October 2020 – Sophia Academy

In the Time of Corona

Sophia Academy has been fortunate this fall to be able to hold most of our classes outside, which has enabled us to safely continue in-person education. Art classes, history classes, even math and science have been outside. When colder weather sets in, we will be using natural ventilation as well as air purifiers to continue to keep our students and staff free from COVID-19.

Moving from color theory to skills in copying pictures, students are eager to use the right side of their brains.

Archeological DIG returns

Sophia Academy believes in learning the past by entering the past. So when we study ancient cultures, students take on the roles of archeologists as they decipher specific cultures created by their classmates. It’s a great way to understand the concepts of culture and civilization and tends to make learning ancient cultures more memorable. After studying early Mesopotamian and African cultures, students learned skills needed to carefully engage in an archeological dig: locating a site, organizing the site, carefully removing soil layer by layer, retrieving and possibly fitting “ancient” artifacts together, recording locations, soil types, and depths of finds, and finally, analyzing the artifact in order to decipher the culture.

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