Share Wildflower Ramblings! I am thrilled to bring you a list of living books, by week, for American History that can be used with Classical Conversations Cycle 3. I love the relationships and community that my family has been so richly blessed with from our Classical Conversations community. It has taken me a while to...
When I first joined Classical Conversations, I was trying to pace myself in how much I spent on materials. Sadly, I decided to leave the cute little deck of memory work flashcards off of my list. However, for my birthday that year (conveniently in July), my sweet mother bought them for me! I remember flipping…
Books that match up great with cycle 1 Classical Conversations
I have seen so many great ideas for review games out there. I thought I would compile a list of my favorites to have as a resource. I figure if I could come up with 6 great games that work, I only have to use the same game 4 times in a year! 1. Zap! - This is my favorite game so far simply because the smartest group doesn't always win. It's kind of like Jeopardy, but with a curve ball - if you get the "Zapped" card, you lose all your points! Thanks for sharing, Mathtastrophe! Game instructions and printable here. Another take on this game is Bazinga by Simplifying Radicals. 2. Nerf Gun - Love this idea! Draw a bullseye on the board. Divide the kids into teams. Ask a team a review question. If they get the answer correct, they get to shoot at the board to see how many points they earn. So fun! 3. Jenga - I really like how Living Out His Love blog does this one. She writes with a sharpie marker directly onto the Jenga piece. And, she write a subject and week on both sides of each piece. Though, if done this way, it seems like you could only do this at the end of the semester (because if you have Sciene, week 7 written in sharpie and you're only at week 3, that wouldn't work!). Another idea is to tape the subject and week with clear packing tape and then re-do it as your progress along in the year. 4. Power Tower - Similar to Jenga, but with paper cups. Write the question on the cup. If the class answers correctly, they get to stack the cups. If the tower falls, they have to start over. via Mrs. Lewis' Learning Library 5. Mr Potato Head - For every question the class gets correct, they get to add a body part to Mr. Potato. I also like the idea on 2nd Grade Rocks! blog. She uses it as a behavior incentive. Every time the class has good behavior, they get to add a body part. When Mr. Potato is completely put together, they get to have an ice cream party! 6. Snowball Fight - Love this idea for Texas as this may be the only snow the children ever see. Write the review questions on a piece of paper. Divide the kids into 2 teams. If the kids get it correct, they get to crumble it up into a ball. After all the questions have been answered, they get to have a snowball fight using the paper balls! 7. Chair Tic-Tac-Toe - Put nine chairs in 3 rows of 3 to make a square. Divide the class into 2 teams. Ask a team a question. If they get it correctly, one of their players gets to sit in one of the chairs. The first team to have 3 players sitting in a row wins. 8. Memory Mogul - Awesome (and free!) printable game from Sola Gratia Mom blog. This one seems like it could take some time printing out the cards and possibly creating a game board. But, the game board and cards could last all year. Click here for instructions and printables. 9. Stinky Feet - My 7 year old son would love this one. Very simple with little prep time. Idea and instructions can be found here at Teaching in the Fast Lane blog. 10. Classroom Board Game - This game may require a little adapting, but it looks like fun. Turn the classroom into a life size game board. Great ideas for how to do this game here at Blessings for Bible School Teachers.
Here are some Magic School Bus match-ups for Cycle 1. I’ve included videos and a few books that correlate to some of our science sentences. I can’t guarantee that this list is exhaust…
My children starting school on a recent morning! If you came into my house right now and asked Lena, “Hey Lena, can you tell me about the Hundred Years War?” she would sing: “Yes! During the Hundred Years War, Joan of Arc and King Charles VII led the French to defeat England at the Battle […]
Here is the breakdown of what we did for Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 2. I'm personally loving the material and extra sources for supplementing our curriculum!
This will mark the ending of our very first year of Classical Conversations. Joshua's class will be reciting the Preamble, Caleb's class will
I’m sharing with you today my New Grammar games/ideas for CC. This is my “easy” list of things to fall back on if I haven’t created a new, more “complicated game”…
Today was a beautiful homeschooling day. Today was a day where many other days collided into one - a day the pieces of the puzzle locked into place - a day I thought over and over, "THIS is why we homeschool". Today was the first day of Challenge A. I've been here
My children starting school on a recent morning! If you came into my house right now and asked Lena, “Hey Lena, can you tell me about the Hundred Years War?” she would sing: “Yes! During the Hundred Years War, Joan of Arc and King Charles VII led the French to defeat England at the Battle […]
A comprehensive list of the Who Was books to coincide with Cycle 3 of the Classical Conversations curriculum. Click our link to purchase books on Amazon!
