‘General BPA’ Archives
Gentle BPA
With all the trappings of Biblical Principle Approach--word studies, 4-Ring, notebooks, the Red Books, Rudiments, etc., you can easily get overwhelmed and [...]
Transitioning to Biblical Principle Approach
BPA is so exciting, so life changing, so excellent that those new to this approach can, in their zeal, overdo things and burnout quickly. It can leave you [...]
R Road book giveaway
I haven't had a contest in a long time and I love this book, so I thought I would give away a copy to a fortunate reader. Lisa Hodgen's new book Freedom [...]
Life is tasty in small bites
Being an all or nothing kind of person, I tend to "go big or go home." I struggle with the idea of just a little of anything, which is why I avoid certain [...]
Enjoying a good word study
Word studies are hard. And dry. And time-consuming. At least that's how some people see it. Even the title makes me chortle. Who ever heard of such a thing as [...]
Hope for the next generation
My oldest daughter (10) entered this year's essay contest from our state's Christian homeschool organization. The topic was "The Role of Christians in [...]
Creating unit studies using the Biblical Principle Approach
Unit studies (which I prefer to call integrated studies) are wonderful. Teaching all the kids all together, planning one stream of lessons for the whole bunch [...]
10 reasons to buy the curriculum guides even if you don’t use the Noah Plan
The Noah Plan curriculum guides from the Foundation for American Christian Education are hefty tomes full of almost anything you need to know to teach a [...]
Where our allegiance lies
This blog is not known to be particularly involved in current events and other potentially controversial things. However I heard a bishop say something last [...]
The Case for Excellence part 1
In American society today there seems to be an allergy to excellence, at least to the Christian idea of excellence. On the one hand you have children afraid [...]
