Christian Homeschool

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Another great Blog

Out tooling around finding good resources for moms who homeschool and found this blog! What a gem! By 6 ladies ( I think) that all contribute. Great stuff! Enjoy!





Choosing Home Blog


Here's an excerpt from one of their entries:

radishes



I just had to pop in for a second and exclaim that I LOVE GARDENING! Even when the only thing I seem to be able to REALLY grow is radishes. Well, and potatoes. Lettuce and I seem to have this weird annual problem…I love it, it hates me, I try to grow it, it sees how many ways it can foil my plans. Mine is refusing to grow beyond 2 inches. What, like it doesn’t want me to eat it or something?



What really kills is that Lydia and Lynn’s homes both have LOVELY growing lettuces of all varieties…almost like they are doing it on purpose, just to laugh at me behind my back or something…



ANYways, there is just something about having hands in dirt (and being surrounded by green-smells) that is SO deeply RIGHT. Plus, someday I might even be able to grow something besides radishes. Until then, it’s just delicious to be out there getting bit by mosquitoes (Alaska’s state bird, no joke) and seeing just how much dirt I can get under my formerly clean fingernails.



Delicious isn’t even a wonderful enough word, but I can’t think of a better one. I’ll go back outside and ponder the right word while pulling up chickweed around the raspberries. Did you know that pet lovebirds really enjoy eating chickweed? Supposedly it’s healthy for us peoples, too, but I’m not eating it. Not today. Maybe I can get my 7 year old to try it…



Warmly,

Molly,

Lover of Yahweh, wife to Jeff the Great, mommy of five, and thunker of thinkings.




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Classical Education

Today I stumbled on this really FULL website of information on Classical Home education.  Some really great information here:

Classical Christian Homeschooling: Introduction to Classical Education

Imeneminet and his wife, Tahka

Educational History
Classical Education returns to the time-honored educational theory of the past. The classical method was the only educational theory in pratice in Western Civilization for over two millenia. “Though this system [classical education] did not receive the distinct development connoted by its name until the Middle Ages, still it extends in the history of pedagogy both backwards and forwards; for while, on the one hand, we meet with it among the classical nations, the Greeks and Romans, and even discover analogous forms as forerunners in the educational system of the ancient Orientals, its influence, on the other hand, has lasted far beyond the Middle Ages, up to the present time.” The Seven Liberal Arts by Otto Willmann, The Catholic Encyclopedia

Classical Christian Homeschooling: Introduction to Classical Education


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