Books that match up great with cycle 1 Classical Conversations
Classical Conversations: Cycle 3–Games and Videos! I shared my Ultimate List of Books for Cycle 3 a few w
Don't you just love review games?! I'll be tutoring Mary's class at our new CC campus this year (so excited!), so I've been keeping...
How to organize your Classical Conversations Essential's Binder and be ready for the first day of Essentials Class
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I’ve been working on this list for a VERY long time. In recent conversation with my CC tutor buddies though, I realized that this won’t be of much help to tutors and parents if I never …
Homeschool games for latin is an entry way into learning an older language. Using games opens the door for fun in homeschool.
I’ve been working on this list for a VERY long time. In recent conversation with my CC tutor buddies though, I realized that this won’t be of much help to tutors and parents if I never …
Homeschool games for latin is an entry way into learning an older language. Using games opens the door for fun in homeschool.
Read through a day in the life of a Classical Conversations family - from Community day to our weekly homeschool schedule
Now that we have been “outted” as homeschoolers, what do we actually do during the week with Classical Conversations cycle 3 week 1... a lot... and a little
This guide teaches step-by-step drawing instructions for How to Draw Some Parts of an Atom (Nucleus, Protons, Electrons, Quarks, Leptons, and Neutrons). These drawing instructions align with Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 15 Science memory work but work with any curriculum studying this topic! This is a great way to keep kids of varying ages occupied while reading on the topic! Younger students can use the line drawing as a coloring page or hold it up to the window to trace it, then color. Older students can use the drawing guide to hone their drawing skills and create a final colored product they can be proud of! These drawings work wonderfully for student notebooks or as an illustration to accompany any copy work the teacher chooses. This file includes detailed step-by-step how-to-draw instructions, a black-and-white final drawing or coloring page, and a colored example drawing. Classical Conversations Week 15: How to Draw Some Parts of an Atom Nucleus Protons Electrons Quarks Leptons Neutrons These drawing instructions are a wonderful resource to supplement science memory work from Classical Conversations (CC) Cycle 3. This is week 15 of Classical Conversations CC Cycle 3 Science. The full guide with all 24 weeks is available here. Why Draw to Learn? Our guides are designed to help your students learn science facts while also learning how to draw them! Drawing dramatically aids knowledge retention! Studies show that drawing information can improve recall by more than double compared to just writing the information down! Draw and color science facts to make a notebook you can be proud of!
In addition to attending a CC Practicum, which is required for tutors and is wonderful, what can a Foundations tutor do over the summer to get ready for a great school year in Classical Conversations? These are 3 things that I'm doing to make my life easier for this next year. Take them or leave them as you need them, but as a prep-junkie (someone who is always prepared for just about anything) I find them to be my best tips for brand-new tutors. 1. Go over the Timeline Song and the motions several times over the summer. This is not to say you have to have it perfectly memorized; it is very intimidating and took me a whole school year to learn it well with lots of practice. But I'm so glad I became acquainted with it by playing my audio cds the summer before tutoring, since I was jumping into tutoring the very first year a CC group started in our town. Go over the actions so that when you review them briefly before you teach each week they will be familiar. Since I have a year of the timeline song under my belt, I'll spend this summer going over the Latin song and passage of Scripture in Latin so I can get the correct pronunciations down before I present it to my students. 2. Map out a general plan for games for the year. I came away from last week's tutor training with ton of new ideas for introducing memory work and for review games. I also utelize this page and this page as well as Pinterest for ideas. If I jot down enough ideas for 6 weeks, meaning 6 different review games and 6 very simple ways of introducing each subject on my board, then I can reuse that paper for every quarter, and the games will only be used 4x each during the year. Examples: 6 Review Games I Like: Zonk Connect Four Jeopardy Ping Pong Throw LilyPad Toss Target Shoot with Nerf Gun 6 Ways to Introduce Science: Clap the syllables as we say our science fact Jump up and down while reciting Roll a potato around the table as we say it Put our science fact to music and sing it (Look for Kim Jaky's songs on CC Connected--they're great!) Pass around an echo microphone (from The Dollar Store) and have the kids take turns saying it Practice the science fact starting with a soft voice and gradually getting louder each time In less than an hour you can have a year's worth of game ideas mapped out so that you are prepared when the busyness of back-to-school hits. You can always change them and tweak them according to the needs of your students and the time you have left in class, but jotting down ideas is a great way to plan ahead. 3. Get a Head Start on Presentations. One of the most challenging things for me last year was helping my kids with their presentations. I had 3 kids in Foundations last year and this year it will be 4 kids. Because I was new to CC and new to tutoring, I had to learn how to help my kids get their presentations done in a timely manner while also prepping for tutoring a class. Many of the topics they had to present on required lots of reading or study so that we could come up with enough for their report. Often, it was a lot of work just to get them to decide what they wanted to do. This year, I hope to discuss presentation topics with my director over the summer so I can get an idea of what they will need to be presenting on so that we can do some of the decision-making, reading, and preparation in advance. Whether it's choosing a state they want to present on, reading about a favorite president, grabbing a historical costume from a yard sale, or drawing a picture of someone from history, extra time definitely won't hurt when I have 4 kids to prepare. Since they are all in different classes this year because our community has expanded from two Foundations classes to four, I'm hoping that they can all present on the same thing to each of their respective classes and we can study that ONE president/state/event/etc. together instead of all choosing separate ones, like last year. What tips do you have for preparing for tutoring a Foundations class?
