It’s chronological. It’s Christian. And now it’s complete! For those who have been searching for a comprehensive, Christ-centered history curriculum, the fourth and final volume of The Mystery of History (MOH) has arrived, so let’s give you a glimpse of what’s in store! As we wrap up our reading of the four volumes of Story of […]
The Three-Week Binge, Once Again
I’m afraid it’s been a while since I last featured what’s happening in our family. Once Gary returned from Brazil, we hit life at full-speed-double-time. The only way I was able to catch back up around here was to order a gigantic snowed-in snow-week! As soon as Gary returned, we unveiled our big surprise for […]
CC Cycle 1 Planners
Due to special requests from Classical Conversations families, within our CC Cycle 1 planners, we included reading correlations, book lists, and a Memory Work Review plan to keep the memory work fresh without review becoming cumbersome and overwhelming. Check it out here. For a basic planner without the booklist, reading correlations, and memory work review […]
An Accordion Timeline Notebook
Throughout our history studies, we’ve enjoyed keeping a timeline – on the wall and in a notebook. Our first experience with using an accordion-style timeline was when we completed two Homeschool in the Woods Time Travelers History Studies three years ago. Since then, our timeline-and-history-obsessed son has wanted to use an accordion timeline for his entire […]
Three Weeks in Review and Our Homeschool Q&A
It’s been a slow a-cranking-back-up this month, but January is always kind of like that for us. Even with our slowly cranking-up school days, life still seems to race by. I blink and the weekend is once again upon us. How can time pass so fast?!? Is it really 2015? [And are those really Fruit […]
America the Beautiful: U.S. History Study (1000 AD to Present)
Every time we cycle back through a year of U.S. History study, I usually piece together an assortment of various books and activities from different curriculum companies and websites based on my children’s interests. This year our family is trying out a one-year study of American history that is chronological, complete, and simple to use. […]
Hands-on History: 20th Century Study
Last year, our family pieced together a lapbook & unit study covering the events of the 20th century from our favorite unit study company, Homeschool in the Woods. Now that we are revisiting the 1900s again this semester, we are looking back through our previous work as a review. It’s one reason our family has […]
Memorize Scripture: Genesis 1, John 1, Exodus 20, and more!
Homeschooling in our home is quite imperfect. There are days when I fail miserably and my character flaws are scattered before me in a scribble-scrabbled mess. Those times I come face-to-face with my selfishness and how much like a two-year-old I can act, I just want to bury myself under the covers instead of seize […]
Christmas Memories: A Look at Our Life in December
Whew! Has it been a busy December! I had better recap this month while I have a few moments to think! We kicked off the season with our annual trip to Tractor Supply to pick out a tree “before all the good trees are gone,” complete with the subsequent quoting of favorite lines from A […]