We’ve memorized history sentences. We’ve memorized science facts. We’ve memorized geography locations. These have all been valuable pieces of information for us to learn as we practice the skill of memorization. Yet… something was still missing for us in the elementary years. Our family needed more. For the past decade, I’ve developed reading plans and […]
Mission: World Wonders in Action!
Have you ever wondered how things really turn out in other family’s homeschools? Does it really look like the utopian pictures on the front of the A Beka catalog? Perhaps it does in others’ homes, but… not us. The more I learn to accept that it won’t ever look like that in our home, the […]
Story-Driven Economics Curriculum: Economics for Everybody
“I just love this curriculum.” – David, Age 17 When embarking on a study of high school economics, this was not a statement I expected to hear from my teenage son. I did not expect our 17-year-old to become an economics enthusiast. In fact, I have not seen him this excited about a course of study […]
Books we read and what we thought
As I looked back over our list of books for this year, I could hardly believe it. Our family shared over 48 books together as read-alouds this year! (This doesn’t count the personal independent reading of each of our children.) How on earth did we manage close to fifty books together?!? Well, I attribute it […]
Christmas Wrap: 2022 in Review
With Christmas upon us — it’s coming up fast! — And preparing for the chill of a cold arctic blast, Staying indoors with not much left to do, We’ll recount the blessings of 2022. The year started off with sledding in snowdrifts And a trip to the Frist to see medieval long-ago-scripts. Then we jammed […]
Favorite Christmas Picture Books and Read Alouds
Are you looking for picture books and read-alouds to share with your children this Christmas season? The following books are a collection of our personal family favorites, including Christmas legends and folktales, beloved Christmas carols, art & history connections, and stories that focus on love, joy, and generosity while also celebrating the Greatest Gift ever […]
Exploring Ancient Egypt: Timelines, Maps, Projects, and More!
[Abram] communicated to them Arithmetick; and delivered to them the science of Astronomy. For before Abram came into Egypt they were unacquainted with those parts of learning: for that science came from the Chaldeans into Egypt; and from thence to the Greeks also. – Flavius Josephus of the Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, Chapter […]
Exploring Ancient Greece: Timelines, Maps, Projects, and More!
As classical educators, one of our aims is to pass on a body of knowledge, values, and ideals from which Western Civilization has stemmed, the root of which lies in three cultures – the Greeks, the Romans, and the Hebrews. If these three cultures are such a part of our heritage – and if we […]
Discovering Wonders of the World
Y’all! I have to tell you about a project our family shared together this summer because it was just so completely fascinating! In previous years, we had memorized the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only to find out this year that there are other officially acclaimed Wonders of the Medieval World, Wonders of the […]