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Throughout 2026, students explore the origins of the Latin months of the year and how they connect to English. There's a special activity for each month that goes with the theme of that month's Roman origin. This activity works well for a Roman Time Unit at the start of the new year!Included: An overall calendar for 2026 at a glanceA calendar page for each month of 2026, including the summer months, for students to add their own personal upcoming events (birthdays, holidays they celebrate, conce

Students will identify the degree of the provided Latin adjectives (positive, comparative, or superlative) to color the picture. When your students are done, these make excellent classroom decorations! Colorate Verbīs is designed for independent review and practice, but could also be used in pairs. Included:Answer keyGlossary of adjectives used (in all degrees and genders)Black-and-white version for easier printingStudents will need access to colored pencils, crayons, highlighters, or markers.M

This bundle collects Latin chat mats to help get your students talking in the target language using sentence starters, guided dialogue, and engaging, student-friendly images. These chat mats are a great way to stimulate conversation in your Latin classroom, get to know your students, and build community! Get your students talking about themselves and their interests!Questions include:"How are you?""What color(s) do you like?""What animals do you like?""What do you like to do?""What food do you l

Students use Latin sentence starters to have a conversation about the weather. The chat mat has a helpful picture for each response. This is a great way to build community and get to know your students while they use the target language. Suggestions for how to use this chat mat:To facilitate a teacher-led check-in with students individually: As students line up to enter your room, you can hold up the chat mat and ask them the question individually, offering them a chance to look at the options a

Students use Latin sentence starters to have a conversation about their interests, specifically what colors they like or don't like. The chat mat has a helpful picture for each response. This is a great way to build community and get to know your students while they use the target language. Suggestions for how to use this chat mat:As students line up to enter your room, hold up the chat mat and ask them the question, offering them a chance to look at the options and respond in Latin.Project the

Students use Latin questions and sentence starters to have a conversation about their feelings and emotions. The chat mat has a helpful, student-friendly emoji picture for each response. This is a great way to build community and get to know your students while they use the target language. Suggestions for how to use the chat mat:To facilitate a teacher-led check-in:As students line up to enter your room, hold up the chat mat and ask them the question, offering them a chance to look at the optio

Students use Latin sentence starters to have a conversation about their interests, specifically what animals they like or don't like. The chat mat has a helpful picture for each response. This is a great way to build community and get to know your students while they use the target language. Suggestions for how to use the chat mat:To facilitate a teacher-led check-in:As students line up to enter your room, hold up the chat mat and ask them the question, offering them a chance to look at the opti

Students use Latin sentence starters to have a conversation about their interests, specifically what foods they like or don't like to eat. The chat mat has a helpful picture for each response. This is a great way to build community and get to know your students while they use the target language. Suggestions for how to use the chat mat:To facilitate a teacher-led check-in:As students line up to enter your room, hold up the chat mat and ask them the question, offering them a chance to look at the

Students use Latin sentence starters to have a conversation about their interests, specifically what they like to do and what they don't like to do. The chat mat has a helpful picture for each response. This is a great way to build community and get to know your students while they use the target language. Suggestions for how to use the chat mat:To facilitate a teacher-led check-in:As students line up to enter your room, hold up the chat mat and ask them the question, offering them a chance to l

Students will identify nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative case endings on 3rd declension forms of the noun "flos, floris, m. flower" to color the picture. When your students are done, these make excellent classroom decorations! Colorate Verbīs is designed for independent review and practice, but could also be used in pairs. Included:Answer keyBlack-and-white version for easier printingStudents will need access to colored pencils, crayons, highlighters, or markers.Material co

Students will identify nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative case endings on 2nd declension masculine forms of the noun "fungus, fungi, m. mushroom" to color the picture of mushrooms. Colorate Verbīs is designed for independent review and practice, but could also be used in pairs. Included:Answer keyBlack-and-white version for easier printingStudents will need access to colored pencils, crayons, highlighters, or markers.Material covered:Second Declension Noun EndingsMasculine O

This bundle collects a variety of Roman culture handouts and practice activities for celebrating holidays in Latin class, including: Lemuria, Halloween, Saturnalia, New Year's, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, Matronalia, and Women's History Month/International Women's Day. Included:Culture ReadingsA summary of the ancient holiday and modern connectionshow, when, where, why, and what was celebratedDerivatives and "did you know" sections for extra fun factsA brief Latin grammar section with vocabul

Students will read about Greek and Roman flower myths. Then, they'll use randomized second declension Latin adjectives to illustrate and write their own flower story in English. This is a great, low-prep activity to use in the spring! It also pairs well with a unit on mythology and/or Latin adjectives.Included:A one-page reading about Greco-Roman tree and flower myths with summaries of five famous stories of this genre: Narcissus, Adonis, Baucis and Philemon, Daphne, and HyacinthusStudent-friend

Felicia Matronalia!Matronalia was an ancient Roman holiday that celebrated women. While this unit fits perfectly with Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8th), it works well for any time of year. It's always a good time to learn about Roman women and appreciate the women around us now. This bundle includes:A Matronalia cultural handout to explain the Roman holiday and introduce a few notable Roman women: Hortensia, Livia, Agrippina the Younger, and Julia Domna. Thi

Using the provided templates, students write Matronalia cards to friends and/or family members. This ancient Roman holiday celebrated women, which makes it perfect for Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8th). For this activity, students are asked to incorporate at least two of the suggested Latin phrases (with English translations) in their cards. Because flowers were given during the Matronalia festival, the templates also have a space for students to draw a flo

Given English meanings, students will find Latin Matronalia (an ancient Roman holiday dedicated to women) terms hidden in the box of random letters. This pairs perfectly with Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8th). It's a great grab-and-go activity! I've included an answer key for the word search.There's both a color version and a black-and-white version for easier printing.Material covered:Matronalia unit vocabulary included in this activity:feminafiliauxormater

This cultural handout explains the ancient Roman holiday of Matronalia, a celebration of women. It's perfect to use with Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8th). The front of the handout goes over the origin and importance of the holiday and exactly how it was celebrated in Rome. The bottom section introduces a few notable Roman women: Hortensia, Livia, Agrippina the Younger, and Julia Domna. The back of the handout gives "did you know" facts and derivatives. I've

Students will identify the active personal endings of Latin verbs to color a picture. Colorate Verbīs is designed for independent review and practice, but could also be used in pairs.Included:Answer keyBlack-and-white version for easier printingStudents will need access to colored pencils, crayons, highlighters, or markers.Material covered:Active VoicePersonal Endings (-o, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt)English Pronouns (I, you, he/she/it, we, y'all, they)

Students will identify the active personal endings of present tense verbs to color a picture. To complete this activity, they'll need to match the correct verb ending to the corresponding English pronoun that does the action of the verb. Colorate Verbīs is designed for independent review and practice, but could also be used in pairs.Included:Answer keyBlack-and-white version for easier printingStudents will need access to colored pencils, crayons, highlighters, or markers.Material covered:Presen

Students will identify all tenses of conjugated amo, amare (to love) verb forms in passive voice to color an abstract design. Colorate Verbīs is designed for independent review and practice, but could also be used in pairs.Included:Answer keyBlack-and-white version for easier printingStudents will need access to colored pencils, crayons, highlighters, or markers.Material covered:1st conjugationPassive voicePresent, Imperfect, Future, Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Perfect TensesAll persons and