Many students hate trigonometry, and for understandable reasons. It is hard for students to figure out what triangles, sines, and cosines have to do with anything else. So we shouldn’t be too surprised when they push back a little bit on learning it. While some trigonometry has real-life usage, the most significant benefit to trig … Continue reading What We Learn When We Learn Trigonometry
Everyone, at some point in their life, will take a leadership position of some sort. Parents lead their homes and children. Rookies eventually become leaders. Even when someone is the low man on the totem pole, understanding leadership can improve their work within an organization. Additionally, many leadership skills are helpful even for managing oneself … Continue reading Leadership Training: Ownership
It’s a well-known fact that most people abandon their New Year’s resolutions by the end of the day on January 2. If we don’t follow through today, we definitely can’t make it for 363 more days, so we should just give up. Many of us have seen that same concept sneaking into our homeschool goals … Continue reading Goal Setting in Your Homeschool
Here are the links to our suggestions for beautiful things for September, with a focus on beautiful words, sounds, and places that are old and beautiful and on early art and music as well as Ancient Egypt and the Fables of Aesop. Back to Simple Beauty Page
Fables are short stories that have a moral. Aesop who lived in Greece from 640-564 BC, gathered many ancient fables into a collection to share with his community. We’ve chosen a few for you this month, and they are linked below. Read some or all of them with your students and talk about the morals. … Continue reading Aesop for September
Let’s explore the ancient world. We’ve chosen folk tales, myths, biographies, and documentaries from different continents, and we have maps for you to download and trace or fill in too. There are many, many other societies in the area to learn about, but we are focusing this month’s suggestions on Ancient Egypt. If you have … Continue reading Life and Times of Ancient Egypt
Nature study can be as simple as a short walk in the neighborhood or as elaborate as a week in a National Park. Don’t make it hard. Just go outside. This month, we suggest you spend some time outside every day that is reasonable and observe what wild herbs you can find in your own … Continue reading Nature Study: Wild Herbs
Hildegard von Bingen was a composer, poet, and saint who lived from 1098 until 1179 AD. She was a nun who wrote mostly liturgical music, but her Ordo virtutum is the oldest musical drama that was NOT written for church use. Her music was virtually undiscovered for hundreds of years; she was first recognized as … Continue reading Hildegard von Bingen
Hymns are beautiful truths poetically told, hung on a rhythm, and held in a melody. This makes them memorable. Hymn study is extremely simple. Sing the hymn once a day. We’ve provided you links to different versions to enjoy as well as a link to download the sheet music for the hymn. Some of this … Continue reading The Doxology (or Praise God from whom All Blessings Flow)
Picture Study is simple. Look at the picture with your children for a few minutes and then talk about what you saw. Try to remember as much about the piece as you can. Enjoy the beauty of it. Art is not a chore; it’s a pleasure. Beginning our Ancient Beauty theme, we’ve chosen some pieces … Continue reading Lorenzo Ghiberti
