Cycle 1 Week 11 At Home Activities for Classical Homeschooling

Searching for fun and engaging ways to practice the Cycle 1, Week 11 memory work at home? Read along as I share about activities, games, and books that have added extra fun to our homeschooling week.

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Last week we finished up Cycle 1 Week 10. My girls enjoyed learning about some different cities in Japan and playing a four in a row Japan game. We also learned about the different leaf shapes and made yummy leaf shaped cheddar crackers! Read more about what we did at home during the previous weeks of Cycle 1 here: Week 1 , Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, and Week 10. You can also get a peek into our first couple of homeschool weeks here.

If you missed it, we also played FOUR different fun review games recently that helped us practice the memory work we have learned so far in Cycle 1. Read more about these review games and download them to play with your kids here.

homeschooling review games and materials spread out on table

Tutor Ideas for Classical Homeschooling

If you are part of a Classical homeschooling community, are you tutoring? If you are, be sure to check out my posts with tutor ideas for the first eleven weeks of Cycle 1 below:

  1. Cycle 1 Week 1 Tutor Ideas
  2. Cycle 1 Week 2 Tutor Ideas
  3. Cycle 1 Week 3 Tutor Ideas
  4. Cycle 1 Week 4 Tutor Ideas
  5. Cycle 1 Week 5 Tutor Ideas
  6. Cycle 1 Week 6 Tutor Ideas
  7. Cycle 1 Week 7 Tutor Ideas
  8. Cycle 1 Week 8 Tutor Ideas
  9. Cycle 1 Week 9 Tutor Ideas
  10. Cycle 1 Week 10 Tutor Ideas
  11. Cycle 1 Week 11 Tutor Ideas

Also, I have a youtube channel where I make videos with tutor and memory work ideas each week. Below is my video with tutor videos for Cycle 1 Week 11. If you are thinking past the eleventh week, I also have a video for Cycle 1 Week 12 and more coming soon! Visit my channel for tutor ideas for future weeks and other videos with homeschooling tips and encouragement.

Cycle 1 Week 11 Tutor Ideas

Practicing the Memory Work At Home

In this post, I share with you about my weekly homeschool rhythms with my small children (ages five, three and one). I explain about the activities, games, and readings we do together to practice the Cycle 1 Week 11 memory work (new grammar) at home throughout the week.

Morning Devotional Time

I begin each day with our morning devotional time. This is my favorite part of the day with my kids. It is also one of my favorite things about homeschooling. I love that we don’t have to rush out of the door in the morning. My kids get the sleep they need and we can linger over breakfast and read God’s word together.

I have learned some morning habits that help us all get down to breakfast at the same time. This helps me make the most of our morning time together. Read more about these habits here.

Once we are all sitting around the breakfast table and my kids start eating, I begin with our Bible study time. I read to them a small passage from my Bible and then the corresponding story in The Complete Illustrated Children’s Bible. (TCICB). This Bible has BEAUTIFUL illustrations and is very accurate to the truth of the actual Bible.  We follow along with the Bible readings and study that corresponds with the Bible memory work we are learning. 

Foundations of the Bible study and Children's Bible laying out on top of table.

Bible Study

What Bible study am I doing you might ask? I love using the Foundations of The Bible study from @drivenbygrace. This Bible study goes along with Bible memory work. Lindsey, the author of the study, matches the stories from TCICB that go along with the Bible study and Bible memory work for that week.  If there aren’t enough Bible stories for each day of the week, then I find others that go along with the theme.   After I read, I try to ask my kids a few questions about it to see how much they understood.  My five year old is pretty sharp at this. 

If you’re curious about more of what I do in our morning devotional time, read my post about it here.

This week, I read Lesson 11 from the Foundations of the Bible study about Jacob and Esau. The Bible stories from TCICB that I read each morning either correspond to the Bible study or part of this week’s memory work. See the end of this post for my PRINTABLE lesson plans with details of what I read each day.

