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Archives for The Liberal Arts

The Liberal Arts

Kodály Who?

October 13, 2022 by Christin Peng

If you are a Cedar parent, you may have heard your student sing about a horse that caught a whooping cough, rain that will not go away, Queen Caroline, or John Kanaka. Learning these folk songs is part of the Kodály (pronounced code-EYE) approach that is focused on singing-centered music literacy. Folk songs (our musical mother […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Cultural Literacy, Culture, Curriculum, Extracurriculars, K-12 education, Music, The Liberal Arts

The Value of Reading Together

August 23, 2021 by Caroline Hummel

If you have a student in Cedar in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, or 2nd Grade, then you are familiar with this instruction on their take-home sheets: “Read at home with your student.” But what exactly does that mean? What should reading at home with your student look like? The Secret Sauce Let’s start with an encouraging […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Cultural Literacy, Curriculum, Family, Grammar School, K-12 education, Lifelong Learning, Parental Partnership, Reading, Reading Instruction, Special Education, The Great Books, The Liberal Arts

Introduction to Latin

February 10, 2021 by Amelia Stieren

While reading Washington Irving’s book, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., the 3rd and 4th graders came across the phrase terra incognita. A student asked what it means, but already knew half its meaning since he knew that terra, a vocabulary word they learned in their first year of Latin at Cedar, means “earth” or “land.” Why do we teach […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Curriculum, Grammar School, Grit, Homework, K-12 education, Latin, Latin School, Lifelong Learning, Parental Partnership, Rigor, The Liberal Arts

“Beauty out of dust”: Our Art Curriculum

July 31, 2020 by Kyria Beals

God the Creator has formed us to be worshipers, creators in his image, and stewards of what he has made. He creates universes out of nothing but words! He forms living beings out of dust and calls them good! We create art with lowly paper and paints, clay and scissors. In studying and practicing art, […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Art, Curriculum, Grammar School, K-12 education, Logic School, The Liberal Arts

The Mission Series, Pt. V | “A springboard to understanding the created world”: The Western liberal arts tradition

August 7, 2019 by Anna Liebing

Those who become involved with classical Christian education quickly discover that, as with any specific discipline, there is a vocabulary that usually seems foreign and intimidating to newcomers. Classical educators liberally spice their conversation with words like “headmaster,” “dialectic,” “rhetoric,” “the Great Conversation,” and “trivium.” From context, most pick up some vague idea of what […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Cultural Literacy, Culture, Mission Series, Mission Statement, The Great Books, The Great Conversation, The Liberal Arts

“A fountain of joy alive in you”: How Music Tunes the Soul

May 13, 2019 by Jon Anderson

What did Plato observe in music that prompted him to label it the most important of the liberal arts? He perceived that, of all seven, music best “tunes the soul.” Here Plato addressed the development of character, for music can inspire the unfolding of moral and mental qualities needed to be a virtuous person. Our […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Character Education, Mathematics, Moral Imagination, Music, Quadrivium, The Liberal Arts, Virtue, Wonder

What is the Value of an Education?

October 23, 2018 by Caleb Liebing

As a parent, you want to know what you are buying, right? What is the end product? What is the final result? What does it look like when the kids have finally “got an education”? Often, the answer to these questions, for Christian and non-Christian alike, is measured by “job” or “career” preparation. A child […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Mathematics, Quadrivium, Science, The Liberal Arts, Wonder

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