With a community like Classical Conversations, you have due dates, deadlines, and accountability. Over the past eight years, we've experienced some completely derailing circumstances that could have shut our schooling down.
When they're ready for meat, they'll get it! Keeping It GoingĪ genuine challenge of home schooling is consistency.
It has given me a lot of peace about focusing on reading, writing, and arithmetic in the early years. All of the elements of the Foundations memory work resurface in the Challenge years, and it is beautiful to watch how the kids put pieces together to express understanding. Even though they were all studying at different levels, they were all working on the same memory work.Īdditionally, we have been incredibly impressed with the education our son has received working through the Challenge program. I loved how the Foundations and Essentials programs allowed me to teach all of my kids together. Two elements of the Classical Conversations program provided exactly what I needed: the one room school house approach, and a strategy for homeschooling through high school. It took a lot of work, and I didn't know if I wanted to do that every year! The next year, I decided to pull together my own plan for unifying all of the kids.
It worked well, but I couldn't imagine how I could juggle three versions of that type of curriculum once all three of my kids were school aged. I picked a box curriculum for my 3rd grade son and just modified it for my kindergarten daughter. When I first started looking into Classical Conversations, we had been homeschooling on our own for a year. I could easily avoid this aspect of my kids home education and be very content! I've found that there are two elements in being a part of a Classical Conversations community that save me from my short comings: providing a plan, and friends to help me stick to the plan. However, it is easy as a home school mom to "play to your strengths." I love literature, and so our family reads aloud - a lot! Even though I'm a lover of words, I am a poor speller. Let's just be clear: there are gaps in every education. Over the next couple of days I thought I'd share some of my fears and how CC has helped me overcome them.įear #1: What if I forget to teach something?įear #5: What if I can't afford a private education?įear #1: What If I Forget to Teach Something? If you're considering making the change, or if you just took the first step and are wondering if you can make it with Classical Conversations, I just want to encourage you that it is a challenging journey, but it is so worthwhile. Not only has it provided a fantastic foundation of education for us to follow, it also has provided community, friends, and experiences I didn't expect to find outside of the school system or my church. The unifying factor that has stabilized our home school experience is joining a Classical Conversations community. Eight years past the point of decision making, I look back and realize how my fears were unfounded, and they've gained much more than they missed. I remember feeling nervous about the changes that would come from making the switch as well as unsure if I could provide an adequate education for my kids.Īdditionally, I was wrestling through all of my school memories that I thought they would miss out on if I kept them home: class parties, yearbooks, field trips, and eventually choir, band, and prom. Several events converged to propel us into changing paths from public school to home school. In May 2009 my husband and I found ourselves at a crossroads.
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