Latin and Greek Myths

Every three years or so we run through a book called, English From the Roots Up.

It contains 100 roots from Latin and Greek, along with mucho derivativos.

The idea is to put up a Greek or Latin root (Greek outlined in green, Latin outlined in Red), learn the meaning and then about 4 or 5 derivatives. The derivative part involves learning another root, tacking it onto the "root of the day" and then seeing the cool way these two (or three) roots come together to make a word in our English language.

Everyone goes through it two times, once around 4th grade and then again around 7th, or so. The only exception was Ardith because as we all know, she was THE GREAT EXPERIMENT and besides, she always knew more than me, anyway.

So this year it is Ethan for the second time, and Nolan for the first. They seem to enjoy it, guessing possible derivatives and meanings, before Ma can set them straight.

WELL, the other day, Nolan decided to drum up his own root and set of derivatives...you can tell it must be Greek...


Pretty clever, no?

Aside from the totally bogus meanings, he seems to have put things together pretty well :-)

The only thing I could add would be:

VirekisVenus--"people with reading lips that go to Venus"
 

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