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Field Trip Week: Rose Gardens and Santa Lucia Preserve

2016-04-24 aprilmomoffour 4 kids, Classical Conversations, home school, homeschool, vacation

We declared last week “Field Trip Week”, and had ourselves a grand ol’ time. We visited the aquarium, a beautiful rose garden, a robotics show, and Santa Lucia Nature Preserve. The big boys practiced their lines for their upcoming end-of-year parent night, we squeezed in a few math lessons, read a few books, and welcomed Nonna and Aunt Janet to town. *************** Now for stop two on our Week of Adventures: Santa Lucia Preserve This place, located in Carmel Valley, […]

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 […]