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Five Tips to Enjoy Nature with Your Family

July 28, 2021 by Emma Setterington

Baby Snapping Turtle

Building family culture is simply about doing things together. Shared experiences, shared interests, and repeated activities (traditions) are what stick in kids’ memories and make your family a fun place to belong. Exploring nature is together is a relatively easy, free activity that is accessible to all. Even if the outdoors isn’t your thing, the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Building a Strong Family Culture Tagged With: Building a Strong Family Culture, Culture, Extracurriculars, Family, Lifelong Learning, Nature Study, Parental Partnership, Parenting, Science, Wonder

Three Ways to Reinforce Classical Education at Home

July 19, 2021 by Amelia Stieren

If what your children do at school matters, then how they live at home ought to matter even more. At Cedar, we want our students to celebrate the continuity in the Lord’s sovereignty and grace in all things, whether that be during a lesson on fractions or while taking out the trash at home. We […]

Filed Under: Blog, Building a Strong Family Culture Tagged With: Building a Strong Family Culture, Chores, Culture, Extracurriculars, Family, Lifelong Learning, Parental Partnership, Parenting, Self-Government, Wonder

Introduction to Singapore Math

February 3, 2021 by Jack Hummel

At Cedar Classical Academy, we teach mathematics in a way that is very different from the way you were likely taught. American math curricula tend to show a pre-solved example equation, explain the steps that were taken to solve it, and then assign a number of similar problems. The student solves these problems by copying […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Curriculum, Grammar School, K-12 education, Logic School, Mathematics, Parental Partnership, Quadrivium, Quarantine Chronicles, Rhetoric School, Rigor, Wonder

“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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