Monday Mix-ins: Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass By George Kendall Warren {Public Domain via Wikipedia} “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious
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Bringing Nature to Our Home Days
{photos by Jessica Pahl} “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can
Monday Mix-ins: The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad Sculpture {photo by Battle Creek CVB via Flickr / CC BY 2.0} This week we are learning about the Underground Railroad – that secret network of people,
Monday Mix-ins: The California Gold Rush
Abandoned Gold Rush Building, Bodie, California {photo by Terry Feuerborn via Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0} Gold fever! With all the westward expansion happening in the 1800s, nothing lured people
Wednesday Wonders: Two for One!
{photos by Stephanie Ridley} Today we have not one, but two wonder moments to post, sent in by the Ridley family. Stephanie and Bryan Ridley are a Track B family
Three Tips for All About Spelling
It’s March, and we are well over halfway through our spelling books this year – hooray! Then again, we know that sometimes spelling is hard to get to, and can
Monday Mix-ins: Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
Oregon Trail Reenactment By Unknown or not provided (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons This week we are moving west! Or the young United States
Revisiting Workboxes
{photo by Jenny Bischoff} Who remembers The Workbox System? This versatile organizational system, developed by a homeschooling mom named Sue Patrick, promotes independence, focus, and learning. It's been a while
Monday Mix-ins: King Cotton and the Abolitionist Movement
A cotton plantation on the Mississippi, 1884 {Public domain via Wikipedia} This week we return to the difficult and shameful topic of plantation slavery, but now the focus begins to
Making Poetry Fun
At SLO Classical Academy, students read and memorize poetry at every level, from Little Wonders up through high school. We want to make this skill fun and easy in the
