Category: Homeschooling

Educational Travel | Europe Through The Ages

Travel entrepreneur Cindy Hilton is well-known for planning extraordinary learning journeys that coincide with SLOCA’s history cycles.

Vikings | Fun Day Trip Idea, Movies & Resource Lists

Our resources for this week include a lot of fun! Use this blog to enhance you and your student’s interest about Vikings and how culture represents it. Scroll down to see information about visiting a Danish museum, peruse copious and links and lists to inspire and enhance your homeschooling days.

History This Week | Vikings

Supplement the Viking curriculum with resources that interest your family. We have guides about book, videos, and even culinary inspiration!

For Learning’s Sake

Over the summer, our teachers all read The Elements of Teaching by James M. Banner, Jr. and Harold C. Cannon. Now they are exploring each chapter more in depth together during their

Collaborative Model

Our collaborative model of education combines parent involvement and rhythms of structured and less structured instruction to build and maintain a love of learning in our students. In jointly employing

Finding Your Flow

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like

End of Year Reflection

It’s the end of the year already! How did time fly by so fast? When I (Wei) was asked to reflect upon the 2021-2022 school year, I couldn’t have imagined

SLOCA Somebodies: Pliny the Elder

Introducing PLINY THE ELDER! If you feel like you’ve heard this name before, you may be remembering a local California (Sonoma County) beer, whose name was inspired by our Somebody

The Character Issue: Kindness and Respect

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. — Rudyard Kipling Welcome to The Character Issue for the month of October. At SLOCA we