Category: Archive

Hanging Lantern Review Reading + Release Party

This past Tuesday, Jun 7, 2022, Hanging Lantern Review, SLOCA High School’s literary magazine, officially released and celebrated its 9th print issue. While you may have never heard of Hanging

A Day in the Life – Olivia Yeung

Happy Friday! To round out our Day in the Life series featuring our new Full-Time Program, we have a special post from one of our students, Olivia Yeung. Our post

Teaching Character Through Literature: Stewardship

Today we have some literature suggestions for our Character Trait of the Month – Stewardship! Curated by our lovely SLOCA librarians, these would also be fun to read over the

History this Week: Ancients Wrap Up

Happy Monday! As we near the end of the 2021 school year, and the demise of the Roman Empire, we here at Down Home hope you have enjoyed our History

A Day in the Life – LMS/UMS Full Time Program

Happy Friday! We hope you have some fun plans for the Memorial Day weekend coming up. Today we have a special guest post by Matt Philipp, Learning Lead for our

The Character Issue: Stewardship

Welcome to our last character trait for the year, Stewardship! As the days get longer and summer starts calling, we may be feeling challenged in the stewardship of our time,

SLOCA Somebodies: Cai WenJi

It’s time for our last Somebody of the year—CAI WENJI. While not famous in the West, Cai Wenji was a Chinese composer and poet who lived around the same time

A Day in the Life – Full Time Program Edition

Happy Friday! Today we have a guest post from our amazing Primary/Intermediate Learning Leader, Will McCurdy. As the Full Time Hybrid program is new to SLOCA this year, we here

History This Week: Gladiators & The Colosseum

Happy Monday! Today we have some resources for our study of Roman gladiators and the Colosseum this week. All links are for educational use, but please preview to see if