Our History Notebook: Classical Conversations Cycle 3

The organization for Classical Conversations Cycle 3 continues!

Last week I shared our geography table and notebook with you. Today I'd like to share our history memory work notebook. 

I learned so much last year; the biggest lesson was to KEEP IT SIMPLE. The memory work is enough. Make sure the grammar pieces are being memorized and provide a few low stress ways for my child to expand upon the memory work if we have time. 

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Creating a Geography Table in Your Homeschool

When children are in the grammar stage (elementary years) they are ripe for memorizing facts and yearn for more.

Geography is the perfect subject to let them sink their teeth into.  There is just SO MUCH they can learn.

Being a part of Classical Conversations has brought to light the importance of geography. It has equipped me to organize facts about geography and assist my children in memorizing them. 

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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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