Challenge A Geography Helps

Drawing the world can be a daunting task. This part of Challenge A intimidated my daughter the most. Most of the time I had to encourage her just to get started and that the map didn't need to be perfect. My goal was that she learn the countries and if drawing skills were improved then that was icing on the cake. As the year went on I found some videos that helped her draw the countries. I will list them below

Canada- The Challenge tutor covered this one in class.
U.S- We purchased the U.S. portion from this website. My daughter thought it was a but childish, but I had to encourage her that she could make it more detailed if she wanted. Be careful that you don't squish out the eastern United States. I folded my paper in half (and also used a large piece of paper) so that I made sure that there was line to keep North Dakota and Texas to the left of it. This gave room for the eastern half.
Central America- The Challenge tutor covered this one in class. My daughter looked at maps to draw the countries
South America- My daughter looked at maps to draw the countries
Europe- We used this video. There is no spoken words. The artist first walked her through several simple shapes. This seemed classical to me. It helped her remember how to draw them later.
Asia- She used this video. The same artist as previously.
Africa- This video is the same man as before.
Australia- I helped her form a plan for this country. Australia has many horizontal and vertical lines making it easy. Your scholar should have so much experience by now, Australia will not be difficult.
Oceania- My daughter looked at the map and did this one all by herself. 

Cycle 2 Latin Memory help

I am a tutor for Classical Conversations. This year is Cycle 2 and Latin is verb conjugations.  For those memorizing them for Memory Masters it could be difficult knowing what Latin conjugations goes with which tenses. Throughout the year I had several places I gathered ways to remember these, so I designed this document to have all in one place. I hope it is helpful for you.

Cycle 2 Latin Memory Helper

Latin Charts & Vocab

My daughter is in Classical Conversations Challange this year and is learning Latin. There are so many charts and vocabulary cards to flip through. There are times of frustrations because of having so much stuff in front of her. We needed to get organized. 

 I have helped her get organized. We have made this chart book. Each of the charts are in paper protectors. In addition to the charts there is a vocab list. We have been practicing the vocab on Quizlet. I have printed them out in both English to Latin and Latin to English. Now while she is doing her assignments she has a quick reference in front of her to help her. Some ideas for you is that you can print blank declension pages to go in the back to practice. Your student then could fill them out with dry erase marker on the paper protector and then check him/herself with charts in the front.  The dry erase then can be erased for another day of practice. I want to share these with you.

Challenge A

Declension Chart

Verb Conjugations 
     First Conjugations
     Second Conjugations
     Third Conjugations
Pronoun Charts 

Challenge B

More Latin Verbs
Conjugation of SUM
First Conjugation Perfect Indicative
First Conjugation Present Subjunctive

Quizlet Vocab List