I’m excited to introduce the curriculum Ty will be using next year (along with Classical Conversations) because, well, I wrote it. Yeah. This post is totally to toot my own horn and unashamedly ask you to check it out. Why? Because I think it’s great and because it can probably use all the constructive criticism […]
As an extrovert, one of the things I love about CC is the community. For me, I’ve been blessed with both a local community and a more virtual one thanks to technology. I’m always surprised to look back and see how much this blog has morphed over the past 8 years. Heck, 8 years ago, […]
Our last week was Friday. While I’m relieved to be wrapping up the school year, I’ve been a little hyper about looking ahead. With 2 teenagers joining our family in the fall, I want as much planning to be behind me as possible this summer. Enter our History outline for next year… WK CC Memory […]
‘Tis the season to start thinking about next year–co-ops, curriculums, field trips, OH MY! Lately, it seems that every other conversation I have is about Classical Conversations. There seem to be some re-occurring questions. I’m hoping to address some of them here but feel free to comment and ask your own. Because my experience is only […]
PJ decided early this year that he was up for Memory Masters. He has an amazing memory. Because we do all of our memory work to music, he has it all up in his head but sometimes needs a couple notes to recall it. Unfortunately, he won’t get those cues for proofing so we’ve started […]
I love when I can kill two birds with one stone. The other day we were able to knock out lunch and chemistry simultaneously by building atomic models out of pancakes. We’ve been memorizing some parts of an atom (nucleus, proton, electron, quark, lepton, and neutron). For our models, we just focused on the nucleus […]
To our other home school friends, we often talk about our “co-op” just because “CC” isn’t a universal term. But, in reality, CC isn’t a co-op at all and here’s why: Classes are divided by age group and all classes are covering the same material. This may look slightly different depending on the age group […]
It’s hard to believe that the fall semester of CC is coming to a close. As I looked ahead to the spring and how to cover Chemistry with a 1st and 3rd grader in a classical way, I found this book that I would highly recommend. It has tons of hands on activities and covers […]