cycle 1 week 6 history activities

Cycle 1 Week 6 At Home Activities for Classical Homeschooling

Looking for fun and engaging ways to bring Cycle 1, Week 6 memory work to life at home? Join me as I share about activities, games, and books that have enriched our homeschooling week.

cycle 1 week 6 history activities

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Last week my kids loved making their own Roman Mosaics and playing Roman Sequence. We also learned about animals that are invertebrates and played a fun domino game. Read more about what we did at home during the previous weeks of Cycle 1 here: Week 1 , Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, and Week 5. You can also get a peek into our first couple of homeschool weeks here.

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 seven 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

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 6. If you are thinking past the sixth week, I also have a video for Cycle 1 Week 7 and more coming soon! Visit my channel for tutor ideas for future weeks and other videos with homeschooling tips and encouragement.

Cycle 1 Week 6 Tutor Ideas Video

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 6 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.

mom reading bible to kids at kitchen table

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. 

bible, bible study, coloring books, and breakfast plates set out on kitchen table.
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.

point reading bible study to kids at kitchen table

This week, I read Lesson 6 from the Foundations of the Bible study about the Tower of Babel. 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.

kids tracing letters and coloring bible study activity page at kitchen 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.

children's bible, bible study, and coloring pages
family way coloring book colored in

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

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.

girls coloring bible activity pages at kitchen table

This week I also sing Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing 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. We talk about what other words start with the letter “F” and how God is “Faithful.”

mom showing kids the letter F card at kitchen table

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.
math activity page from the good and the beautiful

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.

girl working on handwriting work
handwriting book opened up on table

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 6 songs for English, Science and Geography below.

Cycle 1 Week 6 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 Ancient Greece. During our morning snack time, I start out reading to my kids from Ancient Greece by Nick Pierce.

Ancient Greece book and geography game
mom and kids playing geography dice game in basement

I show my girls where Ancient Greece is on their placemats. We spice things up a bit and play our geography dice game in the basement. The girls switch off throwing a big die down the basement stairs and then jumping to the bottom to see what number they rolled. Each number they roll corresponds to a location in Ancient Greece. For example, if they roll a 4, they try to identify the place on their map that is labeled with a number 4. You can get this for free with my other Cycle 1 Week 6 Memory work activities from the Resource Page on my blog.

We sing a song together to the tune of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. This helps my girls remember these locations in Ancient Greece. See my video below.

Cycle 1 Week 6 Geography Song

History

This week in history we learn about some Ancient Greeks. We enjoy reading the book What’s Your Angle Pythagoras by Julie Ellis.

Greek Vase Activity

My girls also enjoy decorating Greek vases and we talk about how art was very important in ancient Greece. Wealthy Greek families often owned beautiful vases, especially ones that were red and black. This activity is from the Sandbox Ezine in ccconnected.com. I made this Greek Vase coloring page that they decorate with different designs.

Ancient Greece book with Vase and maze activities
little girl working on ancient greece maze activity

Ancient Greeks Maze

My daughter also works on this Ancient Greeks maze which helps her practice the history sentence. She connects Homer, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Archimedes to what they are known for (poet, philosopher, mathematician, and inventor). You can download this game for free from the Resource Library on my blog. This is part of the Cycle 1 Week 6 Memory Work Activity Set.

Timeline Image Coloring Page

Each week I also give my kids the Timeline Image from Scribblers in ccconnected.com. My girls enjoy painting a picture of Homer this week with their dot markers.

girls painting ancient greece coloring page
ancient Greece picture book with coloring pages

Science

This week in science we learn about Vertebrates. My daughter colors the Science coloring page from Scribblers Cycle 1 Week 6 in ccconnected.com. I read to my girls from several books we checked out from our library about vertebrates. We really enjoy Genius Noses by Lena Anlauf, On Duck Pond by Jane Yolen, and Miles and Miles of Reptiles by Tish Rabe. My girls are really into polar bears and lions right now so it is perfect to read books about them and talk about how they are vertebrates too!

science picture books, vertebrates reference sheet and domino game out on table

We have a great time playing the invertebrates/vertebrates dominoes game again this week. It is such a great way to learn about which animals are invertebrates and which are vertebrates. You can get this game for free with my other Cycle 1 Week 6 Memory work activities from the Resource Page on my blog.

little girl holding vertebrates coloring page
invertebrates and vertebrates domino game

We sing a song together to the tune of Dem Bones. This helps my girls remember the major types of vertebrates. See my video below.

Cycle 1 Week 6 Science Song

Math and Reading

We practice skip counting the 11’s and 12’s this week. My daughter enjoys doing this 11’s skip counting maze and this 12’s skip counting game. You can get both these for free with my other Cycle 1 Week 6 Memory work activities from the Resource Page on my blog.

skip counting activity pages
all about reading activity finished

I also work on some reading with my daughter. We are beginning All About Reading Level 1 and she’s doing really great. I love the little activities that go with each lesson.

Lesson Plan Templates

Click here to download an EDITABLE template of my detailed lesson plans for Cycle 1 Week 6. Here is a blank template you can download too.

Here are all the picture books we enjoy during Cycle 1 Week 6:

Cycle 1 Week 6 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, history and science.

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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