Welcome to our link buffet for CC Cycle 1 Week 14! All of the following resources (and more) have already been available (organized by subject) on our Cycle 1 Resources Page. There are several resources on our Cycle 1 Subject Resources Pages that span multiple weeks. Don’t forget to check them out (especially math, science, and history!). You will not find memory work verbiage in my links lists or in my documents.
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Cycle 1 with the Great Commission in Mind
After designing curriculum plans for over a decade, we developed a Christian Classical Curriculum called Mission: Great Commission that integrates the study of the world and the ongoing fulfillment of the Great Commission, with a focus on loving God, His Word, and fellow mankind. For an open-and-go reading/curriculum plan that overlaps much of the memory work studied during Cycle 1 – along with an integrated study of world missions, world empires & geography, fine arts, and science, check out our Mission: World Wonders Curriculum Plan.
For a simple plan on how to use these resources, download our Cycle 1 First Quarter Sample Activity Plan.
The Link Buffet: Extension Activities
Pick and choose what you wish to do!
Although we make this available to our readers, our family spent more time reading and working on core skills during the elementary-school years, keeping our schedule open for playing board games together; or researching something that our children were interested in; or pursuing poetry, art, or music; or doing a random science investigation or nature study. We used our resource lists as resource lists – that is, when we wished to quickly find a resource I’d come across in the past, we referenced this list. I call it the “Link Buffet.” This is simply meant to be a reference site.
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The Link Buffet
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Topic,Resource
General world history,Teaching with God’s Heart for the World One-Year Unit Study Curriculum
,Torchlighters Study Guides
,Kids of Courage Downloadable Teaching Resources
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Ancient History,Story of the World Activities
,Discussion points and Tapestry of Grace Correlation
,Ancient History Videos
,World History on Khan Academy
,World History Lesson Plans Powerpoints and Games
,Ancient Civilizations Lesson Ideas
,Dynamic2Moms’ Ancient Civilizations lap books
,Core Knowledge Lessons on Ancient History (These usually contain worksheets and activities in the appendix.)
,The Ancient Eras Timeline
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History -Trade in Africa,Ancient Africa Trade Routes
,Story of the World Timeline Notebook Figures
,The Songhai Video (5 minutes)
,Western Africa Hands-on Activities & Ideas (Lots of great ones!)
,Lost Kingdoms of Africa: Zimbabwe (BBC Video – 51 minutes)
,Craft – Homemade Mbira (thumb piano) for Children
Geography – Ancient Africa,Ancient Africa History Study Packet
,Web version of above,
,Ancient Ghana Mini-Lesson
,Kente Cloth Simple (Ghana) Art Project
,Mansa Musa and Ancient Mali
,Draw Africa
,Africa Countries & Capitals Flashcards
Geography – General,Continental Blob Maps
,Map Tracing: A Geography Plan with Printable Atlas
,Learn to draw the world freehand ($)
,Draw the World Freehand using Chalk Pastels (Monthly Membership) $
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Science – Rock Types,Rocks and Minerals Experiments!
,Rock Identification Tables
,Cooking Up the Rock Cycle
,Crayon Rocks
,Geology Calendar Connections
,Geology Kitchen – Three Types of Rocks
,Geology Kitchen – Several Other Episodes for Extension
,Rock Pyramid Diorama
,Rock Cycle Lab with CHOCOLATE
,Rock Cycle Reading Comprehension
,Rock Unit Study from Homeschoolshare
,Ride the Rock Cycle Game – Stations/ Dice/ Comic Strip – Cool!
,Studying Rocks the Charlotte Mason Way
,Rock Projects and Ideas
,Discipleship with Stones and Rocks
,Hands-on Activities and Recipes for Geology
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Linear Equivalents,Customary Units of Length Worksheet
,StudyJams Customary Units of Length
,Which unit of measure
,Sizing Up Samson File Folder Game
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English Grammar – Helping Verbs,Choose a helping verb activity
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Latin – Noun Declensions,Latin Noun Declension File Folder Games | Notebook Printables and Story Cues
,Colorful charts on noun declensions and verb conjugations by Classical Academic Press
,Latin Interactive Cut-and Paste Worksheets for declensions and conjugations by Classical Academic Press
,Other Latin Resources
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Timeline,Timeline notebook
,Timeline Thumbnails (Way to memorize timeline + free printable)
,Our Timeline Wall: What the CC timeline looks like and what we learned
,Studying History through the Ages with a Timeline
,More Timeline Resources
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Fine Arts – Famous Artists,Cycle 1 Great Artists Lessons & Activities
,Step-by-Step Ghiberti Art Project
,Cycle 1 Great Artist Coloring Pages/Line Drawings
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Bible – Exodus 20,Hand Motion Video
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Picture Books,Too Much Talk: A West African Folktale. Medearis. {History + Geography}
,Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale. Aardema. {History + Geography}
,Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti. McDermott. {History + Geography}
,Ancient Africa (Chester Comix with Content). Boyd. {History + Geography}
,Mary Slessor: Courage in Africa. Meloche. {History}
,National Geographic Kids: Everything Rocks and Minerals. Tomecek. {Science}
,For descriptions of the above books visit this post
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Read Alouds,David Livingstone: Africa’s Trailblazer (Christian Heroes: Then & Now). Benge.
,A Long Walk to Water. Part of our Mission: World Wonders study.
,Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar. Part of our Mission: World Wonders study.
,Charles Mulli: We Are Family. Part of our Mission: World Wonders study.
,CC Cycle 1 Booklist
,For descriptions of the above books visit this post
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Other,Click here for our Cycle 1 Resources by subject
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Feel free to share any resources you’ve found by commenting or emailing me!