One-semester art class: God has blessed us with a mind that is creative, analytical, curious, and expressive. The beauty of architecture is that it can encompass all of our mind through problem-solving by art. This course will introduce students to key terminology and skills of building design. They will see many examples of architectural trends and how it conveys a story of its time. Through hands-on activities, they will get to explore new architectural concepts, sketch ideas, and … [Read more...]
Wednesday 3-5th (PM2) – Art Works
In this one-year art class, the teacher will be discussing and examining different artists and their paintings while having students using some of the mediums and methods they were famous for. They will also dive into some cultural artwork from different tribes and nations. The teacher will also be making an online video playlist whenever possible to further the students learning and exploration of the artist/artwork style that will be sent through email weekly. … [Read more...]
Wednesday 3-5th (PM1) – Writing Workshop
In this one-year class, students will be taking a creative journey through the writing process. Learning to use their imagination, emotions, senses, play, and art, to invoke a natural way of writing. The teacher will introduce, review, and discuss different parts of speech, literary devices, or figures of speech each week that will go along with what students are learning. *Students will need a journal notebook for homework, and teacher encourages getting one with drawing space … [Read more...]
Wednesday 3-5th (AM2) – Jr. Engineers (S.T.E.M.)
In this amazing class, students will be introduced and led through the Engineering Process as they brainstorm, build, test, modify and share their creations. Sample building challenges include; Bridges, Chain Reactions, Elevators, Tree houses, and Water Slides. Building challenges will be both individual and collaborative. Let's build! (Same as 1-3rd class at 11:30 am) … [Read more...]
Wednesday 3-5/6th (AM1A) – Our 50 States (U.S. Geography)
Students will "travel" across the United States and explore the geography and uniqueness of all fifty States. Highlights of the class include: Capital Cities, State Facts, Historical Beginnings, Natural Wonders and Economic Industries/Resources. Students will engage in weekly hands-on activities such as collaborative State projects, making food specific to regions/states, and map-making activities. … [Read more...]
Tuesday 3-5th (PM1) – Intro to Music
This class is the same as the younger class...students will learn the fundamentals of music, having fun learning different rhythms, percussion and more! … [Read more...]
Tuesday 3-5th (AM2) – Book Club (Famous Americans)
In this class, students will read books at home, and then in class they will have fun discussion about the books they read. They will engage activities that may history, science, fine arts, and will also hit on language, math, cooking, and drama. All the fun activities will help students learn more about what they read from the books! Parents will need to purchase the readers to go along with this class. If parents want to, they can also purchase the Beyond Five in A Row (Volume 1) … [Read more...]
Tuesday 5th & Up (AM1B) – Choir
Class description coming soon! … [Read more...]
Wednesday 4-6th (AM1A) – IEW Grammar & Spelling
IEW has revised their Fix It! curriculum this year. Where they previously had three books for the third through eighth grade levels, they now have five books. Town Mouse and Country Mouse is a brand new book that's the second in the curriculum series. Students will learn the parts of speech and practice editing, or "fixing," sentences each week in their books. They will also be able to rewrite grammatically correct sentences in paragraph form, and practice and test on spelling words each … [Read more...]
Wednesday 5th (PM2A) – Math 5 (Teaching Textbooks)
Taught by an experienced math teacher, this one-year course will cover all the 5th grade level concepts with instruction and practice in class, and student will complete assigned lesson problem sets at home. All homework is done on paper, graded by parent using the answer key and turned in for credit. Tests are also taken at home and turned in for grading, and teacher will also give in-class quizzes as this will be a graded class. To see if your child is ready for Math 5, have them take a … [Read more...]