Latin Lesson 1: Counting, Greetings & Intro Grammer

I haven't found a Latin program I like for the boys (or one I was willing to pay a whole lot of money for) so I've begun putting together my own curriculum on the subject. (I know, you're bracing yourself for the shock! LOL) I've decided I'll share these lessons with you all. Each week we cover a lesson, we say them out loud each day and DJ writes them out 3x/week, one of those times he creates sentences with the vocab, and another he creates vocab cards (index cards with the Latin on one side and the English on the other), and finally I call out the words in English and he writes them out in Latin like a test.

Counting:

1 = Unus          6 = Sex
2 = Duo           7 = Septem
3 = Tres           8 = Octo
4 = Quattor      9 = Novem
5 = Quinque    10= Decem

**You'll notice something right off....4 of our months were rooted in Latin: September, October, November & December....a word in English that is rooted in Latin is termed: Derivative. You'll also notice the similarities between the 'romantic languages' and their basis in Latin....1 in French = Un, in Spanish = Uno...

Greetings:

Word / Phrase.............Singular............... Plural
"Hello"................,,,,,,...Salve!....................Salvete!
"How are you?"...........Quid agis?
   -- "very well"...........Satis bene!
   -- "excellent"...........Optime!
   -- "very bad"...........Pessime.
"Who are you?"...........Quis es?...............Quis estis?
   -- "I am"....................sum
   -- "You are"................es........................estis
   -- "We are"...............sumus
   -- "everyone".............omnes
"What"........................Quid
**Family**
Mother........................mater
Father..........................pater
Daughter......................filia
Son.............................filius
Brother......................frater
Sister.........................soror
Friend.......................amicus
Teacher...................(m) magister  (f) magistra

Grammer:

Latin Consonants
Consonant........Pronunciation................example
'c'...................soft before e,i,ae,oe..............like 'ch' in charity
'c'...................hard before other letters........like 'c' in cut
'g'...................soft before e,i,ae,oe..............like 'g' in germ
'g'..................hard before all other letters.....like 'g' in go
'gn'...........................................................like 'gn' in lasagne
'j'..............................................................like 'y' in yet
's'..................never like a z......................like 's' in sing
'sc'..........................................................like 'sh' in shoot
't'..............when followed by 'i' and a vowel....sounds like 'tsee'

**letter missing from the lating alphabet? "W"**

Latin Vowels
Vowel..........Long Sound...................example
'a'...............'ah'..............................like in father
'e'...............'eh' (ay)........................like in they
'i'................'ee'...............................like in machine
'o'..............'oh'..............................like in no
'u'..............'oo'..............................like in tool
'ae'............'ay'...............................like in they
'oe'...........'ay'...............................like in they
'au'...........'ow'.............................like in cow