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Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 6

Here’s an overview of what we did at home for Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 6, Foundations and Essentials

We had our fall break week after week 6 so that’s why I didn’t post last week…we were at the beach!  We left the day after our week 6 community day, spent a week at the beach, and then picked up with week 6 after we got back.  And when I say “picked up with”…well, you’ve been on vacation before and you know how it can be getting back in a routine afterward (No?  Just me?)  So week 6 was kind of light for us as we eased back in after vacation.

(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 6

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.

  • History – The CC app (if you don’t have the app, it’s also here on CC Connected)
  • Geography –  CC Happy Mom’s song for week 6 (YouTube)
  • Math – The CC app (if you don’t have the app it’s also here on CC Connected)
  • Science – No song, just said the parts of the digestive system
  • English – We use this song on YouTube – I love that it covers weeks 5-16 so it’s all in one and by the end they’ve really mastered the irregular verbs
  • Latin – We use this song on YouTube
  • Timeline – The timeline song on the itunes (also here on CC Connected)

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 used the irregular verbs velcro activity. I use the page that has only one week on it for my kids to practice that week’s and then this week we took the page that has all the weeks on it and hung it on the white board.  We’ll add to it each week (that one will become a review page once we’ve done all the irregular verbs but for now we’re building on it each week as a visual).

Latin – We used the large set of the Latin matching activities with magnets on the back for this week’s set of words and the smaller set to review the previous weeks.

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

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:

Expansion

Here’s how we expanded on our memory for week 6.

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 6 of Our 50 States (Maryland and Washington, D.C.) (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 episode for Maryland(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 episode for Maryland (season 2, episode 11) (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.)

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

The Maryland recipe from our recipe book is crab cakes but we haven’t had a chance to make them yet.

We will cover Illinois, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri once we get to those states in our Our 50 States curriculum but if you want to do them all with week 6, 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 the digestive system 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 6 goes with cycle 3 week 6)

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.

Keywords to search for week 6 at your library: digestive system, Lewis & Clark, Davy Crockett, Louisiana Purchase, Sacagawea

As 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

Essentials books (recommended reading chapter books to go along with the IEW lessons in Essentials)

As a reminder: 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.

ESSENTIALS

  • One of the worksheets from Onward each day (the ones labeled 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3)
  • Copied chart H or verbally went over it
  • Did week 6 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)
  • Worked on our spelling words from Sequential Spelling (we are not using the suggested spelling lists from the Essentials material)

Have a great week 6!

Don’t forget that next week we start tin whistle!  If you haven’t already gotten a tin whistle make sure you order those asap (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

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