CC Valentine's Day Party

Clairana's Class - Valentine's Day Games

At the beginning of this year, we started CC (Classical Conversations) it has been SO fun.

 It is such a good balance of homeschooling and school life. 

The kids go to 'school' once a week from 

9-1:30 including lunch and recess.

They have greatly enjoyed it because they get to carry a backpack and attend classes with 8 other children in the class. All the kids are in different classes but next year Coraline will move up to Nephi's class which he is very excited about.

These were the Valentines we made - Fish Bowls "I am glad we're in the same school!" With goldfish crackers.
They cut the bowls out and decorated them. Clairana is learning cursive now so she used it as a way to practice her name. 

The parent (mom or dad or both) stay with the children during the day and stay in their child's classroom as an assistant. A parent can tutor if they choose to and its a series of training and they get their tuition waved. At this time, I have no desire to tutor - mostly because I love that they are learning from someone else and getting a different teaching style. Plus, I get to sit in on everyone's classroom time and also enjoy social time for myself.

We meet at a church in Battleground and the Pastor is actually a tutor for the older high school age kids in the afternoon.

The program is nationwide and REALLY popular I have found out. West Lafayette and Lafayette both have a program (they outgrew the amount of kids last year for West Lafayette and opened another one) The guideline is only 8 kids per classroom but ages do vary by two years or so.

It is a Classical Education and Christian based so we do say prayer before each school day and we do learn about the scriptures. It is a good mix of different faiths which does provide great discussions for the kids and adults. They do an art project and a science experiment each week.

The 'foundations' is in the morning and once your child gets 9 years old they go to 'essentials' in the afternoon.

They learn: Latin, History (Learn a 12 minute Timeline Song -which is AMAZING), Geography, Bible Versus, Science, Music, Art, English Grammar, Math, Weekly Individual Presentations/Debate

Bella and Cora Racing the Halls during Recess Time

Nephi's Class 

Stephanie on the right (with the baby) is Nephi's Teacher 

Clairana's Class 

Denae is the Director but is always floating around helping out classes or holding babies.