Academics
Classical Christian Education: The Trivium
Grammar
Does your young child have a knack for memory? Do they like to collect things, sing songs, and wonder over how things work? God has wired them this way! The Grammar stage of classical Christian education is all about equipping children with the building blocks of each subject through songs, memorization and daily exploration as well as training them with the habits of the heart that will prepare them with all the tools needed for their growing faith and for the deeper intellectual quests to come in adolescence.
Logic/Dialectic
Does your middle schooler seem to be suddenly arguing with you... about everything? There is a reason for that. God is developing them into their own person. We help teach adolescents to argue well, with humility, integrity, and love for the other person. The Dialectic stage of classical Christian education encourages students to question why things are, but to apply logical rigor to the answers they explore. Constant classroom discussion led by engaged teachers invites students to taste and see the truth, beauty, and goodness of Christ in each subject.
Rhetoric
High school students want to make an impact. They want to influence. They want to change the world around them for the better. The tools of Rhetoric are a perfect capstone of the K-12 classical Christian education. In all subjects: Math and Science, Literature and History, Philosophy and Theology, Athletics and the Arts, the Rhetoric student learns to refine and employ the tools of learning to be persuasive and effective leaders wherever the Lord calls them.
We strive to give each student personal attention to help them learn and flourish in every subject!
Our curriculum provides well rounded and stimulating activities to prepare students for a robust social and cultural future.
Student Characteristics
Beginning Grammar
Pre-K through 2nd Grade
Approx ages 4-7
- Obviously excited about learning.
- Enjoys games, stories, songs, projects.
- Short attention span.
- Wants to touch, taste, feel, smell, see.
- Imaginative, creative
Grammar
Grades 3 - 6
Approx ages 8-11
- Excited about new, interesting facts.
- Likes to explain, figure out, talk.
- Wants to relate own experiences to topic, or just to tell a story.
- Likes collections, organizing items.
- Likes chants, clever, repetitious word sounds.
- Easily memorizes.
- Can assimilate another language well.
Teaching Methods
- Guided discovery.
- Explore, find things.
- Use lots of tactile items to illustrate point.
- Sing, play games, chant, recite, color, draw, paint, build.
- Use body movements.
- Short, creative projects.
- Show and Tell, drama, hear/read/tell stories.
- Field trips (possibly).
- Lots of hands-on work, projects.
- Drama.
- Make collections, displays, models.
- Integrate subjects through above means.
- Teach and assign research project.
- Recitations, memorizations
- Drills, games.
- Oral/written presentations.
- Fields trips (possibly).