Jordan Romero, from Southern California, called his mother on Christmas Eve to tell her he had reached the peak of Mt. Vinson Massif. He bested Everest at 13.
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CC Cycle 2 Booklist. Books correlating with Classical Conversations Cycle 2 Foundations memory work.
There are a lot of people asking me a lot of questions of what our homeschool curriculum involves. I am eager to share everything we are ...
Print pdf with FREE Solar System workheets for Prek-6th grade students. Learn order of the planets, moon phases, planet facts, and more.
Learn what distinguishes a meteoroid, meteor and meteorite with this outer space science sheet!
There are a lot of people asking me a lot of questions of what our homeschool curriculum involves. I am eager to share everything we are doing with our friends and family. Here are a few things we did last week and this week... History: Week 1: We learned about Charlemagne. My favorite coloring pages come from Google image searches and filtering for line drawings. Blaine colored these while I read about Charlemagne and practicing reciting/singing his history sentence for the week. Week 2: We learned about William the Conqueror. Blaine colored this image of William the Conqueror while I read. We also discussed feudalism and did a cut and paste activity. I can tell Blaine is definitely starting to absorb more of what I'm teaching him because last night, he jumped onto the sofa, threw all the pillows off, stomped his feet and declared that he was William the Conqueror and Vivienne was King Harold. It was basically the funniest thing ever. Geography: Week 1 - I made this "puzzle" (printable here) and laminated everything so we can reuse it. We also looked at everything on a globe and talked about how we live on the continent of North America. He really liked singing a song we downloaded from C3 and can identify all the continents and oceans! Week 2 - I made another puzzle for European bodies of water (printable here). He is doing very well with geography. He quickly (in one sitting) memorizes everything. English: Week 1 - We memorized 8 parts of speech. I made this pirate ship visual (printable here) with flaps that reveal parts of speech with a short description of their purpose. I laminated it so we can refer back to it throughout the year. Week 2 - We talked about how pronouns replace nouns, so I came up with this cut and paste activity. Blaine really seems to enjoy cut and paste activities, so we will probably be doing a lot of those. Art: Week 1 - We learned about the 5 shapes used to "build" a drawing (boy terminology). I made another cut and paste activity to categorize shapes. Week 2 - We did this mirror image exercise and took a trip to the tattoo shop to play on the big light table to create mirror images. Math: Week 1 and 2 - Skip counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s. I brought out the scissors and glue stick again with these projects. This was actually the first time I've let Blaine use scissors on his own. So far, he is ambidextrous but insists on cutting with his left hand. Maybe I should find some preschool lefty scissors if this keeps up. Science: Week 1 - Blaine memorized 7 of the world's biomes - this was one of his favorite subjects this week mostly because of a catchy song on C3. He is still asking to listen to it. I found a color by number project of North American biomes that he really enjoyed. I'm not sharing it because I really don't think it was accurate. But, at his age - I think the purpose was mostly to understand the world is made up of different biomes with various climates, animals and plants (more importantly being able to name them). And seriously - there is nothing cuter than a 4 year old saying "deciduous forest" Week 2 - We are learning herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. I made this with random clipart found online and we did some other worksheets that I downloaded from C3. He is connecting that the chicken we eat is/was an actual chicken. He did seem a little troubled by that. Latin: We are learning present tense verb conjugation endings. Nothing really fun to show along with that, but he knows it! I am starting to consider future foreign language curriculums to add on at home. Maybe in a year or 2. Suggestions welcome! Considering Spanish, French, or possibly Mandarin. That's it! Hopefully I will be posting every 2 weeks with what we are learning! Next week we start Hands On with Vivienne too!
Mrs. Savoie's Friday 5th grade class (above; Madison B., Haden, Madison N., Alexis B., Muhammad, Ashwin, Jude & Joel) Mrs. Maddox's Class, 5th grade (above) Elaina, Hanna, Braden, Morgan, Katie & Christina Mrs. Kearly's 5th grade class (above) Rachel J, Sarah, Rachel E and Arushi INSTRUCTIONS for ASSIGNMENT Always begin lightly with a pencil... This will have many parts to erase as students go through. Need; eraser, ruler, pencil, step by step barn handout, washable markers, watercolor brushes, permanent black markers, paintable large paper. Outline with permanent marker..., -Doodle designs in everey other ray and row with perm. Black marker. -boldly outline every other row & ray) non-doodled sections) with washable marker. Next, use the washable marker watercolor teacnique. See here... http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2014/09/washable-marker-watercolor-technique.html One student added a blue outline on left of Subaru and green on right and had a great blend going on! Love it... Idea inspiration Arena
Free printable worksheets for students to practice declining Latin Nouns. These follow Henle 1 vocab and Classical Conversations memory work.
