The guide for Classical Conversations. This is our "CC" work. CJ memorized a huge portion of the memory work last year, I was amazed to say the least. It is exciting to learn so much right alongside him. We are part of the North Raleigh Community, this will be our second year with the group. We definitely wouldn't be homeschooling right now if it wasn't for the CC community. Our highlights from last year were the weekly presentations. CJ presented on a variety of topics from "how to make a paper airplane" (his very first presentation in class) to a story he wrote about "Wormy", a little inch worm that lived a very short but eventful life with CJ. CC officially takes up 24 weeks of the year, all the work is divided up into the 24 weeks.
We will try and read through this novel before September since the history covered in this book overlaps with history we learned in Cycle 1 of CC.
This book will bring us through the same time period of history we'll be studying in Cycle 2 of CC.
This version of The Odyssey is right at CJ's reading level. The writing is size 14 or 16 font, it looks to me and there is a nice space between lines so it's not too daunting for CJ. Right now we're reading it during family story time in the evenings.
The past year I did a lot of printing math from edhelper.com and by February he was already adding double digits with carrying and subtracting with borrowing. He got really good at general addition and subtraction problems and started memorizing skip counting songs through CC. Then I got scared we were moving "too fast" with math and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing "lessons" I should be doing. I got the Saxon Math 1 and 2 student workbooks and plan on going through them with CJ to make sure we haven't "missed" any essential math lessons. It will give me peace of mind that he is grasping the concepts and if he speeds through these great and if we have to take our time with them, that is fine too. Saxon has a lot of repetition to make sure they've mastered the task and has a formal assessment, with recording form for every lesson. This past year we used some Singapore Math workbooks level 1b and some Math U See. We'll see how he likes Saxon, we may go back to Singapore if it's not a good fit.
We did a few lessons from this book last year. Each lesson is simple and quick (can complete in a few minutes a day). Many of CJ's friends from CC use this book as well and have memorized the poems in the lessons, so CJ asked me to get this book so he could be like his friends who knew all the cool poems :)
CJ completed the student book level 3 this past year using Jolly Phonics. He loved the student book and the fun characters. So I'm going to get the grammar workbook and got this dictionary for his desk.
We started this book this past year but didn't get very far in it. We'll continue it and use bilingual books, songs and flashcards as our Spanish for the year.
We've been reading this Bible first thing in school since Easter 2013, when we gave this to CJ.
We got this book last year and found it very user-friendly and a nice reference for the history and geography covered in CC.
CJ has a blank journal with drawing and writing space, I plan on having him write entries weekly.
For Cursive practice he'll be completing his second Prescripts workbook, writing words and sentences this year (last year he completed the letters/drawing lessons Prescripts workbook).
We'll try and keep a field trip journal/log and start a science experiment log.
Ready for a great year!!!!
