Starting on the CC path

as i mentioned in recent posts, we've joined a Classical Conversations (CC) homeschool group. and the girls (and I) are LOVING it. i love learning things to music. if i had been more self-aware, i would have realized that learning to music would have helped me in my school days. i remember lyrics to songs from when i was a child at day camp when i was a wee-lass, so why didn't i realize that i could remember educational things that way too? doh!

well, hopefully my kids like it as much as i do because now we're learning some really cool stuff and it's set to music. one of our very favorite part of CC is the timeline. it is a giant list of important historical events, starting from creation all the way up to the present, and it is set to music! and we learn hand motions that make it even more solid in our brains. we're only 2 weeks in, but they always ask for me to play the timeline. it's catchy!

we're on cycle 2 and have started this cycle (there are 3 total that rotate each school year) in the medieval period. i haven't taken pictures of everything we've done (we've added pages to our notebook for math, science, handwriting, geography, history, and art, too), but here are a couple of pictures to show what we've been up to.

we made medieval bread - they didn't have forks, and sometimes used these big, hard pieces of bread as plates.

we also made a marshmallow catapult since we were studying knights and castles. when the marshmallows were all expelled (eaten), we used different sized pom-poms to see which we could launch further!


we also made castles with different rooms. i used cereal boxes and spray painted the Cheerios side so the girls could draw different scenes in each room of the castle. they especially enjoyed the dungeon room and drew their own rats.

and of course, we had to make our own knights. flexibility was a plus.

some of the other things we did are totally on the fly. like making a "map" during math time and the girls had to be aware of the instructions i gave them in regards to which colors and which direction to draw paths to.

and of course, Ladybug wanted me to make a Bible-only timeline for her to draw. so i did my best in picking out some key events in our history. she loved it when i explained to her that the story of God's love doesn't stop at the end of the Bible, but it continues on to include Him using my life and her life just like he used Moses, David, Nehemiah, and Mary! She loved that...and started to draw the parts of her life that needed to be included in God's big story.