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In September, I began a Foundations Program with Classical Conversations. The "program" involves meeting together with other families one day per week (9-12) while a trained tutor leads the lessons. One great thing is that parents attend classes with their children. This helps the parents to know what was taught and how to reinforce it throughout the week.

Each weekly lesson covers the grammar of 6 subjects: Latin, History, Bible, English Grammar, Science and Geography. We will also learn the complete Veritas Press timeline (each year) and Ephesians 6 (this year.) Additionally, we have practical experiences in Science and Fine Arts.

(Here are my 2 older children in class with their tutor.)

We've been doing this for 6 weeks with my 4 younger children 2, 4, 6, 8 and their recall is amazing. My 4 yr old sat at the dinner table and sang the skip counting 3s jingle all the way through and I just about fell over.

Classical Conversations now offers a power point program and audio cds that make learning and review fun and easy! My 2yr old gets us ready for class many mornings! We just line everyone up to begin our memory work:

We review our phonograms and timeline cards and then use the power point to cover the other subjects, except for Bible, for which there is a beautiful cd with Ephesians 6 set to song. We love to listen to that in the car, along with the CC audio cd with our weekly memory work. After doing our chants with the power point presentation, we review the mapwork and do handwriting, math, writing and reading.

I love that I'm free to take any rabbit trails and we still stay on track. :) I believe reading aloud is very important, so we use that to extend the memory work, choosing books that correspond with our history and science.

This is a GREAT program for families with multiple children:
-gives the most educational value for your money / time investment
-you can teach all of your students K4-6th together
-materials are nonconsumable and only ONE package is needed for your whole family!
-3yr cycle provides structure to keep busy moms on track

I also want to point out that I've used this program before (3 yrs ago) and we loved it then. Classical Conversations has grown and is even better today. I'm so glad to came back to it!

Please take a moment to visit the website:
Classical Conversations and feel free to email me if you have any questions. Its not too early to begin planning for next year! ;) We'll have open houses and information nights beginning in February.

All for His glory,

Terese Cooper, Coopers4Him@aol.com

www.HomeForHisGlory.com