Mexico City!
Thanks to Becky Pliego and family, our Spanish students have had fabulous opportunities to visit Mexico City! We appreciate you, Mrs. Pliego, and your generous hospitality! ¡Hurra!
Word on the Hill
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WHA’s Next Warren Buffett?
26 Jan 2018
Kudos to Daniel Scrugham, who has recently launched his very own podcast, Early Investing: Secure Your Financial Future by Saving and Investing Money in Stocks and Cryptocurrencies From a Young Age. Check out his inaugural episode in which Daniel conducts Part 1 of his interview with David Kretzmann, an investment analyst for the Motley Fool. Like Daniel, David has invested in stocks since he was 12 years old. Learn how he started investing, chose his first stocks, made mistakes along
Cloelia
26 Jan 2018
Watercolor of Cloelia from Livy's Early History of Rome Competition entry from Mr. Etter's The Great Conversation 1+ 4
Router Battery Saves the Day!
26 Jan 2018
Today our power went out, and I remembered what we had learned about batteries in Mrs. Jester’s class. So, after hooking 8 AA batteries together, I used a 5V battery adapter that I found in my electronics kit, and I was able to power our router. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to apply what I learned in class to a real-life situation! Thanks, Mrs.
My Story
I have been blessed from the get-go with loving parents and siblings. My siblings and I are homeschooled and live in the middle of the corn fields in central Illinois. I have a story but not just one story. I believe that life is really a book, with different chapters. Just as a book has lows, it also has its highs. In 2013, like any other Sunday (except that my sister and mom had stayed home
NCEE Results are in!
21 Jan 2018
WHA received our National Classical Etymology Exam results! Under Joanna Hensley's brilliant leadership, an impressive number of students participated this year, and 65 earned medals! Thank you, students, for your fantastic efforts! We are proud of each of you and grateful for all of our talented Latin teachers who make our program exceptional! National Classical Etymology Exam Results Advanced Level (grades 11 and 12) 22 Participants Awards Latin 1 Latin 2 Latin 3 Latin 4
You Might be a WHA Teacher if . . .
15 Jan 2018
When I think about my favorite teachers, I realize they all had one thing in common – they LOVED what they were doing. They didn’t teach merely for a “job," and they weren’t in my classroom because they had concluded that this was the “best they could do.” My calculus teacher, Mrs. Smith, my Spanish teacher, Mrs. Armbrister, and my Bible teacher, Miss Rupp, came to class day after day with undying exuberance for their respective