My wife and I started homeschooling in earnest twenty years ago this month. Our fourth, and last, child graduated from Challenge IV in May. Classical Conversations didn’t come to our area until our oldest two children were already graduated; fortunately, they enjoyed a similar classical seminar program for their...
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Southern Pines, NC—Classical Conversations programs are beginning again. And maybe you are torn between keeping your student in Challenge III or IV and receiving the full benefit of a CC education or having them dual-enroll in college classes to get a head start on their college education and save...
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Parents, be careful what you say to your children because your consistent words will become their self-talk. Our minds are always working, talking, thinking. This is our self-talk. What we say to ourselves may be the most important aspect of our mental health and our trajectory in life. Words...
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What Classical Conversations’ book, “Cartography,” did for geography last year, its new book, “Marvelous to Behold,” now does for art history. “Marvelous to Behold” provides a classical approach to art history with full-page, high-resolution images from a dozen artists representing all the major art movements from the 13th to...
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In a previous article about sticking with Latin when the going gets tough, I talked about my friend Denise’s philosophy of “scaling, not bailing.” Here is the way I think about it. Understanding Henle’s Approach Every Henle exercise is either a grammar-stage exercise, a dialectic-stage exercise, or a rhetorical-stage...
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Do you know the difference between spending money and investing money? Turns out my Challenge I students needed some clarity at the end of this semester. While exploring the “lessons learned” during our Stock Market Project, one student emphatically declared, “I would NEVER spend real money on stocks!” My...
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Michigan, The DiPiazza family have found an innovative way of financing their children’s college education—all they have to do is win national math championships and the accompanying cash prizes. John D., 13, won the 2018 National Number Knockout (N2K) championship on May 1, including the $10,000 prize, and $2,000...
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You know what’s beautiful? When you suddenly “get it” that classical-minded integration isn’t just for school subjects. We talk all day long about how Latin can help you with science, literature can help you with history, and math can help you with art, but it never occurred to me...
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Strange as it may be, I have found that students enjoy preparing for the National Latin Exam (NLE) and other Classical Conversations subjects. Even if they are not taking the NLE, students enjoy preparing for it. Since the test itself is multiple choice, it is easier to study for...
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This post is inspired by things I’ve seen on the Facebook groups to which I belong. The temptation to give up on Latin seems to fester around this time of year. (Coincidentally at the same time I personally get tired? I think not.) Homeschool mamas and papas and grandparents...
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Learning about the world that God has placed us in can be amazing. Sometimes, however, something so big and complex can be overwhelming for a child to grasp at first. How can we tackle a subject that is literally as big as the earth and help our children understand...
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