I'm glad I found this video. I see it's 3 years old, so I am curious, how are things going now for you? We love the Good and The Beautiful and are thinking about joining CC for next school year. I'm glad to hear that they compliment each other. I am thinking that we would only join Foundations for my 7 and 10 year old. That way we can ease into it and if it's a good fit then add Essentials on the next year. Have you seen people do that?
I am absolutely loving your videos! I recently decided to homeschool and I joined CC and have been very overwhelmed by it all. After watching some of your videos I feel a lot more prepared and confident. Thank you so much for putting these out there!
I know this is an older video, but I found you from searching for CC reviews. We have been attending a different co-op for the past 4 years and looking for a change. We’re 80% sure we’re going to sign up for this year. We have used TGATB this past year and I wanted to continue with their LA this coming year. Possibly their math programs also. So this video was soooo helpful and reassuring for me. Now I’m off to check out the rest of your videos 😁
We are starting our first year of CC this fall and plan to use The Good and The Beautiful too! We will have a 3rd & 6th grader. I think after watching this I will have my 6th grader use TGATB too to make sure his grammar is concrete in his head before going into Challenge A in a year
I have been binging your videos today and WOW, they are so encouraging and helpful. I'm sure your channel will experience a lot of growth. I have no idea where you live, but man do I wish I could meet you for coffee and pick your brain about all things parenting and homeschooling. I'm expecting my 4th baby in July, and my eldest child is 4 and to be perfectly honest, most days I feel totally overwhelmed. Your videos have been really encouraging to me today. Now I better sign off and pay more attention to my kids 😂 But I subbed and will keep up with your posts!
So encouraging 😍 thank you for your energy and time put into to making this video! Our days are exactly what you explained for your second grader with a sprinkle here and there. I’m always doubting if I need to be doing more 😂 but that was nice to here👏🏼
Hi! We are starting our first year of CC this fall, and my community is full up on tutors, so I wasn't able to serve that way. You mentioned Mom's Night Out that your CC community does, and I'm interested to hear how that works! I'd love to do something like that for the moms in my community. I really enjoy your videos, keep them coming!! :)
Hi Hannah! Our community has a FB group page and we have a mom who coordinates our Mom's Nights Out :) She will find someone willing to host us all and they will plan things like game nights, puzzle nights, going out to dinner etc. They will post it on the FB page and make announcements about during our assembly time. We use the FB page to RSVP. Coordinating nights like that might be a great way for you to contribute! I'm happy to answer any other questions you might have! Thanks so much for watching and commenting! xo
Right now we are mostly only doing math and heading to the pool, haha! :) We are pretty much done with everything else for the year. BUT, come September, I will definitely be uploading more DITL and homeschool routine videos when we are fully back in our routine!
A friend and fellow CC mom showed me her son’s TGatB course book that she started him in this year when she decided they wouldn’t be returning to CC. She felt that their LA was very comparable to what he would learn in Essentials and loved the curriculum. The book was beautiful and I liked the methodology, but I couldn’t imagine adding it to what I was already doing at home with my Essentials student. Most days we would spend 1.5-2 hours on his Essentials work. 😬 And I confess I fall into that CC Diehard camp you mentioned. 🙈 I love hearing about your experience with doing both though, and I’m so happy to see a new video from you today! ☺️
TGTB really is such a wonderful, beautiful and thorough curriculum! I know they learn SO MUCH in Essentials, but I just love the "extra" that TGTB brought to our table & learning. I really feel like we have the best of both worlds! xo
Well, your video today lead me back to the TG&TB website... I’m considering it for my my pre-K and 1st grade daughters for next year now and their History Year 1 for all. 😆 Maybe Typing too. 🙈 How has that program worked for your kids this year? I’m drawn to the simplicity of it vs the game style programs we’ve trie.
Loved this video because we’re a new CC family - my 5yo was in Cycle 1 this past year and I tutored. I recently ordered TGATB Solar System science to go along with the 5 or so weeks of space that cycle 2 has. I’m also going to finish up All About Reading lev 1 with her and then switch to TGATB language arts. My 3yo will be starting Language arts Primer this summer & the two of them will do TGATB Math K together :) Love the feel of your home and demeanor 💜
I would really love to incorporate some of the TGTB science this year with CC like you did this last year! I haven't even had a chance to look ahead yet at what we'll be memorizing for science...but it's something I'd love to do! I wish they had math for my olders...I would absolutely try it! And thank you for watching and for your kind words
I was excited to see this video. We are doing the good and the beautiful but also joined CC last semester with my kindergartener and my twin 4 yr old boys will start foundations in the fall.
