Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 1

This is our fourth year and we are finally hitting our stride with CC! I felt lost for multiple years. If that’s you, you are not alone. Hoping to share some ideas of how to expand CC at home with your sweet kiddos and get the most out of each week’s memory work!

While this technically isn’t a CC subject strand each week it’s still the most important focus of each week! My goal is to share with you one idea of how to incorporate bible into your homeschool routine. We have used many curriculums, activities, and books throughout our years that will hopefully inspire how you teach your kids the word at home!

First on the list is our current curriculum each morning as we start our day. Apologetics Press has a new family devotional book. This book goes in order throughout scripture highlighting people and their accomplishments. It quotes scripture from their biblical accounts and gives thought provoking questions to help your child think about what they are learning.

As a BONUS, you can purchase bible character cards that go along with the book. My kids are obsessed!! They are super high quality and beat Pokemon cards any day.

Science is such a great subject to expand on at home. I know the kids love doing science experiments at community day so why not do more!

This first week we read about tissues and re-created them using play dough to match my science pages from my Etsy shop. I’ll link that here. Human body books are great because they will cover lots of weeks of CC all from the same book!

History is one of my favorite parts of CC! It’s one area in which I realize I wasn’t educated growing up and I love learning alongside my children each week.

Most of what we do for history involves reading books. I picked up a few books at a thrift store that include Columbus. I’ll have those listed below under my book list. The one photographed standing up was such a find! It’s a pop up book called The Voyage of Columbus and its such a fun addition.

Our craft was simple and only involved some construction paper but my kids loved it! We also enjoyed watching Doodling Through Educations video on Christopher Columbus. I will put that link here.

Here is a picture of my math resource I created to help my kids practice their math memory work. We are really striving for memory master this year and this is an area we have struggled in. If you are interested in incorporating this resource for your children to practice their math also I will share the link to it here!

Here is a picture of my latin resource I created for this year’s memory work. If you are interested in implementing this I will share the link to it here!

Geography has been an area the past three years that I have neglected. I am excited to be back around to United States geography and become more zealous to discover fun facts about all our 50 States!

We ran to the library and picked up a few books that were set in Maine and Boston. It’s week one and I am already shocked at the foods that are eaten most in each of these states. I knew seafood was huge in the New England states but I knew clams and lobster wouldn’t be a hit with my kids.

In order to make celebrating and trying new foods from all 50 states manageable I have mapped out two a week to highlight. (two weeks have three) This week we chose Maine and Rhode Island. We surprised daddy with wild blueberry handpies from Maine. I treated myself with special coffee syrup all the way from Rhode Island to try their Coffee milk! Turns out coffee milk is life changing and I will ordering this coffee syrup forever! I’ll link it here. We had our treats while working on our state page for our 50 states book we will make this year from my shop.

We also used my geography resources I created for my Etsy shop. It is such a great way to expand on geography and be stretched and used over all 24 weeks. You can find the link to that resource here.

Our first artist highlight is Grandma Moses. She is a personal favorite of mine! Not only did she create beautiful artwork, but her story of beginning to paint at age 78 is an inspiration!

I found the best website that creates simple art lessons for kids. They have the best options for Grandma Moses. You can either print a coloring page or follow step by step instructions to try and create your own artwork start to finish. You can find that link here. Another great option is listening to this fun Youtube video while you work on your artwork as well! You can find that video here.

She is famous for her apple butter making painting. Highly recommend eating something smothered in apple butter while coloring. I made some fresh sourdough to go with ours. If you really want to go the extra mile make your own apple butter with your kids!

History: (all books linked)
In 1492 by Jean Marcelo
The Usborne Book of Explorers From Columbus to Armstrong
The Voyage of Columbus In His Own Words
History of the World in 100 Pictures by Usborne

Science: (all books linked)
The Interactive Human Body
Usborne Look Inside Your Body

Bible: (book and cards linked)
Apologetics Press Discovering True Character
Apologetics Press Discovery Bible Cards

Geography: (books linked)
Blueberries for Sal
Make Way for Ducklings

Playlist linked here.