photo creditOkay, I'm a total conference geek. I love them! They seem fun to me and I love learning. (I always loved school!) But, I am SO not a math girl. However, I don't know how, but somehow the emails from Classical Conversations talking about this year's upcoming parent practicums have me so excited to learn about … [Read more...]
The View from Here – Happy Easter!
God used so much to teach us this week, friends, as we meditated on the death and resurrection of His Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Such a joyous time of celebration and gratefulness! I pray it was for you, as well. So (, a day late,) Happy Easter! … [Read more...]
Easter – Holy Week Timeline
image sourceI know we CC families appreciate a good timeline when we see one. So, when I saw this gospel-based Holy Week timeline, I was eager to share it with all of you. In its current form, I was unable to print it. So, my husband modified it by opening the HD JPG in Microsoft Paint and cropping it into 3 pictures. When … [Read more...]
What We're Doing – Week 24 Links & Ideas
image sourceHistory - Starting here, we're going to view artwork about Napoleon to see what we can learn about him from the images. Latin - As I've said before, I like to keep our Latin review simple and repetitive, so we're going to review Latin like this again. It's been working great!English - I … [Read more...]
How It's Going – Week 21
To review our week 21 science sentence, we located each of the 5 major circles of latitude on our globe. Then we drew the 5 major circles on oranges while reciting them out loud. My guys loved drawing on the oranges, but my little miss was completely focused on us finishing so she could eat one. So, what was at first our review … [Read more...]
The View From Here – Watching Them Learn
First we watched the video about the associative law of addition, then I demonstrated it with our plastic math animals. My oldest understood it quickly (really, he's the only one who should) and asked to demonstrate it with their stuffies. Then we watched a second video (boy, were they excited!). This one about linking verbs. I … [Read more...]
What We’re Doing – Week 23 Links & Ideas
History - Pull from the "used & loved" book lists from Homeschool Creations to learn more about South America. I always like heading into the library with a list of recommended book ideas in hand! Latin - I like to keep our latin review simple, so we can really focus on the work of memorizing. So, we'll do copywork and review the matching … [Read more...]
The View from Here – Latin Review
Using our new Latin review cards, which I printed from Suzanne Shares and laminated, the boys worked to lay out the declension sheets in order from first to fourth (They are not in the correct order pictured here.) Next, I gave them the picture cards one declension at a time, which they lined up with the sheets. When they did this, … [Read more...]
Classical Composers Monthly Giveaway – Winner Announced!
This giveaway is now closed! Comment #7, Superblessedmommy aka Becki Hogan, you are the winner! I'm excited for you to check this out, Becki, as we continue in orchestra studies with CC. Erica of Classical Composers Monthly will contact you with more information. If you're just now seeing this, be sure to check out my review … [Read more...]
The View From Here – New Pope Announced
As history unfolded before our eyes, we were given the chance to turn today's announcement of the new pope, Pope Francis I, into many impromptu lessons. We reviewed our theology, Latin, geography, history, and flag recognition.The channel we were watching placed some of the first words spoken during the announcement on the screen in Latin and … [Read more...]