5th Grade Curriculum Bundle
By Alyssa EspositoUsing Apologia’s science, math, and worldview curricula ensures that your student has an exciting year of exploration and wonder. Following the suggested curriculum path, for 5th Grade, your student will spend the year learning about God’s amazing, intricate design of the human body, learning how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and decimals, determining...Read More
It’s Not Easy to Climb Smooth Mountains
By Davis CarmanOur American culture likes things to be quick and easy. Think about breakfast. Cereal with milk takes seconds to prepare, even if you top it off with some healthy fruit. Instant oatmeal gets right to the point: “instant.” Just add hot water and…voilà!…your breakfast is ready. There are even some new entries to the breakfast...Read More
Words Have Meaning
By Davis CarmanNow the whole earth had one language and the same words. — Genesis 11:1 Language is a creation of God. Think back to the city of Babel. At the time, the world had one language, consisting of words with a distinct meaning. When the people started a building project to make a name for themselves,...Read More
Absolutely Not! Say That Ten Times Fast
By Davis CarmanAbsolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? — Romans 6:2 (NET) When the author of a book in the Bible repeats a word or phrase multiple times, we should pay attention. After all, the Holy Spirit inspired the authors. Yet these men were different from each other. And their...Read More
Mountain Biking by Faith
By Davis CarmanLook to Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) I often end my messages by saying that I am walking by faith and enjoying the homeschooling adventure of a lifetime. I’ve written catalog and blog articles describing how home education is a walk by faith. I recently took up mountain biking. I love the time it gives me outside...Read More
The Heavenly Voice of God
By Davis CarmanThe heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1) God speaks in many ways. Some heard His voice audibly. Moses was the first to hear the voice of God directly when he encountered the burning bush. Years later, God called out to the young Samuel in the middle...Read More
Things to Think About in a Post-Roe World: Attitudes and Practices in this Providential Moment
By Davis CarmanAnd God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…’ — Genesis 1:28 I want you to have kids, kids, and more kids. That pretty much sums up the first words God said to the first man and woman. How well has humankind fared in...Read More
Why We Love Apologia Math
By Alyssa EspositoMany students grow up loving math. They love the way it’s a universally understood language and that it has finite answers and patterns. Breezing through their curriculum, they enjoy all things numbers. But there are also many students who struggle with, or simply don’t enjoy math. For those students, there was a point in time,...Read More