The science cards are new and so I'm not sure how the teacher/tutors will use them in class. My dc could put the CD on themselves and listen to what they needed to memorize for the week. We did not use the Computer CD very much but, we used the Song CD all of the time. The computer CD has a power point presentation on it along with the songs and chants for each week.
#Memory master classical conversations portable
The cards are handy for the students to use when practicing because they're portable and you can choose to only give them the cards that they're studying instead of the entire set. The book just gives an overview of which cards are going to be taught what week, what the science experiment is going to be, etc. If you purchase the book, you don't need the CC cycle cards but, if you don't want the book you'll need the cards. So you need either the Song CD or the Computer CD for the student to learn the songs. At home, you're also supposed to find the geography locations on the map so that the student not only memorizes the names but, also where they are on the globe/map.Įach CC cycle card has a song or chant to help the child memorize the information. The teacher/tutor's job is to begin the process of memorization in class and then it's the parent/child's job to work on solidifying that memory work at home. During their presentations, they would concentrate on making eye-contact with each member of their audience. For example, the teacher/tutor might ask them to come prepared to talk about a book they had recently read at home. In the older classes, the students would be given an assignment to talk about for the next week. In the younger classes, our tutors allowed it to be a show-and-tell type of presentation just to get the children used to speaking in front of the group. Each week the students must also give a short presentation. In addition to the memory work, each week there is a science experiment, an art project with instruction about different artists or music instruction in the tin whistle or learning about the orchestra. (These are loose from memory and the periods may not be totally accurate.) There are 24 weeks in each cycle.
Cycle 3's history facts are from about early american to present day. Cycle 2's history facts are from around the renaissance - early american. Cycle 1 has history facts from ancients - before the renaissance. During that class time the teacher tutor leads the students in beginning to memorize 8 history facts from the VP cards, one history sentence, one latin grammar card, one science fact, one geography region (includes about 5 areas) and one math fact card from the CC Cycle cards. We didn't do any other memory work except for what was given at CC.Įach week the student attends "class" from 9AM - 12PM. We did CC Foundations last year and found it very useful for helping with the memory work portion of our curriculum. Other Resources for Learning Challenges.Resources (and Curricula) for Processing Difficulties.