On Thursday, well over 20,000 people of all ages filled Parliament Hill in Ottawa to march in support of life and to protest female gendercide which occurs in Canada as well as throughout the world. As homeschoolers, we are privileged to make political activity part of our learning. Our children are part of the protest […]
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Review: The Way Things Work, Animated
For years we, like many homeschoolers, have enjoyed David Macaulay’s book The Way Things Work. Recently we discovered that portions of this book have been animated! The movies give you both the science and the big woolly mammoths of the book. Originally produced for the BBC, this set of 26 videos, each 13 minutes long, […]
St. Matthew Passion by Bach, Free Online
Easter is approaching, and it is good to focus on our Lord’s death and resurrection. When we lived in the Netherlands, one Easter tradition some of our friends had was attending the St. Matthew Passion. Others sang in it. Now people all around the world can watch it online. Centuries ago, J. S. Bach wrote […]
Review: A New Home for Lily by Kinsinger and Fisher
Lily Lapp has moved to Pennsylvania, to a new Amish community. So much is different: the kitchen with its orange counters, the school girls, the church, her little bed in the hall. The house is ugly; the ideas are different; and Lily longs for her old life in New York. But it gets better. Father […]
Free from Elisha Press: The Reunion
A while ago I posted a review of The Reunion, a little Christian book that I couldn’t really categorize. I wrote, “Novel? Fairytale? Manual? Whatever else it may be, The Reunion is a delightful, cozy story with a deep commitment to Jesus.” Now you and your children can enjoy it at no cost, because Rachel McIntire […]