Christian Classical Education

Arma Dei Academy participates in the Rocky Mountain Classical Christian Schools Speech Meet each year in order to provide a platform for students to develop rhetoric skills from an early age. This opportunity makes use of classical educational pedagogy where students are challenged to develop the skills of memorization, public speaking, and social grace. We hold classroom speech meets for first through eighth grades. Students may choose from a variety of categories – Bible memory, poetry, dramatic interpretation, or patriotic recitation. The top three students (top four for classes with two sections) will compete in the regional competition with Augustine Classical Academy…

Arma Dei purposefully selects our curriculum and pursues a chronological study of history. It is our desire for each student to not only know the who, what, where, when and why of events, but that they are able to place themselves on God's timeline and connect and relate the events to their lives.Each Grammar classroom brings to life their historical time period, wears costumes of the period, participates in hands-on activities, gives presentations, and shares what they have learned with the school community. Third-grade students study Ancient Greece & Rome and held their festival on Wednesday afternoon.

The second-grade students study Ancient Egypt and last month went on a mock archeological dig in the sands of the Arma Dei desert. Six-grade students assisted them in cracking hieroglyphic clues which led to the discovery of the long lost mummy Ozymandias.

First-grade students brought to life important paintings depicting our early country. Their bravery, grit, and sacrifice were fueled by their reliance on Almighty God. How we give thanks for them! Video

From the 16th century until the early 20th century, catechesis (the art of reciting simple questions and answers to reinforce basic truths) played an important part in the efforts of Christian educators to communicate fundamental articles of the Christian faith to their students. Catechesis has largely become obsolete in our day, but Arma Dei's Logic School Teachers are reviving the art with a twist: they are having students sing rather than recite the catechism! In Chapel, our Logic School students performed several questions and answers from the catechism and shared some of their thoughts about how the catechism impacts their studies,…