Maricopa County Parks and Rec put on a great event at Lake Pleasant. A free archery lesson! The instructors were very helpful and had all the supplies and taught safety and archery skills.
Cardinal’s Archery Outing
Author: Pauline
What’s that Bird? Nature Outing
In 6th grade, for science, we study birds. In our classically educating co-op we use the curriculum What’s That Bird? from Memoria Press. We learn to identify 30 of the most common birds by sight and by sound. We also learn about the anatomy of birds, how they fly, characteristics of different birds, etc. It’s a fascinating study and the children love it! To make science come alive we went to our local Audobon center (The Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center) and went a free guided bird tour. It Read More …
We saw this bull…at Schnepf Farms!
Here he is friends…in all his glory! The giant monstrosity of an animal! This picture really doesn’t do it justice. He was HUGE. 9 feet tall easy. They said he just kept growing. So maybe the painting above is accurate! Maybe this farmer was really proud of his giant square-like bull.
Japanese Moon Festival and Telescope Viewing
In the 4th Grade Memoria Press Curriculum, we study Astronomy, so we though this would be a perfect opportunity to get out and see first hand all that we are learning. The children used the star gazing app on my phone to find the constellations they’ve learned. They had a huge telescope to view the moon and Jupiter. The moon was absolutely incredible. I have never seen the moon so close. It looked like those clay sculptures were the sculptor has put in a ton of time and there are Read More …
Why Every Homeschool Mother Should Conduct Recitations
All educators should be incorporating more formal recitations into their classrooms. Here’s how to use recitations for learning, mastery, and enjoyment.
Classical vs. Conventional Education: the Debate
What is the purpose of schooling our children? What is the purpose of education? Is it to produce children who are “trade ready”? They finish their education and they are ready to enter into a field…perhaps as an employee? Maybe in some years they have the opportunity to move up or possibly start their own business. Or –I posit– should education mean something more? This is where I enter the debate. I answer my own questions-should education mean something more? Yes, emphatically, yes. Education should mean a whole lot more. Read More …
Latin and Milking Goats go hand in hand
This post is for all the mamas of “Wiggly Willies” out there. You know the type. Often distracted, love to cause a ruckus, hard to get them to sit still to do school, full of energy, jeans always have holes ripped in them, constantly messy and dirty, a tendency to break things due to forgetfulness and lack of carefulness, Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer types. You got one? I sure do. The Lord has blessed me with him. For all of his perceived “weaknesses” (on any day a few of the above Read More …
Open house Fellowship This Saturday!
Just a reminder we have our annual summer open house this Saturday the 27th! 10am-1pm. You can check out the church where we meet, get to know the families who attend, meet myself and my husband and our children and get a feel for what we do at Highlands Latin. If you want to stay and hangout and eat lunch bring a sack lunch, we’ll eat at noon. Everyone who attends will receive the latest 4th edition copy of The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer. Feel free to Read More …
4 Reasons Why King James Warrants a Second Look
Many have shaken off King James as being antiquated or too hard but with this blog post I want to show why that it is still culturally relevant as well as simpler than Shakespeare. The King James Version of the Bible is certainly still an excellent version of the Bible–and dare I say–perhaps even the best? Here are four Reasons why: It is the most accurate- from a translators point of view. I majored in Biblical Studies with an emphasis on the languages and thus took 4 years of Greek Read More …
Nation Makers
The goal of any classical scholar is to love what is good, true, and beautiful and to seek out wisdom and virtue. But how does this look in a homeschool setting? What exactly is this wisdom and virtue? Let me back up and first explain how I got here. I first found Memoria Press when I was searching for a Latin curriculum. Their award winning latin kept coming up on multiple sites, enough to make me take a second look. I kept teetering between this idea that I wanted school Read More …