Plans for CC Cycle 2 Week 8

I hope I'm providing enough variation in how I present these.  I may have to get back on some of these posts and change things if I determine some approaches aren't working.

Timeline: Song and hand motions from CC's website.

Science: Parts of the sun. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/images/sunparts.html

This site from Nasa has a printable parts of the sun. Of course we'll repeat, repeat, repeat like drill sergeants. 

or this

History: This is such a long week for history.  I will either bring the large map and print out pictures

 of the explorers for us to sail around their paths. The alternative is having them get out their Geography 

folders (yes for history) and have printed out little explorers for them to move to the correct location.

  I think the most important thing, especially for those working on memory masters would be repeating the song. 

However some need visual aids and the maps with little explorers would be a great visual. Like this one:

Geography: I'm so glad this really coincides with the HIstory sentence.  Today we will kind of smush

 the two subjects together.  We'll make a little GH on the Cape of Good Hope, an M on the straight of Magellan, 

a CI o the Canary Islands, and T on the Treaty of Tordesillas.  

Then we'll spend some time drilling them in order, then out of order. 

Math: 14's sing the song while we pass around a bean bag.  Hot potato style!

English: We'll do a little chant on this one.  I think to help them with a visual I'll print out the list with 

large bold capitol beginning letters to help them remember the order.

Myself

Yourself

Himself...

Latin: Review from last week. I like cutting up the posters and having them put them in order.

Review Game: Rocket

Plans for CC Cycle 2 Week 7

Timeline: Today after the song and hand motions I'll try to allow for kids to lead the song while pointing to the cards.

Science: Yipee!!! Space!  I've been anxiously waiting for the weeks about space.  I thought we could do an acrostic. Good Daughters Visit New Nanas

You can also draw a star and write each type in an arm.  Mine is too little.  Make yours bigger:)

History: We'll do the good ol' song.  Then on the dry erase board we'll erase a word or two each time we go through the song.

Geography: We are really just going to repeat, repeat, repeat the peninsulas and trace them on our Geography folders

Math: We did this for the 7's, but it's worth doing again.  We just have thirteens this week. We'll do the cakewalk approach.  Our class has eight kids so I'll lay out 7 foam sheets.  One student will start in the middle, the others around on the foam sheets in a circle.  We'll sing the 13's song and I'll randomly stop them and whoever is on the foam sheet marked with a star (appropriate for today) will move to the spot in the middle.  

English: stickin' with the Chicken (song)!

Latin: 

Introduce the endings and how the pictures tie in.  Sing the CC song. 

Review Game: This will be our first time playing our Simple Sponge Stack game.  

 

Plans for CC Cycle 2 Week 6

Timeline: I think for today we'll wear Grecian leaf crowns (I'll either make them of paper and pipe cleaners, or dollar store leaf vines). You know I'll include the song and hand motions.

Science: Can be sung to "Come Thou Fount" .

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing

What are six forms of pollution?

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace

What are six forms of pollution?

Streams of mercy, never ceasing

Noise,    Air,Water, La-nd, and Thermal

Call for songs of loudest praise

a-and Ra-di-o-ac-tive

To help them remember the types of pollution I thought of some actions

noise- point to ears

air- point to lungs

water- like you're drinking a cup

land- point to feet

thermal- fan yourself like you're hot

radioactive- all I could think of was act like a robot :)

History: I'll print out the sentence and cut it into strips, keeping the artists with their art, after we sing the song a couple times I'll let them put their sentences in order.

Geography: This seems like a good week for an acrostic.  Really you could just have them remember it spells PACCU, that's simple.  Peter And Claire Cut Umbrellas.  Get out our Geography folders and find all these mountains. Since it's a shorter section we could spend a couple minutes using the fly swatters on the big map.

Math: For the 11's I'll write them in a column going down the board and just point out how it's simply counting.  Then for the 12's (this will be fun!!) I'll bring a plastic egg carton we have from our Resurrection Eggs.  I'll have it filled with empty Easter eggs and while we sing the twelves we'll see if a student can move the eggs from the carton to a bucket on the other side of the room one at a time.  I won't have them balance them on a spoon, it will take long enough just to use their hands.  While they are running the eggs we'll be singing the twelves song. 

English: CHICKEN DANCE!  again :)  Just a note: make sure you get up and move for this.  Do the clapping part and everything.

Latin: Today as we repeat the latin grammar we'll sit in pairs and pass a ball or bean bag back and forth.

Review Game: BINGO!!

 

Plans for CC Cycle 2 Week 5

Okay, I'm really trying to get better at blogging.  I've been consistent for three weeks which is an improvement.  However, yesterday I saw how many views my blog had, and decided I needed to get better at links- get better? how about just get?  I also need to figure out how to post onto my tabs.  My husband was able to get two tabs set up last night, but I can't do anything but comment.  I don't know if it's because I'm on my ipad, or if I'm just too new and haven't figured it out.  

So, I'll continue to add to the home page and see if I can get the rest learned soon.  Just thought the organization would be helpful.

