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I consider myself to be a classically eclectic home educator.  We started out strictly classical and as more personalities and different needs have fallen into the equation I’ve added in and taken away things as needed.

Here are links to reviews of a few of my favorite classical resources and curricula.  The reviews are written by a wonderful team of writers on Curriculum Choice.

  • What is classical education? If you would like to hear a little about the origins of a classical education and get the skinny on what it means to educate classically then this a great article for you.
  • Institute for Excellence in Writing – Teaching Writing Structure and Style (TWSS) - This is a fabulous article explaining the timeline of the program and how one mom picked this up with her older children and they progressed through the program using the tools that IEW gave them to write using their own voice.
  • Our Mother Tongue - grammar instruction and grammar reference for those that don’t feel like they need to revisit grammar each year.
  • Lively Latin – We use this program and love it to teach Latin to my middle schoolers.  It’s also known as the Big Book.  Well, cause it’s big.
  • Living Memory -It contains ample material for an entire school career of memory work!
  • First Language Lessons - Many classical home educators use this book.  I didn’t, but I still think it’s a great program.
  • Logic Games – For those of you that want to add some logic into your classical studies, but aren’t ready to pick a formal logic curriculum yet, these games look like just the thing.

next post in series:  Charlotte Mason reviews

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Thanks for the history share invitation! I have a question for you… How do you supplement for history on top of Lively Latin?

I was planning to begin LL next year with my to-be-3rd and 4th graders alongside Roman history. But I wasn’t sure how I was going to get from that to the Middle Ages. I’ve realized I want some kind of tie-it-together curriculum, and My Father’s World “Rome to Reformation” uses nearly all the books I’d planned to use anyway — except Lively Latin. It uses English from the Roots Up, which looks great — but do you think it would be overkill to do both? Latin on top of Latin, history on top of history? Thank you for any insight! :)
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We have enjoyed LL in addition to our history readings. It has helped cement in the things that we learned in history. And, she provides many stories that we had not read about yet. The readings are so short that it really doesn’t feel like it’s too much history. It just adds to it. Enjoy it! It’s my favorite Latin program to do along side my children. And, we have taken two years to complete it, because we have taken our time with it.

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