Hi, I came across your video as I’m trying to choose between these curriculums to attempt to homeschool our soon to be kindergartner. Do you still recommend doing both programs? I don’t understand the CC memorizing info only method and I’m leaning to Good and the Beautiful. But liked the CC community aspect. Please advice 💜
This is our second year at CC and I'm looking at adding additional science into our year, specifically TGTB. Have you added TGTB science in with CC and if so do you have a match up of what lessons you use for Cycle 1?
Yay! I’m so happy you made this video! We will be starting year two of CC next year and I really didn’t want to give up on my TGATB because we love both so much!!
@Home&Arrows I'm so glad I stumbled onto your channel! I'm a mom of 4 and have been homeschooling for 6 years (since oldest was in K), using MFW. We have joined CC for next year and I'm trying to figure out what I will use next year. I'm nervous about my soon to be 6th grader keeping up with essentials and preparing for challenge, so maybe TGTB will be a good fit. Do you only use the course books? I went to their site and it looks like there is more involved.
We are using TGTB for language arts now and we're thinking about doing CC in the fall. I have assumed we would continue with TGTB, but I have heard other CC moms say they don't do any language arts until Essentials. I'm just wondering if that is possible. I'm a minimalist with everything, so the less curriculum the better for me.....but I do want to cover what she needs. What are your thoughts?
So excited to hear you are CC family!!! I am in my 4th year of Cc first year as a director and my two boys going into challenge A .... would you share what you would be doing to prepare you daughter for challenge A? What are you doing to prepare yourself? Thanks so much!
Hi Monica!! It's hard to know how to prepare since I'm not really sure what to expect, ha! I have already ordered most of her books and I think I may have her start on some of the readers? I'm in the Facebook Classical Conversations group and I've had it in mind to go through that page as I know I've seen some mamas have commented and given some great ideas on how to prepare for Challenge A :)
@@monicagodoy8942 It's super easy to join! When you're in Facebook, go to "Groups" and in the search bar type in "Classical Conversations". It's a group with almost 50K members!
We’ve strongly considered doing CC but we just ultimately keep coming back to we just don’t think it’ll fit our family well... however... We LOVE TG&TB 😍
Ahh, that's the beauty of homeschooling!! I'm thankful there are so many resources/curriculums out there for us to find what works best for our families! xo
I know your video is from 2 years ago so I hope you see this. I was trying to decide between CC and TG&TB and came across your video. I've never homeschooled before so I'm trying to figure out why not just do the one or the other? Can you explain?
We have been doing CC for 2 years. This will be our third year and I am adding TG&TB language arts for my 6th grader. We are dropping essentials because she does not like it at all and the information is not sticking with her. Some of that is my fault. I am hoping TG&TB will be good for both of us. And I love that she can work independently on it. My son will be going into Challenge 1 and he will be doing an English grammar curriculum along with his Challenge work.
Thanks so much for this video. We have been in CC for 4 year and next year my oldest will be in 4th grade. We have used TGTB language arts for 2 years now. I am wondering if essentials would be redundant to our work with TGTB. Do you think both should be used or just one? Thanks so much!!!! Jenna
Every family really needs to decide for themselves what works best and is a good fit for them, but I personally love that TGTB reinforces what she has learned in Essentials. Repetition is a good thing around here :)
This will be my first year homeschooling. I have an 11 year old going into 6th grade. Last week I just purchased good and beautiful language arts and history curriculum. Math from math u see and BJU science. And then I heard about CC and I think it’s something I want to do, especially since I this is my first time homeschooling. Should I send everything back lol? And how can I do Cc that starts in August when I want to homeschool year round and start right after Independence Day?
Hi Samantha! No! Don't send your stuff back, ha! You are still your child's teacher and you can still use all of those resources! We also year round homeschool...for example, we are still doing some math & language arts. You can absolutely still year-round homeschool and do CC! xo
Home & Arrows thank you so much. I will think about it bum still u decided about CC, they just informed me that I would have to pay for both classes. I was not prepared for that lol. But I’ll think about it. Thank you for your great videos ❤️❤️
Do you feel that essentials is as intense as people make it out to be? Do you feel that TGATB is allowing the two to merge easily and makes it less stressful because they do?
