I always look forward to sharing our plan vs reality at the end of each year. It’s my chance to show you just how much we don’t have it all together. So… here we are once again, looking back on another year gone somewhat awry. About this time last year, we were welcoming a fourth baby […]
Dealing with joy-stealers? Me, too.
bloom /blo͞om/ n. a flourishing, healthy condition; the time or period of greatest beauty, artistry, etc. -v. 1 to produce or yield blossoms 2 to flourish or thrive 3 to be in or achieve a state of healthful beauty and vigor 4 to glow with warmth or with a warm color. Today, I’m going to […]
A Trip through All About Spelling
Our family LOVES All About Learning products! But before I tell you why, let me provide a little background… As a Kindergartener, our second son spent four months struggling to use a reading program that was not working for us. When at the end of those four months, he still could not blend letter sounds into words, […]
CC Cycle 1 Usborne Book List
—This post was updated on July 8, 2017– For a little over two years, I embarked on an adventure as an Independent Consultant of Usborne Books & More to fulfill a dream I have for our family. While we still have the dream of working together in a family business, consulting with Usborne ended up requiring too […]
10 Things to Do with a Sixth Grader
Imagine for a moment… Your eleven-year-old child has been in the Classical Conversations Foundations Program for four years. He has successfully mastered three cycles of memory work, achieving the Memory Master award for Cycle 1, Cycle 2, and Cycle 3 (followed by a another round of triple-cycle “Mega” Master proofing). Now, he is entering his […]
Understanding Centuries with a Toothpick Timeline
Have you or your student ever struggled with understanding which century is the 15th century? (It’s the one when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.) Have you ever wondered why the Western calendar does not contain the year zero? (We can blame the Romans.) Did you know that the majority of the world celebrated the new […]
Core School Work: What We Fall Back On
As I write my reading plans for the coming school year, I have to share with you something that is so, so important to me, just in case you’ve missed it in the other half-a-hundred posts I’ve shared about reality. Things ain’t perfect around here, y’all. My home’s a mess, I’m not as patient as […]
Cadillac Ranch {50 states before they graduate}
Along I-40 in the Texas Panhandle, just outside Amarillo… The boys left their mark.
CC Cycle 1 Reading Plans
For those in the Classical Conversations Foundations program, you can always just start with the basics. A Bible The Foundations Guide A math program A language arts program (until your children are old enough for Essentials). We use a reading & spelling program that teaches phonics and then we teach sentence structure, punctuation, parts of […]