This segment will include 24 weeks of memory work in the following areas: English, Timeline, Bible, Math, and Latin. Science, History, and Geography will be covered in the Science and History time blocks. Memory Work recitation is a classical skill for brain training that allows a student to develop memory pegs for which future knowledge can be hung.

Presentations will be assigned for 12 weeks per student; half of the class will present one week and the remaining half will present the following week. Topic recommendations will be given and opportunities for choosing their own topics will be available throughout the year.

Mystery of History is written from a Christian, young-earth, perspective, and teaches children to see God's hand throughout history! Written in a conversational style, many lessons are presented in the form of mini-biographies, integrating fascinating stories with the events of the time. The four-year cycle:

Creation to the Resurrection
The Early Church and Middle Ages
The Renaissance, Reformation, and Growth of Nations
Wars of Independence to Modern Times

We will be studying science in a four-year cycle using a curriculum from Learning with Friends. The projects and experiments serve as a vehicle for quality conversation surrounding God’s creation and design. We equip you to lead your family in discovering an awe for God’s creation using simple materials you can find in your home while developing new questions and insights into the world around us.

We will be approaching art and music from a perspective of appreciation and imitation of master creators. Students will gain awareness and appreciation and have the opportunity to practice basic artistic skills while studying select works from a variey of great artists and composers throughout history. We will be using Still Singing for music theory and tin whistle practice. Still Singing “focuses on hymns people have been using for hundreds of years to help them focus on God’s truth and trust Him in the hardest moments.”

We will use the Shurley English curriculum to help develop an understanding and nurture a love of the grammar and mechanics of the English language. Appealing to all styles of learners, students will repeatedly practice old and new skills, developing a mastery of English in reading, writing, and even thinking skills.

This segment will be a time of fun mental math activities and games used to provide a brain break between the English grammar and writing segments.

Students learn to write with assignments that correlate with the current year's history cycle by using select Institure for Excellence in Writing's (IEW's) History-Based Writing Lessons. This course teaches students to write using the methods taught in IEW's parent program, Teaching Writing Structure and Style. The student workbook includes assignments, outlines, source texts, checklists, vocabulary cards, and grammar helps.