Trivium Pursuit Blog
Birthday
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Sermon Audio
How to Have a Stable Home by Jim Berg Includes traits of an "others-centered" man. Identifying Satan's Voice by Charles A. Stewart Satan is constantly trying to put his thoughts into our mind. Satan's voice will come to you in your moments of vulnerability...
Trivium Pursuit Scratch and Dent/Used Book Sale
UPDATE: These items are all sold. Please call 309-537-3641 (today) to order any of these books. We can't take orders by email. You can combine orders if you would like to purchase from our regular catalog also. Please pay by credit card or Paypal. Ten dollar ($10.00)...
Sale Coming
A Trivium Pursuit Scratch and Dent/Used Book Sale is coming either tomorrow or Monday.
The Arts
I've really enjoyed reading your website. It is full of useful information but it is also navigable which I find many homeschool pages aren't - thank you!! I am newly married and my husband and I would like to homeschool our future children using a classical...
The Logic Classroom
Taken from the Christian Logic Forum: The Logic Classroom has a new web home. Dr. Elihu Carranza gave me the honor of maintaining the Logic Classroom's presence on the Internet by letting me provide it a new home on my domain (tvcobx.net). This is not a new or...
New Puppy
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Book Recommendation
Suggested reading for parents sending their children off to college.....
Logic Contest Winners
Here are the winners in our logic contest. Each person wins a copy of either The Fallacy Detective or The Thinking Toolbox. Heather Young, Oak Creek, WI Maureen O'Brien, Decatur, IL Denise Bryce, Taylorsville, UT Karla Akins, North Manchester, IN Rebecca LaMere,...
Please….
This is my entry to win a camera in the "Capture the Educational Moment" Contest sponsored by Spunky. OK, ok — one more chapter before naptime.
Reformed = Classical?
Dear Harvey, I am new to classical homeschooling. I have heard a lot about Reformed theology lately and was wondering if they are one in the same with classical education. My answer is probably more than you are asking for, but I don't know how to show you what I want...
Baby Greek
Little Bitty Baby Learns Greek
The Homeschool Minute Debut
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Two German Babies
German Baby #1 As Spunky has reported, and as our company this week can attest, homeschooling is illegal in Germany. Learning to walk at the Bluedorn home The Sebastian Engelhardt family from Leipzig, Germany. They would like to move to the U.S. so they can be free to...
A Colorado Bike Trip
Follow Hans Bluedorn as he bikes through Colorado this month. September 4-5: AMTRAK from Galesburg, Illinois to Denver, Colorado; bus to Frisco, Colorado (the bike was shipped ahead) September 6: Acclimate to the altitude September 7: Frisco to Leadville (US city with...
Bible Translations
Dear Harvey, Some time ago, I emailed to Gail Riplinger's site (New Age Bible Versions) about something from her site, that the modern translations are inaccurate partly because they are not interpreting the original languages correctly, as the KJV translators did. I...
Important Vocabulary Test for Americans
A post-9/11 vocabulary test By Michelle Malkin Michelle tells us what Dhimmitude means.
Reasons to Avoid Government Homeschooling Like the Plague
Reasons to Avoid Government Homeschooling Like the Plague and Why Believers Need to Create Christ-Centered, Private Homeschools By Charles and Kathy Lowers Founders of Considering Homeschooling Used with permission. Are you tempted to join government homeschooling (a...
How to Teach Logic to Kids Seminar
Hans & Nathaniel Bluedorn of Christian Logic How to teach logic to kids! Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006 9:00-12:00 a.m. Oak Creek, Wisconsin Seminar Schedule: 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Registration & coffee SESSION I 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Learning to Think Logically When you turn...
Learning Latin
My daughter has been studying Latin using Artes Latinae now since last October. She uses the tapes, which have been quite helpful, however she is now on Unit 13 and has hit a roadblock. She does not do Latin everyday, as we were alternating with Logic. Anyway, what...
Around the Yard
My 20-year-old asparagus patch. Friend or foe? Anyone know what it is?
Photo of the Day — Saturday
Garden
Got grapes. Need tomatoes. Anyone want to barter?
The Fallacy Detective T-Shirts
I'm looking for the Fallacy Detective T-Shirts. In our family you don't get a shirt until you've finished reading the book. So, now my soon to be 14 yr. old daughter and 11 yr. old son are ready for their shirts. If I remember correcty they only come in adult sizes?...
Carnival of Homeschooling
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Logic Contest
Don't forget about the logic contest. I'll be picking the winners sometime this week.
Sheriff, Discharge Those Men!
Long ago I found this essay in an old newletter of some sort. Does anyone know if it actually happened? Laurie From Religious Denominations by Mr. Belcher: In Ray's Baptist Succession is given a description of the defense of John Walker, Lewis Craig and James Childs,...
Voucher Skit
By Harvey Bluedorn Imagine a dialogue between MR. TAXPAYER and MS. VOUCHER. We join the conversation already in progress. MS. Voucher: Private schools spend a lot less money to do a lot better educating than government schools. But most parents have no choice --...
Spiders
Do you know what we would be doing today if my kids were young again? We'd be in the garden studying Black and Yellow Argiope. Towards the end of August, these particular spiders start to make large -- very large -- webs in our garden. There are probably 15 in the...
Contest for Logic Students
In your homeschool, what are some interesting or innovative ways you have used The Fallacy Detective or The Thinking Toolbox? Post your experiences in the comments section of this post. We'll pick the five best responses and each will receive a free book -- either The...