The Bible is by far the very best source of copywork and dictation material for children. I have mentioned before, that one of the things I would change if I could go back and redo our homeschooling years, is to include more Bible copying and dictation, and less literature. Literature is valuable, but the Bible […]
What to Teach The Big Picture – Planning the School Year Part 1 Curriculum Building Blocks – Planning the School Year Part 2 Once you have the outline planned for each of your six blocks, it is time to flesh out the block with the daily and weekly plans for your children. Take each subject’s […]
The three As – Acquire, Analyze, Apply – relate to the three Biblical tools of learning. Children acquire knowledge (the Grammar stage), teens analyze that knowledge for truth (the Dialectic stage) and gain understanding, and young adults apply truth to real life decisions and current events (the Rhetoric stage) to walk in wisdom. It is […]
What to Teach The Big Picture – Planning the School Year Part 1 Once I had my six blocks of six weeks planned, it was time to map my curriculum to the six blocks. No matter what curriculum you desire to finish by the end of the school year, it all can be divided into […]
What to Teach The Big Picture I planned to do 36 weeks of academics, 5 days per week, which met my state’s requirements with margin. You want margin – planning for more days than your state requires – because life happens, emergencies happen, and the best-laid plans don’t always work out. If you plan for […]
No other books for children have so compellingly told the often exciting story of history than the Landmark book series published by Random House (roughly 4th through 7th grades). There will be no “twaddle” found here. The appropriate Landmark books are here keyed to their matching chapters in The Story of the Renaissance and Reformation. […]