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Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 8

Here’s an overview of what we did at home for Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 8, Foundations and Essentials

Chugging along with the same routine around here!  Also, baffled that we only have four more weeks before Christmas break!

(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 8

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

(I also made a really big, whiteboard-sized version and added it to my etsy shop after some people requested an even bigger version, similar to my Latin one)

Latin – We used the large set of the Latin matching activities with magnets on the back to practice 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 8.

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 8 of Our 50 States (Kentucky and Tenessee) (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 Kentucky and Tennessee (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 Kentucky (season 2, episode 13) and Tennessee (season 3, 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.)State Plate Classical Conversations Cycle 3

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

Since we live in Kentucky and Tennessee is our home state, this was a really fun week for us!  Getting to learn more about states near and dear to our heart was extra special.  And this week instead of just doing one dish for the state we did a full meal for each state.

  • For Kentucky we made benedictine sandwiches, spoon bread, and burgoo.  We’ve lived in KY for 14 years and I’d never heard of any of these dishes so this was an adventure!  The benedictine sandwiches were good, very similar to a tea sandwich I made last time we did our Boston Tea Party.  The spoon bread was kind of like a mushy cornbread, it was ok but not amazing.  And the burgoo was a thick meat and vegetable stew.  I wasn’t a fan but some of my family liked it.  (The burgoo recipe was from our 50 states cookbook, the others were online and I’ve linked them here)kentucky state food
  • For Tennessee we made German potato salad (from the 50 states cookbook), cornbread (our usual recipe), and banana pudding.  We also got bbq ribs since one of the foods from the state plate episode was Memphis-style ribs.tennessee state food

We will cover Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico once we get to those states in our Our 50 States curriculum but if you want to do them all with week 8, 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 circulatory 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 8 goes with cycle 3 week 8).

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.

This week I checked out:

History related books:

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 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3)
  • Copied Chart J
  • Did week 8 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 but then decided this week to ditch it.  I don’t usually bail on curriculum this quickly but I just was not jiving with Sequential Spelling so we’re going to try something else instead.

Have a great week 8!

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.

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