Children's illustrated Bible, Bible study and coloring page on table

The 24 Family Ways

As I read to my kids from the Bible Study Lesson, I have them either color their 24 Family Ways coloring book or one of the activity pages from the Foundations of the Bible study activity book. This works well because they can concentrate on coloring and listen to me read.

girls coloring 24 family ways coloring book at kitchen table

After I read the part of the Bible study lesson to them and we talk about it, I go over the Family Way (from Sally and Clay Clarkson’s 24 Family Ways) we are learning about this week. We also work on memorizing the Bible verse that goes with that Family Way. I write both the Family Way and the Bible verse on chalk boards that I have hanging up by our kitchen table so we can see them often. 

Our 24 family ways book and coloring books laying on table
mom pointing to family way written on chalkboard in kitchen

I also have found songs that match with each Bible verse that I play after we eat breakfast.  Songs are amazing for helping children memorize the Bible. Download my matchup of the 24 Family Ways with Bible verses and songs from my Resource Library.

24 Family Way Devotional plan and books.

Singing Hymns

Then comes my kids’ favorite part, SINGING HYMNS!  I stumbled over this gem of a book called My First Hymnal by Karyn Henley and it is AWESOME!  I let my kids each choose a hymn to sing and I sing it for them (sometimes they join in).  It’s great that they are learning hymns and the ones in this book are fabulous for kids.

Lesson plans, kids hymnal, hymn and letter card laying out on table

This week I also sing Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty with my kids. This hymn isn’t in My First Hymnal but I play it for them. I love reading about the history and author of each hymn to my kids using these beautiful Hymn Study Cards. I also show my kids one of these Attributes of God letter cards from @drivenbygrace.

Math and Language Arts

Each day I try to do at least a little math and language arts with my oldest daughter. This year she is working through The Good and The Beautiful Level 1 math curriculum. Read here why I decided to switch from Saxon math to The Good and The Beautiful (TGATB). TGATB is very open and go and a good mix of lessons and activities. It’s beautiful too! I try to do a lesson with her after our morning devotional time. She is usually the freshest then and if I wait until later in the day to do it, I’m not as consistent.

The Good and the Beautiful math curriculum laying out on table.
handwriting book opened up on table

I also have this Handwriting without Tears for my oldest daughter the first level for my younger daughter. Sometimes it works out to have my girls do some of this in the mornings. If we don’t have enough time the, I have my older daughter do a bit in the afternoon when it’s quiet time. I don’t do it every day with her, just a few times a week.

Weekly Memory work songs

I try to review as much of the weekly memory work with my kids as possible during the week with songs and games. Often when I’m cleaning up breakfast, I play this week’s playlist of memory work songs. We also listen to these songs in the car when driving. See my playlist of Cycle 1 Week 11 songs for English, Science and Geography below.

Cycle 1 Week 11 English, Science and Geography songs

Daily Subject Focus

I like to dive deeper into one subject each day. I’ve found that focusing on just one subject each day is very manageable and doesn’t feel overwhelming. Here is our usual weekly schedule (you can download this template here):

Weekly subject focus schedule

Geography

This week in geography, we learn about the Byzantine Empire. First, I show my girls where these cities are on their placemats. We find Constantinople, Rome, Athens, Ephesus, and Antioch. We also enjoy reading the book, The Ancient Romans by Kirsty Holmes. On pages 18 and 19 there is a good map that shows the cities we are learning about.

geography map of the Byzantine Empire, picture book, and geography game

My daughter and I enjoy playing this geography treasure hunt game that I made. We switch off rolling a dice and moving our marker that number of spaces either horizontally or vertically. Once we land on a square with a city in it, we get to collect the corresponding city card. The goal of the game is to be the first one to collect all five city cards. This game is a great way to learn about these cities and where they are located! We also review some of the other locations we have learned about this year including the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, etc. You can get this for free with my other Cycle 1 Week 11 Memory work activities from the Resource Page on my blog.

mom showing Byzantine Empire map to children
playing Byzantine Empire treasure hunt game

We sing a song together to the tune of Joy to the World. This helps my girls remember these locations in the Byzantine Empire. See my video below.

