Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles
In August 2018, we flew up to Anchorage, Alaska, and rented an RV for a 14-day trip around Alaska. This was the most fantastic way for us to travel through Alaska! Alaska is built with RVs in mind, and we were able to pull over to “camp out” for the night along the many pull-out […]
It’s been four years since our trip out to the American Southwest. And now… finally, I’m writing about it! In a nutshell, we caught a flight over to Los Angeles and rented a car to drive back home. Our trip itinerary included: Playing in Pacific Ocean at Manhattan Beach, CA Calico Ghost Town in Yermo, […]
Homeschooling high school. There’s not much that paralyzes a homeschool parent more than figuring out how to homeschool through high school. Despite our own education, we oftentimes feel inadequate at providing a quality education for our own children even though we have the strongest desire to provide them with a better education than we received. […]
Due to special requests from Classical Conversations families, we’ve updated our CC Cycle 2 Planners to our new design, which includes reading correlations and a Memory Work Review plan to keep the memory work fresh without it becoming cumbersome and overwhelming. There are two versions of our new planner to choose from: a 4-day-week planner […]
It’s been a bit of a curriculum frenzy around here as we’ve not only been writing curriculum plans for elementary/middle school but we’ve also been researching curriculum to flesh out our overall plans for middle and high school. We’re still in the midst of reviewing resources to formulate a scope and sequence for our two […]
As we develop the discipline of memory/recall, our family has discovered the value in using a systematic way of cycling through our memory work, whether we’re memorizing scripture, vocabulary, speeches, poetry, facts, or passages of literature. Our Memory Work Review Schedules were designed with the basic idea behind the Scripture Memory System, but because I […]
As the year closes and we reflect on the events and experiences of 2020, I’m left with overwhelming gratitude to the One who has held all things together despite the circumstances surrounding us. Not only have I suffered from a strange sort of writer’s block all year long (how can words be so hard to […]
Choose joy. Learning can be hard, but it’s also exciting and rewarding. If you’re filled with a sense of dread as you enter a new school year, it’s time to change what you’re doing. A few weeks ago, we shared some lessons learned from over a decade of homeschooling, but there’s a particular lesson learned […]
Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. -Isaiah 43:18-19 These are the hardest words I’ve ever written on this […]
