The new school year is upon us. I start tomorrow at my university. Believe me, while I love my job, I miss those days when my 4 were at home, we would get up, pray together, read the Bible, then … Continue reading
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Homeschooling, Writing, and Self-instruction
I often get emails and postings on our message boards that ask: “how long must I spend daily teaching this to my student? I am a busy mom, I have a toddler and a baby and I do not have … Continue reading
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Part, the Last, BEAUTY
“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.” ― … Continue reading
Essay Writing Part I
I want to spend a couple of blogs on essay writing, to just lay a foundation for how we get our students to become good writers. (I still owe the final blog on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, … Continue reading
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful
“And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.” Mark 10:18 The Good Now we get to ‘the good’. Like the True, we tend to ‘know it when we see … Continue reading
The True, the Good, the Beautiful Part III
In this blog, I want to finish out the comments wanted to make about ‘the true’. This article from Forbes is entitled ”It is all based on trust”. It is about the stock market and investors’ trust in where they … Continue reading
The True, the Good, the Beautiful, part II
TRUTH Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness … Continue reading
The True, The Good, The Beautiful
The True, the Good, the Beautiful part 1 This morning I sat down to write a blog discussing the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. My thought was that we discuss these concepts so much in classical education circles. We … Continue reading
Outlining
I read this quote in a book this week, and it resonated with me so much I chose to post it here as a quickie blog: “On my list of maladaptive practices that make writing harder, Not Outlining is pretty … Continue reading
Curriculum Envy
Curriculum Envy You are set with your language arts curriculum, “Homeschool ABC for the Fantastically Ambitious Student” but then you attend your weekly co-op session, and you find that Suzie Q. Homeschooler is raving about this new spelling in a … Continue reading