2021-2022 CLASSES

MONDAY SCHEDULE

10 - 11 - Poetry Teatime - Set a relaxing, fun, and delectable tone for the week by beginning your week with Poetry Teatime. I will provide a different tea sampling each week and a variety of poetry books, themes, and forms to choose from. Participants will rotate bringing in the treats to share for that week. (This is not a good class choice if you have a lot of food allergies, but we can try to make some adjustments as necessary.) 

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11-12  Beginning IEW - A fun introduction to Institute for Excellence in Writing's methodology for language arts. This is so much more than a writing program, it's a speaking, reading, and thinking program as well. I love introducing people to IEW. Ideal for beginning readers and up. Parents are strongly encouraged to attend unless they are already familiar with IEW. This class has homework in which the parent will be asked to do a lot of support as needed.

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12-1 - Lunch/playtime

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1-3 pm ART - I use art projects from Deep Space Sparkle and Meet the Masters, both fabulous and rich art curricula. Meet the Masters features part art history lesson and part art project inspired by the artist. Deep Space Sparkle offers a huge variety of projects with many different themes and mediums. This allows me to customize art projects based on the needs and interests of our group. 

TUESDAY SCHEDULE

9:30AM-3:00PM - Grades 4-8 - The Once and Future City

An exploration of society and how cities work, past, present, future, with an emphasis on 1994 toward the future (where story of the world 4 ends) Topics to explore: 

History of various cities

Geography 

Economic and government systems

Moral and ethical philosophy and psychology 

Sociology

Infrastructure (how it works, science/engineering, past, present, future)  transportation, water, energy, waste, food, communications, recreation, health/medical (cue the local field trips and speakers)

Security, Safety/Crime, legal systems

Natural resources/preservation and conservation

Dealing with natural disasters

Future technologies

Dystopian and Utopian novels

Build model future city

Play city building simulations

Go on field trips related to city services

This class will have weekly reading and writing assignments. We'll be reading a mix of fiction novels set in cities and dystopian/science fiction. I'll be compiling the nonfiction readings from a variety of sources. For writing we'll be writing our own mini-novel for the creative track and emphasizing critical thinking and persuasive writing for our non-fiction track. Over the year they will also be working on a model of their own future city. Tentative booklist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2IASYV31UMSBM?ref_=wl_share

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WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE

Ancient History 10AM-12PM Grades 1-4

This will be a homework involved class.  At home you will read a chapter of Story of the World: Volume 1 Ancient times, do a writing assignment (IEW), and read some complementary historical fiction, and other literature that corresponds to our SOTW chapter. During class we will share our writing, do hands-on activities, projects and discussion to extend our history and literature readings. I'm still working on the book list...stay tuned. This is such a fun way to satisfy your social studies, reading, and writing goals for the year.

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12-1 - Lunch/Playtime

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1-3PM R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey - Physics Grades 1-4 -

This is a wonderful science curriculum with a great balance between workbook and hands-on experiments. We will study Newton's Laws, Simple and complex machines, sound, and more. Check out this curriculum at https://www.pandiapress.com/product/real-science-odyssey-physics-level-one/

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THURSDAY SCHEDULE

 10 -12 - Grades 2-5 - Brain Power -  This class will be all about solving puzzles and mysteries, developing strategies, engaging in logical and lateral thinking, playing with riddles and mathematical concepts. It will also be about lessening the stress on the brain to maximize its power. We will learn chess and other strategy games, use materials from critical thinking company, play math games, engage in debate, take a lot of brain breaks, learn about how the brain works, and practice relaxation and focus techniques.

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12-1 - Lunch/Playtime

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1-3 - K-2 - Thematic Adventures- We will be setting up different pretend play areas over the year, changing out our theme every few weeks. We will become part of a space station, construction site, restaurant, pet store, bakery, etc. We will enhance our experience with stories, songs, games, crafts, and thematic snacks.

FRIDAY SCHEDULE

10-12 - Grades K-4 - Road Trip USA!

Every week we will visit another state, learning a bit of geography and state symbols. We'll read stories, play games, taste foods/cook, and make crafts that extend our learning about each state we visit.

1-3PM - Grades K-6 - Art 

This art class will focus on the EPIC curriculum from Deep Space Sparkle. This curriculum focuses on a different art element every few weeks, line and pattern, shape, color, contrast and emphasis, movement and rhythm, value, texture, balance, form, space, proportion, and unity and variety. These lessons are usually accompanied by a picture book at the beginning of the lesson. The projects in this class will be different than Monday's art class.