We made it through a whole year of Classical Conversations and I think I can truly say Leah loved it! Every Monday Leah loved getting up to go to “school” and getting to see her friends and getting to learn! She loved her tutor, loved her classmates, just loved the overall atmosphere. I rarely saw her unhappy. She learned so much through the course of it!
Here’s just a few of the things they memorized this year:
- 24 different sentences about events in history (through songs)
- 161 different events of history (through a “timeline song”)
- Latin verb endings
- tons of facts from astronomy & physics, such as: What are 5 kinds of stars? What are the phases of the moon?
What are some parts of the sun? What are the names of the planets? Newton’s Laws of Motion…
- 7 continents & 4 oceans & locations of many countries around the world
- English grammar like the definition of an adverb, noun, conjunction, pronoun, etc.
- skip counting in math
- Ephesians chapter 6 (the whole chapter!)—although we didn’t spend as much time on this as we probably could have & I don’t think Leah could tell you the whole thing from memory
They also did some great science experiments, they learned the basics of playing the tin whistle, and learned about some famous composers & artists. They also learned tons of non-academic stuff like taking turns and working together and listening to teachers.
Tuesday night they had a little closing ceremony to wrap up the year. Leah’s class was the youngest so they got on stage first. I think Leah had a huge grin on her face the whole time. (She’s made for the stage!) There were normally 8 in her class.
They demonstrated a few of the things they learned in the English Grammar portion of our memory work. They learned the 8 parts of speech by playing duck duck goose. They learned the purposes of a verb with little hand motions.
If you watch these 3 videos in succession, you’ll pretty much have seen their whole portion of the program. I just don’t like doing really long videos because sometimes they don’t upload right.
Then they each got a little certificate of participation.
I tried to get a few shots for Leah to remember her friends. These two girls were her best buddies all year: Megan & Charlotte. She even got to go to Megan’s birthday party last month. And Ms. Mandi was the best tutor we could have asked for. I’m sure it took a lot of patience to deal with 8 four-and-five year olds every week and she was always calm and loving and did great at encouraging the kids on their positive characteristics.
We definitely plan to continue this program next year, and Andrew will even be in a class! It adds a great depth to our homeschool studies.
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