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In addition to attending a CC Practicum, which is required for tutors and is wonderful, what can a Foundations tutor do over the summer to get ready for a great school year in Classical Conversations? These are 3 things that I'm doing to make my life easier for this next year. Take them or leave them as you need them, but as a prep-junkie (someone who is always prepared for just about anything) I find them to be my best tips for brand-new tutors. 1. Go over the Timeline Song and the motions several times over the summer. This is not to say you have to have it perfectly memorized; it is very intimidating and took me a whole school year to learn it well with lots of practice. But I'm so glad I became acquainted with it by playing my audio cds the summer before tutoring, since I was jumping into tutoring the very first year a CC group started in our town. Go over the actions so that when you review them briefly before you teach each week they will be familiar. Since I have a year of the timeline song under my belt, I'll spend this summer going over the Latin song and passage of Scripture in Latin so I can get the correct pronunciations down before I present it to my students. 2. Map out a general plan for games for the year. I came away from last week's tutor training with ton of new ideas for introducing memory work and for review games. I also utelize this page and this page as well as Pinterest for ideas. If I jot down enough ideas for 6 weeks, meaning 6 different review games and 6 very simple ways of introducing each subject on my board, then I can reuse that paper for every quarter, and the games will only be used 4x each during the year. Examples: 6 Review Games I Like: Zonk Connect Four Jeopardy Ping Pong Throw LilyPad Toss Target Shoot with Nerf Gun 6 Ways to Introduce Science: Clap the syllables as we say our science fact Jump up and down while reciting Roll a potato around the table as we say it Put our science fact to music and sing it (Look for Kim Jaky's songs on CC Connected--they're great!) Pass around an echo microphone (from The Dollar Store) and have the kids take turns saying it Practice the science fact starting with a soft voice and gradually getting louder each time In less than an hour you can have a year's worth of game ideas mapped out so that you are prepared when the busyness of back-to-school hits. You can always change them and tweak them according to the needs of your students and the time you have left in class, but jotting down ideas is a great way to plan ahead. 3. Get a Head Start on Presentations. One of the most challenging things for me last year was helping my kids with their presentations. I had 3 kids in Foundations last year and this year it will be 4 kids. Because I was new to CC and new to tutoring, I had to learn how to help my kids get their presentations done in a timely manner while also prepping for tutoring a class. Many of the topics they had to present on required lots of reading or study so that we could come up with enough for their report. Often, it was a lot of work just to get them to decide what they wanted to do. This year, I hope to discuss presentation topics with my director over the summer so I can get an idea of what they will need to be presenting on so that we can do some of the decision-making, reading, and preparation in advance. Whether it's choosing a state they want to present on, reading about a favorite president, grabbing a historical costume from a yard sale, or drawing a picture of someone from history, extra time definitely won't hurt when I have 4 kids to prepare. Since they are all in different classes this year because our community has expanded from two Foundations classes to four, I'm hoping that they can all present on the same thing to each of their respective classes and we can study that ONE president/state/event/etc. together instead of all choosing separate ones, like last year. What tips do you have for preparing for tutoring a Foundations class?
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This one falls into the category of "I wish I thought of that" - such a clever way to help your students remember the kingdoms. The original article appeared in the February 2007 NSTA Science Scope journal. I can't really do the article justice, so you'll probably best be served to read it yourself, but I'll try to sum up: Students trace their left on hand on their paper. If you have a green thumb, you're good with PLANTS When you hold up your index finger while at a sporting event, you're saying ""We're number one". Make the connection between one and mono and MONERA (bacteria). (You'll have to combine the two kingdoms of bacteria into the one finger). Pinky is for PROTISTS. A small finger for small organisms. The pinky has three segments, and there are three types of protists. The ring finger - if you don't wear a ring, you're not married, so you must be a fun guy.... a FUNGI (...pause for a collective groan...) And finally, the finger the students have all be waiting for, curious to see how you're going to handle it.... Hold up your whole hand - which finger is the largest? So that finger will be used for the kingdom with the largest variety of organisms and the largest individual organisms - the ANIMAL kingdom. And if said finger is used inappropriately, it's called 'the bird'....