Cycle 1 Week 11 Geography Song

History

This week in history we learn about Emperor Constantine and the Byzantine Empire. We continue reading the book, The Ancient Romans by Kirsty Holmes.

history coloring pages, book and activities

Byzantine Mosaics

We learn that churches and palaces throughout the Byzantine Empire were decorated with colorful mosaics.
My daughters decide to make rainbow mosaics with small pieces of colored paper and cotton balls for the clouds. This idea is from the Cycle 1 Week 11 Scribbers “Our Story” history page from ccconnected.com.

Constantine and the Byzantine Empire game

My daughter I enjoy playing this Constantine and the Byzantine Empire board game. As we play, we practice saying different parts of the history sentence. You can download this game for free from the Resource Library on my blog. This is part of the Cycle 1 Week 11 Memory Work Activity Set.

Byzantine Empire board game with cards on table
girl playing Byzantine Empire board game at table

Timeline Image Coloring Page

Each week I also give my kids the Timeline Image from Scribblers in ccconnected.com. My girls enjoy coloring Constantine this week.

girls coloring Constantine coloring page at kitchen table

I like to laminate these each week and make a timeline of them on our wall as we go through the school year.

Science

This week in science we learn about the different parts of a flower. My daughter colors the Science coloring page from Scribblers Cycle 1 Week 11 in ccconnected.com.

science picture books and activities about flowers on the table

I read to my girls from several books we checked out from our library about flowers. We really enjoy A Look at Flowers by Lindsey Lowe, and Flowers by Melanie Waldron.

girl coloring flower coloring page
flowering page colored and girl holding it up

Parts of a Flower game

My daughters and I also enjoy playing the parts of a flower game that I made. I cut out a bunch of petals, pistils, stamens with anthers, and sepals and get a big piece of card stock for my girls to use as their garden backdrop. I also cut out the flower dice template for this game.

girls playing parts of a flower game at kitchen table

The girls switch off rolling the die and adding the part of the flower rolled to their garden. We play until they have a full garden of flowers! This is such a fun way to learn about the different parts of a flower. You can get this game for free with my other Cycle 1 Week 11 Memory work activities from the Resource Page on my blog.

We sing a song together to the tune of Who Built the Arc. This helps my girls remember the different parts of a flower. See my video below.

Cycle 1 Week 11 Science Song

Math

We practice skip counting the cubes this week. My daughter enjoys doing this cubes skip counting puzzle and she practices addition while we play monopoly. You can get this Christmas skip counting the cubes puzzle with my other Cycle 1 Week 11 Memory work activities from the Resource Page on my blog.

girl putting together Christmas skip counting the cubes puzzle at table
playing monopoly and practicing addition

Lesson Plan Templates

Click here to download an EDITABLE template of my detailed lesson plans for Cycle 1 Week 11. Here is a blank template you can download too.

Picture Books for Cycle 1 Week 11

Here are all the picture books we enjoy this week:

  1. The Ancient Romans by Kirsty Holmes
  2. Where is Jumper by Ellen Stoll Walsh
  3. Out the Door by Christy Hale
  4. A Look at Flowers by Lindsey Lowe
  5. Flowers by Melanie Waldron

Other Fall-themed books we enjoy reading this week:

Cycle 1 Week 11 Memory Work Activities

Here are activities to help practice the remaining memory work. You can sign up below to receive these AND the activities I mentioned above for geography and science.

  • Preposition card game
  • Latin Bingo game
  • Skip counting the cubes Christmas tree puzzle

How many weeks are you into Cycle 1? How are things going? Comment below and tell me about any activities you have done or fun books you have read.

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