Challenge A applies memorised Latin endings to nouns, verbs and short translations in Henle First Year.
Nauta means sailor; its ending shows its job in a sentence. Learn nouns with genitive and gender. Open the lesson for your week; repeated lists support continued work. Your guide sets the full assignment.
| Week | Vocabulary assigned | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Lesson 1 | 15 |
| Week 2 | Lesson 1 | 15 |
| Week 3 | Lesson 2 | 31 |
| Week 4 | Lesson 2 | 31 |
| Week 5 | Lesson 3 | 38 |
| Week 6 | Lesson 3 | 38 |
| Week 7 | Lesson 3, Lesson 4 | 53 |
| Week 8 | Lesson 4, Lesson 5, Lesson 6 | 28 |
| Week 9 | Lesson 6 | 8 |
| Week 10 | Lesson 7 | 19 |
| Week 11 | Lesson 7 | 19 |
| Week 12 | Lesson 8 | 20 |
| Week 13 | Lesson 9 | 27 |
| Week 14 | No new mapped vocabulary — check your reading or review assignment | — |
| Week 15 | No new mapped vocabulary — check your reading or review assignment | — |
| Week 16 | Lesson 9 | 27 |
| Week 17 | Lesson 9 | 27 |
| Week 18 | Lesson 9 | 27 |
| Week 19 | Lesson 10 | 5 |
| Week 20 | Lesson 10 | 5 |
| Week 21 | Lesson 11 | 16 |
| Week 22 | Lesson 11 | 16 |
| Week 23 | Lesson 11 | 16 |
| Week 24 | Lesson 12 | 15 |
| Week 25 | Lesson 12 | 15 |
| Week 26 | Lesson 13 | 5 |
| Week 27 | Lesson 14 | 5 |
| Week 28 | Lesson 15 | 11 |
| Week 29 | Lesson 15 | 11 |
| Week 30 | No new mapped vocabulary — check your reading or review assignment | — |
The Classical Conversations guide assigns Henle First Year vocabulary week by week. 27 of the 30 weeks have vocabulary lists mapped here; the other 3 have no new mapped list. Reading, grammar or assessment may still be assigned. Most lessons are spread across two weeks; the heaviest week is week 7, with 53 words.
Across the 235 words the list is 97 nouns, 65 verbs, 26 adjectives, 15 adverbs, 10 prepositions, 10 conjunctions, 9 pronouns, 2 phrases and 1 particle. The forms a student meets most: 3rd-declension nouns (38), 2nd-declension nouns (29), 3rd-conjugation verbs (20), 1st-conjugation verbs (18), 1st-declension nouns (17), 1st/2nd-declension adjectives (17). Every word is on its lesson page with its English meaning, part of speech and form, and a few of the sentences Amplio uses to drill it.
A child may arrive knowing a declension song and still be unsure what a noun ending does. Challenge A gives that memory work a job: people, places and actions become meaningful sentences. The opening lessons widen the noun patterns before moving through adjectives, verbs and pronouns. A noun's genitive becomes especially valuable in the third declension, where a nominative can hide its stem. When adjectives arrive, ask which noun they describe. Agreement means matching gender, number and case, not necessarily copying the same visible ending.
The week table is a way into the correct vocabulary page. Returning to a lesson does not mean the child has failed to finish: the same words support developing grammar work. A row with no new mapped vocabulary is also not permission to skip the week's reading or review. Your current guide and director determine the assignment; the table records only the vocabulary mapping represented here. Follow a lesson link to see complete entries, forms and a study note before deciding which words need attention.
At home, separate a brief recall check from the longer exercise work. Ask for the noun's full entry or the verb's precise subject and action, then let the student consult the page and correct an omission. If translation stalls, identify the obstacle: an unknown meaning, an unrecognised form, or an unclear relationship between words. Each needs a different response. Bring one specific question to seminar so a general feeling of being lost becomes something a director can explain.
By the later lists, the student is connecting principal parts with tense systems rather than learning isolated English equivalents. Earlier vocabulary therefore remains useful all year. Choose a few older words that appear in the current exercise and check those alongside the new list. These pages provide explanations and a reference; they do not replace the textbook or the family's lesson work. The linked study notes suggest a concrete distinction to master before moving forward, so progress can be noticed without demanding instant perfection.
Amplio is paced to the Classical Conversations schedule: pick your Challenge level and it shows the words assigned for the current week, then drills them with spaced repetition until they stick.
Start freeOpen the Henle Year 1 index, choose the lesson in your guide, and use your browser's Print command on its word list. Keep the forms column when making cards. Henle Year 1 lesson index.
Use the table on this page and open the linked lesson. Its mapping is a reference; check the current guide and your director for your community's assignment.
Include the nominative, genitive, gender and English meaning. A meaning-only card leaves out the information needed to recognise declined forms.
Knowing a pattern and applying it are different tasks. Ask for the word's meaning, then its form, then its job in the sentence to locate the difficulty.
The reference vocabulary sequence reaches Lesson 15. Later Challenge levels revisit and extend work in the same book; these pages follow that recorded sequence.
Yes. You can check complete vocabulary entries, listen to an explanation and help frame a specific question for seminar. Use the textbook or director for a rule you cannot resolve.
These are free static reference pages that can be printed. Interactive practice, audio and progress tracking are in Amplio; Year 1 lessons 1–10 are free in the app.