Articles tagged Art

What If the Art Teacher Taught Math?

by Courtney and
Monday, 01 April, 2013
categories: Classical Christian Education

My thirteen-year-old daughter is in Challenge B this year, and she is preparing for Mock Trial, so we took a field trip, along with several moms and teenagers, to visit a courthouse and watch a real trial. As we waited for the trial to begin, the sheriff talked with...

Music: An Essential Liberal Art

by William
Friday, 15 March, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education

Is music a liberal art? Liberal education is under attack today, just as it has been during economic downturns in the past. Yet some of the most strident voices calling for a “bottom-line” evaluation of the liberal arts also espouse “traditional values.” For some...

Fra Angelico: Art “As unto the Lord”

by Courtney and
Thursday, 07 February, 2013
categories: Classical Christian Education

I walked into our Classical Conversations assembly wearing a long, brown Jedi Knight cloak. (Having boys with big imaginations means our house is full of cloaks, capes, swords, and light sabers.) I asked the group of eager Classical Conversations students whom I looked...

I Am Not a Machine (Why we practice art and cursive, and how you can do it, too!)

by Courtney and
Monday, 03 December, 2012
categories: Classical Christian Education

I am not a machine, and neither are my children. That is one of the reasons I took them off the conveyor-belt-style education of public school. It is too easy, however, to slip into conveyor-belt education at home by taking the view that if all the blanks in the...

Language Arts, Spelling, Handwriting, and the Brain

by Matt
Friday, 09 November, 2012
categories: Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)

This article is based on a recent interview: Leigh! @ Lunch with Andrew Pudewa. In the interview, Andrew Pudewa and I discussed many things, but the following information really stood out as good, practical thoughts about language arts, spelling, handwriting, and the...

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