What We're Doing – Week 14 Links & Ideas

History - Watch this video about Lovemore Mashapure, a Zimbabwean sculptor.  I watched it & loved it.  A bit of personal history, I visited Zimbabwe for a month on mission right after graduating high school and my heart still tugs me back there.  So, I'll also be sharing personal photographs, stories, videos, and … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 13 Links & Ideas

History - Encase rocks spray painted gold in "treasure rock" mountains.  I know some little boys who will just love hammering into the mountains like explorers to find gold.  I am also hoping to spray paint some dry beans gold and place in a shallow pan with sand.  I'll equip my littlest with a sifter (aka colander) to find … [Read more...]

Notebook Pages – Printable Links – Cycle 1 Weeks 13-24

We've studied hard this first half of the year and besides keeping school and other responsibilities going, we've added Christmas fun and illnesses to our workload lately.  But, with little bits of time scrounged together here and there, I've also been preparing for the second half of our CC calendar. Here is a list of favorite printable links … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Review Games

Our family was blessed to spend time traveling and with family this Thanksgiving - two of our favorite things! We're excited to spend even more time over the upcoming holiday season enjoying those two things again.However, in all our celebrating, we don't want to lose all the things we've worked hard to memorize over these first several weeks. … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 12 Links & Ideas

History - Copy the history sentence and place in notebook.Latin - Use handwritten flashcards to line up and sort 5th declension noun endings.  Make flashcards for previous weeks to also review in this way.English - Littles' Choice! --- They can choose their favorite method of review from the methods we've used over the last 10 weeks -- copy … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 11 Links & Ideas

History - Read about Constantine together.  Ask littles to tell me something they learned during this reading, which I will then transcribe for them.  We will add this to their notebooks.Latin - Using handwritten notecards, put the 5th declension latin noun endings in order.  English - Create a story using all prepositions and hand … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 10 Links & Ideas

History - Look up words from the history sentence that my littles can't define and write definitions to add to notebook.  I'm thinking expelled, foreigners, isolation, commodore, modernize, etc.Latin - Copy the 4th declension into notebook.English - Create a story and draw a picture using the 4 prepositions.Science - Draw leaf diagrams in … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 9 Links

History - Did anyone else get a paperback version of this Confucius book from Chick-Fil-A in their littles' meal? I can't remember exactly when we got it, but we have one & plan to read it this week!Science - Parts of a Plant Worksheets free, printable, choose your own!- Find a plant to dissect after going on … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 8 Links

History - read The Story of Little Babaji, the story of Mohandas Gandhi and What Should I Make?Science - Monocot, Dicot, and Conifers printable for discussion or copy work- watch the Magic School Bus Goes to Seed Video Geography - create our own DIY Blue & White Ming Plates. If we don't … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 7 Links

English - Preposition Song Video and Preposition Motions - Slowed Down & by WeekGeography - (free! printable!) Indus River Valley Flashcards with Photos- Indus River Valley Civilization Info Fine Arts - (free! printable!) Music Theory NotebookWell, here in the Northeast, we're hunkering down in anticipation of … [Read more...]