What’s on my bookshelf: Challenge III Resources

The Classical Conversations Challenge III program is where the incredible fruits of the entire program just start to explode all around. With Shakespeare, poetry, and philosophy, this is one of my husband’s favorite levels to tutor. This year looks into consequences of choices made in literature, American history, and so much more. As with all…

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What’s On My Bookshelf: Challenge II Resources

The Classical Conversations Challenge II program is one of my favorites. With British literature, artists and composers, and Socratic dialogues, I feel a bit indulgent as a tutor to walk through these studies with students. I love that many of the things I collected from my Foundations years are revisited in Challenge II. It is…

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Creative Graduation Gifts that Come with a Blessing

My husband is tutoring my son’s Challenge IV class in Classical Conversations this year, so we’re full on in graduation season. I tutored this class for a couple of years and my husband has had them for the last three, so these kids seem like family to us. As I thought about what I’d like…

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Free Summer Reading Tracker for CC Students

As we’re wrapping up the school year, I generally start looking at what’s coming next and looking at how to keep the learning going. We’ve participated in many summer reading programs over the years with our local library, and that got me thinking about new fun ways to track our reading. Combining my love of…

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2019 Great Homeschool Convention Shopping Confessions

This year my husband and I took a different approach to the Great Homeschool Convention. Typically, we attend this conference because we love all of the speakers that attend and we love hearing from them because we already use their curriculum at home. My kids were really the driving force of us attending the conference…

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