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Homeschooling in a Christian Classical Style

How to build a Wall-e with Lego

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Octavio is enjoying his Homeschooling Break and has developed some models of Wall-e with Lego.

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Octavio writing in cursive

Oops! Octavio’s teacher did not pay attention in the “f” lesson, but now he can do it right.

The “invented letters” are gone!

We are woking in the capital cursive letters.

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Progressing in Cursive‎

English: Texto en Español a continuación
Here a couple of pictures of Octavio working in cursive. ‎

He is using Zaner-Bloser 2C Workbook. He started making half page per day, now he is ‎doing two pages per day. He likes cursive very much and just to invented the letters that still he ‎didn’t know, but this week […]

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A Greek Hupogrammon

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After the command of the Greek Alphabet and some advances in reading, Octavio was ‎‎ready for a new step in learning the language of the New Testament: Writing in Greek. ‎

We started this year following A Greek Hupogrammon by Harvey Bluedorn. This ‎workbook has two basic ‎parts: The first part teaches writing the Greek […]

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Practicing Hebrew

Octavio likes to practice the Hebrew Letters

specially the vowel’s marks:

He wrote YOU (ATAH):

oops , the Alef is not perfect.

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Octavio performing Copywork


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Excerpt from “The Straw Ox”

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Each morning Octavio reads 15 minutes, this is part of his homeschooling daily program. Today he ‎read The Straw Ox –A Russian Folk Take. ‎Here some videos:

Note: Each day he read new stories,new books, this is to avoid memorization of words.
Remember, ‎Phonics Instruction is the key of succeed in reading.‎
Bye, bye

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Octavio’s Homeschooling Program (Second Year)

English (Texto en Español a Continuación)‎
Hello:‎
Now I am ready for a second year of Homeschooling starting in July 12th 2008. I must admit ‎that the first year was a little of try and adjust; now I am more confident and also Octavio ‎maturity and communication skills are making the experience more rich. God permit, Octavio […]

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Octavio’s Graduation 1st Year Homeschooling

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As Octavio likes to say, I did it!, I did it!‎
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We arrived to the end of my First Homeschooling Program; my initial intention was to ‎accomplish a regular American school year of 180 days, and we did it!, but now I see that ‎there is not a reason […]

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Un Plan Diario

Post de Andrea Hazbun – Abril 14, 2008
…Perla, si puedes, me serviría mucho que compartieras conmigo un ejemplo de horario de un día de homeschool…
Gracias.
Hola:‎
Este no es para nada un ejemplo a seguir, es apenas una manera que he encontrado útil ‎para organizar las actividades diarias y el seguimiento (click en la imagen para […]

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