Last summer, Nathan and Sarah Tillman wanted to visit France. Wanting to make it a fun, frugal and useful trip, (as well as a celebration of their completing their master’s degrees), they decided to try a new idea. They bartered room and board with a French homeschooling family in return for tutoring English and Latin [...]
“It is a mistake to focus on what you want to do before you’ve decided who you want to be.”- Andy Stanley
Mt Sophia’s mission is the help our students maximize their unique potential so that they can create a culture for Christ.
That is something for us all to DO.
But we cannot DO things until after [...]
Twenty-two years ago, it was, I started homeschooling.
Often over the years, homeschooling families (especially dads) would bemoan the fact that our kids couldn’t play school sports.
Of course, there were league sports- but school playing school- that was not possible for our kids.
Last year, the tide turned when the DIAA allowed Mt Sophia’s swim team to [...]
Each year I ask the upperclassmen about their favorite books of the year. I thought I’d share with you, in case you need some good reading:
Student Suggested Booklist
Any book by Ted Dekker (These BOLDED books were chosen by several students.)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court- Mark Twain
Cry the Beloved Country- Alan Paton
Datable- Justin Lookadoo
The [...]
Kyle Thorp (class of 2009) is an engineering student at Grove City College. He hosts a blog called Tell Your Story.
I encourage you to read the first eleven verses of John chapter 12. The passage is about the woman who annoited Jesus with an expensive perfume. Judas was angry at this reckless act the woman [...]
Christa will be a senior this year. She has a great handle on Shakespeare and homeschooling:)
To stay homeschooled or not to stay homeschooled—that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of “real” high school’s drama,
Or to take arms against a sea of stereotypes
And, by opposing, end them. To stay [...]
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