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Our Final Week - Plus an Announcement/Collage Friday

We are in the final stretch! 

Grant officially finished  Classical Conversations for the year, and Anna's last class is next week. This week has been a week of studying for the Challenge A final (for Anna) and a week of unstructured schooling (for Grant).

We also made it through a very strange week of weather - so many bad storms all around us left us without power Tuesday morning and lots of damage we've spotted driving around this week. 

I'm also very excited about a new adventure for Homegrown Learners (more on that later in the post).

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Using Notebooking Pages with Classical Conversations

Is the Foundations memory work enough? 

I asked myself this question multiple times over the last year. In theory, yes - the memory work is enough. Classical Conversations provides 144 facts which children in the Foundations program memorize during each cycle.  That means if they participate in 3 cycles there will be 432 grammar facts memorized.

That is AMAZING! 

There were many weeks when we just focused on the memory work, and that was enough!

There were weeks, however, where we had more time and my son was showing a particular interest in an area of the memory work. During those times I alwasy turned to notebooking, and our favorite resource Notebooking Pages.

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