Cycle 2 Week 15 Tutor Plans for Classical Homeschooling

It’s Cycle 2 Week 15, and it’s exciting to see how much the kids are remembering and connecting from past weeks. This week’s plans mix music, motion, and meaningful review activities that keep everyone engaged and smiling as we learn together.

As always, I’m not affiliated with any Classical education organization—these are simply my own ideas and experiences from tutoring over the years. I hope these Cycle 2 Week 15 plans inspire you and spark fresh ideas as you continue in this second half of the cycle!

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A Classical model of homeschooling

We are part of a Christ-centered homeschool program that follows the Classical model. The younger children, ages 4-12, focus on a memorization-based curriculum which acts as the groundwork of learning that is built upon in later years.

Children and their parents learn key facts across the core subject areas including history, science, English, mathematics, geography, and Latin. Tutors use fun activities, games, songs, and lots of energy to introduce the new material. The parents can then expand on that material at home throughout the week.

Cycle rotation

The material is divided into three cycles, which each last one year. The cycles continue to rotate every three years, so most children who start when they are kindergarten age, complete each cycle at least twice. This allows them to develop a deeper comprehension and grasp of the material through repetition.

Cycle 2 material

This year in Cycle 2, we’re learning about pre-Reformation to modern history, ecology, astronomy, and physics; Latin verb endings; English pronouns, adverbs, and conjunctions; skip counting, conversions, and more!

The following ideas are what I’m planning to do with the group of kids I am tutoring this year (ages 4-6). You may use these ideas if you are also tutoring in a Classical homeschooling community, or if you’re a parent who is looking for memory work ideas to use at home.

Also, you don’t have to be part of any particular Classical homeschooling group to use these ideas! These are ideas to help children learn key concepts in the core subject areas. If you are a homeschooling parent, or just a parent who wants to supplement what your kids are currently learning in school, these ideas will be helpful for you.

Community group time

Our homeschooling community has been meeting on Tuesdays. Our leader starts off the morning with everyone together in a big group setting. She typically begins that time with a devotional reading and prayer, and then continues with some announcements, celebrating birthdays, the pledge of allegiance, and anything else she wants to cover with everyone.

After this time, we split off into our different groups based on age. The tutors lead their groups into different classrooms and begin the New Grammar part of the day. This is when the tutor introduces the memory work for each core subject. Check out my post and video about how to make your own tutor board!

Cycle 2 Week 15 Tutor and Memory Work Ideas

Geography – The Levant

This week in geography we’re learning about the countries of the Levant — Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Iraq, and Iran! ✈️

Before class, I’ll outline each country on our trivium table maps with different colored dry erase markers to help them stand out. Each child will get their own map at the start of geography time, and we’ll use them throughout our lesson.

Since the locations we are learning about are little on our map this week, each child will also get a tiny hand to use as we explore this region together. The kids will point to each country with their tiny hand as we say the name together.

Once everyone is familiar with the countries, we’ll learn our Levant geography song to the tune of “Who Built the Ark? ”
We’ll sing through it several times, pointing to each country with our tiny hands as we sing.

English – Four Purposes of Sentences

This week in English, we’re learning about the four purposes of sentences — declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative! ✨

To help the kids remember each one, we’ll sing a fun and expressive song to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Each type of sentence will have its own silly face and emotion to go along with it:

• Declarative: calm face 😌
• Exclamatory: excited, surprised face 😲
• Interrogative: curious, thinking face 🤔
• Imperative: serious, commanding face 😐

We’ll sing the song together several times, changing our expressions as we go. The kids always love when they get to make silly faces, and it’s such a fun way to connect emotion, sound, and meaning as they learn how each kind of sentence works. By the end, they’ll know the four purposes by heart and have plenty of giggles along the way!

Timeline

The timeline stays the same each cycle, and this week we continue with the next seven cards.

I often use these Timeline Cards in class: Set 1 (Ancient World), Set 2 (Medieval World), Set 3 (New World), and Set 4 (Modern World) I highly recommend investing in them (you should get all four sets) whether you are a tutor or a parent. I consistently use them as a tutor and also at home with my kids.

Since I have the 4-6 year old children, I like to tape the paper letter that the timeline event starts with at the top of the card. I have found these letters at my local Dollar Tree. Some of the children in my class can’t read yet, so this helps them identify the event I’m referring to.

Cycle 2 Week 15 Timeline

Before our class time begins, I put seven pieces of painters tape on the wall where the timeline cards will go.

This week for Timeline, we’re playing a fun, interactive game called Pass the Card!

The children will sit together in a circle while I play this week’s portion of the timeline song. See my tutor video for the tune of this week’s timeline song. As the music plays, they’ll pass one timeline card around the circle. When the music stops, the child holding the card will say that timeline event aloud (with my help if needed) and then place it on the wall in the correct order.

After each card is placed, we’ll do the matching timeline motion together before moving on to the next round. We’ll repeat this pattern—passing, pausing, naming, and moving—until all seven cards are up on the wall in order.

