The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

by Susan Wise Bauer

Elementary Greek: Koine for Beginners. Louisville, KY: Memoria Press, 2015.

Keep roughly to the same schedule you’ve been using all along—one one- to two-hour period per week for music study, another for art study.

Whether or not the student is taking music lessons, he should continue to spend one and a half to two hours every week doing music appreciation.

The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Postmodern, 2nd ed. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2007.

Math, spelling, and writing are skills that need daily practice and feedback in a predictable routine.

The key is the intentional use of flexibility for an educational goal, rather than allowing students to do what they “feel like” doing.

We suggest that you keep each child doing individual, grade-level work in mathematics, grammar, writing, spelling, and vocabulary. The content areas—history, science, reading—can be done simultaneously with children of different ages.