by Adrienne Waner | Jan 16, 2020 | Book List, Holidays, Parenting, Reading
Whitefield Academy Blog Top Coffee Table Books for Snowy Days Each year, since my kids were babies, we have given them a special book or two for Christmas. Now Christmas isn’t the only time of year my kids receive books as gifts, but the books they are given at...
by Anne Rabe | Nov 14, 2019 | Classical Christian, Extracurriculars, Middle School, Private Schools, Reading, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Gazing into Greek Tragedy “Oh gods, what is she plotting? What vast new agony? What huge horror lurks in the House? What evil plotting? The family cannot bear it, there is no cure, and help is so far away” (Agamemnon, 1100-4, translated by...
by John Hutson | Sep 26, 2019 | Classical Christian, College, Education, Media, Reading
Whitefield Academy Blog 7 Ways to Find Success Through Deep Work While most of us understand that social media and other online activities cut into our ability to do good work, high-tech gadgets and constant connectivity to the web have become so common that it seems...
by Rachel Hutson | May 23, 2019 | Book List, Holidays, Kansas City, Parenting, Reading, Summer, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Free and Smart Summer Fun in Kansas City Gone are the days, unfortunately, of working in the fields all summer. Now, as parents/cruise directors, we have to make sure that our kids are filling the lazy summer hours with activities that are...
by Rachel Hutson | Apr 4, 2019 | Classical Christian, Education, Elementary School, Kansas City, Kindergarten, Parenting, Private Schools, Reading, The Classroom
Whitefield Academy Blog Classical Kindergarten: What’s the Difference? I’ve had a few experiences in my parenting life where I have officially felt like a parent. The first one was driving to VBS in my SUV while wearing a neon VBS t-shirt and playing...
by Anne Rabe | Feb 28, 2019 | Classical Christian, Education, Reading
Whitefield Academy Blog Latin and Greek: Why Study Them? Why do we study Latin and Ancient Greek? As a classicist, I have been asked this question countless times, and I can rattle off the standard answers – studying Latin and Greek beefs up students’ English...
