Homeschooling with Noah

3 words…LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! Fun-filled, knowledge gaining, spiritual wonderful days! Can you tell I’m glad we homeschool? Lest you think this is all one-sided…think again, Noah really enjoys it too! We are Classical Conversations (C.C. – I will from this point forward refer to Classical Conversations as C.C.) junkies now, I am totally sold out on the program, as is Noah. We go every Wednesday to our campus to learn our Foundation grammar (History, English, Science, Latin, Geography, & math facts and such) and to learn the Essentials of the English Language and Stylistic Writing. While there, they always so a science experiment as a class, a topical presentation, we just finished our 6 weeks of art now we are moving on to 6 weeks of learning music and how to play the Tin Whistle. Noah’s first class is with 7 other kids ranging in age from 4th to 7th grade. His second class is with 5 other kids with the same age spread (but all boys!!) Here are some pictures of class, science, art, and recess!

As you can see our Wednesdays are very interactive and a whole lot of fun! The other days of the week aren’t as high energy here at h0me but we do enjoy the flexibility that homeschool offers. One day we just went out to a state park and walked around on the trails. We ate a great lunch by a stream and really enjoyed each other, nature and talking about our faith together. Some days we do C.C. park play dates, or hang out with our other C.C. friends. We have incorporated a workout routine on Noah’s off days from the gym. He challenged me to do push ups on day…it was sad. I gotta buff up. We did some bird watching one day for science and identified a raven…folks that is one big black bird. Some days it is hard to motivate my son to do some of the more mundane things of education. For example, you just have to learn your multiplication tables, we can’t just play multiplication Uno all the time, you gotta write it out. We do a devotional everyday and I read out loud to him. That is my favorite thing to do together by far. Spending time in the word of the Lord with Noah and getting to snuggle up on the couch and read some of my favorite books to him has been such a gift. We do a lot of  “car-school” too. What is so great about almost everything we do is that he can do it “on the go.” He is a kid that doesn’t get sick reading in the car, so often we will just take homeschool on the road to whatever event we want to do or have to do. I really like the freedom we have and the accountability I have with C.C. The C.C. community is wonderful. I have met some of the most amazing Mama’s in there AND Noah has some great friends. It is such a gift from God that we are getting to do this. It isn’t all rainbows and unicorns but it is so much better than anything else we have done. I wouldn’t trade this time and experience for anything!Friends, he is learning SO DADGUM MUCH! I can’t believe the things he is committing to memory and the questions he asks for further research. It is just awesome! Can’t say enough good thing about C.C.!