How can you incorporate more Truth, Beauty, and Goodness into your homeschool day during those busy 24 weeks of Classical Conversations? I've created a 3 year Morning Basket plan to use with your CC memory work. With this plan, you can easily incorporate Artist Study, Composer Study, Poetry, Nature Study, and Devotionals. This download is a 24 week Morning Basket plan for Cycle 1. You can see the first 6 weeks for FREE here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classical-Conversations-Morning-Basket-Free-Sample-4663228 You can watch a video description here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J09iWvgGHng&feature=youtu.be *I've included Amazon affiliate links in my download. It costs you nothing to click on these, but they are a huge help to my family. *If any links are inaccessible, please contact me immediately at [email protected]
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We're super excited to share our Cycle One Week One Timeline Mini-Book with you! This homeschool handwriting practice is the perfect companion for exploring ancient civilizations--your kids will love diving into the world of history as they put this mini-book together!! This printable flip book is designed to be engaging handwriting practice! Improve your child's penmanship skills while learning about ancient civilizations! The beautiful hand-drawn illustrations will transport your kids to different eras and make history come alive before their eyes. Unlock the treasures of the past with this homeschool printable! Enrich your kids’ understanding of ancient civilizations and make your children’s world history studies an unforgettable experience! >>>Please note that there is ONLY ONE image for each of the Week One timeline headings, for a total of SEVEN.<<< >>>No labels or wording will be provided for timeline events; please refer to your Foundations guide. This material is supplemental and is not endorsed by any organization. Plum Jolly is not affiliated in any way with CC.<<<< DIGITAL PRODUCT This printable activity is a digital product in One 8.5 x 11 PDF file, containing a total of 4 pages. No physical product will be shipped. Colors may differ between your device screen and the printed product. SHOP POLICIES We value our customers and want to ensure that you are satisfied with your purchase. While we do not accept refunds for digital products, we are happy to help you with any issues you may encounter. Please reach out to us on Etsy if you have any problems with your file. TERMS OF USE We kindly ask that you respect our terms of use. This printable is the intellectual property of Plum Jolly and is intended for personal use only. Commercial use, reproduction, redistribution, or resale is strictly prohibited and will not be tolerated. We appreciate your understanding and support of small creators and their original designs. Copyright 2024 | Plum Jolly, LLC Thank you for choosing Plum Jolly, and we hope you enjoy exploring the fascinating world of history with our World History Timeline PRINTABLE!
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NEW LOOK with edits and a fresh design in summer 2024! All the same beautiful drawing but even more engaging and easy to use. Pretty much took all your amazing suggestions and made those changes. Color and write ALL OF CYCLE ONE MEMORY WORK with these beautiful 5th edition coloring pages. These coloring pages are excellent resources to supplement (CC) Classical Memory Work. ****PLEASE DO NOT CHECK OUT AS A GUEST! ETSY PROTECTS THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD SO WELL IT'S DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO RETRIEVE YOUR FILES INSTANTLY. CHECKING OUT USING AN ACCOUNT ALLOWS YOU INSTANT DOWNLOAD AND SAVES THE FILES IN CASE YOU NEED THEM IN THE FUTURE.**** Color and write ALL OF CYCLE 1 MEMORY WORK with these beautiful 5th edition coloring pages. These coloring pages are excellent resources to supplement (CC) Classical Memory Work. DOWNLOAD INSTANTLY............................................................ COMPLETE PACKS INCLUDE...................................................... Total of 5 pages of coloring for each of the 24 weeks of memory work, 124 pages in total. Write and color the TIMELINE Write ENGLISH Write and color LATIN Color and trace GEOGRAPHY Color HISTORY Color SCIENCE Color MATH HOW IT WORKS........................................................................... You will receive a high-resolution PDF file with all the beautiful images INSTANTLY! Purchase, wait for the email from Etsy, download, print, and start coloring! Print, color and ENJOY! This is a digital item for INSTANT download! Please use as much as possible, print, and enjoy - however this is only for personal and classroom use. Do not share the digital files or sell. DETAILS........................................................................................ The files are 124 pages and too large for Etsy. So, I broke each Complete Pack into 3 PDF's. When downloading and printing make sure to get both files 1 of 3.pdf 2 of 3 and 3 of 3.pdf. As mentioned above there is the "Complete Pack" with all the images as designed. PRINTING...................................................................................... Print black and white, double-sided. Print 1 of 3, 2 of 3, and then 3 of 3. I suggest printing with a laser printer at home for the highest quality and most economical price. Then 3 hole punch and put it in a binder or have it coil bound. It is truly an honor to share what was an educational doodle, turned passion with you. I am overwhelmed to know how many people these coloring pages bless. I hope they bring joy, wonder, curiosity, and depth to your child's education. Hey, maybe even yours. You better believe I have a copy for myself. Blessings! Amy BY PURCHASING AND DOWNLOADING THIS ITEM YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS LISTED BELOW. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION All images, designs, and listing text © 2021 Amy Snider Design. All designs are the property of Amy Snider Design and are for personal use only. Do not distribute these digital files or the printed documents for commercial use or share with a third party. You do not have permission to take any portions of this artwork and add to other creations and distribute or sell. Thank you for honoring these Copyright rules. AMY SNIDER DESIGN IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH OTHER CLASSICAL CURRICULUM These coloring pages are intended to compliment and expand upon the factual general knowledge material presented in classical memory work guides and is not approved or endorsed by any classical education organization. To find the approved supplemental materials refer to your classical education website.
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Post contain some affiliate links, though which I can earn commission. This is part of a series where I share about our Story of the World lessons. Even if you don't use SOTW, I think you'll enjoy the ancient history activities shared (especially if you are studying the Stone Age or Pre-history). Since my son has a short attention span we did each sub-chapter of Story of the World on a separate day, and sometimes even broke that up into small parts. I decided to break up "The Earliest People - The First Nomads" into two parts, then did a special activity on the third day. We used Stone Age People, a book we found at our library, to supply the pictures Story of the World was lacking. Stone Age People is part of the Make It Work Series, which has a lot of crafts and projects kids can do related to the time period, as well as a lot of great historical information. We mainly used it for the pictures, but might do some of the crafts later. It does have info about human evolution in a few of the beginning pages. If that's something you want to skip, it's easy to when using the book piecemeal as a backdrop for the Story of the World reading, as we did. DAY 1 On the first day, we read the first four paragraphs of the section "The First Nomads" in Story of the World. We were doing this as part of "play school" today (I teach a lot of my lessons pretending to be a dinosaur teacher, and my son pretending to be a number of toy students in a pint size classroom...it works for us). So some of the other toy "students" answered the questions along with my son. My son said that he slept in the same place every night, but his toy "Lion" slept in a different place every night...we even talked about why that might be (ie, because lions needed to follow the prey). That made a great segue to paragraph two. At paragraph three I pulled out Stone Age People and turned to the page where they have a scene with hunter gatherers that made a perfect illustration for what we were reading. As we read the paragraph I asked him to find some of the things it talked about, like people gathering berries and hunting. Then we turned to the next page, where they had pictures of various types of homes and shelters, and I asked him which ones you could take with you or set up quickly if you were traveling around, which ones you could build a fire in, and which ones would be nicer when it was cold vs. when it was hot. Then I read the last paragraph and we looked at the cave pictures later on in Stone Age People (pg 36 - 37). Later we read The First Dog by Jan Brett, a beautifully illustrated story about a boy and a wolf who befriended him, and became the first dog. Day 2 On the second day we read the story of Tarak and her brother in Story of the World , looking again at page 16 - 17 of Stone Age People. Also, the older version of Story of the World actually had a nice illustration of Tarak catching lizards, one of the few illustrations I think is better in the older, un-revised version. Afterwords we started a book about Tarak and her family using a cave printable I made (free to download). You can see she made handprints on the cave wall, like some of the cave art we had looked at, and in this story Tarak had a wolf like the story of the The First Dog (and the wolf had a pup in his version). The green thing to the left of Tarak is one of the lizards she caught. EXTRA ACTIVITY - ROCK ART We didn't do this