I just observed a friendly competition during gym time in the basement/cafeteria area of our Fairmount elementary campus. The game is pretty simple and is really a total body workout disguised as a competition. When Ms. Bongiorni said “Go!,” the students ran around in circles for about 15 seconds, getting their heart rates up. Then she […]
Questions are how we learn. From a very young age, curious children begin to ask, “Why?” That deceptively simple question captures their imagination and, if their natural curiosity is cultivated, begins a lifelong journey of unraveling the beautiful mysteries of our world. That’s what learning is. At The City School, we challenge our students to […]
Every year we choose a theme verse to help guide our school community in the classroom, in the boardroom and in every other room. It’s a special verse that can uniquely shape our character as we meditate on a very small portion of God’s word for an entire year. In the recent past, theme verses […]
In C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, a demon scoffs that, “humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.” The fallen angel isn’t far off. But, like many spiritually-minded people today, he falsely sees our bodies as a corruption of the pure, spiritual reality. This shred of bad theology is ancient and pervasive. You can find it […]