Articles dated July 2017

Woo Your Reluctant Reader: Put Away the Books
by Leslie
Tuesday, 25 July, 2017
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 25 July, 2017
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
The house next door to our house was not a house. It was the public library. And our backyard fence was not a fence, it was the south wall of the library. The library flagpole was in our yard. Every morning and evening we could watch the librarian open our gate to...

The Benefits, Blessings, and Beauty of a Smaller Classical Conversations Community
I am a veteran Classical Conversations mom. The 2017-18 academic year will begin my eleventh year with Classical Conversations and my thirteenth year homeschooling. I have loved my homeschooling journey! Deciding to homeschool my children was, in fact, one of the best...

If the Lord Builds the House
“If you build it, [they] will come,” has become an iconic expression in American culture.
For you young’uns, it’s a line from the 1989 film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner. In the film, Ray Kinsella, played by Costner, is a struggling farmer who keeps hearing...

Woods, Words, and Wonders
by Elizabeth
Thursday, 20 July, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 20 July, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Our 2017 Parent Practicum speaker probably thought I was taking diligent notes. Certainly, I was scribbling furiously as he spoke of doxology and of angels continuously awed into reverent exclamation. Holy, holy, holy! Perhaps he would have been more flattered even, to...

Classical Conversations expands rapidly overseas
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA— Classical Conversations Inc.® is the world’s largest classical education resource for Christian homeschoolers, and while the vast majority of CC’s 105,000 students live in the United States, the program is actually growing more rapidly...