Here are some resources for Week 7. Hope they’re helpful! 🙂 Enjoy! If you missed my Ancient India resources from earlier in the week, you’ll find them here.
Science-How Do Animals Reproduce?
I made the file below and we used them in class as “flashcards.” As we sang the song, 4 children were in the front of the class, and they would hold up the appropriate flashcard. This could easily be done at home. 🙂 I cut out the pictures and mounted them on construction paper for durability. In class we sang “How do animals reproduce?” to the tune of “Happy Birthday.”
Download the Animal Reproduction Flashcards
Here’s a GREAT power point by Crecia at CCing it One Day At a Time. She created a “guessing game” showing different animals, and the children have to guess which form of reproduction they used. On one slide and the following slide shows which form of Animal Reproduction used. AND…it’s kid-friendly, which is always a plus when we’re dealing with the topic of reproduction and talking with our children. 🙂
This is a fun You Tube video of a chicken hatching. Here’s another You Tube of a baby Robin hatching from its egg. This would be a great one to view after reading “A Nest Full of Eggs” since the Robin is the featured bird in the book. 🙂
History Statement
For my Abecedarians this week, I used hand motions for our History Statement since it was a rather long one. 🙂 Most of the hand motions we had already used learning our Timeline. I love when the hand motions repeat, and the children are able to see that the History Statement is also a part of the Timeline! Here are the hand motions I used:
Hinduism: Sign from Timeline song for “Hinduisum”
Founded: Sign from Timeline song for “Founded”
One: hold up 1 finger
Divided: Sign from Timeline song for “Divided”
 Castes: Pretend to have a broken arm with a CAST
Founded: Sign from Timeline song for “Founded”
Buddhism: ASL sign for letter B
Siddartha: Hold hands like praying
Enlightened One: hold up 1 finger
Latin
I have continued making the Latin picture pronunciation worksheets for my Abecedarians. I feel like this helps them with pronunciation and also helps my visual learners (like myself!). Click here to download the Latin 3rd Declension Pronunciation Guide Here are pictures of what they look like:
You can put these in page protectors and have the children trace the letters. Or, you can cut them up and have them match which Noun Case they correspond to. (Nominative: Singular-Various, Plural-es, etc.)
It’s one of our favorites! You can also buy Audio CDs for Story of the World. 🙂 Save your voice, and let your kiddos listen to the chapters during afternoon Rest Time! 
The Elephant’s Friend and other Tales from Ancient India (Marcia Williams)
Once A Mouse…(Marcia Brown)-The pictures in the book are amazing! They’re actually woodcut illustrations. WOW! It’s also a Calcedott Medal winner. AND…it’s one of the “4 for 3” books with Amazon, which allows you to the 4th book free when buying 3 participating books. 
Rama and the Demon King (Jessica Souhami)-Another beautifully illustrated book! Also, another “4 for 3” book with Amazon! My boys laughed out loud when we read this. It is the retelling of an ancient Hindu tale.
Kingdoms and Empires (Carson-Dellosa Publishing)- I had never heard of this series, “History of the World,” but I found this at the library as well. It’s a 6-volume set that journeys through World History. I’m excited about this one (volume 2) because it covers much of what we’ve been learning in the timeline–Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome…and several others that I’ve found LIMITED resources for–Ancient India, Persian Empire, Chinese Dynasties, Ancient Japan. Hopefully, it will be a great resource. We’ll see!
The Story of Little Babaji (Helen Bannerman)-This is a story of Babaji, a little boy growing up in India. He ventures off to the jungle wearing new clothes, and the tigers of the jungle talk him out of his new clothes. 🙂 I love the illustrations, accurately depicting the images that are still cemented into my mind from my travels there a decade ago
series, please, please, please introduce your children to it! I was first introduced to the series last year with Sonlight. I read aloud their book about 
, who was another missionary serving in South America. His name may sound familiar if you’ve been listening to the CC Timeline song! He and his wife, Elisabeth, are one of the CC Timeline cards! We’ll be reading that book in the Spring! All of the Christian Heroes: Then and Now series books are a part of Amazon’s “4 for 3” book promotion! Go buy 3 of these, and you’ll get the 4th free–making them only $6.50/each!
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