This is a CORE class that meets once a week for the full year. CORE classes have greater expectations of students, parents, and teachers. Parents are required to attend the mandatory CORE Classes Parent Meeting immediately following Family Orientation on either August 27th at 6:45pm or August 29th at 2:45pm. Let's learn about history during one of the most interesting times Europe! From castles, knights, legends, to rich church history, we will cover it all! Each week will read excepts from our main book, Remember the Days History of Medieval Times from Biblio Plan, work on a history timeline, map work, have class discussions, and small projects. We will cover events of all continents at that time as well as important parts of church history.
Requirements:
Ability to write at least 1-2, four sentence paragraphs, participate in class discussions, and finish small projects outside of class.
In this art class students will have an opportunity to study master artists and then recreate their works, putting their own unique touches on them. Most of their creations will take two class periods or possibly three, depending on the complexity of the artwork. Some of the masters we will be studying will be Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Picasso, and Monet. Whether your child finds creative artwork easy, or your child is just beginning to develop their skills as an artist, this class is for you. I will walk them through each step of recreating a masterpiece.
Requirements:
Weekly attendance is very important as many of our projects will take 2 to 3 classes to complete. If your child is sick, please notify me on Slack so that I can set aside the materials they need to work on it at home. NOTE: We will be working primarily with acrylic paints which do not wash out of clothes easily. Please send one adult/oversize t-shirt with your child’s name on it that you do not mind getting paint on. I can store the shirts in the closet for them to wear while they are painting.
Join us as we learn about the artists of the past! We will explore the life and works of Edgar Degas, John James Audubon, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Lange, and Hokusai through puzzles, storybooks, games, videos, sensory play, and of course, art projects.
Join us as we learn about the artists of the past! We will explore the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, and Pablo Picasso through puzzles, storybooks, games, videos, sensory play, and of course, art projects.
How does a confident reader confront a long word she doesn’t know? She breaks it down into parts (i.e. smaller words, syllables, prefixes, suffixes, and root words). Master decoding unfamiliar words by knowing consonant sounds, vowel sounds, and how vowel sounds work within individual syllables. Did you know that there are only six types of syllables? Reading long words is easier than you think when you know how to identify and pronounce the different syllable types. Students who take this highly interactive course will make the leap from reading familiar single-syllable words to reading syllables that are parts of multisyllabic words. Activities include spelling practice, proofreading, crossword puzzles, word finds, fill in the blank, categorizing, sorting, and passage reading for fluency and comprehension.
Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Identify six types of syllables (closed, silent-e, open, r-controlled, consonant-le, double- vowel)
• Recite and correctly apply five syllabication rules
• Isolate, pronounce and spell syllables that are part of list words
• Read with improved speed and accuracy
• Use correctly-spelled list words in own writing
• Become a confident reader!
Requirements:
Prerequisite: Incoming students must have a foundation of phonics and be able to read short stories with multiple paragraphs.
The title says it all- this class is full of MESSY art! Each week will feature a fun and messy art project with paint, glue, glitter and more! There will be projects that are sensory based and ones that practice small motor skills, utilizing many unconventional art mediums along the way. We'll break out the smocks for this class!
A fun way to explore various textures and strengthen your hands while fine tuning dexterity to help improve your fine motor skills for writing and eye hand coordination. We will be making play dough, slime, putty, and other things with shaving cream and paints. We will also use dry textures such as beads, beans, rice, and sand.
Messy Play's fun and engaging projects will strengthen hands, build dexterity, and improve fine motor skills, which are used in writing and hand eye coordination. The projects will defer from Fall semester and they will include wet, dry, foamy, slimy, and other various textures.
Messy Play's fun and engaging projects will strengthen hands, build dexterity, and improve fine motor skills; which are used in writing and hand eye coordination. The projects may include: wet, dry, foamy, slimy, hard and soft mediums.
In this hands-on class, we will be completing a messy science experiment each week to see how different substances react to each other. Each student will be provided a science journal that will cover the scientific method. We will ask questions, formulate hypotheses, record data and form conclusions.
Requirements:
Due to the experiments, students must be able to listen and follow instructions well.