Doing Classical Conversations at home, daily time for review?

[OrganicMom]

I have heard that it takes about one hour to do the introduction of new information. is this true?

 

How much time do you spend doing review daily during the week?

 

My goal is to always do it at home, even if it is at half pace and master as much as we can for the elementary years....

 

I am completely new to CC and don't know much but i think enough to understand the flow.

[tullyfamily]

We do parts of CC at home but not exclusive CC. Here is a post about our memory time: http://tullyfamily.blogspot.com/2013/02/2013-memory-work.html?m=0

 

The goal is each day- takes us 1 hr.

[Micron4]

In dd7's CC class, it took the tutor about 30 minutes to review the info. I would say it takes me about 15 minutes at home. ( it's faster because I'm not having each of the 8 kids in the CC class repeat the work individually like the tutor did for some topics.)

 

Now, I do work on giving my dc some context to the memory work, particularly history, science, geography and timeline. That takes extra time. I usually focus on one of those areas a day for about 30 minutes. For example, we might look up the science memory work in a reference book and read about it and then do a quick hands on project. Or we might read the back of the timeline cards, and then she might work on putting the timeline cards in order.

 

We also listen to the cd in the car, and if only takes a few minutes to review that weeks memory work.

[OrganicMom]

Thanks guys! This was helpful! I am going to be delaying CC a little longer - maybe another 6 months or so.

 

question, if i were to just get the audio CD's for now.... are they clear enjoy to remember? is it put to music or just chants, etc?

[Micron4]

Timeline, history, Latin, and some math are put to music. Science, geography, and English grammar are spoken. The cd also has some additional songs like the US presidents and books of the Bible. If there are any used curriculum sales in your area you might be able to pick up a set Inexpensively.

[tullyfamily]

I found & bought the older CC guide & 3 CDs here. I wanted the older versions because we are using the Veritas Press cards.

[cintinative]

You definitely want the new timeline song so you need the newer version of the CDs.

 

We did CC on a campus this past year but this coming year we are doing it from home. I am not 100% how I am going to do this either. We are not doing the science experiments or art, and I think we are going to skip some of the science memory and just stick to the grammar, Latin, geography, history sentences and timeline.