All students together (Pre-K – High school):

• Morning Recitations: We meet in the chapel for a short and encouraging homily, our virtue sound-off, and bilingual recitations of our Affirmation, Bible passages, and a hymn. 

• Art: Together we contemplate and compare classical art and practice techniques of forms, styles, and different media. 

• Outdoor Play: This is free time to play soccer, basketball, or volleyball; skate or scooter; walk and talk, etc.

• Lunch: Lunch is a hot meal cooked on campus. We sing the Doxology and pray before serving our plates. One of the three days we have guided lunch discussions led by teachers at each table.

• Contemplation: This is a short time of cultivating the habit of silence with prayer, journaling, drawing, or Bible reading.

• Swedish Drill: This is a whole-body, rhythmical exercise of progressive drills that move from simple to more complex movements involving calls and responses.

• Math: Students are divided into groups by levels for math lessons and tutoring.

• Stewardship: After lunch and at day-end, students spend 10 minutes tidying and cleaning with assigned chores.

• Farewell: All students and teachers circle up for a word of encouragement from the daily leader, followed by our group recitation of our LSA verse from Jeremiah 6:16.

Wildflowers (Pre-K – 2nd grade):

• This is a Montessori and Charlotte Mason inspired classroom for 1-2 hours each morning including Phonics, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry, Literature, History, Art, Music.

Lower School – Daydreamers (1st – 3rd grade) and Stargazers (4th – 6th grade):

• Bible: This class expounds on the morning recitation passages and incorporates storytelling, movements, and drawing narrations.

Upper School – Pathfinders (7th-9th grade) and Wayfarers (10th – 12th grade):

• Bible: This class uses Lectio Divina as a group to 

  • read and savor a passage several times (lectio)

  • reflect on and share a word or phrase or image that stood out (meditatio)

  • discuss the ideas by expressing thoughts and feelings (oratio)

  • continue to contemplate as we go about life, allowing God’s word to transform us as we internalize and connect our collaborative ideas (contemplatio)

• Literature: In this class we read aloud The Aeneid, using the tools of layered reading and narrations. 

  • Read-aloud in class: The expectation is that by hearing the teacher read aloud, and understanding and discussing in community, students will come to love what is lovely. Most educators would agree that teaching students how to think is important; for classical educators, “ordering loves,” by showing students what is beautiful is just as important. 

  • Layered reading in class: We use pencils or colored highlighters to mark certain things to set the context: 

    • Scan #1: mark proper names and dates

    • Scan #2: mark structure and quotes

    • Read: 

      • mark characters and actions

      • mark schemes and tropes

      • mark memorable lines

  • Oral narrations in class: We stop at certain points to ask for several narrations from students to assess understanding. 

  • Written narrations at home: Students write a one-page narration in cursive of their expression of the in-class reading. They share their narrations in the following class. 

• History/Philosophy: In this class we read aloud The Statesmen – The Parallel Lives of Cato the Younger and Phocion of Athens and use the same tools as in the Literature class. In addition we especially focus on the Common Topic of Comparison to find similarities (what both are, do, and have) and differences of degree and kind. 

Upper and Lower School (occasionally including Wildflowers):

• Integrated Studies: We use The Story of the World (vol 1 this year) focusing on the Ancient World. We incorporate Literature, Geography, and Grammar into this class that meets twice a  week. 

• Greek: Although this class is geared toward Lower School, Upper School will also attend in order to get an intro to Greek, with the intention of LSA offering Greek for Upper School the following year. 

• Nature Studies: This class is Charlotte Mason-inspired – outdoor observations, journaling, and sketching, paired with occasional experiments. 

Piano:

• Private piano lessons are offered on Tuesday afternoons (at-home days)