Welcome to Equip 2:22 Hive! We are delighted that you joined us! We are looking forward to “doing life together.” Prayerfully read the outline below, and see how it might fit with your family. 

Who is the target audience for this homeschool cooperative?

• parents who are willing to contribute
• parents who want to homeschool their children with or without experience
• parents who are willing to teach their children with a Biblically-centered worldview with Christ as the center (We don’t require families to be Christians already, but we cannot hold disagreements over the curriculum in class or during school hours. However, we love these conversations! Apologetics can be addressed in Alpha classes which are 11 week courses that discuss faith, life, and God; or in friendly ways in outings or at other times but may not become a distraction during class time.)
• parents with one or many children, with at least one child who is in the 1st – 7th grade levels, preferring families who have more children in the grammar school age (to avoid becoming a nursery school)
• parents who either love, or can learn to embrace, the Biblical classical model of education. You are encouraged to read more about this method and the “Trivium” here, and the Principle Approach here.
• parents who want to make their own medical choices

The “spine” of our program is Claritas Press. In 2024-2025 we will cover Cycle 4, which covers from the Victorian Era through the September 11, 2001; physics; European, North American and South American geography; math memory work; Latin verb conjugations, 3rd declension nouns, and the Apostle’s Creed; 8 hymns; 26 scriptures and the Lord’s Prayer; English Grammar; a Timeline from Creation to Modern America; and the Presidents of the United States. Children who are 4 years old and up are invited to participate in memory work and projects, depending on their maturity level. Class leaders can use their discretion for including younger students.

We are major fans of the mind-body connection to learning, and classroom learning for children works better with movement. A classroom can be filled with learning, which is also filled with bubbling laughter and fun games. In fact, learning is stickier when it is more fun or out of ordinary. A classroom will not look like the public school education we were given, and it shouldn’t. We are not turning out factory-workers nor children that will work for the government. Instead, some of our children will be called to lead government back to God, and all will aid in godly culture revival.

We offer, as we are enabled, hands-on science experiments and hands-on history projects which make the topics at hand come alive for children and develop curiosity and provide a framework for thinking. The Principle Approach teaches children to use frameworks to think from Biblical Foundational Principles which reveal to their hearts the cause-to-effect of the world around them, the internal-to-external principles of character-to-behavior in the persons around them, and draws out their God-given reasoning skills through research, word studies and by using Webster’s 1828 Dictionary. They will search out of Biblical principles and leading ideas using the 4 Rs of research (research, reason, relate, and record)  and the Notebook Approach. The Chain of Christianity in addition to other timelines, the ‘key charts’ related to individuals, events, institutions or documents, and the tenets and principles of the Principle Approach such as individuality, conscience as property, and self-governance, will help them to develop their own ability to reason, remember, and make connections in the things they see around them.

The children will use the Structure and Style that is taught by Andrew Pudewa’s “Teaching Writing: Structure and Style” course to improve their writing skills at an age appropriate level. The content will match what the students are learning in science and history. 

We do Bible Devotions, sometimes using Kids In Ministry International (KIMI) Curriculum for the spine. We start the day with worship each day, and encourage the children to listen to God through kid-friendly ‘activations’. That might look like this: “Quiet your heart before God and see what He shows you. Ask Him to show you a person who could use a little help. Draw that person a picture and write a note on the picture.” Then we will pray a quick prayer to open the children to this time of listening. The children will have 5-15 minutes to hear, draw, and write what they receive. Or it could look like this: “What scripture speaks to you today?” We would show 3 scriptures on the screen. Children would have a chance to raise their hand to say what scripture spoke to them and why. We might ask adults in the room to share as well what they received. This way we all can learn together.

Middle school-aged children will add Logic and Latin to their learning rigor. We use Introductory or Intermediary Logic, and either Visual Latin or Henle Latin as the kids show readiness. Their assignments are also scaled to their ability and experience.