Classical conversations homeschool curriculum full#
Classical conversations homeschool curriculum plus#
Classical conversations homeschool curriculum free#

Classical conversations homeschool curriculum free#

You are free to make it fun by making simple game boards or other motivational methods. As the weeks go by, keep reviewing the earlier material as well, as you have time.

Let them use the new flash cards if they need to. On the next day, review all the new material, encouraging the students without making it stressful. Continue using cues and clues with the other subjects. She memorized the axial skeleton to that same tune and used hand motions: Cranium, Vertebrae, Sternum, Ribs. If you or your student can think of a memory trick to help, use it! For example, when Lindsey learned the parts of the axial skeleton, she thought about the song “Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes”. Talk about the science fact, but don’t make it a science lesson. Listen to the CD with your student(s) and sing along to the history song. I’ve got the book, now what do I do? Choose one day a week to introduce the week’s memory work. But you definitely want to buy the CDs and the guide. This year, I had Lindsey making her own flash cards on the first day of new material. If you have a visual learner or budding artist, let him/her make the flashcards instead of buying them.

Classical conversations homeschool curriculum plus#

It’s a great deal! Three years worth of information, plus if your child is young when you start, you can go through the cycles again for added retention! It’s easy to find more information about CC (see their website). Only one guide is needed per family for all three cycles and for any number of children.

CDs of the songs and weekly lessons are available for purchase, as well as flashcards. Each cycle contains memory work for 24 weeks, plus additional maps and helpful information. The guide includes 3 cycles, one for each year. What resources are available for Classical Conversations? Parents buy the Foundations Guide ($60), which is very user-friendly. CC students review, review, review so that the information is retained in long-term memory. It should be a time of encouragement, NOT embarrassment. The students are NOT graded or scored on how they do. No large chunks of information, just small bites. However, CC is NOT like the memory work we had to do in school. The facts the students learn serve as “hooks” for other information they will be learning through the years. It is a supplement that enhances all the other curriculum choices we make for our students.

Classical conversations homeschool curriculum full#

What Classical Conversations is not? CC is NOT a full curriculum.

We’ve experienced both and succeeded with both. It only takes about 30 minutes each day and it can be done with one child or a group of students of varying ages. Even though it’s geared toward elementary kids, older students benefit from the facts as well. The goal is “to train the brain to retain.” The history facts and the math skip-counting facts are set to music, making the experience not only fun, but easier. What is Classical Conversations? “CC” is a memorization course that covers geography, history, science, math, English grammar, and Latin. However, I soon realized what a valuable supplemental program it was! In fact, I wish I had known about it when my first two were young enough to be involved. Even though it’s very popular in the U.S., I had never heard of “CC” before.

Last year, when my third child was in 7th grade, we became part of a Classical Conversations homeschool group.