Most learning that lasts is interdisciplinary. Integrating the various subject matter provides genuine motivation to learn, encourages better recall, and is more interesting. Isolated subjects usually fail to interest the child, fail to reinforce each other and fail to provide any reason for learning. In fact, by teaching isolated subjects, the child is more easily distracted from real learning.
Unified themes excite the child and maximize teaching efforts.
Because our goal is to shape our children in godly character, we have designed the curriculum around character traits we want to develop. All of the resources and activities were chosen to reinforce each of these traits. Each theme is reinforced by activities using different subjects. Students learn the general placement of people in history. Moving from the general, students are later ready to concentrate and specialize.