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The SLOCA Blog
Welcome to Down Home, San Luis Obispo Classical Academy’s (SLOCA) blog! We are an independent school providing classical education (with a twist) for preschool-high school (+ infant/toddler care) on the Central Coast of California. SLOCA unites a timeless education with small class sizes and a collaborative, integrated learning environment at every level. For over 15 years, SLOCA has been a place where families matter and every child is seen. This blog is meant to support and encourage parents on the home front because, in so many ways, the heart of what happens in education happens Down Home.
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Together We Read – Coming to a Library Near You!
The atmosphere of the SLOCA library is often the opposite of your traditional library. It is rarely silent. During a “normal” year, our school library is bursting with kids perusing
The Beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement
The 19th amendment to the constitution was ratified in 1920, however, it was decades in the making. This week our LMS and UMS students will look at some of the
Together We Read – Technology
When we thinking of reading a book we often imagine curling up in a cozy spot with a paperback. Technology, however, has provided us with a multitude of ways to
King Cotton & The Abolitionist Movement
This week we return to the difficult and shameful topic of plantation slavery, but now the focus begins to shift to the Abolitionist movement, and the efforts of the heroic
Together We Read – Favorites
“What’s your favorite book?” can sometimes sound like a bland and uncreative get-to-know-you question, but often it serves as a rather enlightening inquiry through which you can learn quite a
The Industrial Revolution, Andrew Jackson & the Trail of Tears
It is another full week and we have mix-ins galore for you as our Primary and Intermediate students focus on The Industrial Revolution and our LMS and UMS discuss our
Together We Chalk
Happy Friday! Today our Development Assistant, Shannon DalPorto, is here to get us excited about our upcoming school fundraiser. Let’s talk chalk! It’s hard to believe that it’s time for
The Humility of Socratic Discussion (Reprise)
If we have had the practice to ask again and again what the author meant, and the discipline and training to return to the text and say, “How do you
The Transportation Revolution
As our country grew during the 1800s so did our need for more efficient means of travel. Enter canals, steamboats, and railroads. Today you’ll find a “boatload” of enrichment resources
Together We Read – Recent Reads
Happy Friday and welcome to our new series Together We Read. Would you consider yourself a bibliophile and/or perhaps a librocubicularist? (A bibliophile is a person who collects or has
James Monroe & John Quincy Adams
Hello and Happy Valentine’s Day! We hope you are enjoying a lovely long weekend. We have a short school week ahead of us but still loads of learning to be
On Being Human: Retreat Reflections
On Friday and Saturday of this last weekend, SLO Classical Academy hosted the On Being Human virtual mini-retreat. As the blog curator, I (Sharon) attended the staff retreat on Friday