What We’re Doing – Week 21 Links & Ideas
History – Read about Canadian explorers, John Cabot and Samuel de Champlain. I like the idea of adding in navigation studies whenever talking about explorers. So, we’re going to mark longitude and...
View ArticleField Trip – The Philadelphia Orchestra at The Kimmel Center
Our family joined other CC families for a trip this week to see The Philadelphia Orchestra perform Beethoven Lives Upstairs at The Kimmel Center. Our campus has made this trip before, but it was our...
View ArticleHow It's Going – Week 19
Using paper bags, mail sale flyers, cardstock, glue, and staples, we wove like the Anasazi and fashioned our work into a bag. The weaving was not exactly easy for my guys, but we worked through some...
View ArticleWhat We're Doing – Week 22 Links & Ideas
http://classicalconversationsathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/canadian_flag_by_bbboz-d45f6o3.png History – Watch this video on the history of Canada (I have not watched the entire video yet, so...
View ArticleThe View from Here – Latin Review
Using our new Latin review cards, which I printed from Suzanne Shares and laminated, the boys worked to lay out the declension sheets in order from first to fourth (They are not in the correct order...
View ArticleWhat We’re Doing – Week 23 Links & Ideas
History – Pull from the “used & loved” book lists from Homeschool Creations to learn more about South America. I always like heading into the library with a list of recommended book ideas in...
View ArticleThe View From Here – Watching Them Learn
First we watched the video about the associative law of addition, then I demonstrated it with our plastic math animals. My oldest understood it quickly (really, he’s the only one who should) and...
View ArticleHow It's Going – Week 21
To review our week 21 science sentence, we located each of the 5 major circles of latitude on our globe. Then we drew the 5 major circles on oranges while reciting them out loud. My guys loved...
View ArticleWhat We're Doing – Week 24 Links & Ideas
image source History – Starting here, we’re going to view artwork about Napoleon to see what we can learn about him from the images. Latin – As I’ve said before, I like to keep our Latin review...
View ArticleThe View from Here – Our Memory Master Day
HE DID IT! My biggest little is a memory master!Yesterday was our campus’ memory master test day. The view from here was like this… We started with a homemade breakfast of brain food. With a 10:30...
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