Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
I had the privilege recently of checking out the Simply Classical Curriculum by Cheryl Swope for Memoria Press. The curriculum has three levels; each designed with lesson plans for one year. I have Level C Animals, Alphabet & Aesop for 4-5 year olds. Level A Readiness, Rhythm & Rhyme is for 2-3 year olds and Level B Essentials, Etiquette … [Read more...]
Y'all, please welcome Jennifer Courtney of Classical Conversations Writers Circle with part one of a guest series of posts all about getting started in homeschooling. There is something to be said for starting off right, so I hope you enjoy her series of posts! What should I do for my children’s education? Should I homeschool them? Where … [Read more...]
I shared with you the set-up for our classical notebooks this year, but I realized I may have been jumping ahead. I'd like to take us a few steps back and explain what notebooking is by answering some common questions about notebooking. What is notebooking? Notebooking is essentially a way for students to document and collect … [Read more...]
Today I thought I'd try to answer some common questions I hear people asking about Classical Conversations. I'll do my best to answer them here and please comment below if you have more questions you would like to see me include! Is CC a co-op? Along these same lines, Is CC a drop-off program? No, it's a community. From the CC website, … [Read more...]
I recently had a first-time CC mom message me to ask advice for her first year homeschooling her four and six year old sons. At first reading, I thought I might not have any advice to offer! But, after a little thought, I realized I had learned some things since beginning to homeschool my young ones three years ago. So, if you were to ask … [Read more...]
When I started this blog, I didn't realize how many families were considering and searching out information about doing Classical Conversations at home. And guess what? I didn't even think of the name of this blog. A friend suggested I start a blog at a time when I had seriously been considering it and praying about it for a while. She suggested … [Read more...]
We are wrapping up our third year as part of a Classical Conversations community now. In this post, I'm going to do my best to share the basics of how a Classical Conversations community works.Classical Conversations is a Classical, Christian community education program for homeschool families designed with the goal to know God and … [Read more...]
This seems to be the time of year when the questions begin. Are we homeschooling again next year? Should we switch some things we're doing? Or all the things we're doing? Am I doing enough as their teacher? How much did they really learn this year? Let me ask you a question that should quiet the rest. Why are you homeschooling? Don't know why? … [Read more...]
Classical Conversations is a classical, Christian education. Some might see those words placed together and not see the connection. In fact, some might go as far as to say they don't connect. It probably won't surprise you to hear me say, well, they do go together! Actually, I'm a firm believer that classical + Christian are … [Read more...]
Before homeschooling my children, my educational experience was limited to how I was taught, which I would generally characterize as traditional. I grew up attending a private, Christian school and later graduated from a Bible university with degrees in Social Work and Bible. I had no experience and very little information regarding … [Read more...]