Get ready for fun and learning with Early Preschool Play! We will nurture relationships and develop skills through playful games and activities, including music & movement, story time, arts & crafts, and sensory play. Each month we will have a new theme that will incorporate color recognition, shapes, counting, and more while we learn about that themed topic! This term our themes will be: •All About Me •Animals •Spring •Transportation -Skills developed in this class will include social-emotional, fine motor, language & literacy, and pre-math.
Requirements:
Child must be comfortable enough to attend class without parent.
Tuesday - Ceramics Studio - 004: 11:00 am - 12:50 pm
Description:
This class is for beginning and returning pottery wheel students. Students will be guided in wheel throwing techniques with the goal of making functional pieces for use in their homes and spaces. They will be encouraged to bring their own ideas to the classroom and will be given exciting demos. Students will also receive instruction in basic terminology of the ceramics studio pertaining to clay body, stages of clay becoming ceramics and the many curious and helpful tools potters use to create their own signature style. Teaching through lecture & demonstration, as well as 1:1 instruction will all be given in this course.
Using Apologia's Exploring Creation with Earth Science (Young Explorers Series) we will expand our knowledge of the beauty and wonder of our home planet! Each week we will complete a lab or activity designed to enhance your student's understanding of the earth's geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. Most labs will center around making a paper mache model of the earth and adding geographical features (longitude/latitude, mountain ranges, continents, etc.) to it as we cover those topics.
Who's hungry to learn about the cornucopia of foods that are enjoyed around the world? Get ready to have fun and gain cultural perspective while making simple recipes from the countries explored in our Globetrotters Treehouse class! Students will leave with a multicultural recipe book, an apron of their own, lots of tasty treats, and an assortment of new cooking and kitchen skills. We will discover how each country uses their own unique ingredients and resources to create tasty, healthy meals.
*Recipes are allergy-friendly. Let the teacher know ASAP if your child has food allergies.
Requirements:
Students must be enrolled in Globetrotters Treehouse in order to take this class. Globetrotter students will be automatically enrolled in this course - Contact the class coordinator if you do not wish to be enrolled.
Students will be encouraged to follow 3-step directions, work independently, ask for help if needed, take turns and show kindness and respect to the teacher and fellow classmates. With cooking, there can be potentially dangerous equipment or heat. It's very important that children obey our classroom safety rules.
Who's hungry to learn about the cornucopia of foods that are enjoyed around the world? Get ready to have fun and gain cultural perspective while making simple recipes from the countries explored in our Globetrotters Treehouse class! Students will leave with a multicultural recipe book, an apron of their own, lots of tasty treats, and an assortment of new cooking and kitchen skills. We will discover how each country uses their own unique ingredients and resources to create tasty, healthy meals.
*Recipes are allergy-friendly. Let the teacher know ASAP if your child has food allergies.
Requirements:
Students must be enrolled in Globetrotters Treehouse in order to take this class. Globetrotter students will be automatically enrolled in this course - Contact the class coordinator if you do not wish to be enrolled.
Students will be encouraged to follow 3-step directions, work independently, ask for help if needed, take turns and show kindness and respect to the teacher and fellow classmates. With cooking, there can be potentially dangerous equipment or heat. It's very important that children obey our classroom safety rules.
Have fun and gain cultural perspective while making basic recipes from the countries explored in the Little Globetrotters class! Students will leave with a multicultural recipe book, an apron of their own, lots of tasty treats, and an assortment of new cooking and kitchen skills. *Recipes are allergy-friendly. Let the teacher know ASAP if your child has food allergies.
Requirements:
Students must be enrolled in Little Globetrotters in order to take this class. Little Globetrotters students will be automatically enrolled in this course - contact the class coordinator if you do not wish to be enrolled.
Have fun and gain cultural perspective while making basic recipes from the countries explored in the Little Globetrotters class! Students will leave with a multicultural recipe book, an apron of their own, lots of tasty treats, and an assortment of new cooking and kitchen skills. *Recipes are allergy-friendly. Let the teacher know ASAP if your child has food allergies.
Requirements:
Students must be enrolled in Little Globetrotters in order to take this class. Little Globetrotters students will be automatically enrolled in this course - contact the class coordinator if you do not wish to be enrolled.
This course for grades 7-12 helps students understand basic economics (supply and demand) as well as all aspects of personal finance including savings, use of credit (or not!), budgeting, investing
Wednesday - Science Lab - 127: 10:00 am - 10:50 am
Description:
We will be cooking recipes and using foods to explore the science of God’s amazing Earth! Students will learn basic kitchen safety and some easy fun recipes while we investigate how our beautiful planet works. Topics will include layers of the Earth, tectonic plates, volcanoes, land and ocean formations and more.
In Egg-gineering you will use raw eggs as crash-test dummies for a wide variety of engineering design challenges. Can you protect an egg from a 12 foot drop using only 2 feet of butcher paper? Can you and two teammates maneuver an egg into a cup in the center of a 6’ diameter circle using a paper cup, some tape, a few soda straws, and 4’ of kite string? Will your egg crash test dummy survive the rigorous tests in Huevos Launcheros? Join us and find out.
NOTE: for students who have taken this class before, I will either assign different challenges or I will increase the difficulty of the existing projects.
This is a one semester class. There will be homework for the Huevos Launcheros project.