first level, it required quite a bit of time on my part to research and understand the different rules and structure.