Carting it All to Community Day at Classical Conversations

This post may contain affiliate links.  Please see my full disclosure policy for more details. Once you hit Essentials, all of the sudden you’re faced with the dilemma of how to carry all of your gear to and from your community.  Often, you’ll see a fleet of rolly carts rolling into a church as the…

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A Quick Game to Foster Creativity: Add on Art

The other day I was working on preparing for the upcoming school year, which meant that the kids were left to fend for themselves.  Occasionally my youngest finds herself a little lost in figuring out what to do.  My husband grabbed her, gave her a marker, and they started playing what he calls: “Add on…

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Cultivating Your Inner Scientist

  My sweet little Ellen (9) loves to explore outside and would spend the day digging in the dirt if I let her.  Last week I found her with a mason jar and a notebook deep in a scientific investigation.  Promptly I gave her my camera and set her to work chronicling her discoveries (all…

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Taking Math Outside

Math gets a bad rap for being the boring subject which requires sitting still and repeating thousands of similar problems on pages and pages of worksheets. Grammar is required to master math.  But it doesn’t have to be practiced solely at a desk.  Every once and a while, you can mix things up and take…

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Top 3 Games to Play With CC Memory Work Flashcards

Games for Classical Conversations

When I first joined Classical Conversations, I was trying to pace myself in how much I spent on materials.  Sadly, I decided to leave the cute little deck of memory work flashcards off of my list.  However, for my birthday that year (conveniently in July), my sweet mother bought them for me!  I remember flipping…

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