SCHOLA: Presto-chango!

Monday, July 18, 2005

Presto-chango!

To prevent squabbles, and mostly to prevent anyone from swiping the book before I'm done, we've agreed to postpone the reading of The Yearling ("Four chapters, Mom, and so far, no baby deer...!") and replace it with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Tonight I was on auto-pilot, working to reread the first 100+ pages to get everyone caught up.

I must say it's a nice change from the last few read-alouds where everybody wiggled and squirmed and interrupted for the first several minutes. Tonight they settled down immediately with nary a peep.

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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.