Believe it or not, I’m a highly distractible mom who gets sidetracked easily and chases rabbit trails to infinity and beyond. But… maybe this is why plans are so important to me. If I don’t have a plan in place, our homeschool derails. And life provides enough derailing for me to not run off the […]
Our CC Cycle 3 Booklist
Here’s our compiled booklist for CC Cycle 3 (with an American History focus). This is a “book buffet,” a place to pick and choose books that you think will be best for your family. The links will take you to descriptions of each book on Amazon. (We use affiliate links to cover the rising costs […]
Geography Fair
When our children were young, our homeschool group held a geography fair based upon what was studied over the year. This event gave students and parents an opportunity to showcase the geography memory work or cultures in a unique and creative way at our year-end celebrations. It also provided a way for those who are […]
Cycle 3 Weekly Planners
Due to special requests from Classical Conversations families, we updated our Cycle 3 planners to include 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. If you’re interested in a basic planner without the planning packet (which includes […]
Free Handwriting Resources
For a couple of years, our family used the Prescripts series for penmanship and drawing practice. However, as one of our children progressed from Book 1: Introduction to Cursive Writing & Tracing to Book 2: Writing Cursive Words and Practicing Drawing Skills, we encountered quite a setback. There was such a huge leap from one book to the […]
John 1 Copywork: Print and Cursive Penmanship
As we prepare a bit for next year, we share our John 1 Copywork in print and cursive. Download the files below: John 1 in English Print Copywork John 1 in Latin Print Copywork John 1 in English Cursive Copywork John 1 in Latin Cursive Copywork Note: The English copywork above corresponds to the translation […]
The Nuremberg Trials… and Homeschooling?!
Photo Credit: National Catalog Archives – https://catalog.archives.gov/id/540127 In May 2012, I was granted permission by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine to share the following article that originally appeared in their Fall 2011 issue. Because we were studying WWII at the time, it had caught my eye. “Caught my eye” turned into one of the most thought-provoking, chilling, […]
Trash to Treasure Piggy Banks
For the sake of capturing a memory, here’s the Trash-to-Treasure Piggy Bank creations our boys made for our local 4-h club competition this year. Levi’s Rocket: He won 1st place for his grade level! Stephen’s Flashlight: Stephen won 2nd place for his grade level! And somehow I cannot find the photos […]
Erasable Fine-Tipped Permanent Marker?
Using dry-erase markers on page protectors and laminated maps have proven frustrating because: it erases before you’re finished. the fine-tipped dry-erase markers are not fine-enough-tipped for us. Likewise, using wet erase has proven to be quite messy for us, especially when using them on page protectors, as it tends to leave them sticky. (Plus, we […]