Category: Classical Education

Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?

Today we will hear from our Director of Early Childhood, Merideth Eades, as she dives into a topic that we get many questions about: Is it time to make the

Letters to my UMS Self

In an effort to give our upper middle school (UMS) students and parents a glimpse into life as a high school student, we asked a few of our SLOCA High

For the Love of Math: Part 4

To help those who are curious about what Singapore Math is all about, this series of blog posts will take you through the history, approach, and essentially the “why” of

For the Love of Math: Part 2

For those who are curious about what Singapore Math is about and why we are such big fans, this series of blog posts will take you through the history, approach,

For the Love of Math: Part 1

What comes to mind when you think back on your experiences learning math in school? For most people, math is a subject that can bring up strong feelings and memories—and

History Day: Tableaux of the Masters!

Wow – we are already a third of the way through our school year! To close out the first trimester, we celebrated all the great Renaissance artists we have been

17 Again

I recently had the chance to participate in SLOCA’s “17 Again” event. This is a unique opportunity for SLOCA parents and grandparents to sit in on one or more SLOCA

Students Connecting the Classical Dots

At SLOCA, our classical education model moves students through three stages of learning (commonly referred to as the trivium), the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages. Building on the foundation set

history this week: Marco Polo with a Side of Hamlet

For today’s History This Week series, you will find a few fun and exciting resources related to SLOCA’s current history and literature studies. These are intended to be an EASY

Introducing the newest member of our Somebodies series, Persian poet, HAFEZ! This pen name, which means “memorizer” or “safekeeper” is a stand-in for Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī or خواجه