Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles
My husband recently had a training trip in Duluth, GA, which gave us a chance to tour a bit of Atlanta. Honestly, I can’t believe how many photos I’ve included in this post, but there was just so much to see and do in this bustling city! For every place we went, there are at […]
We celebrated David’s 8th birthday back in March. I always find it funny how much research I have to put into most of our parties because I lack the vocabulary and background knowledge (aka, grammar) of the theme the boys have chosen. Thanks to Pinterest, I can usually close that gap fairly quickly (or just […]
Each weekend during the merry month of May, the Tennessee Renaissance Festival takes place near a castle located along State Route 840 (between I-24 and I-65) just south of Nashville in Arrington, TN. It is the only Renaissance festival held on the grounds of a real castle residence in North America. A few homeschool families […]
Though I don’t recommend it, we are proof that a family can complete three geography displays in a matter of hours (on the day of their homeschool group’s geography fair). When pressed for time, we made an important discovery: geography fair displays don’t have to be complicated after all! These ideas can be adapted as […]
Rock City near Chattanooga is one of our favorite touristy Tennessee/Georgia hotspots! I mean, where else can you look across seven states at the same time (with a cheatsheet right in front of you to help you identify what’s what)? The landscape, trails, and rock outcroppings are beautiful… and include things like Lover’s Leap, […]
Here’s our Cycle 3 Reading Plans which we used during a previous trip through Cycle 3, and I’m sharing it here for others who wish to add some reading and activities to their Cycle 3 memory work. For those in the Classical Conversations Foundations program, you can always just start with the basics. :: A Bible (No […]
Thanks to 4-H, our children have been a bit obsessed about turning trash into treasure. (And here I thought we’d need a cow and a chicken to join 4-H two years ago! Boy, was I wrong!) Instead of raising farm animals this spring, we’ve collected trash to transform it into… other stuff. In fact, I […]
As a follow-up to my previous post on The Well-Trained Mind Schedules, I’m attempting to answer some questions I received about how The Well-Trained Mind fits in with Classical Conversations®. For those who are not familiar with Classical Conversations®, click here for a description of what a day in the life of a Foundations community looks like. In […]
At one time we used Classical Conversations as a spine around which we built our school year. If you want to supplement the memory work but are lacking funds to go hog-wild with buying boatloads of books, here’s a list of supplemental resources that you might want to check out. Most of them are in […]
