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Fallacy Detective Test
If you would like to receive the final test for The Fallacy Detective, email us at info at christianlogic dot com with your full name, and tell us if you are a homeschooling parent or a classroom teacher.
Visible Progress
Taken from the blog of Julia Torgrimson. Used with permission. A year ago last spring, I was in a state of confusion. My state was due to my 4 yr. old son. I was waffling back and forth about whether I should have him tested for learning difficulties. There were some...
Photo of the Day — Monday
Our winter hardy bamboo.
Biological Classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Procyonidae Genus: Procyon Species: Procyon lotor But you can just call her Trudie.
Thank you…..
Tim, for fixing my blog.
Homeschooling in Sweden
Hello! I am American and my husband is Swedish. We are homeschooling our 3 kids. We live in Sweden, near Stockholm, and would like to know if you know of any competitions that they can enter if we don't reside in the US. (Our permanent US address is in Illinois,...
Pluto
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Similarities and Differences
Your methods differ from that of the other classical educators. They believe that the time is ripe during the grammar stage for the "filling of facts" and encourage the memorization of many things. They begin Latin in the third grade and start with Saxon 1 in...
A Fresh Look at an Ordinary Subject
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Plagiarism
The Wall Street Journal August 15, 2006 Student Plagiarism Stirs Controversy at Ohio University by Robert Tomsho "To earn his master's degree in mechanical engineering at Ohio University, Vipul Ranatunga aimed to make improvements to a computer-aided design system...
College
I am happily homeschooling 3 children, ages 16 1/2 and 15 (both girls), and an 8 1/2 yr old boy. The children love homeschooling. However, I am suddenly feeling more alone than ever in what I do. I am in a large support group in my town, but more and more homeschool...
Ears From Harvested Sheaves
By J.C. Philpot August 15 O that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his dwelling! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. Job 23:3, 4 Was not Job in the same spot where we often are? If this aged patriarch had not...
Rescued Baby Bird
Is it a quail or a Bobwhite?
Spelling and Phonics
Rachel Thomson has posted a review of our Handy English Encoder Decoder.
Where is Mr. Pippin Today?
With Woolworth the sheep in the Cumbrian Mountains of England
Photo of the Day — Thursday
My mom and niece Arianna
Summertime Fun
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CHASK and NATHHAN Need Help
Here is a letter we received from Christian Homes and Special Kids and National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network Dear Friends of CHASK, This is just a note thanking you for sharing in the past with CHASK. You have truly helped birth parents who are...
Homeschool Carnival for This Week
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Homeschool Blogger Sponsor of the Week – Winners!
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Recommended Sermons
Two more favorite sermons from Sermon Audio: Swallowing Life's Bitter Pills by Gregory N. Barkman Mr. Barkman encourages us to look at trials as God looks at them. When you are in school, you have tests to see how well you learned the material. On the radio you hear,...
Vitruvius
Taken from Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) fl. late first century b.c. & early first century a.d. Vitruvius was a Roman writer, engineer, and architect for the Emperor...
Who is the Artist?
Who painted this picture? The 4th and 7th persons to EMAIL me the correct answer each win their choice of one of Johannah Bluedorn's art prints.
Contest Winners
How will I ever choose just 3 winners!! They all deserve to win a prize. As I was reading through your entries, it made me think back to when my children were young and how we spent the summers. Our experiences were very close to many of yours -- gardening, canning,...
Please…..
OK, ok -- one more chapter before naptime.
Sale at Trivium Pursuit
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Trivium Pursuit Contest
This contest will be a little different from what we have done in the past. Instead of emailing me your responses, I'd like you to post them as comments on this blog entry. Sometime tomorrow afternoon I'll choose the winning responses from among all the comments. The...
Free Offer From the Math Worksheet Site
I’m doing my catalog run-throughs, have read Teaching the Trivium again, and am comparison shopping everything on my 28-item list for the coming year. I've got 3 boys, 9yo, 7yo and almost 2yo. We did 2 years of Saxon math, but have been much happier with Singapore...
Carnival
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A Mystery
by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn of Christian Logic, Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. This article contains a mystery. Your job is to use some critical thinking skills to answer some questions and solve the mystery. This mystery is for children and parents....