The Curriculum Quandry
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! (Matt. 6:22-23, NIV) Every art and every inquiry, and similarity every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has been rightly declared to be that at which all things aim. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics ) To save you from reading this whole post, I’ll start by immediately disclosing the curriculum our family has chosen and then proceed with our justification, in an attempt to ensure that you might glean from our decision making process rather than simply to advertise for our curriculum, which we so far like very much. For Elijah’s Second Grade year we’ve decided to work through Moving Beyond the Page , and have chosen the curriculum for ages 7-9 for English Language arts, Social Sciences and Science...
