Grammar School (DK-5)

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• Grades DK-5 Curriculum

  The Grammar School aspires to provide a well rounded education. Our curriculum is designed to prepare children to be lifelong, independent learners, wise and creative problem solvers, and truth seekers who strive to pursue God in every area of life. We believe all children thrive on a diet of worthy ideas, and these ideas are found primarily in living books and the Western cultural heritage.

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• Grades DK-5 Distinctives

  When Christian schools speak of integration, we are often talking about the infusion of Biblical wisdom into all the subject areas that we teach. Although we do have distinct Bible classes, we also reference scriptural facts and principles in every academic area. PRCA teachers have been in workshops through a variety of sources on how to do this, including our own Continuing Education classes taught right here on our campus. Paraphrasing nineteenth-century British educator, Miss Charlotte Mason, our founding headmaster Jack Beckman once wrote, “…we mean that the child has been born in a natural relationship with many things: people, God, objects, animals, nature, etc. Learning then becomes the art (and science) of making connections between those things that have meaning, whether in literature, mathematics, writing, music, or art, to name several.” A great example of subject matter and Biblical integration would be our Shakespeare Festival, which integrates Biblical themes of good and evil in a Christian cultural context with literary devices, historical allusions, and visual art in both costuming and stage décor, period background music, and oratorical skills with stagecraft.

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