Cycle 1 Archives - Stories of Our Boys

My Outline for Science Plans for CC Cycle 1 (Part 1)

2015-07-28 aprilmomoffour Classical Conversations, cycle 1, home school, homeschool, organizing, school, science

I feel like I will have an extremely firm grasp on my science plan by the time I finish poring over all these books! One interesting thing about the classical approach to education is that we pull the focus AWAY from good ol’ textbooks and look to real life experience and “living” books instead. (By living books, I just mean books that are not sold as textbooks.) However, I do actually have several ‘textbooks’ that we will reference this school […]

School Planning Time! Story of the World History plans are in the works.

2015-07-14 aprilmomoffour books, Classical Conversations, history, home school, homeschool

It is 2:30. Nobody mess this up. JD is sleeping. Dan is voluntarily in his room building something with Lego blocks, Caleb is building a stunt course out of train tracks down stairs, and Joshua is in the Lego closet building something too. I have to make sure no one sees or hears me. If I am seen, this wonderful moment will be spoiled, and they will start asking me questions… Uh-oh. They are all together again, but at least […]