Education

When we sing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Latin I often wonder how much my children understand. So, today I cut and paste Psalm 84 into two columns, printed out four copies, cut them up and asked my students to put them back together.

It’s the last week of Term 3 and I’ve come up with two things. Orbis Pictus Orbis Pictus by Comenius is the first ever printed picture book for children from way back in 1658 - or 1657 for the first version which was in Hungarian or High Dutch.

C P Bowler wrote a series of booklets aimed at high school students in New Zealand. They make an awesome introduction to Thomistic Philosophy and general Catholic teaching. Each week I’m endeavouring to make up a worksheet with Exercise A of each chapter.

Yesterday saw my first installment in the Living Learning Coding Class. I prepared a server with The genome game which touched on binary coding Blockly Games, which will help with the building blocks for making games Things I installed, but didn’t use:

Multum legendum, non multa — read much, not many. There is a tendency to multiply courses and programs and curricula in homeschooling. Latin is one of the areas where many people attempt it but few actually succeed in becoming comfortable with reading Latin.

Sometimes you can actually find useful things from the National Broacaster. At the moment we’re following two programs: Atoms of Fire Australia’s Prime Ministers The first is available through iview, the second we record through our computer thanks to mythTV.

To save someone the trouble, if possible. Here is a simple map of Australia with state boundaries and rivers Here is a slightly more detailed map and Here is a similar map labelled

Here are some ideas for copywork from Project Gutenberg. Each link takes you to the ebook page. The HTML format is good for cutting and pasting into a word processor (like OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word).

There are several handwriting fonts already designed in METAFONT - the native font engine for TeX and family. Most of these are German, one Austrian, one French - that’s just the ones I know of.

I'm writing this in late August, so maybe not so much a plan as a report. The most exciting new thing for this year has been finding the Classical Liberal Arts Academy(CLAA).