SCHOLA: Our Fourth

Monday, July 05, 2004

Our Fourth

We celebrated for two days, starting Saturday night with our neighbor's annual party. We're not invited, but we can watch the hour-long professional fireworks show and hear the live band from our dock.

Fireworks over the water are doubly beautiful.

Sunday the kids donned their red, white, and blue outfits, and made a Fourth of July Lego parade with the America Rock video playing in the background.

Here's the parade led by George Washington on horseback, followed by the Statue of Liberty, American flag float, 2004 float, Women's VOTE float, and the Lincoln Memorial float, as they circle around the Washington Monument. I love a parade!

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.