by Matt Appling | Apr 8, 2021 | Classical Christian, Education, Middle School, The Arts, The Classroom, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Why Art Matters in Today’s World Raise your hands – how many of you can relate to this: Sometime, long ago, you sat in a classroom, head in hand. The lesson is boring you. You’re confused. You’re frustrated. You raise your hand, not...
by Matt Appling | Mar 4, 2021 | Classical Christian, Education, Elementary School, Extracurriculars, The Arts, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Why I Grade Kids’ Art: An Art Teacher’s Perspective Recently, I saw a conversation play out on social media between two of my real-life friends: A mom reviewed her elementary school child’s report card. The lowest grade, to her...
by Anne Rabe | Aug 27, 2020 | Classical Christian, Education, Elementary School, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Reading in Latin? That’s Legit Okay, for all of you who aren’t immediately cracking a smile at this blog post title, let me explain the humor: reading Latin is cool and impressive (duh!) and therefore “legit” in English slang, but legit...
by Rachel Hutson | Jan 30, 2020 | Elementary School, Kansas City, Kindergarten, Parenting, Private Schools, Spiritual Life, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog What I’ve Learned from Kindergarten A few weeks ago, while I was at work, I received a text from my daughter’s kindergarten teacher. My daughter, Olive, had written a hymn and had requested to perform it in front of her class. Her...
by Andy Castro | Sep 19, 2019 | Classical Christian, Education, Middle School, Private Schools, The Classroom
Whitefield Academy Blog I Will Never Use Algebra in Real Life “I will never use this in real life,” says almost every exasperated junior high Algebra student. The hours of solving algebra problems. The random letters. The complex terminology: factors, commutative,...