Within this homeschooling journey, I’ve grown to thrive off of reading great books with my children. I treasure sharing stories with them. I also ask for feedback from my children to see what they would most like to learn. And so… this is how our plans have come into existence each year. Some parents like […]
Favorite Picture Books: Medieval to Modern
Welcome to our family’s list of favorite picture books for Medieval to Modern world history (along with astronomy, English grammar, and fine arts). After investing in many books over the past several years, we’ve decided to let you in on what our favorites have been! We’ve selected the following books as personal family favorites because […]
Great Big Ole Book Giveaway 2016
As our family reorganized our bookshelves this summer, we decided to release a few of our books to bless another family who may wish to add some Medieval-to-Modern world history related reading to their home library. This giveaway ended on July 26, 2016. Thank you to all who participated! Be sure to check back in […]
CC Cycle 2 Read Aloud Plan
Of all that I share here on this blog, searching through books to develop our reading plans is what I spend the most time doing, as I hope to choose books that our family cherishes reading together (and your family cherishes as well, should you choose to use our reading plans!). The only problem is… […]
Ten Thousand Miles?!?
It’s been pretty quiet over here at Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood lately. That’s because we’ve just completed a 38-day road trip with over 150 stops in 20 different states crossing 4 different U.S. time zones and traveling a total of 10,334 miles (all in a minivan). And somehow I thought I was going to continue writing and posting […]
History through the Summer… and Beyond
It was three years ago, and… here we go again! It’s not often that we have reviewed a new curriculum (especially one spanning 5,000 years of history) and have used it completely – in its entirety – in one summer. In fact, there’s really only one study that fully fits that description. It’s called the Western Civilization (Calendar Quest) Study […]
Our CC Cycle 2 Booklist
After many hours, I’ve finally finished updating our Cycle 2 Booklist! I have not reviewed or read all of these books, although I have sorted through book reviews and recommendations by others I trust in order to compile this list, including (but not limited to) suggested resources from Honey for a Child’s Heart, Timeline of Classics, The […]
CC Cycle 2 Planners
Due to special requests from Classical Conversations families, we updated our Cycle 2 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 booklist, reading correlations, and […]
Why We Chose Classical Conversations (for a season)
How about an inside scoop on the when, why, what, and how of our homeschool journey? Here’s how our family ended up homeschooling, why we chose Classical Conversations for a season in a our homeschool journey, and how this website started, along with (I hope) a few words of encouragement no matter which educational method […]