Level 1: Bestiae Ubique/Animals Everywhere
Notice
Since Level 1 Materials will become available in print soon, Level 1 is no longer available in the form of “preliminary access”. Projected availability of the print materials is late July.
Level 1: Bestiae Ubique/Animals Everywhere
Students learn to understand and say sentences about what animals do in various habitats: pets in the home and backyard, animals on the farm, animals in the forest, animals in the water, and animals in the wild. Students learn content knowledge about animals, such as animal life cycles and habitats, while learning Latin!
Students in this level learn…
- to recite three prayers, four bible verses, six religious songs and hymns (optional components)
- to sing 10-15 traditional children’s songs and nursery rhymes, many of them with several stanzas
- to understand and say around 16 “Gouin series” of approximately 6-8 sentences each (over 100 complete sentences)
- to understand and respond to questions about animal actions and habitats in the Little Socratic Talks (building from yes/no answers to increasingly long sentences)
- to describe dozens of beautiful works of art from Western and non-Western cultures
- to understand, act out and memorize parts of 11 picture books in Latin in interactive read-alouds as well as Reader’s Theater
Students in 3rd grade and up also learn explicit grammar:
- verb conjugations, with a focus on 1st and 3rd person singular and plural verb forms (all four conjugations are used)
- nouns in the nominative singular and plural, and accusative singular and plural (nouns used are from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd declensions) – the focus is on fully understanding the function of subject and direct object in a sentence
- adjectives in the nominative and accusative singular
- ablative of location
- throughout, sentence analysis is foregrounded (e.g. finding the subject, verb, direct object, prepositional phrase)
Teacher Resources include all of the following:
- Four Teacher Guides
- 90 thirty-minute lessons, fully planned and fully scripted
- each lesson incorporates a steady review of everything learned, already planned out
- lessons includes lots of songs from around the world
- optional grammar components directly in the guide so you can use the same teacher guide for multiple grades (some of our current pilot schools are using it in every grade from K through 5th!)
- 10 Level 1 picture books (available in print and as ebooks)
- an optional Student Book for 3rd grade and up (with grammar and writing)
- A Teacher Resource Book with all repeatedly used elements in one place (songs, prayers, Gouin series, Readers Theater versions of stories)
- A Teacher Resource Website with:
- PowerPoints to accompany the “Little Socratic Talks”
- audio files for all the songs, Gouin series, Little Socratic Talks, Picture Talks, and picture books in ecclesiastical and classical Latin
- lots of additional materials such as editable quiz banks, additional handouts, game cards, links to the pictures for picture study and to the ASL signs used for the songs and Gouin series
Print Materials Planned for 2026-27 School Year
Level 1 curriculum materials will be available for print purchase around late July 2026.