WEEK 5

Timeline: Good ol' song and hand motions.  

Science: Well, I discovered for this science grammar it fits to the song "Found a Peanut"

Found a peanut

How do animals

Found a peanut

re-act     to

Found a pea--- nut just now

environmental change

I just now

they adapt

found a peanut

and they migrate

found a peanut just now 

and they hi-i-ber-nate.

You can bring in a simple visual to give one example of how each of these take place.

History: I'll have the kids act this one out.  They'll have a blast being fleas and rats. I'll have one be Joan of Arc with a sword, and King Charles VII with a crown (just paper is fine), they will lead another student who holds a French flag to "defeat" a student who holds and English flag. I'll have a student represent fleas (might print a couple and put them on popsicle sticks), and one student as a rat (could print a mask).  Of course activities like these must be entered with caution.  Make sure your class can handle the activity without getting out of hand.  

Let's see if I can find a printable rat mask, and fleas...  http://www.supercoloring.com/pages/category/mammals/rats/

not a mask, but you could put them on popsicle sticks

http://www.animalstown.com/animals/f/flea/coloring-pages/flea-coloring-02.html

I wanted them to look scary-ish so the kids would really remember.

French Flag easy enough to make with construction paper

Englands flag 

You might want to print that one :)

Geography: European Cities

There's a great printable for this on CC conected.  I have a picture of it 

I'll see if I can find it.  This picture shows the ship, and you take your European map and mark the cities: London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and Orleans.  You can sing them to the tune of Yankee Doodle. I'll have to look this one up for you (and me).

Math: The students will each get to pick a style to sing for the 9's.  Like marching,  hopping on one foot... 

10's we will do hand claps to the song.  Two students standing face to face giving a high 10 for each number counted.

English: continue with the CHICKEN DANCE.  Oh Yeah!

Latin: use the poster to introduce the new endings

Again this is from CC connected, sorry it's so hard to search once I download things I don't want to search the connected site again.

Review Game: BANG!!! I hope this goes well.  My kids had fun with it when we tried it out over the summer.  Look at my older posts to find this one.

http://everydaymemories-ari.blogspot.com/2013/07/cc-review-game.html

Plans for CC Cycle 2 Week 4

I'm sitting here waiting for dinner to finish, why must this delicious chicken take longer than its supposed to.  Good thing I have the hungry crew downstairs "working" on filling the new bean bag covers, or they'd be at my feet begging.

Onto the plans for week 4.

Timeline: You know I don't deviate much :)

just for fun I might bring in a fake campfire to sing around today.  Since we start with "Early Native Americans" I thought "Ooh, Teepee" but that's not very feasible.  I do have a little round princess tent, but we aren't all going to fit.  So, it might be fun to sit around a campfire and learn our Timeline today, still with CC's hand motions and the song. Found a cute fake campfire here. 

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I might ask my MIL if she already has one (she's the children's ministry director at our church), but if not I'll throw one of these guys together.

Science: I have visuals of these three cycles - THANKS pinterest! I'll just tape them onto the wall and point to them as we repeat the grammar.  If I have time I might give a quick explanation, but moms can do that at home also.  A visual itself gives them something to absorb.

History: Ooh! this one is fun.  We'll sing the song a couple times, and then I'll write the sentence (of course this one's a long one, I'll have to write it before our CC day starts) on the board and we'll erase a word each time we repeat the song.  

Geography: To start I'll have to make sure I know hot to pronounce these (LOL).

I believe we'll be getting out our geography folders for this one.  After they locate the rivers I'll have them trace.  Then if time permits maybe I'll let them use pointers to find them on the big sheet map.

Math: 7's I'll quickly throw down 7 foam sheets. You know the craft foam the comes in great colors and is almost like sheets of paper.  Throw down seven in a circle, have one child stand in the center, the others take their place on a piece of foam and do it cake walk style.  Have the foam sheets numbered from 1-7, whoever ends up on 7 is the one in the middle.  (just came up with that, sounds fun:)

8's- grab the 8's from a couple card decks (playing cards, uno, whatever) Lay them out across the table and have the students take turns pointing to each card as you say the next number.  Maybe I should explain that better.  Have student A come up where you've got the cards and she points to each card as you say the next number, almost like the bouncing ball in karaoke.  

English: Chicken Dance!!! there's a great song on the web- might be able to find the post and link it later.  It's the chicken dance song (who doesn't love) and it fits the pronouns in order.  My class will be doing this for the next few weeks since we learn pronouns for a while. 

Latin: I  will print out the poster from week 3 and cut it into a "puzzle". I'll put stick tack, or masking tape on the back and have the kids come up and put them in order.  After they put them in order they can lead us in the song.  This one is going to have a time limit.  I'll probably give each student 1 min to put it in order so each kid gets a chance.  You could print half sized posters for each kid, have them all do it at the same time at their seat, then go around and have them lead in the song... I like saving on paper and prep when I can.  So, I'll try the one poster.

