FREE one day Practicum - February 20

From Oregon state manager, Cara Bergeron:
"I just arrived back home after an amazing One-Day Practicum in Springfield, Oregon and I would like to take the opportunity to invite you to a similar One-Day Practicum in your community on February 20. I could not believe how fascinating the input from the audience was and the varied group of moms and dads we had from all over Northern Oregon. It was a thrill to see six of our CC students stand up and share their thinking skills in front of a crowd of 35 adults! Surely our God is preparing them--'to give them a hope and a future' (Jeremiah 29:11) which we cannot imagine."

Please join us for the free One-Day Practicum hosted by Classical Conversations of Redmond. It will be held at Redmond Highland Baptist Church - 3100 Southwest Highland Avenue from 10AM-4PM. During the practicum, the morning will be spent discussing the nature of classical and distinctly Christian education. After a short break for lunch, there will be segments which provide further insight into the skill of debate as it is developed in CC's Foundations, Essentials, Challenge A, and Challenge B programs. There will possibly be a few student demonstrations.

Please e-mail Amanda Perko at puddlestomper@gmail.com if you would like to register for this event.

Thankful for the Lord's Many Blessings!

Our students, after 12 weeks, are still smiling!

Sometimes it takes some "knee-mail"

to get through Essentials class.

Mr Sumpter's blog: rivercitypastor.blogspot.com
(see December 1 post)

When you see boys enjoying a book together,
you know this CC thing is all worth it!

Mrs. Cross (in the middle) classifies
leaves with her Master's students.

Discovering God's Wonderful World!

Here's the Masters Class dissecting their owl pellets.

Week Eight!

Here's our hard-working Essentials class with their inspiring tutor. Clearly, this subdued picture is unlike one day when they were rolling on the floor reciting their sentence classifications. Where was the camera then?! It's never a dull moment here at CCGP!

3 Weeks Of Blessed Learning

After three weeks, I have to say that the Lord has answered our prayers and given us a wonderful beginning! Our community gives thanks to Him for His many provisions and a smooth beginning. I was blessed to hear a student pray at lunch giving thanks that the Lord is with us at "CC". A 4 yr old student, when asked what he learned throughout the week, said he liked listening to the songs in the car.

Our parents say it's not easy, but they like what they are studying along with their children. We come from a variety of family backgrounds, and the Lord has brought us together to encourage the process of finding out about God's incredible world.

I longed for a camera yesterday, to capture on film, the students doing a Science experiment out on the lawn. They discovered, as they searched for little colored pipe cleaners in the grass, that the green, brown, or tan ones are difficult to see, while the brighter, lighter ones were easy to find. This brought them to the lively discussion that God has made some animals camouflage so that predators can't see them. Isn't our Creator God amazing?!

Answered Prayer!

Calvary Lutheran Church has graciously agreed to allow us to meet at their facility. We are very thankful! Since we are in the infant stage of our community, but steadily growing, it makes us more excited to begin this new adventure. As of today, the count is 14 students for Foundations & 4 students for Essentials.

Will This Program Work If I Am Teaching Multiple Children?

YES! This is the area where classical education shines! If Laura Ingalls Wilder could do classical education in a one –room school house with students ranging in age from 6-16, you can too. Mothers homeschooling seven children have admitted that their first Classical Conversations year was the first peaceful year in their homeschool!

The Foundations curriculum is divided into three cycles. Your children will all be on the same cycle and can therefore gather together each day to memorize the timelines and answers. Believe it or not, the little ones easily keep pace with older children when it comes to memorization work (further evidence that the classical method utilizes the Created order). Parents may then assign individual projects and readings based on the knowledge they are memorizing together.

THE FOUNDATIONS “CYCLES” (24 WEEKS EACH)
Cycle One (2009) – biology, earth science, math and language practice, fine art & history of the ancients, Asia, Africa
Cycle Two – astronomy, physical science, math & language practice, fine art & history of the Reformation to Moderns
Cycle Three – anatomy, chemistry, origins, math practice, intro. to grammar diagramming, fine art & history of America, translating John 1 into Latin