How to organize your Classical Conversations Essential's Binder and be ready for the first day of Essentials Class
I recently saw an idea similar to this shared on a Classical Conversations message board, so I adapted the game for my children and my Essentials class. Each sentence pattern, structure, and purpose was determined by a roll of the die. Then my children had to add in a specific part of speech for their final roll. After a few tries, I found it was easiest to determine first the purpose (declarative, interrogative, etc.) then the pattern (S-Vt-DO, etc.) then the structure (simple, compound, etc.) then the part of speech. For example if they rolled 1, 3, 4, and 6, their creation would be a Declarative, S-Vl-PA, simple sentence with a conjunction. The first sentence listed is: Sierra is six and playful. This utilizes some some serious thinking and dialectic skills, but is totally worth it!!
How to organize your Classical Conversations Essential's Binder and be ready for the first day of Essentials Class
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So after my last post I should tell you "that Arctic day" we went to an Indian restaurant to get a taste of Indian food. I told the kids we could see belly dancers and that they would have a tea called chai, eat some Naan- they were super excited and so was I to save the lost day. When we drove up to the restaurant, it was closed- like shut down, boards on the windows... so instead we drove to get pizza. :) I mean really, what should I have expected? :) Onto this wonderful week of CC... Here is a file of our History sentence for Week 8 with picture format. I thought since it was such a long sentence it would help to have some picture cues to talk about it as well. :) You can just right click and save it. Hopefully you will have no problems with this document. :) Ok for science... http://mrsrosales-acaciawoodschool.weebly.com/comparing-monocot-and-dicot.html We have the ever helpful and resourceful teacher who made this sheet. But I wanted something I could make for my memory board so I made this instead.... And for some Geography Week 9 cards... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/83404917/week%209%20map%20cards/Slide1.png I love this idea! SO simple and fun for little hands. If you didn't want to do construction paper you could do paint. :) I hope everyone has a wonderful week and you are blessed beyond measure! -Crecia
By popular demand comes a post for all of my Classical Conversations friends. I love to share what we are using on Instagram in the Facebook community - someone asked the other day if I could write a post with all of my "favorite goodies" for CC Cycle 3. Ask and you shall receive. N
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I am so thankful we have chosen Classical Conversations . Our current year in CC has been so sweet for our family. I know that we will look back on this year with many fond memories and stories of God's faithfulness. After being in an established community for three years, thi
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Alternate title: how I invested a bunch of time this summer and am thanking myself every day now! I know a number of you who read here are part of a CC Community but if you're not, feel free to skip the rest of this post :) First, the background. Here are some things I've learned about myself as a home schooling mama: - if something is not simplified, I'm skipping it. - I will not lug some activity book to our printer/copier every day to photocopy pages for each of my students day after day - we'll just skip them. - looking 25 different places for different sources and resources is unrealistic for me - I'll just skip it. Are you sensing a theme here? Ahem. One of the many reasons I love CC is that it simplifies our school at home. All three doing the same history, geography, science, etc? Yes, please! With that said, my children love all the fun stuff. Hmmm, wonder where they got that from?! But, the fun stuff seems to be what adds complications to our days. Like looking through a bunch of sources, making copies, running out of time, and on and on. Ok, now - this summer I was at my friends house who also does CC and I am always inspired by her organization and ideas {thanks, K!} and this year was no different. She showed me a spiral bound book or two that she'd printed out of one volume Story of the World activity sheets. Printed once and spiral bound. Revolutionary. I knew I wanted to take this idea and adapt it to serve us and this is what came out of that. I scoured Story of the World activity books, CC Connected, Half a Hundred Acre Wood links, Map Trek and more. Then, I printed out pages I wanted to use to reinforce memory work each week for the whole year and had them spiral bound at Staples. Now, I feel like I need to say this - I was very hesitant to try this and even more to share it. Doing this kind of workbook is not following the Classical Model of educating. But with that said, it has really helped us to be able to do some more "fun" things and even to practice our memory work during the week in a new and more successful to us way. As always, I would not encourage you to use this in place of the CC Curriculum - but if you own the Foundations Guide and are in a CC Community - this might be a help. My second hesitation was that I'd be asked to make a copy to share - everyone will need to create their own copy of this sort of book. Too many copyright and ethics laws could be compromised otherwise. I'm not going to lie - this took a LOT of time. But, the time it is saving me now has been worth every minute I invested in it. I am so thankful for the idea and the time/energy to complete it and for how it is serving us now. A few logistical thoughts in case you'd like to try this at some point: - I set up a folder in My Documents and under that folder set up 24 additional folders so I could save files for each week that I came across. This will also allow me to re-create this next time we do Cycle 2 without much searching. I'll be able to tweak and print easily. - I made a teacher's guide for myself. Just a very simple Word document, nothing fancy with any special notes I needed to remember for a certain activity and page number references. It is just three hole punched and in a three-prong folder. Comments are still turned off, but if you have questions - feel free to email me at thehomespunheart {at} hotmail {dot} com. If you want to know more about Classical Conversations - visit my posts here, here, here and here. A bit of photo inspiration of our books:
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Friday is "Clean Out Your Refrigerator" day! To celebrate, (because I'd rather just celebrate the day and not actually clean out my fridge) I made two Rebus Puzzles. One is for the younger kids, probably 2nd - 3rd grade, but maybe 1sts too. And the other is harder and for older kids, 4th - 6th. Obviously, you should try the puzzles out yourself first and see if they are appropriate for your kids. Rebuses are fun at any age, so I think you'll enjoy them too! I hope you don't find anything too gross if you do decide to clean the fridge on Friday! (Graphics are from Pink Cat Studio and ClipArt.com.)
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