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!
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 Asia 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: Put your Hands Together for Conjunctions Activity
- Math: Associative Property of Multiplication (see more worksheets under math section) or use construction paper cut-outs (e.g., squares of different colors with a as red, b as blue, c as green and cut-outs of parentheses, equals, and plus/multiplication signs) to demonstrate Associative and Commutative Laws
- Geography: Nation Flags Coloring Pages (younger) Ducksters Central America – Color-Code Map (older)
- History: Ronald Reagan Coloring Page (online or print), Margaret Thatcher Coloring Page (online or print), or Ronald Reagan Notebooking Page
- Science Week 22: Refraction Worksheet/Activity, Reflection Worksheet/Activity, The Color Spectrum Worksheet/Activity
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: Bridge Design {PBS Building Big: Bridges}, Three Big Temperature Scales (What is Kelvin?) or How is a rainbow formed?
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!
The Link Buffet for Week 21 & 22
Subject,Link
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History: Week 21,Cold War for Kids and Students
,The Cold War on BBC: Videos Tests & Activities
,History Summaries (Search for current topic)
,Ronald Reagan Coloring and Activity Sheets
,Ronald Reagan Coloring Page (online or print)
,Ronald Reagan Notebooking Page
,Margaret Thatcher Coloring Page (online or print)
,Cold War – Brain Pop
,Cold War Europe Map
,Cold War Countries Online Game
,Cold War Powerpoints
,Cold War on NeoK12
,People Places and Events of the Cold War (Ducksters)
,Hitting the Cold War from All Angles Lesson Plan (8th grade)
,Cold War by UK National Archives
,History Channel Cold War
,Timeline of U.S. Wars & Casualties
,Price of Freedom: Americans at War Learning Resources
,Ronald Reagan Bio
,Margaret Thatcher Bio
,Rebuilding the Berlin Wall Activity
,Other Cold War Links
History Week 22 Additional Links,Mapping the Fall of Communism
Science Project Weeks 21 – Bridges,PBS Building Big: Bridges
,Discovery Education Bridges Lesson Plans
,Teach Engineering: Designing Bridges
,Bridges on Squidoo
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Science Week 21 – Third Law of Thermodynamics,Three Laws of Thermodynamics Explanation
,Thermo Intro for Kids (Continue clicking bottom buttons for quizzes and to learn more about Thermodynamics)
,Three Big Temperature Scales (What is Kelvin?)
Science Project Week 22 – Egg Protector,Egg Protector and Egg Drop: Download
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Math: Weeks 21-24,Associative Property of Multiplication
,Commutative Law and Identity Law of Addition
,Identifying Properties of Addition
,Identifying Properties of Addition 2
,Identifying Properties of Multiplication
,StudyJams Properties of Addition
,Scholastic StudyJams Distributive Law
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English Grammar: Weeks 21-22,Sentence Scramble Activity
,Put your Hands Together for Conjunctions Activity
,Schoolhouse Rock Conjunction Junction Video
,Conjunction Grammaropolis Video
,Conjunction On-line Interactive by Grammaropolis
,Conjunction On-line Game
,Putting Sentences Together Worksheet
,Commas and Coordinating Conjunctions Worksheet
,What is a Conjunction and How to Diagram
,Diagramming Coordinating Conjunctions
,Diagramming Conjunctions Worksheet
,Upper Grammar Worksheet: Conjunctions
Latin,Latin Conjugation Match-up File Folder Game (Free Printable)
,Latin – Keeping the Tenses Straight (Free Printable)
,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,Keeping a Timeline
,Accordion Timeline Notebook
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Fine Arts: Orchestra and Instrument Families
,Classical Conversations Orchestra Song (Free Public Library – CC Connected)
,Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Peter and the Wolf
,Let’s Go to the Symphony Video
,The Orchestra Song
,The House on Melody Street (Intro to Instrument Families)
,My Musical Instrument Book
,Orchestra Seating Charts
Fine Arts: Brahms,Free Brahms MP3s
,Or choose from other activities on our Orchestra & Composers Page
Fine Arts: Dvorak,Dvorak Coloring Page
,Dvorak Cello Concerto MP3
,Dvorak Symphony No. 8 MP3
,Dvorak Sympohny No. 9 MP3
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Bible – Genesis 1 (5th Edition),King Things Genesis 1 Audio
,Mega Verses Genesis 1 Hand Motion Video
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Bible – Ephesians 6 Music (4th Edition),Link to Ephesians 6 Hand Motion Video
,Lisa McCann Music on SoundCloud
Other Ephesians 6 Resources (4th Edition),Ephesians 6 Copywork (KJV) from Mary at Homegrown Learners
,Armor of God Illustration & Scripture coloring sheet from Nadene at Practical Pages.
,Other Ephesians 6 Resources
Picture Books & Reading Time,Christmas from Heaven
,Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
,The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain
,But and For Yet and Nor: What Is a Conjunction?
,A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra: Listen While You Learn About the Instruments the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!
,Read Aloud: Children of the Storm
,Our Cycle 2 Read Alouds(2016-2017)
,Top Picks: Cycle 2 Picture Book List
,Cycle 2 Literature/Book List
,Our Cycle 2 Reading Plans (2013-2014)
,Our Cycle 2 Reading Plans & Loop Schedules (2016-2017)
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Other,Click here for our Cycle 2 Resources by subject
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