I have one that will complain every now and again. Honestly, for her, when she whines or complains, I talk to her about the importance of working hard. If it continues, she get more work for every complaint. Or I'll remove her and send her to her room and tell her she is able to join us when she can contribute to the peace in our home. Being sent to her room doesn't take away from the amount of work she has to do. It just means she might have to do it later in the day when everyone else is enjoying free time. I honestly feel out the day and the moment and am constantly asking God to give me wisdom and ideas on how to handle it when she gets that way! xo
There is! I’m a mom who feels called to minister to moms…not dads :) Dads are welcome to glean what they can and want! If it bothers you, feel free to find another channel that feels called to speak to dads :)
We have updates...just not on homeschooling yet! I do plan to do a homeschool update this summer as I'm already looking ahead to the next school year. I will say we plan to do The Good and The Beautiful again!
TGaTB is written by an LDS woman, but there is nothing Mormon in the curriculum at all. It's a wonderful curriculum that includes general family and Christian values. We use it, but we also use Answers In Genesis Bible curriculum.
@@kellydrzewiecki1738 some not most but some of the curriculum is tainted by the falsehood of the cults ma’am. So I can’t condone this curriculum ma’am.
I'm glad I found this video. I see it's 3 years old, so I am curious, how are things going now for you? We love the Good and The Beautiful and are thinking about joining CC for next school year. I'm glad to hear that they compliment each other. I am thinking that we would only join Foundations for my 7 and 10 year old. That way we can ease into it and if it's a good fit then add Essentials on the next year. Have you seen people do that?
I am absolutely loving your videos! I recently decided to homeschool and I joined CC and have been very overwhelmed by it all. After watching some of your videos I feel a lot more prepared and confident. Thank you so much for putting these out there!
Thank you so much for posting this video! This was the exact question on my heart and your answer was so helpful. ❤
I know this is an older video, but I found you from searching for CC reviews. We have been attending a different co-op for the past 4 years and looking for a change. We’re 80% sure we’re going to sign up for this year. We have used TGATB this past year and I wanted to continue with their LA this coming year. Possibly their math programs also. So this video was soooo helpful and reassuring for me. Now I’m off to check out the rest of your videos 😁
We are starting our first year of CC this fall and plan to use The Good and The Beautiful too! We will have a 3rd & 6th grader. I think after watching this I will have my 6th grader use TGATB too to make sure his grammar is concrete in his head before going into Challenge A in a year
How exciting! I hope you love your upcoming year in a CC community! I'm really glad I had my 6th grader use TGTB this last year
I have been binging your videos today and WOW, they are so encouraging and helpful. I'm sure your channel will experience a lot of growth. I have no idea where you live, but man do I wish I could meet you for coffee and pick your brain about all things parenting and homeschooling. I'm expecting my 4th baby in July, and my eldest child is 4 and to be perfectly honest, most days I feel totally overwhelmed. Your videos have been really encouraging to me today. Now I better sign off and pay more attention to my kids 😂 But I subbed and will keep up with your posts!
So encouraging 😍 thank you for your energy and time put into to making this video!
Our days are exactly what you explained for your second grader with a sprinkle here and there. I’m always doubting if I need to be doing more 😂 but that was nice to here👏🏼
Well, it's nice for me to hear someone else is "only" doing that much, too!! lol! Thanks for your sweet words Noemi. xo
Hi! We are starting our first year of CC this fall, and my community is full up on tutors, so I wasn't able to serve that way. You mentioned Mom's Night Out that your CC community does, and I'm interested to hear how that works! I'd love to do something like that for the moms in my community. I really enjoy your videos, keep them coming!! :)
Hi Hannah! Our community has a FB group page and we have a mom who coordinates our Mom's Nights Out :) She will find someone willing to host us all and they will plan things like game nights, puzzle nights, going out to dinner etc. They will post it on the FB page and make announcements about during our assembly time. We use the FB page to RSVP. Coordinating nights like that might be a great way for you to contribute! I'm happy to answer any other questions you might have! Thanks so much for watching and commenting! xo
So helpful!! Love both curriculums and really appreciate your thoughts.
Can you do more homeschool routine / day in the life videos???
Right now we are mostly only doing math and heading to the pool, haha! :) We are pretty much done with everything else for the year. BUT, come September, I will definitely be uploading more DITL and homeschool routine videos when we are fully back in our routine!
Thank you, very encouraging!
Glad to hear that it was!
Wait. Are you the CEO of Classical Conversations?!
