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 […]
The Final Three of Cycle Three
Our final three weeks of this year have been (or are currently) occupied by our nearly-transcontinental travels… You could say that the final three weeks for us have been (or are currently) homeschool-ish. While we’ve seized plenty of learning opportunities, it hasn’t been with our normal reading selections and math assignments. It’s been with reading […]
Making Connections
It’s been an interesting few weeks here in the Ferrell household, and as we prepare for our big trip out west, I thought I’d wrap up what’s been a-happenin’ around here as of late. It was another year where my husband and I were separated by thousands of miles for our anniversary, but the boys […]