Hope you'll pardon a post from an interloper. I'm a Latin teacher and use songs quite a bit in my classes. I heard about the thread here and will paste in part of a post to Latinteach from a few months ago:

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Just a couple more thoughts on the animal stuff.

First, a typo. The line:

>ursi unvant vel fremunt et saeviunt

should read "ursi unCant vel..."

The C and V are right next to each other on the keyboard, so it was an easy mistake. There may be others, I just happened to notice that one.

Second, I am notorious for starting my very youngest students on the Latin alphabet and its sounds by introducing them to Ager Vetuli Macdonalis. For those who don't know it, it runs like so:

VETULUS MACDONALIS (OLD MCDONALD)

Vetulus Macdonalis agrum habebat
A E I O V
Et suo in agro habebat
A E I O V
Cum hic
Et illic
Hic illic
Ubique

(The fun part is getting them to spell the sound that their animal makes using the sounds of the Latin alphabet.
E.g.--

Vetulus Macdonalis agrum habebat
A E I O V
Et suo in agro canem habebat
A E I O V
Cum uuf uuf hic
Et uuf uuf illic
Hic uuf illic uuf
Ubique uuf uuf)

Whatever else we do during those first days of class, we add one or two animalia to our fundus [1]. And every year, the kids shock and surprise me with the animals they want on the farm and the sounds they come up with. A few from the most recent group of 3rd graders:

simius dicit "û û".
anas dicit "quâc".
pullus dicit "pîp".
capella dicit "mâ".
mûs dicit "sqvîc".

There are 21 of these on this list. Not too bad for yunguns, eh?

Pax,
MMe
sometimes remembers why he loves doing this stuff

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