Thank you for this!! May I ask, do you get the course kit or do you just mainly go off the main book.
A friend and fellow CC mom showed me her son’s TGatB course book that she started him in this year when she decided they wouldn’t be returning to CC. She felt that their LA was very comparable to what he would learn in Essentials and loved the curriculum. The book was beautiful and I liked the methodology, but I couldn’t imagine adding it to what I was already doing at home with my Essentials student. Most days we would spend 1.5-2 hours on his Essentials work. 😬 And I confess I fall into that CC Diehard camp you mentioned. 🙈 I love hearing about your experience with doing both though, and I’m so happy to see a new video from you today! ☺️
TGTB really is such a wonderful, beautiful and thorough curriculum! I know they learn SO MUCH in Essentials, but I just love the "extra" that TGTB brought to our table & learning. I really feel like we have the best of both worlds! xo
Well, your video today lead me back to the TG&TB website... I’m considering it for my my pre-K and 1st grade daughters for next year now and their History Year 1 for all. 😆 Maybe Typing too. 🙈 How has that program worked for your kids this year? I’m drawn to the simplicity of it vs the game style programs we’ve trie.
Loved this video because we’re a new CC family - my 5yo was in Cycle 1 this past year and I tutored. I recently ordered TGATB Solar System science to go along with the 5 or so weeks of space that cycle 2 has. I’m also going to finish up All About Reading lev 1 with her and then switch to TGATB language arts. My 3yo will be starting Language arts Primer this summer & the two of them will do TGATB Math K together :) Love the feel of your home and demeanor 💜
I would really love to incorporate some of the TGTB science this year with CC like you did this last year! I haven't even had a chance to look ahead yet at what we'll be memorizing for science...but it's something I'd love to do! I wish they had math for my olders...I would absolutely try it! And thank you for watching and for your kind words
I was excited to see this video. We are doing the good and the beautiful but also joined CC last semester with my kindergartener and my twin 4 yr old boys will start foundations in the fall.
Hi, I came across your video as I’m trying to choose between these curriculums to attempt to homeschool our soon to be kindergartner. Do you still recommend doing both programs? I don’t understand the CC memorizing info only method and I’m leaning to Good and the Beautiful. But liked the CC community aspect. Please advice 💜
This is our second year at CC and I'm looking at adding additional science into our year, specifically TGTB. Have you added TGTB science in with CC and if so do you have a match up of what lessons you use for Cycle 1?
Yay! I’m so happy you made this video! We will be starting year two of CC next year and I really didn’t want to give up on my TGATB because we love both so much!!
I know!! I finally feel like I don't have to search for any new curriculum this year :) So happy with how this last year went using both
I've been looking for a video like this. This year kicks off our homeschool journey, and our plan is to use both CC and TGTB. Thanks :]
@Home&Arrows I'm so glad I stumbled onto your channel! I'm a mom of 4 and have been homeschooling for 6 years (since oldest was in K), using MFW. We have joined CC for next year and I'm trying to figure out what I will use next year. I'm nervous about my soon to be 6th grader keeping up with essentials and preparing for challenge, so maybe TGTB will be a good fit. Do you only use the course books? I went to their site and it looks like there is more involved.
We like how thorough TG&TB is too! 😊
Yes!! xo
Thank you for this video, great information!
We are using TGTB for language arts now and we're thinking about doing CC in the fall. I have assumed we would continue with TGTB, but I have heard other CC moms say they don't do any language arts until Essentials. I'm just wondering if that is possible. I'm a minimalist with everything, so the less curriculum the better for me.....but I do want to cover what she needs. What are your thoughts?
So excited to hear you are CC family!!! I am in my 4th year of Cc first year as a director and my two boys going into challenge A .... would you share what you would be doing to prepare you daughter for challenge A? What are you doing to prepare yourself? Thanks so much!
Hi Monica!! It's hard to know how to prepare since I'm not really sure what to expect, ha! I have already ordered most of her books and I think I may have her start on some of the readers? I'm in the Facebook Classical Conversations group and I've had it in mind to go through that page as I know I've seen some mamas have commented and given some great ideas on how to prepare for Challenge A :)
Home & Arrows can you some how tag me in that CC facebook group?? Thanks so much!
@@monicagodoy8942 It's super easy to join! When you're in Facebook, go to "Groups" and in the search bar type in "Classical Conversations". It's a group with almost 50K members!
Thank you for doing this video!! I had posted a question on your previous video and this definitely addressed my questions!
