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...]

Cycle 2 Memory Work Lapbooks Review and Giveaway

UPDATE: Congrats to Ina Daniels Patton, winner of the lapbook giveaway! Ina has been contacted via email.  Thanks to everyone who visited & entered! Karen from Wisdom and Righteousness contacted me with a chance to review the My Memory Work Lapbooks she created to complement Classical Conversations Cycle 2.  I was … [Read more...]