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Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 7

Here’s an overview of what we did at home for Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 7, Foundations and Essentials

This was a pretty light week for us, CC review-wise because it was full of other things!  We went on a field trip to Mansker Station in TN got to see an early American settlement, we went to a World War II reinactment, the boys wrapped up the horsemanship classes we’ve been doing, and we sewed Halloween treat bags.  But here’s what we did this week when we had time.

(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 7

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 – Using the larger irregular verbs velcro activity. for this week and the smaller version to see the past weeks too

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 nouns).

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 7.

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 7 of Our 50 States (Virginia and West Virginia) (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 Virginia and West Virginia (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 Virginia (season 3, episode 7) and West Virginia (season 3, episode 4) (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

  • We never got around to doing a recipe for Maryland for last week so we did that one this week – instead of making crab cakes like our recipe book we just bought frozen ones from the store.
  • For West Virginia we made two recipes – the recipe from our cookbook (golden delicious apple pie) and the recipe from Our 50 States (pepperoni rolls).
  • For Virgina we made ham with cherry sauce

We will cover Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming once we get to those states in our Our 50 States curriculum but if you want to do them all with week 7, 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 excretory 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 7 goes with cycle 3 week 7).

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 this week: War of 1812, Star Spangled Banner

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:

History related books:

Geography related books

Science related books

  • Human Body Theater (this goes with multiple weeks, it was just finally available at my library after a long wait)

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.

ESSENTIALS

  • One of the worksheets from Onward each day (the ones labeled 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3)
  • Copied Chart I
  • Did week 7 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 7!

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:

My kids learned to sew!  We made Halloween treat bags (using this tutorial) and the older ones got to sew/help me sew theirs. It was such a fun project!  We went to the fabric store and each child picked out the two fabrics for their bags.  Then they helped me cut them out and sew them – for my 4 year old I sewed and she helped push the start/stop button.  My 7 and 9 year olds did most of the sewing themselves with my guidance and the machine set at the slowest stitching speed.

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