tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280800652024-03-07T23:34:18.368+00:00MinimusThe mouse that made Latin cool!Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-68288629607607701232020-09-19T19:27:00.001+01:002020-09-19T19:27:27.580+01:00Minimus calendar 2020/2021 (school year) Here's a printable Minimus calendar for the new school year!
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-21897831643693607622020-08-31T11:06:00.001+01:002020-08-31T11:06:21.511+01:00Minimus Picture Dictionary
I've made a picture dictionary for Minimus! Thanks to Stef Bristow for the idea and for compiling the word list. Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-1167727453498320032020-07-29T19:41:00.000+01:002020-07-29T19:41:01.990+01:00Minimus Family Stick PuppetsPrint out the PDF and follow the instructions to make your own set of Minimus lolly stick puppets. The theatre is made from a cardboard box with three long slots cut in the bottom side to allow the puppets to be pushed through and slid along. We'd love to see photos of your versions!
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-12252542153335460462020-06-09T16:49:00.001+01:002020-06-09T16:49:09.596+01:00Printable bookmarks and bookplatesHere's a set of Minimus bookmarks and bookplates to print out and colour. Download them here:Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-58017683592237753362020-06-03T19:13:00.000+01:002020-06-03T19:14:04.161+01:0030 Days Wild 2020Minimus is joining in on Twitter with this year's #30DaysWild - posting a wildlife picture for every day in June, with Latin captions. Of course, Minimus and Minima are locked down at the moment, so some of the photos were taken a while ago!Day 1: Minimus ranunculos in stagno invenit; mox in ranas vertent. (Minimus finds tadpoles in the pond; soon they will turn into frogs)Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-90686365699313815892020-05-16T19:25:00.001+01:002020-05-16T19:25:29.073+01:00Toy mouse found at Vindolanda!
So excited by today's unveiling of the little leather mouse from Vindolanda! One good thing to come out of lockdown, at least, even if everything else is pants (subligaria, as Minimus would say)
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-68889079629333632832020-05-08T16:17:00.002+01:002020-06-03T19:14:34.044+01:00Make Vibrissa and Minimus felt puppetsDr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-91120465499256016522020-04-27T13:45:00.001+01:002020-06-03T19:14:45.229+01:00Dress up Flavius and Lepidina!
Here's another little Google slide interactive: click here to access the file and make a copy!
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-8178872188815239572020-04-25T18:56:00.002+01:002020-06-03T19:14:50.149+01:00Doctor, doctor - free printable resourceDr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-43000764638858559462020-04-21T16:48:00.000+01:002020-06-03T19:15:01.798+01:00Minimus online jigsawsFor a little relaxation, try one of the Minimus jigsaws! Here's the link
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-45972042351698770772020-04-16T21:11:00.000+01:002020-06-03T19:15:06.044+01:00Interactive Garden GameI've been trying
to work out how to redo the Garden Game, a little drag and drop preposition exercise I made, since it doesn't work properly on modern browsers. Here's a Google Slide version of it - you'll be directed to make a copy.
Prepositions in Minimus' GardenDr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-19649716878380650302020-04-07T10:42:00.003+01:002020-06-03T19:15:16.936+01:00Virtual Vindolanda tablet I've been trying for ages to make an interactive Vindolanda tablet, and this is the latest iteration! It's a Google slides file, and the link should let you make a copy and save it to your own Google Drive. Run the slideshow (f5) and you can drag the Roman cursive letters onto the virtual tablet to make your own message. There are three copies of each letter stacked up on the left, but you can Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-78496346129533780652020-04-05T19:08:00.000+01:002020-06-03T19:15:21.084+01:00Free Minimus resources, part 3Over on our sister site, The Primary Latin Project (primarylatinproject.org), you can download the whole of Workbook 1, which goes with the first Minimus book. It's full of exercises and activities for each chapter!
Download it hereDr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-16728899830600006142020-04-02T16:31:00.002+01:002020-06-03T19:15:26.960+01:00Free Minimus resources, part 2Here's another free download to keep Minimus' friends busy. Print out the comic template, colour in the drawings, cut them out and use them to make your own story.
