Classical Conversations

The bulk of what we use comes from Classical Conversations.  My kids are in the foundations (elementary school) program.  Classical Conversations is like private school for homescoolers.  We pay tuition for the year, and go to school once a week for 24 weeks.  On our at school day we get new grammar information, do science experiments and art projects, and give presentations.  This helps set up the work we will do for the rest of the week at home.  Children and parents are led by a parent who has been trained to tutor the class.  New grammar subjects include timeline, history, geography, Latin, English, science, and math.

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Math

At the early elementary age we supplement the Classical Conversations curriculum with our own math and English lessons.  We use a blend of Saxon and Singapore for math.  I've found that Singapore moves quicker and has more mental math tasks, while Saxon is more repetitive.  If we hit a spot in Singapore math that we need to spend more time on we will go to the Saxon book for additional review pages.    

English

For English we are using First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind.  This curriculum teaches the parts of speech and then moves into sentence diagramming that students will need to know to be successful in Classical Conversations Essentials program.  You can buy a hard copy, or get this curriculum on your Kindle! 

Spelling

We use All About Spelling as our spelling curriculum.  I like how each lesson is based on a spelling rule.  This program was recommended to us by a friend and we have had great success with it.

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Classical Conversations Essentials

At age nine students in Classical Conversations can begin the Essentials program.  Essentials is an English program that 9-11 year old students attend in addition to Foundations.  The Essentials program covers writing, sentence diagramming and parts of speech, vocabulary, and math fluency games.

You can click here to learn more about the Essentials curriculum.

Latin

We also choose to supplement Latin a little.  We like the Song School Latin books.  Latin work is set to catchy little tunes that are fun to sing.  The workbook has activities, copy work, and reading.

Science

We get a good amount of science included in our Foundations day at school.  I like to supplement it just a little at home now that the kids are getting older.  These short lessons correlate directly with what we are learning in new grammar science each week.

You can get the Physical Science unit pictured above FREE when you sign up to receive notifications on at www.homeschoolcollection.com/.  You can also purchase a PDF file of the above science units at this website.