Editor’s note:  We had several e-mails chuckling about our ‘flying penguins’ April Fool’s e-mail last week.  If you didn’t read all the way through and watch the second e-mail, you might have thought we were crazy!  If you didn’t get a chance to view it, the second video described the technical and design details involved in the BBC’s creation of the first video.  Fascinating!

On to today’s post.  Because Beth and I regularly receive common questions about using Epi Kardia curriculum, we thought we might occasionally answer them on the blog.

Can I use Epi Kardia with other curriculum I am already using?

Especially if you have been homeschooling a while, you probably are using a hodge podge of materials and curriculum, or even making it up as you go.  One of the most common questions we have is, “Can I incorporate Epi Kardia into what I am already using?”  And our answer is always a resounding yes.  These are how some of our customers use Epi Kardia currently:

• for their history and/or science only
• to increase student interest and engagement by incorporating our recommended books and activities into their textbook studies
• to have a ’safe’ book list to choose from that has already been read by a trusted advisor with a similar worldview
  
• as a break from traditional reading and writing assignments for their students who are hands on/auditory/kinesthetic learners
  
• to teach/practice Charlotte Mason’s tried and true techniques of oral narration, dictation, nature study, and art study
  
• to spice up their student’s language arts study and give them a break from worksheets and traditional textbooks
• for their younger children who are more hands on by nature while their older children use textbook/other studies
• for higher interest schoolwork in the summer
• just for their high school students
• to add project and/or fine arts into students’ textbook/more traditional studies

Whether you choose to use Epi Kardia for all of your history, science, language arts and fine arts or not, be sure that it is OK to use Epi Kardia along with other curriculum you have on the shelf.  After all, we want to be good stewards of our pennies, right?

Tell us, how do YOU use Epi Kardia?

Have a blessed Holy Week!