Download template here
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-17551792301354771362020-04-02T16:29:00.002+01:002020-06-03T19:15:32.232+01:00Free Minimus resources part 1We've made the Minimus 1 Workbook available to download free - we hope this helps during school closures!
The audio versions of the myths might be useful, too: find them here.
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-44125173220442593232019-02-03T17:52:00.000+00:002020-06-03T19:15:48.092+01:00Hourly Comic Day 2019
The first of February is Hourly Comic Day. Minimus is up for the challenge...
Six o’clock on a freezing morning!
Seven o'clock, and Minimus is frying his breakfast.
Eight o'clock, and Minimus is getting himself ready for school
Nine o'clock, and Minimus is singing in assembly
Ten o'clock, and Minimus is having a little trouble with his cursive writing...
Eleven Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-756433048748263262018-04-12T13:28:00.001+01:002020-06-03T19:15:53.775+01:00Twitter Challenges: 2, Hourly Comics DayThe first of February marks Hourly Comics Day, where artists, cartoonists and illustrators try to draw and post an image for each hour they are awake. I reworked my artwork from last year and made the Latin more legible. I'm very happy with how they turned out!
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-73499584102364634732018-04-12T13:18:00.000+01:002020-06-03T19:16:00.883+01:00Twitter Challenges: part 1, InktoberInktober involves making an ink drawing each day throughout October. This time, the challenge offered a one-word prompt for each day, so I decided to translate the words into Latin and interpret them via Minimus, Vibrissa and Rufus. The drawings were photographed on my phone and not really cleaned up - but here they are anyway!
Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-70286380339648027162017-02-21T07:36:00.001+00:002020-06-03T19:16:11.246+01:00A little story by a y5 pupilMinimus and Vibrissa get a familyA long time ago lived a mouse called Minimus. He was a very small mouse, who had a best friend called Vibrissa. She was a cat. I would think that was a weird combination, but they didn’t mind. Most of the time they hung out together until one day Vibrissa was adopted. Minimus was all alone until he decided to go and find her. She lived in the commander’s house at Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-59810996725994825262016-03-25T16:29:00.002+00:002016-03-25T16:29:44.265+00:00Animating mosaics from Roman Britain
I have tried animating a couple of mosaics, just to see what happened. I was inspired to try it after seeing the wonderful Greek vase animations made by Panoply
The first one is the surprisingly cheerful Aldborough Wolf with Romulus and Remus.
This is the Rudston Venus - not your average Roman goddess! The fishy chap is Triton. I wonder which mosaic I should Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-31899283928959458392016-02-17T17:18:00.002+00:002016-02-17T17:18:57.386+00:00Making Samian ware - part 1
Year 5, the class that study Minimus, have been learning about Roman
Art. Both of us who teach them Art and Craft are Classicists, so it's
been a particularly interesting topic. We have made 'fresco' panels
(more on those in a future post), looked at the Medusa story and tackled
pottery.
We decided to try making replica Samian ware bowls like those at Vindolanda, and to take the Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-12154949705883687602016-02-04T13:27:00.001+00:002016-02-06T15:51:51.277+00:00Minimus and the Hourly Comic ChallengeThis year, I had a go at drawing a comic for each hour of Minimus' (waking) day in February 1st, as part of #hourlycomicday . They all appeared on Twitter over three days in our @minimus_latin feed. I have collected them all here:Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-24346290992885712672015-12-24T10:00:00.001+00:002015-12-24T10:00:03.488+00:00Minimus' Advent Calendar, December 24thquarto decimo die Decembris, Minimus stellam invenit. (On the twenty fourth day of December, Minimus finds a star!)Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-26674889513577107672015-12-23T11:06:00.001+00:002015-12-23T11:06:58.215+00:00Minimus' Advent Calendar, December 23rdvicesimo tertio die Decembris, Minimus aquifolium invenit. (On the twenty third day of December, Minimus finds holly).Dr Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821700582876521466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080065.post-43979458600089493982015-12-22T09:03:00.001+00:002015-12-22T09:03:51.222+00:00Minimus' Advent Calendar, December 21stvicesimo primo die Decembris, Minimus sigillum invenit. (On the twenty first day of December, Minimus finds a pottery figure)
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