Once the full timeline is assembled, I’ll have the kids stand in front of the cards and we’ll go through all the motions together while singing this week’s timeline section several times.

See my video below for the motions and song for this week’s timeline section:

Math

This week in math we’re learning about metric measurements —
10 millimeters = 1 centimeter,
100 centimeters = 1 meter,
1,000 meters = 1 kilometer.

We’ll keep building on last week’s fun by adding motions as we sing a new song to the tune of “Ten Little Indians.”
Each measurement will have its own movement to help the kids remember:

• 10 millimeters = 1 centimeter – make a tiny space with your fingers
• 100 centimeters = 1 meter – take a big jump
• 1,000 meters = 1 kilometer – make a circle with your hand like last week for kilometer

We’ll start slow to learn the motions and rhythm, then speed it up once everyone’s confident.

Math is also a great time to use these fun action cards which you can download for free below!

You can download my UPDATED printable Silly Voice and Action Cards for free by entering your email in the form below and I’ll send them straight to your mailbox!

Silly Voice and Action Cards

History

This week in history we’re learning about the countries involved in World War I — Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.

To make this lesson hands-on and visual, I’ll give each child cutouts of the six countries. Together, we’ll talk about which nations were on each side of the war:

• Allies: Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States
• Central Powers: Germany and Austria-Hungary

Then the kids will glue their country cutouts to the correct side on a simple sorting page labeled Allies and Central Powers.

As they glue, we’ll listen to this week’s history song and sing along to help reinforce which countries worked together during the war (see my tutor video for this week’s tune).

It’s a great way for the kids to see how the world was divided during World War I and to make clear, memorable connections between each country and its role in the conflict.

You can download the PDF of this activity here.

Science

This week in science, we’re learning about the two forms of energy — potential and kinetic! ⚡

To help the kids really see and feel the difference, we’ll learn a fun song to the tune of “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.”

Each form of energy will have its own motion:

• Kinetic Energy: jump up and spin around to show energy in motion!
• Potential Energy: crouch down like a coiled spring, staying very still and full of stored energy.

We’ll sing the song several times, moving together as we switch between potential and kinetic energy. Then we’ll make it even more fun by using silly voices — whispering, robot, opera, or monster voices — as we repeat the song. You can download my silly voice cards for free here!

See my video below for this week’s science song.

Latin

This week in Latin, we’re learning the first conjugation endings in the imperfect tense — bam, bās, bat, bāmus, bātis, bant.

To make it interactive and fun, we’ll play a game called “What Comes Next?”

We’ll start by singing the endings in order a few times together so the kids get familiar with the rhythm and sounds. Then, as we sing again, I’ll say “PAUSE” partway through and ask, “What comes next?” The kids will shout out the next ending as loudly as they can before we continue singing.

We’ll keep going, and I’ll have the kids pause at different spots each time to test their memory and keep them on their toes. See my tutor video for the tune we sing these to!

Review: Tower Challenge

For review this week, we’re playing the Tower Challenge!

The kids will sit together in a circle around the pile of blocks. I’ll ask questions from all the subjects, and whoever can answer correctly will get to add one block to our class tower.

We’ll keep taking turns, one question at a time, watching as the tower grows taller and taller with each correct answer. If it starts to wobble or fall, that just adds to the excitement and we’ll rebuild and keep going!

This simple, low-prep game keeps everyone engaged and eager to participate. It’s amazing how something as small as adding a block can make review time so much fun while reinforcing all that we’ve learned this week.

SnowBall Game

You can also play my Snowball Game! This game is such a simple, low-prep way to bring energy and laughter into review time. Kids love the surprise of flipping over a snowflake card to see whether they’ve earned points or stumbled on a “snowball” that takes points away.

Before community day, I prep by cutting out and laminating a Snowball sign and snowflake cards (you can download these for free). If you don’t want to print anything out, you can simply draw numbers on a whiteboard and stick Post-it notes on top. On the back of each snowflake are numbers ranging from –20 to +20 in increments of 5.

Here’s how it works:

1. I split the class into two teams.
2. I ask the first child a review question from any subject. If they don’t know the answer, I let their team help.
3. Once they answer, they get to pick a snowflake card. If it’s a positive number, their team adds the points to their score. If it’s a “snowball” (a negative number), those points are subtracted!
4. The game continues until all cards are gone. The team with the highest (or lowest, if you want to switch it up!) score wins.

I usually ask review questions on the fly rather than preparing them ahead of time so I can keep things moving and responsive to the kids’ energy. Here are a few examples of the kinds of questions I ask (remember, my class is the youngest group):

• Can you name one of the European explorers we learned about?
• What do you remember about the Industrial Revolution?
• Who remembers a part of the sun?
• What are a few pronouns we have learned so far?
• Who can name all the planets?

Great Artists in Fine Arts

Now that we’re in the second half of Cycle 2, Fine Arts shifts to Great Artists, and it’s been such a sweet part of our homeschool rhythm. Over six weeks, the children are introduced to famous artists, learn to recognize different styles, and create simple projects inspired by their work.

In our community, Great Artists time is kept short and engaging—one artist each week, a few well-known works, a handful of kid-friendly takeaways, and then we jump into creating.

