I've been searching for a Classical Education curriculum for my 6 year old (by the time we start she will be 7) and I'm feeling really discourage and very confused! I feel like there is a huge amount of resources out there, but whenever I look into them instead of finding answers I only find more questions and get more frustrated.
My friend is doing Classical Conversations and she loves and brags about it! Her 5 year old knows all the states and capitals, can draw the map of the USA without copying, knows the presidents and knows so many facts about several subjects... It sounds pretty amazing! One thing that CC has that I haven't found in any other curriculum yet is the songs that include all the memory work for math, history, Latin, English grammar, geography, science and timeline!! That is impressive and super helpful to memorize things! My daughter learns a lot through songs.
Also the curriculum is only 24 weeks and it has a weekly schedule instead of daily. We tried daily with Sonlight and it was miserable! I need a weekly or at least 4 day schedule.I work from home so I need flexibility in our schedule and I am not able to participate in a community. Otherwise I would join CC because it seems like they do a really good job in the early years preparing the foundation for later learning.
The thing I don't understand about CC is WHY do you HAVE to be part of a community to be able to access their material? I read in a forum that at a certain level you can only purchase the material if you are enrolled in a community (Challenge, I think?). What if you are a missionary homeschooling where there isn't CC?! Or what if you simply work and are not capable of attending it? I haven't heard of any other curriculum that requires you to pay to do community to use their material :( and unfortunately it looks to me like they are the most complete with most resources for little ones.
I would really appreciate to hear some honest feedback on an alternative or maybe a way to combine their songs with another program?!