Cycle Two – Week Six

History - Check out books from the library on the famous men of week six or should I say, the renaissance. Latin - Match the endings using two copies of the Latin pronunciation helps.  English - As a group, write the possessive nouns on sticky notes and attach them to various items around the house.   Math - The skip counting mazes and … [Read more...]

Cycle Two – Week Five

History - Compare map of the Hundred Years War with modern day France and England boundaries.  Maybe set up army guys in various battle positions.Latin - Use Latin pronunciation helps to review the endings.  I'll use notecards to cover one ending at a time to see if my littles can identify which one is covered.  By the end, I'll have … [Read more...]

Cycle Two – Week Four

History - Read (probably not all of) the Magna Carta.Latin - Use the Latin pronunciation helps to practice endings.English - Have boys group themselves or things into nominative pronouns and take a picture of that pronoun example.  Each boy will take a turn reciting and photographing, so the pronoun example is from their … [Read more...]

Cycle Two – Week Three

History - We'll play hit back and forth with toy swords while reciting our memory work.  Or so, I think. I'll keep you posted if this works or turns into more war than recitation!Latin - Use the Latin pronunciation helps to practice the endings.  English - Recite the pronoun order.  If my guys need extra help remembering, I plan … [Read more...]

Cycle Two – Week Two

History - Play "pass the crown" with our homemade lace crowns, as each one of us says one word of the history sentence until we have it memorized.Latin - Match the Latin endings using two copies of the Latin pronounciation helps.  All the while, we'll be reciting the endings.English - Recite the memory work together.  I'll write a … [Read more...]

Cycle Two – Week One

Here we go! The first week! I know some of you in other parts of the country have already begun, but we're just about to embark on our first week.  I'm hoping to get a few weeks ahead of our schedule here, so if you want to follow the same plans as us, you can! This year I have a seven (nearly eight) year old, six year old, and four year old in … [Read more...]

Catching Classical – Notebook Pages for Cycle 2

One of our favorite ways to practice our CC memory work at home is through notebooking.  Because we're in the grammar stage, I'm not looking to use our notebooks to expound on the memory work at this time, but really focus on nailing in the memory pegs.  We'll be using the Wisdom & Righteousness memory work lapbooks in our … [Read more...]