Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 10

Here’s an overview of what we did at home for Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 10, 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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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 10 (YouTube)
• Math – The CC app (if you don’t have the app it’s also here on CC Connected)
• Science – Hand motions they learned in class
• 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 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 – 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)

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:

• these 50 states drawing/coloring pages
• these memory work coloring pages (use code CHOCOLATE for 15% off the coloring pages)
• these presentation planning sheets to plan out their presentations for the week (for my 9 and 7 year old)
• this weekly review fill-in-the-blank page (for my 9 year old)

Expansion

Here’s how we expanded on our memory for week 10.

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 10 of Our 50 States (Alabama and Georgia) (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 Alabama and Georgia (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 Georgia (season 1, episode 1) and Alabama (season 2, episode 1) (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

We didn’t get around to making the Georgia or Alabama recipes from our 50 states cookbook this week so we’ll probably do those next week.

We will cover Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska once we get to those states in our Our 50 States curriculum but if you want to do them all with week 10, here’s the info:

• Montana: State Plate (season 2, episode 18) and the Homeschool Pop
• Idaho: State Plate (season 3, episode 12) and the Homeschool Pop
• Oregon: State Plate (season 2, episode 9) and the Homeschool Pop
• Washington: State Plate (season 2, episode 12) and the Homeschool Pop
• Alaska: State Plate (season 2, episode 15) and the Homeschool Pop

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

That’s a wrap on our 50 states!  50 states and capitals memorized over the last 10 weeks – so cool!

Science – We watched the video about our respiratory 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 10 goes with cycle 3 week 10).

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:

• Apples to Oregon (Oregon)
• Bound for Oregon (Oregon)
• Westward Expansion (Interactive History)
• The Battle of the Alamo (Interactive History)
• The Oregon Trail (Interactive History)
• The California Gold Rush (Interactive History)
• Dakota Dugout
• Dandelions (Oregon? Or Nebraska? or westward expansion? – check week 8)
• Wagon Wheels
• What was the Gold Rush?
• Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail

Geography related books

• Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
• There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout (Pacific Northwest)
• Storm Run: The Story of the First Woman to Win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race (Alaska)
• Mama Do You Love Me? (Alaska)

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 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3)
• Read over Chart L
• Did week 10 from this homophone worksheet
• 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)
• No spelling this week as we’ve quit Sequential Spelling but haven’t started our new spelling curriculum yet
• No editing this week – I didn’t print the editing exercise from Onward this week as I assumed at this point I’d have him doing some other editing (Fix it Grammar, Daily Grams, something like that) but we haven’t started anything yet soooo…we just didn’t edit this week.

Have a great week 10!

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:

A Yoto player!  We got my newly-5-year-old one for her fifth birthday last week and she (and the other kids) are LOVING it!  I’ve made a couple of cards with some of the CC memory work on them and the kids are loving getting to listen to it whenever they want.  It’s been a hit.

Stay tuned for a tutorial on how to make Yoto cards with the CC memory work on them!

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