Day Two Hundred Fifty: Hanging Out with Abe Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson

Today was our last day of CC, and the older boys got to present their Faces of History research papers, which they have been working so hard on this semester. (And I got to break a microphone stand in front of an audience, which was a First I hadn't counted on!) Max's paper was about Abraham Lincoln, and Weston's was about Thomas Jefferson. They both did a wonderful job, and I'm very proud of them! I had so much fun being their tutor this year!

When you break the microphone stand, you end up having to hold the microphone!

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson

Day One Hundred Ten: Mad Lib

Today, in my Essentials class, I used a Mad Lib that I wrote myself to review some of the concepts we've been working on this semester. I have never written a Mad Lib before, and it was fun but harder than I thought it would be. As with all Mad Libs, it was so silly when we filled in the blanks, and we had lots of laughs.

Day Eighty-Two: Super Tutor and Fun Mom

We aren't much into Halloween, but since CC fell on that day this year, we decided to dress up along with the rest of the campus. Weston repurposed his Eric the Red costume from last year's final Essentials project. Max went as a cowboy. And, Clay was Neil Armstrong. I'm not much of a costume wearer, but I wanted to get in on the fun, too, so I borrowed Clay's Batman cape and became Super Tutor. My Essentials class got a kick out of it, and it was about as much costume as I felt I could pull off.

Later, when I was getting ingredients out for dinner, one of my children traipsed through the kitchen and asked the age-old "What's for dinner?" question. I replied "Jack-o-lantern cheeseburger pie," which caused a shocked response of "Fun Mom must be here!"

It was definitely my most spirited Halloween in all my adult years!

Super Tutor

My Halloween Helpers and Jack-O-Lantern Pies

Day Twenty-Six: A Whole New CC Experience

Classical Conversations is certainly nothing new to our family. We've been participating in the homeschool support group for years. But this year, we're proving that new experiences can lurk even within those things which seem to be old hat. First of all, this year, we are not participating in the morning (Foundations) classes but are only showing up for the afternoon class (Essentials), which I am tutoring. Tutoring Essentials is not new for me either, but it has been a number of years since I've done it. This is, however, my first time to tutor the class and have any of my boys in class as students. Both Weston and Max are in the class this year, which is very neat. It is also my first time to tutor on such a large campus, which actually has two Essentials classes. Consequently, there is an element of needing to coordinate with the other tutor on certain things, which is definitely not a problem, just different from how I've done this in the past. Finally, since I was out of town last week, I had to start today, on the second week of class, which was definitely a different experience for me. I'm thankful to have found this CC campus, and I'm glad that I can find some firsts even among a tried and true activity.

Celebrating my first day of CC on a brand new campus