A nice long summer is spreading out before us, and I am remembering the words of Anne of Green Gables. “Ah, summer! Two months of glorious freedom!” she exclaimed on her walk home from the last class of the school year. As a homeschool mom with two months of...
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History has been full of great conversations—classical conversations, some of which continue on today and in which we are still participating. According to Leigh Bortins, founder of the homeschooling community and curriculum provider Classical Conversations, one of those conversations, however, has remained largely silent—at least in the public realm....
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I never thought I would read a book entitled How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One; even less did I think I would enjoy one. Yet, here I am and I can do no other. Stanley Fish writes a book in which he introduces the sentence as...
Read the Full ArticleWhat should homeschoolers read during the summer? You asked for it, so we are providing it! None of these books are required to be read in the summer, but if you want to get a head start on the next year this is the perfect place to start. Hope...
Read the Full ArticleA man once described—I’m sure it was that guy we call St. Augustine—the world as being made up of two cities: the City of God and the City of Man. I’ve taught my children that the City of God is made up of people who belong to God and...
Read the Full ArticleIn How to Write a Sentence Stanley Fish quotes this opening sentence from Laurence Sterne’s ”novel” Tristram Shandy: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;...
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In the midst of our busy homeschooling lives, we can easily make the mistake of concentrating our attention on truth and goodness alone and neglecting the need for beauty in our educational efforts. John Mark Reynolds offers parents another approach in his seminar session titled “What Do Plato and...
Read the Full ArticleToday is the National Day of Prayer and it is important today to remember to pray for those homeschooling families who may not be as fortunate as many of ours in their legal freedoms and to keep them in our prayers along with our leaders, families and friends. John 15:5 (NIV):...
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On this beautiful Mother’s Day I can’t quite find the words to say How I appreciate all you gave up So in wisdom and virtue I would grow up Instead of your once promising career You dealt with fights and shouts and tears Instead of malls and spas...
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Let’s start with one of my favorite verses: “The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11:9). We find a complementary verse more narrowly focused on the ministry of Jesus in John 21:25: “Jesus did many other things as...
Read the Full ArticleAt the end of my seventh grade year in public school, I was on the bubble for moving into the advanced math track, or staying with the average students. My mother was eager for me to move ahead with math and she intervened on my behalf. My math teacher’s...
Read the Full ArticleI wish that this was the crux of my article, but it is not. Latin does do both of these things, but that could be discussed at a later time. This month, I would like to focus on exams your students may take in order to test their Latin/Roman...
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