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Traveling Salesman – Branching Out to New Curriculum Ideas with Southwestern Advantage Is Southwestern Advantage curriculum supplemental or is it more? A young college-aged traveling salesman arrived at our front door on a bike this afternoon selling curriculum. I thought that only happened back in the 1950’s, yet here he was – a young college student trying to earn money to get through school. He was selling a curriculum based out of Tennessee that is Biblically based and focuses primarily…

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Learning Latin is the basis of all languages All languages come from a common core of root words. Why do you think Europe teaches Latin to their youngest grades? At its core is the foundation to all other languages, including English. Not only will learning Latin provide avenues towards more literacy and comprehension with other languages in your child’s future, it will also help them to better understand and master the English language. Finding a Latin curriculum is challenging and…

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Why Apologia Works Apologia has a variety of curriculums, but we enjoy the science because it is not just your typical textbook and workbook. This curriculum company has the child at heart, knows what interests a student and has creative ways to display the complicated content of science in a colorful, friendly way with Godly messages throughout. Why We Chose Apologia for Our Science… At the beginning of our homeschool adventure, our eldest child was a guinea pig for many…

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Growing up in a family full of professional musicians… …there was always another melody rising to the rooftops. If you didn’t have the music blasting or the guitar strumming, you weren’t living. So you would think that because of that immersion that I would be musically inclined and play instruments etc. Wrong. I didn’t receive a single talent gene in my body. However, a life filled with music has taught me one necessary truth: it is beautiful. It seems like…

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