Articles dated December 2013

Finding Freedom in the Grammar Stage
by Brandy
Tuesday, 31 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Tuesday, 31 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Once upon a time, I attempted to find a craft, worksheet, and online activity or video to flesh out almost every subject of every week of Foundations memory work.
When we entered a year of overwhelming challenges and setbacks, I desperately struggled to keep a firm...

Finding the Right Words for Christmas
It has been a cold December day and I am sitting inside wishing for a fire to warm my hands. A pot of chicken broth is bubbling on the stove. Tonight, as I chopped vegetables and threw handfuls of herbs into the pot, I thought about the flavorful liquid that comes from...

The Greatest Courtship in History
by Kate
Tuesday, 24 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Tuesday, 24 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
There is a story often told. It is a timeless story about the courtship between a good man and a gentle young woman. They marry. A family comes into being, into which a child is born. This is a story so often repeated in real time that its occurrences seem impossible...

The Meaning of Christmas and How Homeschoolers Celebrate It Year Round
by Matt
Monday, 23 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Monday, 23 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall...

In the spirit of the holidays, I offer you: The Twelve (CC) Days of Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas, CC gave to me: twelve famous paintings.
On the eleventh day of Christmas, CC gave to me: eleven friends in Challenge.
On the tenth day of Christmas, CC gave to me: ten body systems.
On the ninth day of Christmas, CC gave to me: nine...