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...
Grammar: Train the Brain to Retain
by Leigh
Monday, 30 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Monday, 30 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
While teaching educators how to teach, I’ve realized that we make too light a matter of little things and don’t spend enough time defining the basics.
A Jamaican Example
In 1995, I taught in a Jamaican Christian mission school for two weeks. When I first walked into...
Lessons from the One-Room Schoolhouse
by Leigh
Monday, 30 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Monday, 30 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
While teaching educators how to teach, I have realized that we make too light a matter of little things and we do not spend enough time defining the basics.
A Jamaican Example
In 1995, I taught in a Jamaican Christian mission school for two weeks. When I first walked...
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...