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Home-School Pencil Sharpening activity with Arajah, Zenairoh, and Selena

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This is a pencil sharpening activity we did today.  Pencils do need sharpening.  We use some of the manual style pencil sharpeners.  We try not to use any electrical or high-tech gadgets for pencils.  It is not necessary.  Take a look at some of these traditional, old-fashioned pencil sharpeners.  They need to be bolted down.  But we had them without bolting to a furniture surface.  It would be nice to attach these sharpeners to a school desk or table in the School-House!  Maybe that will be an activity we can do in the near future. Thanks for looking! Now we have pencils for writing and drawing!

We do home-school here, you're not alone. It is a good trend.

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If you are new to the concept of home-school (not relying upon public school), then you're welcome! You are not alone, we do home-school here. It's a big integral part of life. In fact, it's a trend, definitely on the increase.  As parents, we look at this as being more involved. We are taking responsibility for our children and family is better because of it. We look at it this way - we don't agree with the regular, American lifestyle. By this, we mean the post-modern, high-tech, dysfunctional life of separating each member, segregating and the huge generational gap. Take a good hard look at it, we did and we woke up to the Truth! What's true is that it's not healthy and not efficient and not better. It's surely not the only way to live. It is just one option or type of lifestyle. The other option is to keep family together. Take responsibility for your own. The children are yours. (not the state's, not the religion's, not t

We use technology, but we don't want to depend upon it

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Technology is a part of the post-modern world.  This is the civilization we live in, circa 2018.  The inventors and factories are always creating more and new stuff appears every day, it is rapidly changing and always in-flux.  Yet we can decide how we handle this ever-changing situation.  Technology should never rule over us, the robots are not in charge. We also believe that the "articial intelligence" within the computers  (a.k.a. A.I.) will never be better than the human being.  Certainly not better than our true potential; and that is what we should be reaching, not for the lowest common denominator of life.  The lowest common denominator of the human scale would be people who depend on technology and computers to do everything for them.  In other words, they can't think for themselves.  We are not that way! Let's use our brains and think about it!! The BRAIN is a "terrible thing to waste". We accept technology and we use it.  However we are not

Home-School students "in the schoolhouse" doing their studies

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Our Home-School students on field-trips and "in the schoolhouse" doing their studies.  Here is an assortment of photo images, to observe the home school of Civilogy Instituto in-action!

Welcome everybody!

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At the playground Welcome!  Everybody is welcome!  This is our first post.  We have been homeschooling for several years now.  It has come time to do this website to share our experiences and methods. Some info is already available on our own facebook website. We will soon share the info here along with a lot of other goodies! Stay tuned.