From Jim Erskine at Homeschool Freebie of the Day: Our friends at Yesterday’s Classics have put together an amazing package of 225 classic living books for your kindle, nook, or other e-reader device at a stunning price for one week only. You can see it here. (BE SURE TO Scroll down the page to see […]

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Bluedorn, First of all, thank you for speaking at the CHEACT conference in Austin. My wife and I both benefited from all of your talks. We especially enjoyed the Seven Undeniable Truths of Homeschooling and The Practical Trivium. After your talk on Teaching Classical Languages we decided to add Greek to […]

Antoine Lavoisier — conducted experiments that showed that respiration was essentially a slow combustion of organic material using inhaled oxygen.

Ye sons of earth prepare the plough by William Cowper (1731-1800) Ye sons of earth prepare the plough, Break up your fallow ground! The Sower is gone forth to sow, And scatter blessings round. The seed that finds a stony soil Shoots forth a hasty blade; But ill repays the sower’s toil, Soon withered, scorched, […]

…that you read aloud to your children.

I want to share with you some of the short stories we have enjoyed over the years. Our three favorite authors of short stories are Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and O Henry, and we particularly enjoy listening to these stories as books-on-tape. Twain’s stories have been recorded by numerous people, some better than […]

Hello Laurie, In the book Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the book Rascal by Sterling North was a recommendation. When I saw Rascal on audio book at my local library I checked it out. We have listened to the whole thing and really enjoyed the story — it’s a great one for boys. Now, in […]

by James Smith, The Pleading Savior, 1861 I do not pray that you should take them out of the world but that you should keep them from the evil. John 17:15 We may be in the world — and not be injured by it. The world is the field in which we are to labor […]

Dear Harvey and Laurie, I just published my Psalms Reader with CreateSpace. The book contains 90 Psalms from the 1650 Scottish Psalter that I felt were appropriate for little children. I did not include the Imprecatory Psalms. All the polysyllables are divided into syllables. The design of the book is to help students improve reading […]

Photo taken December 14, 1973 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.