Habits Make All The Difference
It might surprise you, but even an Academy 3rd grader is a serious student of Aristotle. If you’re to learn how that’s so, you’d need...
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Sierra Gibb
- Feb 3
- 3 min
The Truth Shall Set You Free
In René Descartes’s philosophical declaration, “I Think Therefore I Am,” Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Bet,” and Plato’s “Allegory of...
Mr. James Chertudi
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Let Iron Sharpen Iron
During the summer months of 2020, when teachers first learned the Academy would reopen for in-person learning, we had to decide whether...
Mrs. Jessica Sliman
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Family Read Aloud
Last Thursday night, I sat down with my family to read a book called A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich. My daughters are in...
Mr. James Chertudi
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
A Light On Our Paths
It wasn’t long before a student asked the question: “Mr. Chertudi, why do we say the catechism every morning?” Every day for the past two...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome, Dan Lard
Whitefish Christian Academy welcomes Dan Lard to its Board of Directors.
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Jun 14, 2022
- 3 min
Our Exceptional Class of 2022
Since many of these students of our 2022 graduate class had been with us since Pre-K, there is still something surreal in saying that...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Thank you, Dr. Brunson
At the Academy it’s become common to refer to a certain room in our building as the Rhetoric Room. That’s where the upper school...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
The Logic Behind Logic Class
When you first learned that we have a logic class at the Academy, if your response was like most of any of ours you likely nodded your...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
A Day In The Life of Pre-K
Admittedly our title is already misleading: There are no typical days in Pre-K. There are some constants, though. Or as Mrs. Morrison...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Always Looking Down
In 5th grade students recently wrote their own myths. In conversation with Mr. Chertudi, I (Mr. Gildersleeve) asked a few questions about...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Feb 8, 2022
- 3 min
Mrs. Eisenbarth Joins WCA Music Department
At the start of the new year the Academy welcomed Mrs. Maggie Eisenbarth as its new upper school music teacher. Mrs. Eisenbarth joins...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Feb 8, 2022
- 2 min
Themes In Literature and Life
In 5th Grade Mr. Chertudi and his class are currently reading Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. In their study of that classic...
Mason Loeffler
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
The Proud & The Humble in King Arthur
In King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table by Roger Lanclyn Green, pride is a great sin. Pride, in Biblical terms, is elevated and...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Good Art Takes Time
Art awakens us to the world as it truly is – complex and mysterious yet knowable, in shades, all at once. The best artists, if you think...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Nature Studies at WCA
Jonathan Edwards, who by many is considered one of America’s foremost theologians, and who wrote great works such as The Religious...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
Why study Latin?
It’s a question as likely as April rain. Many Academy students ponder it, though only before they’ve taken the class, and rarely...
Haidyn Hudson
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
Thoughts of a New Academy Student
The following is the transcript of a speech given by Haidyn Hudson at Friday Chapel in February, 2021: I was asked to give a short...
Mr. James Chertudi
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Improving Student Rhetoric Through Immersion
A critical role of the classical educator is to guide students to the rhetoric stage, the summit of a classical education. Young...
Mr. Holden Sieler
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Rhetoric of Virtue
Rhetoric, according to Aristotle, is the art of persuasion. Mobilizing the weapons of word, emotion, and credibility—what the philosopher...
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