We did it! We have learned the Roman Numerals with these Roman Numerals lessons! It was so much fun exploring the dead language (Latin) and learn how to write and say some Roman Numerals. Roman Numerals come from Rome and in Rome, the spoke Latin (not anymore).
In this post, you will see what we learned about Ancient Rome, about Latin and about Roman Numerals. And don’t forget to grab the awesome printable set that I have to share with you! 
Roman Numerals
We read an amazing book about Roman numerals. It offers tips throughout on how to remember what the numerals look like. I cannot tell you how helpful and fun it was to read through it! I made a set of printables to learn to write Roman numerals. We also learned how to say some of them in Latin and I also made a mini coloring book with scenes of Ancient Rome to go with our Ancient Rome studies.
More Roman Numerals
Like I said, we first focused on the Roman numerals, which consists of two worksheet and a cool accordion. One of the worksheets is for copying the Roman numerals. The second worksheet is to write the Roman numerals. After doing the first worksheet, my son was able to write many of the Roman numerals in the second worksheet without looking, but if her got stuck, he would use the first worksheet as a control of error. The third activity was for both children. It is one of the printables I made.
Basically, I printed it in black ink, cut it and taped the strips to form a long strip. Be sure and tape them in the right order! 😉 On the top corner of each square, there is a Roman numeral. The point of this activity is to copy the numerals on a bigger scale in the same square. When done, simply fold the squares back and forth to create a fun little accordion.
Ancient Rome
And we also read up a lot on Ancient Rome and made some fun crafts (topic for another blog post). 🙂 We read quite a bit, but here are our top favorites: World History, Time Traveler, Ancient History Pockets and Encyclopedia of World History. We learned about customs of the time, the way they dressed and ate and had parties. We also learned about the way they learned and how families lived in Rome.
We also learned about famous people of the time and famous wars that took place while the Roman Empire was powerful. It was sad to read about the causes for the fall of Rome and how Latin is now a dead language. We are learning Latin in our homeschool, so it doesn’t feel so dead to us. 🙂 We colored in the mini coloring book that I made for them as we listened about Rome in our SOTW CD (book).
We also wrote some Latin words in our mini coloring books, to make it come alive. We really enjoyed this unit and we hope you do, too.
Here are your free printables! Enjoy!
Latin Resources
Wanting to learn Latin? Don’t know where to start? Click on the images below to find some awesome resources! 🙂
Renae says
This is absolutely fabulous! I can’t wait to use these materials, ideas, and book recommendations for my kiddos later this year! Thank you!
Ramona says
Excellent post. I will be going through many of these issues as well..
Kylie says
I clicked on the link to the book you suggested and the book I got isn’t the same as the one pictured. Could you please tell me the name of the book you used? It looks great.
Jennie says
Thanks so very much! Every year since they were tiny my girls have asked what the Super Bowl numbers mean and I thought we’d do this lesson as a lead up. I appreciate your help!
Kristin Germo says
Just wondering if there is something wrong with the link, I’m trying to download the Roman numeral printables and it keeps telling me “invalid email”