CC Cycle 2 Week 23 & Week 24

These resources should correlate with both 4th and 5th Edition of the Foundations Guide. If you find any discrepancies, please hop down to the comments to let us know! The links can be found on our Cycle 2 Resources Page, organized according to subject. Click here for other weeks.

Please do not think that we do everything on this list (not even the things listed in the “practicing memory work” section!)!  Our reality has been filled with real things that have interfered with our schedule (like illness).  Please give yourself freedom to do (or not do) whatever fits your family!

Practicing Memory Work
Our focus this year has been on beefing up our reading (click here for our reading plan), along with a bit of copywork and notebooking. Most of our memory work practice comes from listening to CDs in the car. However, we also try to use notebooking as another way to emphasize memory work, so here I offer a plan. [But plan is not everyday reality].

Here is a list of various memory work practice techniques. Mix ’em up to add some variety and excitement!

If you are preparing for Memory Master:

• What do Memory Masters memorize? details our our first experience with Memory Masters the last time we were in Cycle 2, and why I was glad we attempted it.
• What is a Memory Master?, which provides an overview of what a Memory Master is, how we’ve prepared in previous years, and what the proofing process looks like for our community.  It also answers how we’ve handled the potential “failure” that we might have to face.
• Memory Master Tips & Tricks provides some ideas for memorizing memory work and perhaps even achieving memory master.
• Mock Memory Master Proofing Party shows how our community exposes all children to he Memory Master process in a fun, non-threatening way.

Weekly notebook activities (which don’t actually happen every week):

• Latin Conjugation Match-Up with Latin – Keeping the Tenses Straight.
• Accordion Timeline Notebook. We use our timeline notebook to visualize our timeline in the space of history but finished it last year. We flip through it now for reference.
• Bible: For 4th Edition, we simply practiced this Ephesians 6 Hand Motion Video. You might also do Ephesians 6 Copywork (KJV). For 5th Edition, you can try King Things Genesis 1 Audio on Spotify or this Mega Verses Hand Motion Video.
• Geography:  Show me / tell me map locations. Trace Africa outline map
• Optional English Grammar Review:  Pronoun Match-Up Packet
• History:  We use blank illustration copywork pages (There may also be copywork pages available on CC Connected.)
• Science:  Blank illustration notebook page as shown in our Science Cards post. (Or student can simply write memory work in a notebook.) Also reading from the Physical Science Unit from Homeschool Curriculum Company (click here for that freebie!).
• Fine Arts:  Fine Arts notebooking pages

And… for this week:

• English Grammar:  Alphabetical Adjectives Connect-the-Dots and Parts of Speech Secret Agent (or French Fry Parts of Speech)
• Math:  Identifying Properties of Multiplication (use objects to demonstrate as appropriate (e.g.,  a is an apple, b is banana, c as carrot) for younger children), Practice making your own examples of each property of addition or multiplication.  (Have children answer the question, “Do the laws work for subtraction and division?”)
• Geography: Nation Flags Coloring Pages (younger) Africa on Ducksters (color-code map, etc.) and Asia on Ducksters (color-code map, etc.) (older)
• History: Persian Gulf War Notebooking Page, Nelson Mandela Coloring Page, or Nelson Mandela Reading Comprehension
• Science:  All About Circuits Worksheet, or Circuit Activities & Diagrams

Memory Work Review Game:  What-to-do-how-to-say-it (For other games, visit our Memory Work Review Games post and link-up)

Presentation Ideas:  Flags of this week’s countries:  Egg Protector and Egg Drop Physics,  Aluminum Foil Circuit Activity or Simple Demonstration:  Comparison of Conduction and Convection

Our School Schedule (This is how we plan to study the subjects throughout the week.)

The Link Buffet: Extension Activities
Pick and choose what you wish to do! {We usually do not do much from this list, but it’s there in case we need an idea! But I also want to emphasize here that it is not necessary to supplement Classical Conversations at the Foundations Stage, aside from using a language arts and math program. Read more about that here.}

Please notify me of broken or inoperable links, and I’ll be glad to fix them! If you’d like to add a great resource to this list, feel free to contact me or leave it in the comments!