“Too many people are taken advantage of because of their lack of critical thinking, logic and deductive reasoning. These same people are raising children without these same skills, creating a whole new generation of clueless people. – Curtis Silver, from “The Importance of Logic and Critical Thinking” In today’s society, we often become so caught […]
You CAN learn Latin {and enjoy it!}
Latin. It’s a subject I didn’t really buy into when we first started homeschooling. When we entered into a classical co-op, it’s the subject we often ignored. I didn’t find value in it, so we dropped even the small amount of Latin memory work from our schedule. I was certainly a skeptic with no desire […]
Curriculum, Schedules, & Lessons Learned
Every year we receive this question, and every year I hesitate to share our plans with others. When it comes to homeschooling, I don’t have it all together, but I do enjoy putting it all together. I love to set goals with my children, and I love learning with them. It’s one of the biggest […]
A Charlotte Mason Approach to English Grammar
Over the past couple of years, our family discovered an English grammar program that not only filled the gaps we had experienced when using another language arts curriculum, but it also emphasized classical and Charlotte Mason principles in design and implementation. That program? Fix It! Grammar from IEW. Fix-It Grammar is a gentle introduction to […]
10-Day Western Road Trip – Tennessee to Rockies to Yellowstone
Our family has an exciting goal of experiencing all 50 states together before the boys graduate from high school. We started this adventure (and welcomed other families to join us back in 2011 by using the tag #50statesbeforetheygraduate), and now… in 2019, we’re only one state away from achieving our goal! You can virtually visit […]
Alaska or Bust!
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 […]
Touring the American Southwest
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: Scope & Sequence
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. […]
Updated CC Cycle 2 Planners with Booklists & Correlations!
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 […]