INTRODUCING EXODUS 20:1-17 Copywork! Only $1.99 through the end of July! Copywork is a great tool to reinforce your child's scripture memory work, visual transcription, and handwriting skills! Exodus 20:1-17 (KJV) One document includes all four of these levels!!!: Beginner Print – Dashed print for tracing, repeat practice on three-ruled lines Intermediate Print – Freehand Copy of printed text onto three-ruled lines. Beginner Cursive – Dashed cursive for tracing, repeat practice … [Read more...]
Cycle One Lapbook Quick-Print Guide!
I am so excited to return to Cycle 1 with the ten commandments and some Ancient History! If you have purchased the Cycle 1 Lapbooks, it is so much easier to print with a printing guide! Below are links to a printing guide for each section! Lapbook 1.1 Quick Print Guide Lapbook 1.2 Quick-Print Guide Lapbook 1.3 Quick Print Guide Lapbook 1.4 Quick Print Guide Happy Lapbooking! Blessings, Karen … [Read more...]
My Memory Work Lapbooks Are Updated!
I am happy to announce that the My Memory Work Lapbooks have been updated to correspond to the new 5th Edition (2018) Classical Conversations Guide!! These Lapbooks are just a creative way of recording and reviewing your Memory Work. Think of them as a home-made pop-up book with your studies on them! Cycle 1 My Memory Work Lapbooks! (THESE PROMOTIONS HAVE ENDED!) Now For a Limited Time: When you purchase the My Memory Work Lapbooks, you get … [Read more...]
New Foundations Guide!
Classical Conversations has just released a new Foundations Guide for the 2018-2019 school year. As you already know, the "My Memory Work Lapbooks" are created to pair with this resource, and all of the information you need to complete them is only found by purchasing the guide. I will be working on updating all of my Lapbook products to coordinate with this new guide. If you are planning to continue using the old guide (4th Edition), you will want to download the resources … [Read more...]
Latin Adjective Charts
Our Challenge A class has moved on to studying Adjectives. I wrote a post describing how I am encouraging my Foundations/Essentials kids to copy the Latin charts so they will get ahead of the curve in Challenge A, making them feel more successful. In my class and online, I shared this FREE NOUN CHART, and now wanted to share the ADJECTIVE CHART with you in case you wanted to add a little to your Latin studies. Similar to nouns, Latin adjectives have declensions, though luckily there are … [Read more...]
What I’ve Learned From the First 7 Weeks of Challenge A…
I jumped into the "Challenge Years" head-on with my oldest as the Challenge A Tutor. I have an amazing class of eleven students - all of whom are fairly extrovert. We have been growing in our discussion quality, and learning how to respect each other by not "stepping on" one another's words. We have been stretched and challenge in so many ways already, and I am excited for what is yet to come this year. My oldest (a girl) is fairly studious and determined. The adaptation to Challenge A has … [Read more...]
Getting Ready for Essentials – School Year Prep
Last year, my oldest was in her third year of Essentials, and my second child was in his first year. While my daughter loved language, my son would have rather been building forts. Since I had three kids younger than them - one of them a VERY active toddler, I wanted to have my older kids' Essentials work all laid out for them before school began, so it would require a lot less guidance from me. So I am sharing the method we used last year, which is the same one we will use this year. It … [Read more...]
Getting Ready for CC Foundations – School Year Prep
I have learned over the years that one of the best indictors of a successful and more peaceful school year begins with quality summer planning and preparing. There are a few things I do over the summer that makes the Foundations side of our school day run well, and I share them with you in case they might help you have more sanity than chaos this school year. The Classical Conversations Foundations program is centered around Memory Work - memorizing a LOT of things - lists, sentences, … [Read more...]
Our Family’s Memory Work
MEMORY WORK Our Family will soon be entering our seventh year using the Classical Conversations Program. In the lower grades, this includes memory work covering English Grammar, Geography, Latin, Math, Science, History, and a timeline of world events from the dawn of time to the present. In addition to our CC Memory work, our family likes to add some extra memory work. We can do this easily using music - I don't push the kids to memorize it, I just play it around the house and in the car, … [Read more...]
Free CC Cycle 3 Review Games!
My family loves to use games to squeeze in memory work review. Especially if I have a Memory Master in the house (see this post)! I am excited to share with you two Review Game Downloads for use with Cycle 3! The first is a States and Capitals Memory Match Game - just download, print on two different colors, and cut out the cards. Then lay them face down on a table. Taking turns, each player flips one card of each color over, trying to match the state with the Capital. It … [Read more...]
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