Erin M. Hagedon from Tucson, AZ is our winner this time.
Answer:This is an ordered list of gifts traditionally given on a wedding anniversary.
More tomorrow.
We’re very happy here today….

The seventh person to email me (bluedorn AT triviumpursuit DOT com) the correct answer to the following question wins a copy of one of our children’s picturebooks (your choice).
What is the significance of the following list of words?
Paper
Cotton
Leather
Linen
Wood
Iron
Wool
Bronze
Copper
Tin
Steel
Silk
Lace
Ivory
Crystal
China
Silver
Pearl
Coral
Ruby
Sapphire
Gold
Emerald
Diamond
Blue Sapphire
Platinum
Second Diamond
Oak
Email me your answer.

Becca Beard from Flower Mound, TX was the fifth person to answer correctly.
Answer: They both contain famous wedding music — The Bridal Chorus from Wagner’s Lohengrin and the Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Becca wins a copy of My Mommy My Teacher by Johannah Bluedorn.
Stay tuned.

The fifth person to email me (bluedorn AT triviumpursuit DOT com) the correct answer to the following question wins a copy of one of our children’s picturebooks (your choice).
What do Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin and Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream have in common?
Email me your answer.

Contests coming.

Table of Contents for Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn
Chapter One The Transformation of Classical Education: A Biblical Vision for Homeschooling
Breaking out of the Mold
What is Classical Education?
Classical Humanism
A Classical Model and Method
Christian Limits to Classical Uses
What We Mean by “Classical”
Transformation from the Inside Out
The Steps [...]

Penrod by Booth Tarkington (published 1914)
Penrod Schofield is twelve and has been volunteered by his mother for “The Pageant of the Table Round” in which he is to play the Child Sir Lancelot du Lake. He gets himself into a mountain of trouble when he exchanges his gaudy costume of castoff silk stockings and flannel [...]

Sir Gibbie

Bridget McKenzie was Homeschool Blogger of the week.

Brothers, Embrace the Providence of God!
by Mike Evans
For our purposes the word Providence can be defined today as God’s unceasing involvement in the everyday stuff of life whereby He causes His sovereignty to be worked out according to the counsel of His will, for the praise of His glory, and for the good of His [...]