If you’d like to see exactly how we structure Great Artists time (both in community and at home), I shared all the details in a separate blog post, along with some resources that make planning much easier. I also share:

• Free week-by-week artist bios + printable public-domain artwork for poster boards
• Cycle 2 Great Artists Mini Books for home
• Great Artists Showdown (a War-style review card game)
• Great Artists Memory Game (matching artists to famous works)

You can read the full Great Artists post and find everything linked below.

NEW Cycle 2 Weeks 1-12 Review Activity Book

If you’re looking for a fun and meaningful way to help your kids review the first half of Cycle 2, my brand new Weeks 1–12 Review Activity Book is the perfect companion! I designed it to help kids review, connect, and celebrate everything they’ve learned so far — from geography and history to science, math, Latin, English, and even the timeline.

Inside, you’ll find 50 engaging activities that make review time interactive and joyful. Each page reinforces memory work while encouraging deeper connections and confidence. Whether you use it during the mid-cycle break or as part of your regular review time, it’s an easy, low-prep way to keep learning fresh and fun.

You can find the Cycle 2 Weeks 1–12 Review Activity Book in my shop below!

Cycle 2 Historyopoly

One of our favorite ways to review history is with Cycle 2 Historyopoly, a brand new game I created this year.

It is modeled after Monopoly but uses all of the Cycle 2 history sentences. The kids love rolling dice, moving around the board, and reviewing history facts as we play. It turns review into something exciting and fresh, and we will definitely be pulling it out again many more times this year. You can grab this NEW game below!

Cycle 2 Memory Work Activity Book

If you’re looking for a fun way to review the memory work at home with your kids this year, check out our NEW Cycle 2 Memory Work Activity Book. I created this notebook to give kids a fun way to practice their memory work, without adding extra prep for mom, dad, or grandma.

Inside, there’s one short activity for each subject for all 24 weeks of Cycle 2. When we do geography on Monday, they do the geography activity for that week. When we get to Thursday, they do the science page. It’s so easy to match to whatever we’re focusing on that day.

I love that it keeps things simple and fun. It’s NOW available in digital and printed form, and there is a sample page you can take a peek at if you would like too! Check it out below!

NEW Cycle 2 History and Science Placemats

These brand-new Cycle 2 History and Science Placemats are designed to make memory work fun and interactive for kids, whether you’re using them alongside Classical Conversations or on their own as a way to dive deeper into history and science.

Each placemat is filled with colorful visuals and simple explanations that bring the topics to life. Just print, laminate, and use them again and again during meals and review time. They’re an easy, no-prep way to dive deeper into the history and science topics with your kids. Get your set for Weeks 13-18 below. The other three quarters are also available HERE! 

Cycle 2 Geography Passport

We also have a fun addition for geography review — the Cycle 2 Geography Passport! Whether you’re a tutor or a homeschool parent, this printable resource helps kids track their Classical Conversations Cycle 2 geography week by week with full-color maps and matching cut-and-glue stamps.

Each page highlights that week’s memory work with clearly labeled locations, making it easy for young learners to connect what they’re memorizing with what they see on the map. Kids love collecting stamps as they “travel” through the world. You can also print these stamps on these sticky circular labels which makes it even more fun!

You can use the Geography Passport at home with your own children, or print it out for use in class. A group license option is available if you’d like to use it with your tutoring class or community group.

It pairs perfectly with the Cycle 2 Memory Work Activity Book, giving your students or children a hands-on, engaging way to practice their memory work all year long. If you’d like both resources, be sure to check out the bundle option available in my shop!

Memory Work Meadowland

Another one of our favorite ways to review is with fun, themed board games. I created a set of Candyland-style games that make memory work review exciting and interactive for kids. These games can be used with any cycle and are a great way to practice all of the memory work subjects together.

We’ve been playing Memory Work Meadowland, a Spring/Easter-themed review game. It works just like Candyland, but with the addition of memory work review built in. Players move along the board by drawing cards with color blocks or picture spaces. Then they answer a review question that matches the space they land on. Correct answers let them stay put, but if they miss, they move back. The game also includes fun twists with slides and ladders to keep things lively. The first player to reach the church wins!

The best part is that I now have a fall version, a winter version, and a spring version, so you can rotate them throughout the school year. You can grab each one individually, or get the seasonal bundle with all three at a special price.

These games have been such a hit in our home. They are perfect for community review days, family game nights, or just a fun way to end your homeschool week. You can find them all in my shop below.

Printable and Editable Cycle 2 Week 15 Tutor Plans

Here is a printable EDITABLE template of these Cycle 2 Week 15 Tutor Plans. Here is a blank template too! If you want the plans as they are, here is a PDF version (filled out) and a PDF version (blank).

Cycle 2 Week 15 Memory Work Games

Also check out the FREE activities and games that you can use at home to help your kids practice the memory work this week.

I hope this helps give you some ideas and songs to use whether you are a tutor or a parent. Please comment below if you have any questions about anything.

Blessings to you on this homeschooling journey!