Thought of the day:  Why did I use Fables, Fairy Tales and Stories from the Bible for this series?  Children love, love, love stories of all kinds.  As I drive the children around they say "Tell us a Story, Tell us a Story".  Oh, how can we resist this request?  So I tell stories.  Of course the best stories are the true stories.    "Tell us something that happened when you were little", or "Tell us something scary".  "Did you really fit that many people in your car when you were growing up?"  (We had a very large family.)

So, what greater stories to tell than the stories from the Bible like the incredible story of Creation or David and Goliath?  And we can tell the parables that Jesus told like the Wise Man and the Foolish Man.  The stories in  Olim, Once Upon a Time in Latin, are adapted from the Bible with a few fables thrown in for good measure.  We have reworded all the stores so we can translate them using Latin grammar which is a bit easier.
The fables teach good lessons. You can draw from these character traits to talk with your children. You can ask questions like "What do we learn from the smart crow?"  "What happened to the tortoise because he went to sleep when he should have been racing?"  "What could that character have done differently?
Of course, God's word has so much for us to learn.  So while they are working with the reader and the workbook the children get a mixture of Latin, reading, character building messages and if you work with them, time with mom too.  How can you beat that?  Some fun stories, some scary stories, lots and lots of stories.

As always, have fun.  Send me a note if you have the time.  
mary ellen at the typewriter/computer