Medieval Feast

We had an excellent spread at our feast. Click here to see a write up in our local paper. 

If you want to be part of our group, contact me before second semester starts, Jan. 6th. 

Open House

Thursday, November 18th is our last meeting of the year. You are welcome to attend. Contact me if you plan to spend the day with us!

Essentials

I would like to tell you about the Essentials program. It is a two-hour class that will meet on Thursdays from 1-3 pm starting Sept. 2nd. This power-packed course is the perfect complement to our Foundations Program, but any family may participate. Language structure and analysis, writing structure and style, and arithmetic speed and accuracy are the essential components of this popular 24-week program. The first 12 weeks will end by Thanksgiving and the second 12 weeks resume in January.

Come to the meeting on the 24th to learn more.

Info Meeting at the Library

Last chance to learn more about the classical model of education. I will host a meeting on Tuesday, August 24th at 7pm at the Blue Ridge Library. Let me know if you plan to come!

Park Info Meetings

The summer has zoomed by! If you are ready to make plans for school in the fall, I am willing to help you join our community. I'd be happy to meet you at an area park. We like to attend Bonsack Park because the shelter is close to the playground and it seems more private.

Our first day is September 2nd! Don't delay, spaces are limited.

Great Job!

We concluded the Parent Practicum on Wednesday. Some of our children presented memory work in front of approximately a hundred parents. This took a lot of courage and we are very proud of them!


My husband has posted on his blog about the Trivium. Check it out, very interesting!

Equipping Events: Parent Practicums

Homeschooling is a journey that takes vision and careful planning. Check your bearings and plan the best route for your family at Classical Conversations' free 3-day Parent Practicums being held at Bonsack Baptist Church, June 28th-30th. Register today!

 Learn practical tools for bringing breadth and depth to your family's learning using grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric skills and discover how the classical model takes education beyond a textbook for relational and transformational learning.


Economically-priced Child Care & Camps for Kids!
While you are learning, your students will be too! Whether they are being cared for in our nursery, playing and chanting in our play camps, memorizing and drawing God's world in our geo-drawing camp, or learning more about language, writing, science, or communicating in one of our older academic camps, your students are sure to enjoy the group learning environment.

American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language was produced during the years when the American home, church and school were established upon a Biblical and patriotic basis. Webster, descended on his mother’s side from Pilgrim Governor, William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation, made important contributions to an American educational system which kept the nation on a Christian Constitutional course for many years. The famous ’’blue-backed Speller,’’ his ’’Grammars,’’ and ’’Reader,’’ all contained Biblical and patriotic themes and Webster spearheaded the flood of educational volumes emphasizing Christian Constitutional values for more than a century.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the 1828 American Dictionary should contain the greatest number of Biblical definitions given in any reference volume. Webster considered ’’education useless without the Bible’’ and while he cautioned against too extensive use of the Bible in schools as ’’tending to irreverence,’’ he reiterated, ’’In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed. . . . No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. . . .’’

Today when the Biblical basis of education is under systematic attack we need to capitalize upon the availability of our first American Dictionary–the only dictionary in the world to ’’draw water out of the wells of salvation’’–to utilize God’s written word as a key to the meaning of words. Historically, it documents the degree to which the Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields.

Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language available at Scripturetruth.com for $46.95!

April 1st

If you want to see our program on this date, please be aware of some craziness. Not only is it April Fool's Day but our last day!!  I suggest you come in March but this day will be better than nothing. We had to add a day due to snow.

Open House Until March 25th

Only three more Thursdays available to see our community in action!

Learn how a Classical Conversations community can help equip, encourage, and support parents in their homeschooling endeavors. At 9:15 am, we have our opening ceremony and dismiss for classes at 9:30 am. Enjoy watching the class presentations, hands-on science and Fine Arts sessions of our Foundations programs.

We eat lunch together, so pack a lunch if you would like to join us.

Hear and observe our Essentials program from 1-3pm. This is when our 3rd - 6th graders learn grammar, writing and play math games.

Reservations are required to ensure enough space is available.

You may come and go as you like during day.

Info Meetings

Saturday, February 27 2010, 1:00am - 3:00pm

Tuesday, March 02 2010, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

If you have been intrigued by classical education or wanting something outside the home to come along side you and help you in your educational journey, come to one of these introductory informational meetings for parents interested in homeschooling their children classically using a Christian classical worldview.

Host Name : Laura Griffith
Location: Colonial Baptist Church,221 Hillcrest Dr,Blue Ridge,VA-24064 (map on the right)

Tutor Openings

I am looking to hire tutors for the 2010-11 school year. Requirements to be considered are:

o Currently a home schooling parent

o Have home schooled more than 1 year

o Have read and understand CC’s Faith Statement

o Be familiar with and understand the Classical Model of Education

o Attend a 3-Day Practicum

o Enjoy learning and teaching young children
 
If you have questions about any of the above, please contact me.