Curriculum
We use a five year review plan for all our curriculum. The different companies reflect the findings of our curriculum review teams.
Building a Christian World View
Trinity Lutheran School seeks to help student to view and interpret the world in science, literature, economics, politics, history or mathematics through the grid of who God is and what He has spoken to us. We train students to think God’s thoughts after Him.
Education for the Real World
Occasionally, parents tell us that they don’t send their children to Christian Schools because they want them to be prepared for the real world. This viewpoint is typically expressed with a sentence such as “The world is a jungle, full of struggle and strife, and children need to be prepared to function in the real world.” This viewpoint reflects a failure to recognize the real world. Jesus says, “The world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” (1 John 2:17).
Jesus Christ “gave himself for our sins that He might deliver us from this present evil world.” (Galations 1:4) This world is only a temporary intrusion in the perfect world that God created in the beginning and will soon reestablish to endure forever. True education must be grounded and governed by the Word of God, since there is nothing else in this present world that will survive in the real world. “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will never pass away.” (Matthew 24:35). “Forever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven.” (Psalm 119:89). We must go to the scriptures for our basic principles of real education for the real world. If education is preparation for life, life is preparation for eternity, where “….His servants shall serve Him.” (Revelation 22:3), and the will of God will “be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10), then education in time must be education for eternity – if it is to be true education. This real world is the focus at Trinity Lutheran School. Trinity Lutheran School is education for the real world.
Quotes
“The most careful cultivation of our parochial schools is and remains , after the public ministry, the chief means for our preservation and our continuation.”
C.F.W. Walther
“What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach them and train them? The prosperity of a city does not depend on the accumulation of great riches, the building of walls and houses, many guns and armors. Rather, a city’s greatest and best prosperity, salvation, and power is this, that it has many fine, learned, sensible, righteous, well-trained Christian citizens.”
Martin Luther
“But where the Holy Scripture does not rule I certainly advise no one to send his child. Everyone not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt….I greatly fear that schools for higher learning are wide gates to hell if they do not diligently teach the Holy Scriptures and impress them on the young folks.
Martin Luther
- Social Studies and Science are Abeka.
- Reading in Kindergarten is McMillan/McGraw-Hill and in grades 1-8 we use Scott Foresman
- Math K-6 is Harcourt Brace and 7-8 we use Houghton Mifflin
- Religion is Concordia Publishing House
- English 1-6 Scott Foresman, Gr 5 is Houghton Mifflin, 7-8 Prentice Hall
Building a Christian World View
Trinity Lutheran School seeks to help student to view and interpret the world in science, literature, economics, politics, history or mathematics through the grid of who God is and what He has spoken to us. We train students to think God’s thoughts after Him.
Education for the Real World
Occasionally, parents tell us that they don’t send their children to Christian Schools because they want them to be prepared for the real world. This viewpoint is typically expressed with a sentence such as “The world is a jungle, full of struggle and strife, and children need to be prepared to function in the real world.” This viewpoint reflects a failure to recognize the real world. Jesus says, “The world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” (1 John 2:17).
Jesus Christ “gave himself for our sins that He might deliver us from this present evil world.” (Galations 1:4) This world is only a temporary intrusion in the perfect world that God created in the beginning and will soon reestablish to endure forever. True education must be grounded and governed by the Word of God, since there is nothing else in this present world that will survive in the real world. “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will never pass away.” (Matthew 24:35). “Forever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven.” (Psalm 119:89). We must go to the scriptures for our basic principles of real education for the real world. If education is preparation for life, life is preparation for eternity, where “….His servants shall serve Him.” (Revelation 22:3), and the will of God will “be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10), then education in time must be education for eternity – if it is to be true education. This real world is the focus at Trinity Lutheran School. Trinity Lutheran School is education for the real world.
Quotes
“The most careful cultivation of our parochial schools is and remains , after the public ministry, the chief means for our preservation and our continuation.”
C.F.W. Walther
“What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach them and train them? The prosperity of a city does not depend on the accumulation of great riches, the building of walls and houses, many guns and armors. Rather, a city’s greatest and best prosperity, salvation, and power is this, that it has many fine, learned, sensible, righteous, well-trained Christian citizens.”
Martin Luther
“But where the Holy Scripture does not rule I certainly advise no one to send his child. Everyone not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt….I greatly fear that schools for higher learning are wide gates to hell if they do not diligently teach the Holy Scriptures and impress them on the young folks.
Martin Luther