We’ve strongly considered doing CC but we just ultimately keep coming back to we just don’t think it’ll fit our family well... however... We LOVE TG&TB 😍
Ahh, that's the beauty of homeschooling!! I'm thankful there are so many resources/curriculums out there for us to find what works best for our families! xo
Have loved TGTB so far just 1 year in. but have been considering adding CC too but feel it might just be too much for our family as well.
This is so helpful❤
I know your video is from 2 years ago so I hope you see this. I was trying to decide between CC and TG&TB and came across your video. I've never homeschooled before so I'm trying to figure out why not just do the one or the other? Can you explain?
We are not part of CC but I do use many parts of their curriculum for my challenge level kids and I too love TGTB for my younger kids.
We have been doing CC for 2 years. This will be our third year and I am adding TG&TB language arts for my 6th grader. We are dropping essentials because she does not like it at all and the information is not sticking with her. Some of that is my fault. I am hoping TG&TB will be good for both of us. And I love that she can work independently on it. My son will be going into Challenge 1 and he will be doing an English grammar curriculum along with his Challenge work.
Essentials can definitely be intense! That's the beauty of homeschooling...we have the freedom to do what we feel will work best for our kiddos!
Thanks so much for this video. We have been in CC for 4 year and next year my oldest will be in 4th grade. We have used TGTB language arts for 2 years now. I am wondering if essentials would be redundant to our work with TGTB. Do you think both should be used or just one? Thanks so much!!!! Jenna
Every family really needs to decide for themselves what works best and is a good fit for them, but I personally love that TGTB reinforces what she has learned in Essentials. Repetition is a good thing around here :)
Great video!
Thanks girl :) xo
This will be my first year homeschooling. I have an 11 year old going into 6th grade. Last week I just purchased good and beautiful language arts and history curriculum. Math from math u see and BJU science. And then I heard about CC and I think it’s something I want to do, especially since I this is my first time homeschooling. Should I send everything back lol? And how can I do Cc that starts in August when I want to homeschool year round and start right after Independence Day?
Hi Samantha! No! Don't send your stuff back, ha! You are still your child's teacher and you can still use all of those resources! We also year round homeschool...for example, we are still doing some math & language arts. You can absolutely still year-round homeschool and do CC! xo
Home & Arrows thank you so much. I will think about it bum still u decided about CC, they just informed me that I would have to pay for both classes. I was not prepared for that lol. But I’ll think about it. Thank you for your great videos ❤️❤️
What age do you think it’s worth starting cc? Is 4 yr old too young? - Jen
Do you feel that essentials is as intense as people make it out to be? Do you feel that TGATB is allowing the two to merge easily and makes it less stressful because they do?
also, super helpful and reassuring video! Thanks for sharing!
Does it go up to grade 12, and do they receive a diploma when finished or will the have to take a GED
How do you overcome kids that don't want to do the school work? Do you kids never complain? If so what has worked for your family❤
I have one that will complain every now and again. Honestly, for her, when she whines or complains, I talk to her about the importance of working hard. If it continues, she get more work for every complaint. Or I'll remove her and send her to her room and tell her she is able to join us when she can contribute to the peace in our home. Being sent to her room doesn't take away from the amount of work she has to do. It just means she might have to do it later in the day when everyone else is enjoying free time. I honestly feel out the day and the moment and am constantly asking God to give me wisdom and ideas on how to handle it when she gets that way! xo
That was so helpful!! Do you also use history from TGATB??
We purchased it but didn't get through all of it during the school year. Have been thinking about going through it this summer!
Is there a reason this video is addressed to Moms?
There is! I’m a mom who feels called to minister to moms…not dads :) Dads are welcome to glean what they can and want! If it bothers you, feel free to find another channel that feels called to speak to dads :)
Any updates since this is an old vedio
We have updates...just not on homeschooling yet! I do plan to do a homeschool update this summer as I'm already looking ahead to the next school year. I will say we plan to do The Good and The Beautiful again!
Nice we just started with them and I’m really happy
Christian and Baal (Mormon) aren't good ma'am.
TGaTB is written by an LDS woman, but there is nothing Mormon in the curriculum at all. It's a wonderful curriculum that includes general family and Christian values. We use it, but we also use Answers In Genesis Bible curriculum.
@@kellydrzewiecki1738 some not most but some of the curriculum is tainted by the falsehood of the cults ma’am. So I can’t condone this curriculum ma’am.