Review Game: Battleship (check out my previous post, I'm trying to get some of these things linked up, we'll see how that goes )

Plans for CC Cycle 2 Week 3

Well, I'm a little disappointed... I've had two days of trying.  Trying to get things done, then major glitches.  I had this post already done, and somehow the draft wasn't saved.  

Here goes try #2 for week 3.

Timeline: hand motions, then allow students a chance to conduct the song.  You really have to know your kids before doing this.  If they follow the rules it's a good one to try.

Science: We will chant the ? and answers.  I will divide the kids into 3 groups.  I will have one as the producers- they'll have either silk flowers, or fruits and veggies from my kids play kitchen.  Consumers will have a spoon.  Decomposers will have some of my plastic bugs, like flies and beetles.  As we chant the groups can hold up their items when we say their group.

History: we are going to illustrate the History sentence.  Here we have Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son (no he wouldn't have been a child, but this is an easy way to illustrate that he was her son) Richard the Lion-Hearted.  I'm not sure if you can see, but he's got a heart with a lions mane.  I should probably put a crown on him as well.  Then there's a pic of a sword and shield to represent "fought".  On the upper right corner you'll see my Turk.  I looked in my Kingfisher History Encyclopedia and saw an illustration with the turbans and beards.  So here's my stick Turk.  The crosses in the bottom left represent Jerusalem.  Then a visual of the dates.  You can show yours and as the class sings the song, have them draw their own.  Make sure they are trying to sing along. For older students you can even have them write the sentence underneath the illustration.

Geography: I'll bring my large sheet map

(yes, I need to add Russia, under USSR, I have the old foundations guide:). I'll have the kids use their geography folders to trace the Western European Countries as I point to them on the large map.

Math: While we sing the skip count song for 5's we'll do a hand clap between partners (you know like the old Miss Mary Mack and other rhymes where we'd clap hands in a pattern).  For 6's I'll have saved egg cartons, cut them into groups of 6 egg-holder-spacey-things, pass them out to the kids and have them stack them as we sing.  You could also just pass them around as you sit in a circle and sing.  Just having the visuals of something that is 6.

English: I will have paper with each of the Pronoun types written on it.  We will chant Pronoun Order, Pronoun Order (twice because we have 8 people in our class, and with the 6 types this will give each person a sign) 1st person singular, 2nd person... 3rd person plural.  I will point out that the first 3 are singular (you can give an example, I, You, He/she/it) and the last three are plural (we, you, they).

Latin: It's new this week so we'll go over the endings on our poster from CC connected.

and sing the song several times.

Review Game: We will use our Big Dice this week.  Ooh, this just came to me: "Roll'em Review".  That sounds fun.  Knowing me I'll have to say that in a game show host voice.  Since this is only week 3 and there are 6 sides to our dice I will designate numbers 1&4 for week one, 2&5 for week two, 3&6 for week six.

Plans for CC Cycle 2 Week 2

Here are my plans for Cycle 2 Week 2

Timeline: I don't plan on deviating much from the timeline song with actions from CC's website. It's also a great way to start class the same every week and kinda "rope in" the kids.

History: I will bring my Kingfisher Encyclopedia of History in and give a visual to the kids of William the Conquerer. I also plan on bringing some props this week to "act out" the history sentence.  My thoughts this far include a church type building on paper that I've cut into two pieces.  A crown and sword for William. A crown and mustache for King Harold (he had a glorious mustache:).  As we sing the acting out may look like this:

"After the church split into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox" - have one or two students holding the church and "tear" them in half. 

"William the Conquerer"- person with crown and sword step forward

"defeated King Harold of England"- King Harold steps forward, William gently defeats him, he could fall to the ground/kneel.  

Someone hold up a 1066 sign

The rest of the students hold up their fists as if they are feuding.

Science: We will rhythmically chant the question and 3 types of consumers.  As we chant we'll have some actions:

Herbivores: peel a banana (aka finger)

Carnivores: pretend to cut a steak

Omnivores: pretend to eat a hamburger or do the sign for hamburgers (they have meat, cheese and veggies, so the are omni :)

Geography: Repeat several times the European Waters.  Then have two kids stand by the map with swatters while I call out the waters. You could also repeat the European waters a couple times, call out a water for them to swat.  Then the swatter needs to repeat all of the waters.

Math: three's- a page with twelve triangles and they can write in each skip counted number, 3, 6, 9... Then count them together, sing to song

four's- bring in twelve lego/mega blocks that are the squares with four connectors

  

like this one.  You can use chalk markers to write the fours on each block and stack them as you sing the song.  You can even pass out the blocks in order and pass around the stack as you sing to allow each student to add a four.

English: You can sing the pronoun definition to "This Old Man".  I plan on writing it on the white board and erasing a word each time we repeat the sentence.

Latin: Print out the page for endings (posted this in the info for week 1) and cut them up for the kids to put in order.  

  Review Game: We will play Rocket review today (got this on pinterest, looks great!)