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Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 5

Here’s an overview of what we did at home for Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 5, Foundations and Essentials

(Note: some of these things link to documents on CC Connected.  If they do not open for you, make sure you have logged in to CCC first, then try my link again)

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classical conversations cycle 3 week 5

FOUNDATIONS

The majority of these things I’ve shared about in my Cycle 3 prep video and blog post.  If you haven’t seen those yet, you might want to check them out because they go over these things in lots of detail.  This post is going to share how I put them into practice in our weekly/day to day homeschool.

Reviewing our memory work

We sing through/talk through our memory work together once each day.

Hands on memory work

I have several memory work hands on activities.  On the first day after community day we use them as we go over the memory work, then on the other days I keep them in a container and the kids take turns doing them independently while I’m working with one of the other kids on other lessons.

History – They put these history cards in order on the white board

Science – These velcro matching activities

English – We started using our irregular verbs velcro activity.

Latin – We used the large set of the Latin matching activities with magnets on the back for this week’s and last week’s sets of words (Latin verbs) and used the smaller set of prepositions/conjunctions & adverbs/verbs velcro matching to review weeks 1-3.

Geography – Tracing dry erase maps and doing the quizzes/games in the Seterra app.

Classical Conversations hands on activities

Worksheets

The kids work on a few CC worksheets each day, usually while we’re listening to memory work or I’m reading something aloud.  They do:

Classical Conversations cycle 3 worksheets

Expansion

Here’s how we expanded on our memory for week 5.

History – We watched some more Liberty’s Kids.  There are 40 episodes covering events from the Boston Tea Party to writing the Declaration of Independence.  You can watch them on YouTube or buy the DVDs or see if your library has them (they are available through the Hoopla app at my library). liberty's kids classical conversations cycle 3

And we watched some Drive thru History (if you have CC Connected you get a free membership to RightNow Media – the Drive Thru History videos are on RightNow Media)

Geography – We are using Notgrass’ Our 50 States curriculum alongside CC this year.  Our 50 States covers 2 states a week so it goes slower than CC, which covers 5 states in a week.  So for us this week looked like:

  • Read Unit 5 of Our 50 States (New Jersey and Delaware) (we do this as a read aloud – we don’t have the workbook and haven’t done any of the other activities so far)
  • Watched the Homeschool Pop episodes for New Jersey and Delaware (these are 5-7 minute videos on YouTube that give a brief overview of each state: nicknames, flag, state bird, facts about the state, where it’s located, etc.)
  • Watched the State Plate episodes for New Jersey (season 2, episode 17) and Delaware (season 3, episode 3) (State Plate is free on Amazon Prime and it is SO FUN!  Our family is loving these!  Each episode is all about iconic foods from each state.)State Plate Classical Conversations Cycle 3

See all the State Plate + Notgrass Our 50 States match ups here

  • The New Jersey recipe from our United States cookbook was an Italian sub sandwich that didn’t sound appealing (my kids aren’t much on sandwiches in general) so instead we bought some salt water taffy from the store since that was the dessert featured in the New Jersey episode of State Platesalt water taffy
  • For Delaware we made two recipes.  The recipe from our cookbook was gingerbread squares and it had some specialized ingredients that I don’t typically use (crystalized ginger, allspice) so instead we made a different gingerbread muffin recipe. Then our 50 States textbook also had a recipe for strawberry shortcake since strawberries are the state fruit of Delaware so we made that too.  Both Delaware recipes were delish!gingerbread muffinsstrawberry shortcake

We will cover Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana once we get to those states in our Our 50 States curriculum but if you want to do them all with week 5, here’s the info:

To see all State Plate match ups for all weeks of CC Cycle 3, see this post.

Science – We watched the video about our five senses on Awesome Science TV (Awesome Science TV is a science video subscription – there is a whole playlist of videos that are made to go along with CC’s science sentences – season 3 episode 5 goes with cycle 3 week 5).  This one had multiple experiments that are easily replicated so we’re going to try them ourselves at some point.Awesome Science tv Classical Conversations

Books

I have several cycle 3 booklists that I use (they’re all linked in my Cycle 3 prep post) – I check our library to see which of those books they have and request those.  I also use the library’s search and search for words related to our topics  to see what else our library has that are applicable.library booksAs a reminder, these are not necessarily the “best” books that pertain to this week but it’s what my library had.  Make sure you check the booklists I’ve linked because your library may have others on those lists.

This week I checked out/pulled from my stash:

History related books:

Geography related books:

Science related books

And just so you know: I do not read all or even most of these books to my kids!  I put them in a basket in our school room for them to peruse.  One of their school tasks is to read out of that basket of books for 15 minutes and of course they can (and do) like to read them during non-school time too so most of them get read, or at least looked through, at some point.  Sometimes I’ll read one aloud to everyone but mostly they’re there for the kids to read on their own.

Looking ahead: We are getting close to starting tin whistle (week 7)!  If you haven’t already gotten a tin whistle make sure you get that ordered (this is the one I get for my kids).  You might also want to get a tin whistle case (the first four years my kids didn’t have them and they were totally fine so it’s not a must, but nice to have!) – I sewed cases for my kids this year loosely using this tutorial but if you’re not interested in making your own, here are some cute ones with lots of color/print options made by another CC mom.tin whistle case

ESSENTIALS

  • One of the worksheets from Onward each day (the ones labeled 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3)
  • This week there were no new charts so we just reviewed previous charts verbally each day
  • Did week 5 from this homophone worksheet
  • Edited the history sentence (located in this week’s Onward)
  • Did one ATS (analytical task sheet) sentence each day.  In community they used their ATS trivium tables but at home my son has been preferring to use the preprinted ones from Onward.
  • Went over the IEW vocab
  • Wrote his IEW paper (KWO on day 1, rough draft on day 2, dress ups on day 3, and final draft on day 4)
  • Continued with Sequential Spelling.

Have a great week 5!

P.S. Don’t forget that it’s ok if you don’t do all of this stuff or all of the things you have planned!  Your child(ren) will still learn SO much and you can always save those things you didn’t get to for weeks when you’re on break.

What we’re also enjoying

Some other non-CC things we’ve been enjoying this week:

  • The Real Cool History for Kids podcast has been so fun!  We’re not listening to it in order or trying to match it up to CC at all, I just pick an episode at random.  They’re usually 12-15 minutes long so we usually listen to them during lunch on days that my husband isn’t home to eat lunch with us.
  • We started the book Holes as our next read aloud – I loved that book so much when I was a kid so it’s been fun to read it with my kids.

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