Our Goals
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To focus on godly character training for our children through respect for God, His Word, authority, and peers.
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To encourage students to reach their God-given potential in a Christian atmosphere by providing accountability in our learning environment and an acceptable social climate.
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To provide essential and practical subjects for junior and senior high grades and interactive unit studies for elementary and preschool levels, which will raise independent, life-long learners equipped with necessary and appropriate study skills.
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To assist parents in raising children for Christ who can think and reason from the Scriptures, thereby refuting error and clinging to the truth.
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To set high academic standards, including options for honors classification, AP courses, and information to prepare students for successful collegiate or other careers.
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To provide a comprehensive preschool through junior high program based on an 8-year cycle of themes.
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To be sensitive to students’ individual learning styles as well as those with learning disabilities.
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To use a classical approach to education from a Christian perspective.
Benefits
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For the Students
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Learn to submit to authority other than the parents
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Gain valuable study skills
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Listening/being attentive
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Sitting still
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Note-taking
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Test-taking
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Organizing
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THINKING
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Learn important and in-depth information about a variety of useful subjects
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Learn group skills: planning, thinking, cooperating, corroborating, having respect for one another
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Develop practical recess skills such as throwing a good pass or practicing good chatting skills!
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Learn and practice several character traits
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Gain self-discipline skills:
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following a schedule
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meeting deadlines
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being prompt
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being responsible
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responding under pressure
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Learn patriotic songs and the pledge of allegiance – and what they really mean
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Develop lasting and meaningful friendships and learn how to relate positively to others
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Practice valuable clean-up or child-sitting skills
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Have an opportunity for public speaking and being on stage
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Practice becoming an independent life-long learner and being self-motivated
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Develop the ability to work with others, become unselfish and learn to be satisfied
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Gain the skills vital to success in college and career
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Learn to be responsible for personal items.
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For the Teachers / “Parents”
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Develop effective teaching skills
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Be s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d in areas you didn’t know you could be!
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Gain an education that you missed while growing up
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Fill your mind with all kinds of interesting tidbits (a walking encyclopedia!)
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Become patient, tolerant and self-controlled
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Get to know new and exciting people
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Develop friendships and a deeper bond of Christian sisterhood
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Adapt to working alongside others who have differing views, ideas and strengths
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Be challenged to be all you can be!
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Learn to be prompt, orderly, versatile and more organized
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Re-learn patriotic songs that you haven’t sung in a long time
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Learn and practice character traits along with your children
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Understand the meaning of the pledge of allegiance
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Practice accountability, responsibility, and charity
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Develop the ability to plan and/or do clever skits in front of an audience
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Become a good problem-solver
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Create exciting lesson plans and actually use them successfully
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Self-confidence and realize your call to homeschool is a noble and worthwhile ambition
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Gain insights into other families’ home-school philosophies and how-to’s
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Have the opportunity to learn subjects that you are unfamiliar with or are uncomfortable teaching
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Practice COOPERATION
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In short, become a better teacher, a better friend, a better person
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