Classical Conversations: Permian Basin/West TX

Information Meeting this Friday! Tell your friends who are wondering what CC is all about.

ODESSA, TX Info Meeting Fri, July 23, 2021 (9:00am) -- Fri, July 23, 2021 (11:00am). Are you interested in hearing more about Classical Conversations? Come hear about the classical model of education and what CC can do for you. Once you register you will be sent details about the location.

If you’ve been waiting for Free Shipping- here it is! Stock up for Cycle 1 at the CC Bookstore.
https://classicalconversationsbooks.com/

CC is developing a math program to help bridge elementary math to high school math- just like the Essentials program does for English. Follow their page here.

The Math Map Your home for updates and insights from The Math Map from Classical Conversations

It's that time again. ❤️

By Amanda Mason CC Mom

ATTENTION KINDERGARTEN MOMS
1. Trust the system. ( If you don't know the system, go to a Parent Practicum!)
2. 15 minutes tops each day on Foundations memory. Yes this includes the 12 1/2 minutes you spent with them explaining George Washington's funny hair and how it is wig!!!!( One day you will look back and realize this was it, the golden fleece was in your hands.)
3. Buy Dollar store "learning" coloring/activity books. This is all your Math and LA for this year.
4. Buy yourself a coloring book; now sit at the table with them while you color together. ( This is modeling you will need to keep this up.)
5. Buy every old kids book you can find at yard sales and thrift shops. These old ones are GOLD.
6. READ READ READ WITH ALL OF YOUR KIDS. ALL OF THEM! Hold the baby right before nap time, read to all the others. Even if you feel like the toddler under your chair is a distraction see #1.
7. Let them play!

Message from the future, you are welcome.

Congrats to our Essentials students! They presented their Faces of History papers yesterday and made it look easy. 🤯
Chief Joseph, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett.

Register and bring a friend! It’s open to all homeschool families- not just CC families.

PRACTICUM 2021 PRACTICUM 2021 THE ART OF GRAMMAR: ATTENDING TO THE ESSENTIALS

If by "socialization" you mean that my kids have learned to ask for a pass to go to the bathroom and are only friends with those who have the same birth year, then no, they are not socialized. And that's fine by me!

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Just in case you need a reminder...

"Specifically, literary fiction was associated with increased attributional complexity and accuracy in predicting social attitudes, while popular fiction was linked to increased egocentric bias."

Reading literary versus popular fiction promotes different socio-cognitive processes, study suggests A study published in PLOS One suggests that the type of fiction a person reads affects their social cognition in different ways. Specifically, literary ...

"Opportunities to think about lovely, pure, true things and then confess them lead us to be transformed by Christ. Memory, the fourth Canon of Rhetoric, leads us to whom God fully wants us to be."

The Transformative Powers of Memoria: It’s Not Just About Memorization | Classical Conversations Posted by Carrie Eben on Thursday, 03 January, 2019 in Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18) Translated from Latin, memoria literally means “memory.” That seems simple enough, but what does it really mean as the fourth Canon o...

‘New World Echoes’ wins kids’ short story prize | Classical Conversations Posted by John Carpenter on Thursday, 30 April, 2020 in Articles Southern Pines, North Carolina—“New World Echoes,” a spring release from Classical Conversations MultiMedia, has won the Children’s Short Stories category in the Independent Press Awards competition. The competition is judged b...

My family has been so blessed by this program! A great read. ❤️

I wasn't Christian when I started homeschooling. How our community grew I met a mother of four children, three of whom were killed in separate accidents. I wondered, “How does a mother live through that?”

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Gettysburg Address King Things · Song · 2020

Please share ONE homeschooling win from this week?

“The time has come for religious parents to take their children back from the state...Childhood religiosity was heavily affected by government spending on education and, to a lesser degree, government spending on old-age pensions. Thus, while more educated people were not less religious, societies that spent more public money on education were less religious. It is not educational attainment per se that reduces religiosity, but government control of education and, to a lesser extent, government support for retirement.”

Why American Children Stopped Believing in God | National Review The time has come for religious parents to take their children back from the state.

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There's a BETTER Way to Educate Your Kids than Public School | Guest: Leigh Bortins | Ep 343 Leigh Bortins, founder of Classical Conversations, joins the show to discuss the plethora of options available to parents who don't want their kids involved ...

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2020 is the year for realistic expectations

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I LOVE this! This is a picture from the Gentry Zoo with their camels under the Christmas star. Isn't this awesome!

Image from John Pryzbysz

Ouch

That’s some serious self-restraint! (Via Simon Holland)

This year revealed many things about Home Education. Not only were homeschool families cast in a different light, the ability to have control over your child’s education was highlighted as well. If the public school system is not meeting your family’s needs, there are other options out there!

2020: The Year of the Homeschooler — Homegrown Learners 2020 has not been “normal”. That is not fake news. It’s just a fact. As a homeschooling parent, however, I contend my family had much more normalcy than the non-homeschooling family down the street. We had a huge layer of normal that so many weren’t as fortunate to have. I totally get that. ...

Brilliant. Dragon would work too.

Lifehack!

A beautiful film about the birth of our Lord from the perspective of the Shepherds. 🌟

The Chosen Special Christmas Episode “At the close, as credits rolled, tears welled and then came heaving sobs. “This is so powerful," was all I could manage to say.” Joni Eareckson TadaSeason O...