Education is a Ray not a Segment

Education is a ray

Growing up, I counted down the years until my education would be complete. Five more years of elementary school. Two more years of middle school. One more year of high school. Then what? College! On graduation day, my learning was complete.  Now I could get busy living, right?! What was I thinking?  Does education end…

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Constitutional Literacy…What does it really mean?

Constitutional Literacy

Two weeks ago as my Challenge I class was outlining the United States Constitution, we found ourselves desperately confused.  We read the document line by line and identified the roles and responsibilities of Congress as outlined in Article 1.  It didn’t take long for one student to say, “If the Congress is responsible for all of this,…

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Carting it All to Community Day at Classical Conversations

This post may contain affiliate links.  Please see my full disclosure policy for more details. Once you hit Essentials, all of the sudden you’re faced with the dilemma of how to carry all of your gear to and from your community.  Often, you’ll see a fleet of rolly carts rolling into a church as the…

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Using a Sketch Notebook for Taking Notes

When I was in college, I loved to doodle while I was taking notes.  Even though it may have looked like I wasn’t paying attention, the doodling slowed my brain down enough so that I could pay attention to what was being said.  Occasionally my drawings related to the materials, but more often than not…

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Ready, Set, Race! 5 minutes of Rapid Recall

Essentials Chart Race

So often our homeschooling day becomes filled with tasks that need to get checked off of a list, that essentials like drawing maps, copying charts, or memorizing vocabulary are overlooked and forgotten. To make things worse, the only way to memorize maps, charts, or vocab is through daily repetition.  When we started Challenge A, we…

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