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At Chapel on Friday

Author: Mrs. Robi Marshall   At chapel on Friday,  seventh grade student leader, Ryan Lavey reminded us, that all that is taught at Arma Dei Academy is based on the principle that God is the creator of all that exists.  Therefore all knowledge, all that we learn, is interrelated and proceeds from Him.  Ryan directed our attention to the church calendar, which provides much instruction.  We are currently in the season of the 40 days before Easter; it is known as Lent.  The word, Lent is derived from the Germanic root for long because it is observed in spring when the…

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February 22, 2016
Academics / All / Parent Education

3 Clues Why Today’s Students Can’t Write

According to Annie Holmquist in This 1897 Text Gives 3 Clues Why Today’s Students Can’t Write the Nation’s Report Card announced that only 27% of American 8th and 12th graders attained proficiency in writing. Why are American students such terrible writers? According to a text by Dr. Edwin Lewis entitled A First Book in Writing English, American schools, students, and even adults regularly violate three principles, which Lewis deemed essential to the writing process. 1. They Don’t Read High Quality Literature Schools often fail to present their students with literature selections, which demonstrate good examples of vocabulary, sentence structure, and other…

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February 11, 2016
School News

Go Broncos!

Recently, three of our students shared with their classmates, their dad’s journey in the NFL and his Super Bowl and AFC Championship Rings. Coach Rick Dennison, Broncos’ Offensive Coordinator and Arma Dei dad also received letters and prayers from sixth grade students for the upcoming Super Bowl.   Prior to leaving for the Super Bowl, Coach Dennison sent a special letter back to our students. He stated “It was such an honor to read all of the letters that you wrote me. I really enjoyed the scriptures and art work that each of you did. I know that you put a…

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February 5, 2016
All / Christian Classical Education / Parent Education

Why I Chose a Classical School for My Children

by Lee Cordon on January 12, 2016 in Education, Homeschooling, School-Aged With the flip top wooden desks and lack of computers or iPads, you could easily mistake my daughter’s classical school for something out of the 1950s. But it’s not a longing for the good old days that motivated my husband and me to make the counter-cultural decision to send our daughters to a classical school. After five years of having children in a classical school, these are the reasons I am so happy my husband and I made the decision we did: They learn how great minds learned for centuries. Classical…

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January 13, 2016
School News

Veterans brought history to life

Arma Dei Academy and family members attend weekly Chapel on Friday mornings, but on November 6, 2015 a very special Veteran Day Celebration chapel was held. The Academy celebrated Veterans Day with almost 15 men and women, related to Arma Dei families, representing careers in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Army Reserves. These decorated individuals honored and allowed the Academy to celebrate them and their service to our Country. The celebration included students honoring the Veterans by walking into the auditorium to the Marine’s Hymn and then singing My Country Tis of Thee.  The first graders led the Pledge…

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November 12, 2015
All / Christian Classical Education / Parent Education

Classical Christian education cooperates best as a model with the growing child’s mind

Classical Christian education cooperates best as a model with the growing child's mind.  Ancient, yet contemporarily effective, classical Christian education applies the trivium to organize and graduate a students learning from the simple to the complex.  The trivium is known as the grammar, logic and rhetoric stages. In the grammar stage, a classical, Christian school teaches the structure, vocabulary, rules and conventions of each branch of learning.  Next the student is ready to connect this knowledge and to reason clearly about it.  This is learned through the study and application of logic across each arena of learning.  Finally, at the rhetoric level, the…

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November 2, 2015
All / Parent Education

The problem with one of the biggest changes in education around the world

By Roberto A. Ferdman There's an interesting thing happening in countries where kids are the most comfortable with computers: they aren't reading all that well. In fact, the more children use computers at school, the more their reading abilities seem to suffer. The chart below,  from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), shows the relationship between computer use at school and reading abilities in developed countries around the world, including the United States, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, and others. And it doesn't bode well for those pushing for ceiling-less introductions of technology into classrooms.   "Overall, the use of computers does not seem to…

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October 17, 2015