while studying this chapter, but later we did a rock art activity when we were learning about the prehistoric artwork in the Lascaux caves, and it's something that would fit in nicely here. To pique interest you can watch a short video about these caves here, or take a 365 degree virtual tour here (on the Lascaux FB page another cool but shorter interactive Pano). I also suggest googling pictographs in your local area or state, and sharing any pictures you find with your kids. You might even find a site you can visit. First, I collected rocks to paint on. Because of time we just used regular paint...but I tried to match the colors to those used in the Lascaux cave, and we talked about why they used those colors and what materials they would have made their colors with. You can also make your own paint using minerals or gathered material, which would be really fun. For older kids, this article has more about prehistoric paints, and they have some links toward the bottom to paint-making activities that look more at the chemistry of making paints. Here's our rock art. Our son really enjoyed this. DAY 3 - Hunter Gatherer Hike For our activity we decided to do a "hunter gatherer" trek on a nearby hiking trail. I invited another homeschooling family to come along, and discovered that they were doing Story of the World too! I made some really simple toy bows and arrows and spears. SERIOUSLY SIMPLE. Those are branches from our tree and some weed stalks (we have some really vigorous roadside weeds here in Texas...I suggest wild goldenrod if it lives near you). The string is just brown yarn, and the tips are cardboard. The bows actually sort of worked (they could shoot the "arrows" a few feet...not fast enough to hurt anyone, but far enough to be "cool." I attached the tips of the spears by splitting the top of the branches and inserting the cardboard ...then binding yarn around to make it tighter. If I had thought better I would have cut a "shaft" on the tips and wrapped the yarn around that. They might have stayed on longer that way....but they worked well enough. The kids were happy about their weapons. I've seen some other bow versions that may shoot a little better made from bamboo or PVC (And I love the idea of an eraser capped arrows). If you have older kids and want to try your hand at making a really realistic primitive arrow (with bone), there's a nice tutorial here. After making our arrows we headed for a nature trail. We didn't know beforehand that the trail had been decorated with funny scarecrows for Halloween, so we ad-libbed and wondered out-loud who had made these strange statues, and what they might mean. One of the kids found snails and we talked about how that would be great in our soup that night (No, we didn't really eat them...no wild escargot for us!). We stopped for a break of seeds and berries my friend had brought (um..."gathered earlier"), and then hiked down to a small stream. I had hoped to find animal prints near the muddy bank...we did find one dog print (um...I mean..."wolf" print), and lots of tiny fish we pretended to catch for supper. AND, my friend found an edible plant, purslane, which we tried, with mixed reactions (her daughter hated it so much she drank her whole water bottle to wash away the taste away...but I liked it. It sort of tastes like lettuce.). So, if you are trying this, it might be fun to see if your library has a book on common editable plants to familiarize yourself with beforehand (in case you don't have a friend with who just happens to know of some). Be careful...do your research well, but you should be safe with common, easily recognizable plants like dandelion (purslane actually has a poisonous doppelganger, spotter spurge, so make sure you study up on look alikes and know how to tell the difference before sampling). Also, you want to make sure to wash anything well before you eat it (you can rinse with a water bottle), and avoid collecting anything where pesticides or herbicides might have been sprayed (our purslane was found well off the beaten path so should have been safe from those). Overall the nomad hike was a great success! The kids enjoyed it and it really made what they had read come alive. RESOURSES/SUPPLIES WE USED: During Reading: Stone Age People (for illustrations) Supplemental Reading: The First Dog Rock Painting Activity: Lascaux Cave video Virtual Tour Interactive Pano Rocks Paint (or gather things to make your own paint) Paintbrushes Cave Book Activity: Cave Book Printable Crayons A stapler Nomad Hike Activity: Straight Branches (and something to cut them with) Yarn or Twine Cardboard Water plus snacks for the hike (berries, dried fruit, nuts, jerky:things available in the stone age) MORE RESOURCES Stone Age Lapbook Free Cartoonish Caveman and Mammoth Graphics Stone Age Axe Out of Paper Mache More Activities to use with The First Dog LINKING UP AT Field Trip Friday Hip Homeschool Moms Dear Homeschooler Bookshelf Country Kids at Coombe Mill Homeschool Highlights Throwback Thursday Last Lesson :: Next Lesson See All Our Story of the World Posts
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