by Anne Elliott | Apr 28, 2013 | Blog, Homeschooling Philosophy
We are often contacted about our stance on the Common Core State Standards (or CCS). The following is our official statement: We believe that God’s Word, the Scriptures (all 66 books), are the only “Common Core” that matters. If the states pass a...
by Anne Elliott | Jul 27, 2012 | Blog, Homeschooling Philosophy
As we’re preparing to launch our new world history curriculum (Daniel’s Statue: Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome), I’ve been really pondering what we homeschoolers should do about teaching pagan mythology to our children. Should we teach about Greek...
by Anne Elliott | Jul 6, 2012 | Blog, Homeschooling Methods
How many more weeks until school starts at your house? We’re planning to start back up again the first week of August — and it just recently dawned on me how soon that will be! So I thought I’d make a list of the things I need to get done in the four...
by Anne Elliott | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog, Homeschooling Methods, Homeschooling Philosophy
Sometimes we mothers spend all our time figuring out which curriculum we should purchase for our children, or how to make lesson plans for the coming year, and we completely forget that we as teachers also need to grow and learn. Here are 10 ways that you can...
by Anne Elliott | Feb 10, 2012 | Bible, Blog, Homeschooling Methods, Homeschooling Philosophy
This post was written in 2012, before we started writing curriculum for all sorts of subjects over at HomeschoolingTorah and here at Foundations Press. You know what would be awesome? Awesome would be a camera crew going into a variety of homes on an average Tuesday...