Mrs. Bourland's Weekly Recaps Week 14 Recap: We had a great day of review with some fun mixed in. We miss Caroline L.! Bible - Proverbs...
Share Wildflower Ramblings!Our list for Living Books for Ancient & World History: Classical Conversations Cycle 1 is below! I am so happy to share these with you! We are on the threshold for a new school year. With a new fifth volume, Classical Conversations has updated their guides and CDs. I am very pleased with...
As a Classical Conversations mama, I am always looking for ways to make things go smoother, keep our materials in good shape, and help my kiddos operate on their own. This little project helps out …
This Sunday is the fifth sunday, and I have the entire singing/sharing time. I wanted a game where we could sing like crazy and review songs, but also have fun. This idea was inspired by someone with the idea of "musicship"...but I can't remember who. ****I just got a comment referring me to the correct site. The Crazy Chorister was the one I got the original idea from. Thanks to Dana who sent this information!**** I tweaked it a little to make it work for our primary and what we needed to get accomplished. On a poster board, I made a grid: 1-6 across the top and A-G going down the sides. I cut out 3x3 squares of cardstock to fill in the blank spaces. The children will come up (for Juniors) and pick a square and the older kids can just call out coordinates (A2) for example. Behind the square will either be a symbol or blank. If it's blank, we don't do anything, and have someone else pick another square. I have 3 different symbols on different colors of cardstock; a 4 stars, 11 ships, and 6 flowers. On each of the symbols, I penciled in a song title. All of the cards will be faced down, as so: The ships represent the program songs. (I divided up the verses, so one ship would represent "How Firm a Foundation (verse 1)" and another ship would have "How Firm a Foundation (verse 3)". The flowers represent songs we will be singing at the retirement center in two weeks. These are "non-denominational songs". We have our Father's day songs, one of our mother's day songs, I am a Child of God, Wise and Foolish Man, etc. You could just do wiggle songs for these. The stars represent "free choice", where the child can pick any primary song he wants. For most of the songs, I will have a little bag with papers inside, with different ways to sing the song. I thought about bringing my dice, but it's getting hard enough for me to move around without carrying a ton of stuff. These papers might say "sing staccato, stand on one leg, loud and soft (I have sticks with a lion and a mouse that they can alternate during the song), girls sing, boys sing, don't sing words that begin with "H", etc. If they have a rough time with a verse, we'll probably review a little and sing it again. ****It would be fun to have a picture or phrase or something underneath all of the squares that they slowly uncover. However, leaving it blank, you can use the poster over and over, just rearrange the cards and erase the song titles for different ones as needed****
Au hasard, dans l’irremplaçable Arcane de la déesse Tripourâ, en la part de la connaissance, chapitre seize : paśya pratyāvṛttacakṣuḥ svātmānaṃ kevalāṃ citim / âdeśakālam eva svaṃ paśyantyuttamabuddhayaḥ // "Regarde ! Le regard inversé, vois ton propre Soi, regarde-toi toi-même, pure et simple conscience. Ceux qui sont parfaitement éveillés se voient eux-mêmes/ contemplent le Soi au moment même où il est pointé." L'Arcane de Tripourâ, XVI, 26 pashya : "Vois !", "regarde !" Comment ? prati-âvritta-cakshuh : "ayant les yeux retournés" Quoi ? sva-âtmânam : toi-même, soi-même, ton propre soi, mon propre soi Qui est comment ? kevalam citim : "qui est seulement conscience" (citi=acte de conscience, dynamique, nuance par rapport à cit, conscience statique, passive, "témoin") Quand ? âdesha-kâlam eva "au moment même où cela est pointé/ indiqué" (le Commentateur précise