Articles dated May 2017

Where Are the Conversations?
by April
Wednesday, 31 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 31 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
When our family stumbled upon Classical Conversations eight years ago, I didn’t have any idea what I was signing up for but knew I needed something to help me! At the time, I had a daughter entering sixth grade and a son entering third grade, and we had just...

It's never too late to become aware of Home Schooling Awareness Month
I have a book on my shelf called “Chase’s Calendar of Events”; it’s the bible of special promotions for marketers and a holdover from my newspaper days. It’s published every year and bills itself as “The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months,” and “...

Iowa Classical Conversations student competes in National Spelling Bee
Speller #140 will take the stage Wednesday morning in the nation’s capital as one of 291 finalists to compete in the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee. Over the weekend the 12-year-old and her whole family drove a thousand miles from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for “Bee Week...

The Truth about Classical Conversations
by Lauren
Wednesday, 24 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Wednesday, 24 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
We are coming up on our eighth year in Classical Conversations, and we truly love it more each year. For this reason I thought I would take a minute to share what we have learned during the last seven years.
Classical Conversations truly is a classical Christian...

Jesus Prays for You!
by Vision
Tuesday, 23 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 23 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
“To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.” – John Calvin
Like you, I regularly pray for those I love, and like most parents, my prayers for my children are especially fervent. I pray for all sorts of...