I'm getting started pretty late tonight. I may not get to post ALL of the things I want to, but I'll definitely hit some highlights. One thing I'm excited about are some FREE printables that I think are really going to help with our Classical Conversations materials, so I'll definitely post links to those. As always, I'm pinning like a mad woman on Pinterest, so please check out some of my boards: Classical Conversations Cycle 2, Homeschooling, First Grade and PreK...to name a few. Honestly, Pinterest is a great stress reliever and provides some great, crafty things that I can do that will lead to further stress relief. I need a crafty outlet ; ).
Let's dive in with our letter of the week, "F". Here are some ideas:
Fancy Nancy books
frogs
fruit
fish (Rainbow Fish book)
fall--we did an activity today that I found where you trace your hand in brown on a paper plate, color it in (to look like a tree trunk) and glue leaves on the tree. You could do any kind of cute fall picture or activity.
Just Google it if you don't have Pinterest. Here are some links to some good fall activities/sheets:
fall coloring sheet
fall tracing sheets
farm (field trip idea!)
field trips
frog craft and book ideas for letter F
Like I said, I'm doing this quickly tonight...lots to cover!
Classical Conversations Memory Work...Cycle 2, Week 6
History: The Renaissance (da Vinci, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Copernicus)
Here is a great intro video: (warning: when talking about one of the sculptures (David and Goliath) it shows a drawing of the nude sculpture)
Here is a blog post on one point perspective drawing...which would go right along with the above video.
*Another video on the Renaissance ("Horrible History")....funny but definitely gets the history in : )
*Wonderful blog with some week 4, 5, and 6 color sheets and printables, but not all of them are free and I'm not quite sure how to access some of the freebies. But it definitely has some great ideas and possibilities.
*Shakespeare: BBC Shakespeare Animated tales (A Midsummer Night's Dream)...I didn't watch the whole thing, but it looked good and understandable...easy way to introduce Shakespeare
*A good blog post on studying Shakespeare with kids
*FREE Shakespeare games, activities and info for kids
*A great resource for lots of Shakespeare stuff
*FREE printable of the Globe Theater
**I'm just going to stop there for Shakespeare...because there is a TON of stuff on him. I think this is a good mix of things, though, and probably about all we'll do (IF we even get to all of that! : ))**
*Copernicus: Concise, informative video biography
*da Vinci: This looks fun! Might have to take a trip to Hobby Lobby : ). We'll also read Katie and the Mona Lisa by James Mayhew (that my sister actually bought us when she was at the Louvre!)
*More Renaissance project ideas
*This Renaissance lapbook looks amazing. I really want to do this! I think all the printables are free, including a Renaissance timeline.
Geography: European Mountains
*We're still printing these geography cards...love them!
*Here's some cute European mountains songs
Latin: future tense
*These free pronounciation helps are now printed and labeled! I'm hoping this will help me tackle this Latin memory work. I'm still feeling a little lost. On this post, she also has the link to the free file folder game, which I have also made and it really helped me with labeling my pronounciation cards.
Science: pollution
*Pollution for kids video (I thought this video was a little cheesy, but ok)
*Brain pop video (yay!) on air pollution and one on water pollution (I didn't try to watch them, so I hope they're free!)
*Facts and tips on air, water, and land pollution
English: possessive pronouns
*Free printable pronoun packet...I LOVE the printables that Suzanne puts on her blog! Very colorful!
And that's all for now! There are so many resources for many of these topics...it's hard to get to them all. I printed a lot of cards this week to help us out but I was not sure how I was going to store them. What I decided to do is get a mini coupon holder at Walmart (97 cents!) and I'm going to file them in there so we can access them easily...plus they'll be labeled. That way we can even use them for review later. I'm not putting my geography cards in there because I have them in a zip lock bag, but the Latin and grammar cards are definitely going in.
Hope you all have a great week and God bless!
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