naivaṃvidhamātmatattvaṃ parokṣamityāha - paśyeti | nanu śravaṇānantaraṃ mananādikrameṇa kālāntare paśyāmīti cedāha - ādeśa iti | upadeśakāle śravaṇakāle evetyarthaḥ Cet être du Soi est immédiatement présent, il dit donc 'vois !' Mais peut-être qu'il faut juste entendre cela, pour ensuite, à un autre moment, réfléchir, etc. graduellement ; si l'on fait cette objection, il dit "au moment même où cela est indiqué" : au moment où cela est enseigné, c'est-à-dire au moment même où cela est entendu") le Soi, svam, que pashyanti "contemplent" uttama-buddhayah "ceux qui sont parfaitement éveillés". Le verset suivant précise : cakṣurnaitad golakaṃ te manaścakṣurudāhṛtam / yena paśyasi svapneṣu taccakṣurmukhyamucyate "Ces yeux ne sont pas les boules de chair, mais les yeux de l'esprit, grâce auxquels on voit dans les rêves. Voilà le véritable regard, dit-on." Et cet autre joyau, au chapitre suivant : nirvikalpakavijñānādajñānaṃ na nivartate / nirvikalpakavijñānaṃ kenacinna viruddhyate // 27 // Tripurârahasya, Jnânakhanda, XVII Le commentateur, un illustre inconnu, Shrî Nivâsa, habitant de l'Andhra (au temps pour le "shivaïsme du Cachemire") : nirvikalpakajñānaṃ pratyabhijñābhinnaṃ samādhirūpaṃ nājñānanāśakamiti "L'ignorance n'est pas détruite par l'expérience sans concept, (car) l'expérience sans concept n'est contredit par rien. - 27 Commentaire : La connaissance sans concept, en forme de samâdhi, (si elle est) privée de reconnaissance, (laquelle comporte des concepts), ne peut détruire l'ignorance." Une conscience non-conceptuelle, à elle seule, ne peut détruire l'ignorance, car comme l'espace, elle embrasse tout et ne contredit rien ni personne. Je vis chaque jour des milliers de moments sans concept, sans bifurcation, sans mots : le sommeil profond et les intervalles. Pourtant, ils ne m'éveillent pas, car la conscience, c'est-à-dire Dieu, embrasse tout. Elle agit, mais dans l'amour, dans un absolu respect de la liberté de l'individu, sachant que l'individu n'est nul autre qu'Elle. Ce texte est un trésor fiable. Je l'ai découvert à seize ans et je le lis et le relis chaque jour avec la même jubilation respectueuse. Ce matin, en écoutant Nothomb, cette autre réflexion m'est venue. "Autre", mais pertinente ici, quoique pour d'obscures raisons : J'ai l'impression que l'on parle partout de la disparition de la nature, à juste titre. Mais l'on n'informe pas assez de celle de la culture. Or, autant la l'indiscutable raréfaction des insectes est un signe du fait dénoncé, autant l'effondrement lexical et syntaxique en est un autre, largement dénié. Il faut donc en parler. S'en troubler, car enfin, pas de nature sans culture. C'est une règle élémentaire de la grammaire cosmique. Autre observation, dans le prolongement de cette décadence : il me semble que plus nous - les auteurs, les écrivains, les passeurs, les philosophes, les chercheurs - nous faisons des efforts pour rendre accessible un savoir, plus les lecteurs sont paresseux. Il y a là une sorte d'affreux balancier, ou peut-être une spirale infernale. Je l'avais remarqué en classe : plus les professeurs se démènent pour se faire comprendre, moins les oreilles écoutent. Oui, il y a un cercle vicieux du pédagogisme qui roule sur la vague du mercantilisme, sans doute. Cette obsession de la fausse simplicité, qui est une vraie pauvreté, nous énerve, nous rend débiles. Soyons exigeants avec nous-mêmes. Discipline. Il n'y a pas de nature sans l'artifice d'une discipline, pas de joie de galoper à l'aventure sans le stratagème d'un yoga : yoga-yukta, "attelé au joug" comme disaient les guerriers de l'Inde ; yuktibhih "grâce aux stratagèmes" ; pas de liberté sans contrainte. Dans les humanités brahmaniques, trois piliers, trois "portes vers la liberté (moksha-dvâra) : la grammaire, l'exégèse, la logique. Ne serait-ce qu'un accident, une vieillerie anecdotique ? Belle journée à tous, fuyons. Le yoga est à réinventer. Courage et cœur à l'ouvrage.
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