The Gift of Time
Families today tend to be fragmented. Children in the traditional full-time school models spend 35-40 of their prime waking hours in a contrived learning environment, away from their siblings and parents. When students do arrive home, their evenings are filled getting to sports practice, rushing through dinner, and enduring long homework sessions (after their child already spent 7-8 hours in school that day).
The family is vital to the well-being and holistic education of a child. But, how do we accomplish such a task when every outside entity, even the best entities, take 35 hours of their prime waking time? What ends up happening is that someone else gets the best hours of your child's day- someone else's agenda, someone else's values, and someone else's instruction. Families today are left with the "left-over" time. This typically ends up being the evening hours when children have already mentally, emotionally, and physically put out their best work.
The family is vital to the well-being and holistic education of a child. But, how do we accomplish such a task when every outside entity, even the best entities, take 35 hours of their prime waking time? What ends up happening is that someone else gets the best hours of your child's day- someone else's agenda, someone else's values, and someone else's instruction. Families today are left with the "left-over" time. This typically ends up being the evening hours when children have already mentally, emotionally, and physically put out their best work.
What's the solution? Homeschool? For some, yes. There are families who respond to the fragmented life our cultural celebrates by keeping their children home and educating them full-time. This is a great option for many families and the homeschooling community continues to grow across the nation.
However, many parents, and children, want outside resources, outside community, and a place that brings life back into the family. Not all parents enjoy the demands of full-time homeschooling: curriculum choice, lesson planning, and being in charge of the long-term academic plan for their children. But they do want to be more involved in their child's education and they want to spend time as family doing things that are difficult in an overtaxed schedule.
The university-schedule school is the best of both worlds!
So, what do our families tend to do with their gift of time?
However, many parents, and children, want outside resources, outside community, and a place that brings life back into the family. Not all parents enjoy the demands of full-time homeschooling: curriculum choice, lesson planning, and being in charge of the long-term academic plan for their children. But they do want to be more involved in their child's education and they want to spend time as family doing things that are difficult in an overtaxed schedule.
The university-schedule school is the best of both worlds!
So, what do our families tend to do with their gift of time?
This student is doing optional enrichment activities at home that correspond with his weekly campus literature book, Owl Moon, while big brother works on math with Mom.
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From the youngest of Academy students, we teach students how to learn from and fall in love with great books!! Check out some of our students who met on an off campus day and completed apple adventures that corresponded with their campus literature books!
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The university-schedule allows students more time to dive deeper into things they are learning at school. After enjoying a week of literature exploration in the book A Visitor for Bear, one family planned a visit to the Tea House for some enrichment fun based off of the story.
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Our families have more time for connecting and investing in their children. A popular way Academy families do this is through lots of family read alouds of great books!
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Our unique model doesn't have students stuck inside classrooms for 35 hours a week. Instead, on a beautiful fall day, school can be done outside, following the lesson plans and assignments given by their classroom teachers. The parent didn't have to plan school, they just worked their lessons with them, provided oversight, and got to spend the majority of their best waking hours together.
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This is a regular occurrence among the families at The Classical Academy, generated by families themselves- taking advantage of the time to invest in relationships outside of school campus days. We have even had families who have shared overseeing another families at-home school day while a parent was sick, had an appointment, or even jury duty!
Did you know that there are many outside sports teams and leagues that students can participate in if their school does not have an athletic team?
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Many private music teachers will provide lessons at a cheaper rate during normal school day hours. Schedule your child's lesson on a home day!
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These Academy friends took outside ballet class together.
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There are even local opportunities to run cross country, and track & field!
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Time for what they love!
Sports, music, and the arts!
Sports, music, and the arts!
When students' day time hours are proportionally scheduled with schoolwork, whether it's a full campus day, or an
at-home day, students and families are overall less exhausted. Most of our students participate in private music and art lessons, sports, 4-H, and hobbies without the overtaxed scheduled of a 35 hour academic week.
at-home day, students and families are overall less exhausted. Most of our students participate in private music and art lessons, sports, 4-H, and hobbies without the overtaxed scheduled of a 35 hour academic week.
Come invest in the gift of time at
The Classical Academy!
The Classical Academy!
