After deciding that I would indeed continue homeschooling past kindergarten, I began searching for curriculum. My husband wanted something classical. I was leaning toward Charlotte Mason. We both wanted something that was biblical. That is how I first came across the Biblical Principle Approach (BPA). It is not really a curriculum, per se. There are no text books, no workbooks and until recently no lesson plans. It is a more a method for “renewing the mind” in education and for giving you the confidence to teach your children accordingly.
Because I have never really found a satisfactory way of describing what BPA is in any sort of brevity, I will borrow PrincipledMom’s (my blog mom!) description:
BPA is short for Biblical Principle Approach, a method of Biblical reasoning that places the Word of God at the center of every subject.
- It is a governmental way of thinking, that is: who or what is controlling, directing, regulating or restraining?
- It is a lifestyle of scholarship and Christian character.
- It is a Biblical method of education, similar in execution to the Hebraic model.
- It develops young men and women who are able to reason from God’s Word for themselves.
- It is distinctive in its commitment to American Christian education.
- It highlights His Story, a recognition of Providential history. Principium
Its focus on foundations particularly attracted me. We set foundations for each subject area and for our lives.
But what does all that look like? I invite you to take a look in our home on a good day, when I had things planned, knew what I wanted to accomplish and everything was working.
This post is part of Back to Homeschool Week being hosted by I have to say…Check out some more posts on the topic by following the links she is collecting over there.
Wow, that fourth point is especially important!
I read your post showing your dd baking bread. AWESOME. The food sounds delicious! And how cool that you know all that and can teach it to your daughter!
Thanks for writing that out. I keep wondering what it is but I’m just too lazy to look it up for myself (or is it actually like my fear of curriculum catalogs?–I’m afraid I’ll find it interesting and have to change stuff again.)
Sorry about whining on your blog the other day. I guess your post just hit a nerve because I had been perfectly content before I read it. Feel free to delete it if you like.
Sara
I am going to have to look into this…I popped over to your other post and loved this lesson plan.
Thanks so much for sharing!
I posted on this subject too…stop by if you can- and nice to meet you!
I loved looking at pictures of your good homeschooling day. I’m happy if we have a few of those every year.
What a neat illustration of “a good day!”
Our food pyramid doesn’t look like that, so it’s tough sometimes. I have to improvise on most ethnical cooking projects, or skip it altogether. But yes, we could do flatbread, falafel and such.
We don’t use BPA, but I draw from the Hebraic model also.
Thank you for stopping by, everyone. Hopefully I’ll get caught up this weekend. Things are kind of crazy here right now, so I barely posted this and checked a couple others. I will come visit, however!
Sara, I appreciated your openness. It is nice to feel like I am not the only one who feels like this, at least sometimes. Don’t think I am not content, exactly. Just frustrated at times. I certainly do not wish to make anyone feel discontented or like they should be doing something they are not. If you want me to delete it, I will, but I think it is a common feeling. Especially at first…and I am still relatively new to homeschooling. This is our fourth year.