Our very first venture into the world of homeschooling begins Monday. I have all the big issues taken care of. What I still do not have is a name for our school. Our cover school is Excalibur Homeschool Academy. I thought about going with something that complements that such as School of the Round Table, only our table is a rectangle, so that really does not fit. My next thought was Knighthood Academy, but they are not really training to be knights, so no again.
What they ARE training to be is men, so I considered Manhood Institute, but if we ever adopt a girl she might feel a little awkward telling people she attends the Manhood Institute.
We are all Narnia nerds, so I thought maybe Further Up and Further in School, Aslan's Mane Academy, or Lion's Roar.
Haven't completely ruled all of that out.
Since our curriculum focuses on Christian Character Development, I thought maybe Character Christian School. Possible.
We have all be getting into Lord of the Rings again lately, so I thought about trying to come up with something that fit with that, but I don't think Hobbit School or My Precious School is quite right.
We live in the middle of nowhere, in a very wooded area, so The School In The Forest would work, but I don't know.
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Pilgrim's Progressive Academy!!!!!!!
I like the thought behind what you say, but progessive has bad connotations when talking about school. Remember Eustace went to a progessive school.
Progressive-
going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.
Don't let liberals hi-jack the meaning of a very good word!!!! If you insist on refusing that one, then perhaps a compromise of Pilgrim's Progress Academy???? Hmmm???
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I love that you and your husband talk to each other in comments.
I don't even have a name for our school, and this is our fourth year. So don't expect any clever input from me. ;D
Yeah, we can't get each other to shut up, even on the computer!!! lol
My myspace address is myspace(dot)com(slash)rthling
It is pretty plain. No fancy duds for me there. Feel free to invite me to be a friend. I would have looked you up, but I don't know your full name, LOL! They don't have a search where I can enter "Kelli, who is married to Mark, and has three beautiful boys and lives in Alabama." I think it would laugh at me.
Hey...it's funny you left a comment this morning because I was praying for you last night in regards to your first day of school! I read your post on Saturday and was going to comment but, um...I was called away by something. I forget what.
Anyway. We have had several names for our school. My husband (Mark too) and I can never agree on one. :) I finally settled on Smith's Academy of Literary Arts. (Not our real name) I mainly decided on this name because we use tons and tons of books.
I am praying that your day goes well! I usually equate the first 3 months of homeschooling with the first 3 months after having your first baby....it's a huge adjustment and you do a lot of experimenting to find out what works best for your family.
~Annemarie
Thank you so much for praying for us Annemarie. We absolutely need it!! It is funny you should mention your school name not matching your real name. Mark has got a blog on his myspace page with possible names for friends to vote on. One of them does feature our real name. His friend Gary (who has homeschooled 11 kids) said we should not go with one that has our real name to it.
Oh I hope our first three months aren't quite as bad as having a baby for the first three months!!! I yelled at Mark for driving too fast (he was going the speed limit) I was doing fine until about week after he was born, then just started crying fo rno apparent reason.
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