So, without further ado, here is the list: They are definitely investments for your repeat cycle student and future students. Sadly, few of these programs are what I would call cheap. They are listed in order of difficulty, easy to more difficult. I decided to give a list of options (remember, completionist parents: pick one!) that would be at the top of my list should my student decide her One Thing More is Latin. A noticeable commonality is present in most of them: videos! I wish I could help out the parent who is looking for Latin help without turning on a screen, but it seems Latin is best taught in “person.” So, if your student is obsessed with screen time, like mine, this is will be a bonus for him! The options boiled down to a few that were repeated a number of times. So, I asked some Classical Conversations parents what they would recommend for repeat cycle students interested in Latin. Go here to grab your copy of Rainbow Latin Conjugations Sure, I can help your young one learn the conjugations but I am at a loss for the future. I feel my attempts to navigate the waters between Foundations and Essentials and Challenge are feeble at best. So what do we do for our students who show interest in Latin, but who are just now repeating a cycle in Foundations? Noun endings and verb conjugations are just so abstract at this point. It is hard to see the connections between what we learn in Latin in the Foundations years and what our students will be dealing with in the Challenge years – especially cycles 1 and 2. It is as though we parents of littles can see across a wide river the benefits of Latin, but we can’t see the passage across. Not because I think it is frivolous or unnecessary, but because it is the one most obscured by the bridge from Foundations and Essentials to the Challenge years. Anything that will help them hang that memory peg better.One of the most curious parts of the Foundations curriculum for Classical Conversations, in my opinion, is Latin. Sometimes, if there is a particular memory peg they are struggling with you might want to find a way to bring that piece to life - perhaps doing a little side study on it or finding a great book on it or craft etc. You can review it in subjects by day, weeks by day or however it makes sense to you to fit it all in each week. Continually, reviewing all the material each week. Make a note of any of the memory work that they haven't mastered and hone in on those particular pieces for the next week and then retest to see if they've mastered them finally. They will begin to do it themselves if you get the juices going that direction! :) For example, we were watching Robin Hood last year and my daughter asked me if the "King John" referenced in the cartoon was Eleanor of Aquitaine's son and Richard's brother from Cycle 2! Awesome! That's what we want - right?Įvery six weeks, I would do the proof sheet for that six weeks. Anything you see, study or read whenever there is opportunity, tie it back to the memory work. Start singing yourself, a part of a memory peg and see if they can finish it for you. Put it on CD's that you can keep in your child's CD player in their room and play it as they go to sleep -starting it at a different place each night while they fall asleep. This is done through repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition and just for good measure - repetition! Play the CD's in the background as the kids are working on other projects, riding in the car, making dinner, doing chores or just playing. The goal is "mastery" of the information - which means to have committed the information to long-term memory. Memory Master Basket is out and it's available all the time. The maps are the only thing that really need to be bigger to be usable. Geography Notebook from CC Community or Trivium Tables for Geography would work great as well (available at I use this so that I can keep my book at the 5x8 size - it saves on ink and easier to carry around.White paper (for drawing maps) and pencil.MP3 player and CD's of the Memory Work for the entire Cycle.Just makes it more compact and easier to carry around. I print mine out reduced to 58% with printing set to 2 sheets per 1 page and then use a 5x8 notebook to put it in. 1 copy of the Cy1 MemMaster NB pdf Document from - Foundations - File Share.
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