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Lutheran Schools Week - Learning Together

"And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him." (Luke 2:39-40 ESV)

Like the boy Jesus, ILS students are growing physically but also in wisdom. Students (and their teachers alongside them) learn language, mathematics, history, and science. They are also learning the words of Scripture as Jesus did. We pray that that the all of our learning might be to the Glory of God and in service to our neighbor. 

Enjoy this post on Learning Together by ILS 4th grade teacher, Miss Leithart. 

Reflection on Leisure by Miss Leithart

On First Looking at a Keats Poem
By Miss Leithart

I remember a point in time at St. John’s, where I spent most of my summer attending the Graduate Institute, when I felt as if I had entered what some great thinkers have termed the “Great Conversation.” Having finished the last book of Homer’s Iliad, I was riding the waves of accomplishment when someone dear to me suggested I read John Keats’ poem “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.” I did, and I think I understood him when he wrote: