Welcome to another year of homeschool! I know everyone has their favorite CC year, and this may be yours because it’s chock full of knights and castles, World Wars and planets in space! While this page will provide many awesome things for your Cycle 2 journey, it is not a comprehensive list, only a supplemental […]
Jump to: Reference Books History Science English Fine Arts Read Alouds Or download a PDF version: Classical Conversations Cycle 2 Booklist. Read more about our booklist selections here. Reference Books: History The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia The Kingfisher Atlas of World History The Usborne Book of World History Geography The Kingfisher Geography Encyclopedia DK […]
Welcome to our on-line resources for Classical Conversations Cycle 2! Included here are free resources for all subjects of CC Cycle 2 organized by week.
Are you ready to stock up on Classical Conversations Cycle 2 books from Usborne Books & More? Below you'll find handy dandy lists of my abs...
Share Wildflower Ramblings!Classical Conversations is a wonderful, hands-on curriculum for children when they are in community. But for during the week, when you want to dig deeper into the grammar and memorization, these books from PaperPie, home of Usborne Books, will help your child to make the topics come alive in an exciting and invigorating...
A medieval to modern history book list for any homeschool, aligns to Classical Conversations Cycle 2. A printable list by genre / week.
Dear Sarah, Hannah, Julia & Joshua, This year we are homeschooling using Classical Conversations and we are so excited about it. I'm a tutor...
One of my favorite aspects of Classical Conversations is that families can tailor the spine of the Foundations memory work to suit their style! History and literature matchup lists are abundant, but science matchups are a bit more difficult to find, so we thought we would do the work for you! (Speaking of work done […]
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Fun ideas for expanding on the material taught in this week's Classical Conversations homeschool classes.
Classical Conversations book list for Cycle 2! Our favorite picture books that we read and loved this year, and a summary of our year in CC.
CC Cycle 2, Week 14 - "Definition of an Adverb"Sung to the cup song from the movie Pitch Perfect, uploaded to CC Connected by user "marleiw." In this video,...
Usborne Books for Classical Conversations: Cycle 2 Organized by Subject & Level www.fourpeppersbooks.com History Pre-K & Kindergarten + Ages 3-6 Age 4 and up Age 4 and up Age 5 and up Age 5 and up Age 5 and up Age 5 and up Age 5 and up 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade +…
Share Wildflower Ramblings!Our list for Living Books for Medieval & Modern History: Classical Conversations Cycle 2 is below! I hope you enjoy! Most of the books below could be found in your local library. I always suggest searching online, from home, and holding lots of books and going in to pick them up without...
Hello friends! Thank you for your patience. I know many of you have been waiting quite a few weeks for this list to be posted. We've been busy since the end of CC with many travels and are now settled in for the summer months, happily diving into our study of European History. We are…
Share Wildflower Ramblings!Here is a list of The Good and the Beautiful history resources that can supplement Classical Conversations Cycle 2 history memory work. The Good and the Beautiful has a four year history curriculum for grades 1 to 12. And this is the perfect supplement to the Classical Conversation history memory work. I love...
Ideas for expanding on this week's Classical Conversations Cycle 2 material.
Welcome Back! I hope that you all had a wonderful break. We’re back in action in our Classical Conversations community this week, and although I feel a little like I’m swimming through jello trying to get myself and my family back into the routine of things, we ARE slowly getting our cylinders all fired up and in sync! Math Usually, for this week’s Math, I use a Gallon Man or Gallon Bot to reinforce the idea of liquid equivalents. There is a nice Gallon Man that someone has posted on CC Connected (C3) and there is a Gallon Bot available at Super Teacher Worksheets. What I’ve noticed about myself, however, is that it actually helps me more to SEE the liquid equivalents in action. I understand it much better when I think about it as I’m working around the kitchen. So, this time I decided to actually do a demonstration. In class, we took a gallon of water and broke it down backwards. Because of the time constraints, we were only able to do it once (I took an extra gallon pitcher to house excess water), but then were still able to use the empty containers to go over the grammar multiple times in class. At home, we’re continuing to use the same containers as we review the memory work. My children just pretend to pour the liquid the appropriate number of times. They’ve been able to remember the grammar, as well as think about the math a little more (if there are 2 cups in a pint and 2 pints in a quart, how many cups are in a quart? etc.). I think it’s been very helpful! Seeing the relative size of the containers has made the abstract concept much more concrete in their minds. Presentations I may have mentioned this before, but I like to do impromptu presentations a couple of times each year. This year, I did more planning than usual and arranged things so that we did impromptu presentations the week after coming back from each of our breaks in the Fall and Winter. I realize that sometimes the kids have GREAT things to report on from their breaks, and I would never mind a bit if someone preferred to do a prepared presentation those days, but as a parent, trying to get presentations ready those weeks always causes me a ridiculous amount of stress! It’s just like I’m not ready to start getting snacks packed, lunches packed, backpacks packed, and all the other things that go with preparing for CC Community day, and trying to get the presentations rounded up and ready on top of that is just too much for me that first week back! It always spoils my break a little. All the rest of you are probably much more pulled together than me and don’t mind it a bit, BUT I think it’s the PERFECT time to just do impromptu presentations! In the Fall, I brought in a box of random objects. This children each drew an object out of the box and did a presentation on it. Some of them were VERY creative! Kids are so awesome! Some examples of things I put in the box were: Plain paper Paper plates Egg carton Plastic cups Cotton balls Yarn/String Popsicle Sticks Dried pasta Small pieces of PVC pipe (they were actually part of a marshmallow shooter) Paper clips Buttons Paint stirrers I tried to come up with things for which I could think of at least two uses quickly and things that I thought the kids would generally be familiar with. I did this last year during second semester with abecedarians and was absolutely AMAZED at how well they did! My whole crew of 4 and 5 year olds walked up to the box, picked something out without debate or distress, walked straight to the front of the class and just talked. It just reminded me again about what a wonderful blessing CC and this presentation time each week is! This week, we used some speech prompts. The kids drew a slip of paper from a bag (I allowed them to draw 2 and choose between them) and then made their presentation. Again, I was so impressed with how well they all did! If you’d like to download the Speech Prompts we used, you’ll find them here () or on the Printables page. Timeline Here’s a pretty decent video with information about Prince Henry the Navigator. I can tell you from personal experience that it’s difficult to read some of the text aloud quickly enough. On the upside, my effort to do so totally cracked my kiddos up and they cheered for me on the shorter slides where I was able to actually read the content to them completely before they changed. You know . . . it’s good to stay humble. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/481744491361678486/ There are also some good videos and linked on the Age of Exploration and Prince Henry at this website: http://mrshuntsclassroom.weebly.com/prince-henry-the-navigator.html One of the copies of the Gutenberg Bible is on display in the Library of Congress. We were able to see it when we went to DC last spring. It really is an amazing thing to behold! Especially since it’s displayed across from the Giant Bible of Mainz, which looks very similar and was handwritten in the same town of Mainz, Germany around the same time that Gutenberg was printing his Bibles. It took over a year for the handwritten Mainz Bible to be completed. Our tour guide told us 150 copies of Gutenberg’s Bible were probably completed in about the same time period. Fascinating! It’s definitely a must see (in my book) on your next trip to Washington DC. The Library of Congress, as a whole, was my favorite part of our last trip there! This book on Gutenberg is great, but it looks like only used copies are available via Amazon (check your local library!). History I have 2 books to recommend this week relating to our history grammar. The first, in particular, is great! It contains a section on Gutenberg (this week’s timeline) as well as one on James Watt. It’s written comic book style, and the histories are brief, but well done and interesting. I thought this video was an interesting overview of the Industrial Revolution. My 5 and 7 year old were not as enamored. To quote my very tactful 7 year-old: “He blabbed on too much.” It is a little longer, and moves a bit quickly for younger children. Probably best for middle school and up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c&list=PLyJ7dOFH6lMl6IFcAakji3OaMe63SHgmx&index=3 Science I found several videos this week. This first one is the very best one that I found for discussing all 4 states of matter. At 2:50, there is a vague reference to the Big Bang (a large amount of energy converts to matter). Near the end, there is a tie in to the definition of inertia, which will be coming up in our Science grammar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88tK5c0wgH4 Cute video excerpt from the Zula Patrol cartoon. Does a nice (quick) overview of 3 of the states of matter. Great for preschoolers and early elementary age children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xDNJSMikBo&list=PLyJ7dOFH6lMl6IFcAakji3OaMe63SHgmx&index=11 This is an excellent video on 3 of the states of matter, filmed in a glass studio. Excellent for early elementary and up. There is some non-narrated text that will need to be read aloud for non-readers (or slower readers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPc6JH85pM&list=PLyJ7dOFH6lMl6IFcAakji3OaMe63SHgmx&index=1 Since the two videos above only discuss solids, liquids, and gases, we need to give plasma some attention! This video offers a good overview of what plasma is and where it can be found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2osF6l6-zWg Fine Art I’ve created some artist bios with examples of their artwork and have uploaded them to C3. Link is here for those of you with access to C3. I adore the”Getting to Know” series written by Mike Venezia. There are books on SO many artists and other famous historical figures and they are written in an extremely approachable way. There are also videos on many, but not all, of the individuals. Rembrandt is one for whom there is a book and a video and I would HIGHLY recommend them both. The book is very reasonably priced on Amazon. The videos are cost prohibitive (I can only assume that they expect well-funded school and library systems to shell out big bucks), so if you’re able to find it at your local library snag it! They are SO good! Here are two websites with good links to Rembrand bios and artwork: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/rembrandt http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/ A very brief video studying one of Rembrandt’s self portraits. This is a particularly good video choice if your community chose to sketch self-portraits for art for this week. Good for all ages: http://www.nga.gov/education/timetravel/faces.shtm My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE thing to recommend this week is this video. I love a good flash mob video! This is a flash mob sponsored by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to publicize a Rembrandt exhibition that included his most famous work – The Night Watch. It really is very cool! Be sure and pause it after the frame falls down and see if your children can see the characters from the original painting. It’s a fun way to really take some time to examine the artwork. This post is linked to:
Classical Conversations Cycle 3 resources for homeschooling families.
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