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Shoestrings, or toad eggs?

During one of our in-search-of-spring walks out to Flat Rock, we came across this:   WHAT IS THAT?!?    At first glance, I thought it was a black string, but after finding more: and looking at it more closely, we realized that these WERE NOT strings.  As if to confirm this, we came across this:     And […]


By Brandy Ferrell April 12, 2011 6 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, NATURE STUDY, SCIENCE

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Cardshark Math

Question:  How can you make math fun?  Answer:  Introduce a deck of cards! I first started using card games to teach my students during my career as a high school and middle school math teacher.  Though the games we play now are a little different than they once were, we are still practicing number sense and math operations (just […]


By Brandy Ferrell April 6, 2011 2 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, GAMES, MATH

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More Geologic Geometry

As we waded through the creek this weekend, we collected more rocks that were of various geometric shapes. The boys started singing our Geometry song: “Geometry, geometry, let’s learn some geometry. The area of a rectangle equals length times width. The area of a square equals length of its side squared. S squared! The area of a […]


By Brandy Ferrell April 4, 2011 5 Comments Tagged With: MATH, NATURE STUDY, SCIENCE

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The Wonderful World of Wasps

“They are so fascinating, Mom.” The words shocked me, really.  They were spoken by our 7-year-old son who has been absolutely terrified of these little creatures ever since he stepped on one with his bare foot last year.  Even though he didn’t want to touch our little inactive wasp nest collection, he was definitely into this. A little background:  We […]


By Brandy Ferrell April 3, 2011 7 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, NATURE STUDY, SCIENCE

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Math Monopoly

As our 7-year-old played Garfield Monopoly with his daddy, it occurred to me that they were completing an entire lesson of math review.  In fact, my math-teacher brain started kicking into gear as I overheard them discussing rules and strategy.  Wow!  Exactly how many math concepts were they reviewing? Well, there’s: Number sense Consumer math/budgeting/money Probability Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division Percents […]


By Brandy Ferrell April 1, 2011 3 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, GAMES, MATH

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Bee Battles (& Free Bug Books!)

About a year ago, we moved to our dream home – a secluded property in a hollow with creeks & rock outcroppings – a beautiful and serene place that we have affectionately named “Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood” (in honor of one of the greatest philosophers of all time).  When we moved here, the home had been vacant for a few years.  But as […]


By Brandy Ferrell March 29, 2011 1 Comment Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, EARLY ELEMENTARY, ELEMENTARY, NATURE STUDY, SCIENCE

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Classical Conversations at Home

So, since Classical Conversations only meets once per week, what do we do the rest of the time?  What does Classical Conversations look like at home? I offer this as just one way to do CC at home, but it depends on each family’s particular circumstances and dynamic. Even our “Classical Conversations at Home” approach has […]


By Brandy Ferrell March 28, 2011 39 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS

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Handbook of Nature Study: Snails

Though we’ve always been fascinated with nature, we are starting to use it more as a springboard for science studies and investigations.  One of our favorite resources for nature study is Anna Botsford Comstock’s The Big Handbook of Nature Study.  At 940 pages, it contains hundreds of lessons and discussion questions about nature. This resource is ALWAYS available for download here at archive.org, […]


By Brandy Ferrell March 24, 2011 5 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, EARLY ELEMENTARY, ECOLOGY, ELEMENTARY, NATURE STUDY, SCIENCE

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Norway Knowledge Quest

Because Gary has been in Kristiansand, we’ve been on a quest to learn more about Norway this week.  We first located Norway on the globe in Northern Europe as part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordered on the east by Sweden (and Finland at the Northeast), with the North Sea to the south. We completed a coloring page on the […]


By Brandy Ferrell March 18, 2011 1 Comment Tagged With: ARTS AND CRAFTS, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, MEDIEVAL PERIOD, UNIT STUDY

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