2021 Conference, Blog, Marriage, Our Philosophy & Methods, Reading, Videos
Books That Give Your Children Godly Role Models SPEAKER: Anne Elliott DESCRIPTION: In this special session, Anne shares ideas for reading books and focusing on the positive, the good, and the lovely. She also explains how to use the following notebooking pages....
2021 Conference, Blog, Marriage, Our Philosophy & Methods, Videos
The Heritage and History of Homeschooling SPEAKERS: Christine Miller and Anne Elliott DESCRIPTION: In this special conference session, Christine Miller tells us about the unique history of homeschooling, the throwing down of the Greek educational model, and the rising...
2021 Conference, Blog, Marriage, Our Philosophy & Methods, Parenting, Videos
Building a Family Vision SESSION: 1 SPEAKERS: Kraig and Anne Elliott DESCRIPTION: A family vision is a family’s purpose and reason for existence. In this session, we’re going to learn how to discover what Yah’s vision is for our own family and how to...
Blog, History, Using the Bible in Every Subject
There are many good history curriculum available to homeschoolers today. Why write another one? One reason is that we want to use the Bible as our primary textbook when homeschooling our children. We believe that the Bible is 100% accurate and was written by our...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods, Parenting
There are many ways to describe how children grow into maturity. Classical education, for instance, uses the “grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric” stages to show how education needs to change as children get older. Christine Miller explains it: The Grammar Stage –...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods, Teaching Multiple Ages, Using the Bible in Every Subject
Last week we talked about the importance of learning to read the Scriptures clearly. As we said, in our curriculum we want to emphasize literacy — the ability to understand written words, to apply them to life, and to use language with proficiency in order to...
Blog, Reading, Using the Bible in Every Subject
Why is it important to teach our children to read instructions? Why do we spend the first ten years (or so) of a child’s life emphasizing basic literacy skills, such as phonics, spelling, handwriting, and fluency in reading? Why should we expect that a child...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods, Using the Bible in Every Subject
Here’s a practical question: Why even buy curriculum? Do I need it? One of my goals is to teach every single subject using the Bible as my primary textbook. Even though we’ve laid out some practical ways to do that here on our website, it’s still a...
Blog, Mornings with Anne, Our Philosophy & Methods
Boker tov and welcome! Today we’re going to discuss our underlying philosophy for homeschooling. We’ll start today by looking at 2 Timothy 3:16-17, and we’ll continue throughout the week, looking at what the Scriptures say about the foundation of a...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods
I received an email from a friend this morning: Hey, Anne, I have a question. Would your lesson plans be able to be applied to non-Torah-observant Christians? I was recommending you to a friend of ours from church who homeschools her son and wants to be able to add...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods, Teaching Multiple Ages
Recently when our family was fighting a lot of colds, and life was especially busy, we got a bit behind in our schooling. I was lying in bed one morning, trying to figure out how to keep school going even during busy times. I remembered the words of the Shema, and I...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods, Parenting
This is a guest post by Hannah Manderino of http://radicalfemininity.com. Is there any company as well known and widely accepted as Disney? From its incredible theme parks to outstanding movies, you can find the influences of this company nearly everywhere you turn....
