I named my business The Gentle Learning Company with this picture in mind: Mothers snuggling with their children and reading beautiful literature and poetry, studying carefully crafted art pieces, reading God’s Word, and listening to classical music together. Can you see it? It’s a wonderful thing! I create reading lists for moms, to point them … Read more
Enrichment consists of the following subjects: The Cycle 4 Composers are: The Cycle 4 Artists are: The Cycle 4 Poets are: The Cycle 4 Handicrafts are: You can download the pdf here: You can download the Form 1 Poetry schedule here:
Sunday evening, we had guests over for a taco night. I made iced tea, taco meat, and rice, and our guests brought toppings and taco shells. The rice I make is a Chipotle-style Cilantro Lime Rice, and it’s so good. Since I was cooking for a crowd and I didn’t want to make two pots of … Read more
I mentioned this week that I have been homeschooling since our oldest son was two–which means I’ve been homeschooling for TWENTY years. That’s a long time, and a good chunk of my life so far. Homeschooling has changed drastically over the years, and I want to share what I’ve witnessed here. When I entered the … Read more
I mentioned yesterday that I only planned to homeschool through preschool and kindergarten at first, because I thought those years would be easy enough. And yet, here I am, the mom of three sons who have graduated and two high school aged daughters, whom I am still homeschooling. What happened, and why am I still … Read more
Homeschooling wasn’t on the radar when I was in college, planning to teach middle school English. I grew up in the public school system, and so did my husband. We planned to enroll our children in that exact same system. Fast forward to 2001, when our first son, Isaac, was born at twenty-six weeks gestation. … Read more
**This post is dedicated to all of the STAR mamas who have little ones to motivate into the car, early, every Wednesday morning, and to every other mama out there who has children to get out the door, any day of the week.** We enjoyed Week Four of STAR Homeschool Community last week. I try … Read more
Perhaps your family has participated in a national classical homeschool program. Our family was in a community like that for two years, and there were things that we enjoyed and did not enjoy. In developing the STAR model, I considered what we liked and didn’t particularly like about the classical community model. I will break … Read more
Image Source We will be starting our second year of CC next year, and we love it! I’ve been thinking ahead about what books I want to read with my kids while we study Cycle 1. Out of curiosity, I decided to research curriculum that lines up (at least mostly) with what we will be … Read more
I’ve been planning out an ideal cross-country road trip, and wondered what a road trip to as many Classical Conversations related stops for Cycle 3 would look like. At first I tried including every stop I found, and created a 43 day road trip. I decided to reduce the road trip to 1-2 sites per … Read more