Homeschool Novena and Some General Tips

Greetings fellow Schola Rosa Arizona co-opers. This is Becky, your friendly blogger, coming to you half asleep at this late hour live from the blogosphere where all the exciting adventures of homeschooling get digitally captured in the annals of Cyberspace for all eternity.

I'm using this initial post to get my feet wet in Blogger. So please forgive me as I get to know the program and play around with the site. The blog will be a work in progress, and because we don't know exactly how everything will run, it will take some time to develop a blogging flow and know what kinds of things should be put up as posts, what should get pinned to the blog site itself, what should just go out as an email, and what should be dumped in the recycle bin because it's just pointless.

Please feel free to send me information you would like to include on the blog (unless it's pointless), including pictures, fun memes, video links, or articles worth sharing with our co-op members, as well as general updates, resources, ideas, tips, or events that pertain to the general curriculum and co-op days.

If you would like me to post something, keep the following points in mind when you provide details regarding things like a field trip opportunity or specifics regarding your class:

• who
• what
• when
• where
• pertinent extras

I will also accept bribes.

Now, because this is specific to Schola Rosa, all submissions should pertain to the co-op or at least homeschooling in general. Please don't use this as a forum to shamelessly promote yourself or your personal blogs or talks or books (except if you're Sherry Boas, because she actually has some books... and they're awesome... and she's going to kill me for doing this).

But anything else, including all complaints about anything, should be reserved for the general SHHE yahoo group, Facebook, or your husband. Examples of things you wouldn't want to send are photos of your pet you're trying to get rid of (uh, no, I'm not talking about the adorable 1-year-old cat we're trying to re-home) or random items you have for sale like the audio equipment I'm hocking on Craigslist. I just won't post those things here because this is a respectable place for Schola Rosa-related activities only.

Now that I've gotten that disclaimer out of the way, here are a couple things I thought might be beneficial to everyone.

In case you didn't catch the homeschooling novena that recently circulated through our beloved Sacred Heart Home Educators group, you can check it out here -- a nice way to kick off our first week.

Just a reminder, we'll be practicing the hand gestures to accompany the CCM song for the Bible History Timeline Week 1 this Monday, so check out the video below, which is also linked in the sidebar to the right.

If you would like to buy a general timeline for your home, check out this one at Rainbow Resource Center. I also have a write-in version of the Jeff Cavins Bible Timeline Chart that I filled in many moons ago at a Mark Hart seminar, and I'm now using it as a visual aid. You can purchase the printed color version at Ascension Press for $4.95, which of course you can't populate with other events but provides a detailed chronology of salvation history complete with color-coded covenantal events and a genealogy that traces the lineage of Jesus throughout the biblical narrative.





Have a great weekend. Don't expect all my posts to be this entertaining, informative, typo-free verbose. I only have so much brain power I can dedicate to life, and I have to save most of it pretending to educate my children.

See you on Monday!