Loving learning the essentials of ... language, writing, and arithmetic.

This dynamic program provides a Classical Christian community for home school families with students in grades 3rd-6th. This program, which emphasizes language and writing "grammar" while also incorporating highly-dialectic lessons, is designed to reinforce English Grammar, writing, and arithmetic mastery.

The Essentials Program meets once-a-week for twelve weeks in the fall and twelve weeks in the fall and winter. Students meet in the afternoons after their Foundations program. A trained tutor strengthens the "essential" subjects of language arts, writing, and arithmetic. 

The language arts portion is built from the following resources: The Essentials of the English Language Guide, Spelling Plus, Dictation Resource, and Our Mother Tongue. Students practice spelling, dictation, parsing, and diagramming sentences during this portion of class. 

The writing portion is based on the method of the Institute for Excellence in Writing by Andrew Pudewa. Students often practice writing skills on the same subjects that are being studied in their current Foundations cycle.

The math portion focuses on reinforcing the "essential" elements of arithmetic through challenging math games and problems. This program is designed to complement your home math program by drilling speed and accuracy with basic operations of arithmetic. 

This highly-dialectic program, along with Foundations, is academically charged, and is great preparation for the later Challenge programs.  Come visit and get to know us! To locate a program near you, visit our CC Community webpage.

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