Month: April 2019

How to Classically Educate your Preschooler

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how to classically education your preschool prek child

Choosing the Right Speed for your child If you are like me you are excited and ready to start homeschooling! I remember with my first daughter touring the AFHE (Arizona) Homeschool Convention full of enthusiasm and excitement. I was annoyed that most of the homeschool curriculums didn’t have science or history included in kindergarten. Why did I need to wait? I had zeal but little experience yet with children. Especially when it came to learning. All I knew was I loved her completely and wanted her to have the best Read More …

Latin – The Mother Tongue

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Why you should study latin

Why Learn Latin? This is the question that every parent or student asks themself at one time or another.  Isn’t it a dead language? What use is it today? Let me give you some great reasons to learn latin– especially in the way that we are learning it – through studying Scripture. I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat. ― Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, 1874-1904 The GREATEST Reason: Latin is Read More …

Why Do We Nature Journal?

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House Sparrow Nature Journal

I remember the first time I went on a hike with my friends. It was a cold December day and I was packed with lots of water and snacks, ready to get a great workout in! Little did I know what I was in for. Hiking with toddlers is at a snails pace. My children were older and the baby was in the ergo carrier but the pace of the group was significantly slowed by the little ones. Well no matter…we can still make up the calories by the length! Read More …

What Do We mean By Liberal Arts?

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The Liberal Arts I went to a “liberal arts” college. What about you? Back then the meaning was muddled to me, if it even meant anything at all. Now today the word liberal is almost strictly associated with political parties. But that was not how things always were. There was a time when the word classically meant “wide ranging” or “broad based.” The liberal arts actually encompass seven branches of knowledge that initiate children into a life of learning. This is one of the things that makes classical education uniquely Read More …

A Simple Study of Nature

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In his prophetic essay The Abolition of Man (1944), C. S. Lewis asked whether the triumphs of modern science “may have been too rapid and purchased at too high a price.” While there is a place for modern biology and sciences, there is still room for the simple study of nature. This is the very essence of natural history. Natural history is the branch of biological science that seeks to provide a descriptive account of plants and animals and the world in which they live. Although this branch of science been neglected in recent Read More …