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Tiki-Toki Digital Timeline Maker

We love timelines. In our first year of Classical Conversations, we memorized the timeline from Veritas Press. Then a couple years later, the CC timeline changed, and we’ve enjoyed learning the CC Acts and Facts timeline. Since my son has started the CC Challenge program, we are continually building timelines of the people we learn about and…

Education is a Ray not a Segment

Growing up, I counted down the years until my education would be complete. Five more years of elementary school. Two more years of middle school. One more year of high school. Then what? College! On graduation day, my learning was complete. Now I could get busy living, right?! What was I thinking? Does education end…

Latin Nouns Declension Free Printable

This year in our Classical Conversations memory work, we are memorizing the endings for Latin nouns. I love that the CC program takes so much time to really memorize these vital bits of information. Sometimes it’s challenging as a parent to memorize something when you don’t understand its purpose. Before I started studying Latin with my son, I…

14 Sneak Peeks into Our Homeschool Life

So often I find that people see a slice of a person’s life and then produce assumptions based on their limited understanding. While you can never fully know what’s going on, sometimes it’s fun to get a behind the scenes sneak peek into someone else’s homeschool life. Here’s 14 random bits of information about our…

The Role of Questions in Classical Education

Questions play a major role in Classical Education, and recently I’ve observed that each of the classical arts in the Trivium have specific types of questions that draw out each of the art’s specific purposes. Classical Education and the Trivium In Latin, the “trivium” means three roads or three paths to learning. These three paths…