Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
Hi, my name is Julie Largent. I’m a Midwestern girl who has been planted in the Northeast. I have been married to Gibson for 15 years. He is a pastor/church planter here in PA. We are Oklahoma Sooner fans, but for some reason can’t seem to find many others in this area who share our passion. The Lord has blessed us with 4 beautiful, funny, and … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Winner Angela McKeehan was randomly selected today. Congrats, Angela! I'm excited you'll have the chance to read this before entering Challenge next year. Thanks to everyone who entered!I recently shared what I learned from The Question, the newly released book by the founder of Classical Conversations, Leigh Bortins, and … [Read more...]
History - Copy and illustrate the memory work onto a history sentence picture page. Use images of Vladimir I, the Kremlin, and Catherine the Great to inspire their drawings. If you're on C3, use And Here We Go's history sentence review cards. They have great pictures! We'll also incorporate the country outline of Russia into … [Read more...]
Guys, welcome back, Classical Conversations Writers Circle blogger Jennifer Courtney. Today, she's sharing with us the results of her polling of seventy Classical Conversations families for the reasons why they homeschool.Recent news coverage of homeschooling has revealed a 75% increase in homeschooling in the past eight years. In addition, … [Read more...]
As y'all know, a few days ago I shared some of what I learned from reading Classical Conversations founder, Leigh Bortin's, new book The Question. Well, I was also able to recently ask Leigh some questions of my own regarding her new book and homeschooling. I'm excited to share her replies with you today! CC at Home: Leigh, first … [Read more...]
If you've read The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education, you'll quickly understand how The Question: Teaching Your Child the Essentials of Classical Education is the follow-up. As Leigh Bortins introduced us to the grammar stage in The Core, she does with the dialectic stage in The Question. Our children were … [Read more...]
Over the last year, we've added three new tools to our home school. In case you're in the market for the same tools, I thought I'd write a short series sharing what we have selected and how we made our decisions. Today, I'll talk about our piano.We bought a digital piano, the Kawaii Concert Artist 65, through a local piano shop. I … [Read more...]
History - Play pass the crown while reviewing the monarchs. I also love looking up art (like the image above) of the people we're learning about for my littles to see. We can learn so much by looking closely at art from the time.English - Copywork using traceable or fill-in-the-blank printables.Latin - Use our copies of the Latin … [Read more...]
I won't pretend to know a lot - or very much at all - about Common Core. In fact, when the murmurs started growing about a year or so ago, the question I asked with my puzzled look intact was, "How does this affect homeschoolers?" Well, now I know some of the answers to that question and I want you to know as well. As tempting as … [Read more...]
History - Read books about explorers. We've found so many good ones at our local library. Maybe even map out the routes of these explorers on one map: Dias, Amerigo Vespucci, Balboa, Magellan, and Coronado.English - Watch this simple video with a catchy song about the reflexive pronouns.Latin - Copy and recite the Latin endings.Science … [Read more...]