Sometimes your student may have gaps between classes, students are not allowed to be unsupervised. Study hall gives your student a place to come and study, do homework, maybe meet some new people while being supervised. Students may be in Study hall at any time they're not in class. This isn't a place to be loud and obnoxious, you'll be asked to leave if that is the case; but it is a place to throw in your earbuds, study by yourself or with a friend and make the best use of your time.
Must bring their own material.
Requirements:
Assistants:
Homework:
None
Billable Hours Per Week:
3
Admin Tier:
Class Override
Admin Fee:
$0, Term Total = $0
Class Fee:
$0.00
Supply Fee:
$0.00
Teen Gameplay!
Ages 12yr-18yr
Kim Triplett
Spring 2022
Schedule:
Tuesday - Classroom - 224: 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm
Description:
This class is for teenage students to connect through playing both new and familiar games. There will be a variety of games to choose from each week of many different styles - board, dice and card. With the instructor's permission, students may bring a favorite game from home to share.
No materials, homework, or prerequisites.
Apprenticeship with Miss Tracy is a studio-based, hands-on learning experience that can offer an invaluable window into the career of a studio ceramic artist. This age-old model of transference of craft skills, ideas, and practice will provide a unique learning opportunity for your student. In this class we will discuss in-class helper guidelines tips and techniques, studio equipment training, and chore expectations. Apprentices will be trained in all the nuances and needs of the duties that are unique to our studio as well as discussion/exposure to alternative types of studio environments.
Requirements:
Apprentices need to help in some of the scheduled classes being held in the ceramics studio. Any class Apprentices choose for their own study will be billed at a 25% reduced fee for every hour of class they help in. Apprentices will be invited to assist in studio activities such as kiln loading and unloading as well as private use of the studio when no classes are present. Additionally I will request occasional studio work days for tidying the studio between sessions and general maintenance of shared class tools and supplies.
Assistants:
Homework:
Up to 2 Hours Week
Billable Hours Per Week:
1
Admin Tier:
Specialty
Admin Fee:
$4.00, Term Total = $64
Class Fee:
$100.00
Supply Fee:
$0.00
Art History
Ages 12yr-18yr
Avonlea Allemann
Winter/Spring 2021
Arts
Schedule:
Tuesday - Dance Studio B - 118: 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Description:
This class will be helpful for anyone who is interested in learning how art developed throughout the ages. We will be learning a different period of art as it progressed each week, starting with cave art and ending with modern art. There will be a project each week based on what we’ve learned. For example, in the time of Mesopotamia, your homework will be a drawing of a statue in Persepolis. At the end, you’ll be expected to write an essay on what you’ve learned about the various art stages throughout history.
Requirements:
Assistants:
Homework:
None
Billable Hours Per Week:
1
Admin Tier:
Class Override
Admin Fee:
$32, Term Total = $32
Class Fee:
$75.00
Supply Fee:
$22.00
Elementary Ceramics A
Ages 5yr-10yr
Sia Hoyt
Spring 2023
Arts
- Ceramics
Schedule:
Monday - Ceramics Studio - 004: 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Description:
In this class students will be learning about decoration, carving, smoothing, sculpting and construction in clay. Over the course of our 16 weeks together, we will be doing so many fun projects from tiles and cups to pendants and boxes! Inevitably, there will also be sweet little independent creations like pizzas, dice and lizards. Your students will have plenty of creative freedom and even have the opportunity to team up for some joint sculptural projects. Tactile contact is one of the first experiences we have in this life so touching clay and experiencing ceramic art is a very grounding experience. The ceramic studio becomes a weekly source of art therapy, camaraderie and joy. Students will have some minimal cleanup chores, like washing the wooden tools and sponges in the provided water buckets or wiping down their areas after glazing days. Junior ceramic students are bound to have a lot of fun together in this class as they learn the old craftsmanship of working with clay.
Requirements:
Supply & teacher payments are due January 9th. Families must respond to invoice requests by this deadline to keep their standing in the class.
Assistants:
Homework:
None
Billable Hours Per Week:
1
Admin Tier:
Specialty
Admin Fee:
$4, Term Total = $64
Class Fee:
$150.00
Supply Fee:
$50.00
Messy Play
Ages 5yr-8yr
Jilda Burlacu
Spring 2023
Arts
- General Art
Schedule:
Tuesday - Art Studio - 129: 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Description:
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.
Requirements:
Assistants:
Homework:
None
Billable Hours Per Week:
1
Admin Tier:
Elective
Admin Fee:
$4, Term Total = $64
Class Fee:
$120.00
Supply Fee:
$40.00
Cooking with Kids
Ages 8yr-12yr
Jilda Burlacu
Spring 2023
Arts
- General Art
Schedule:
Tuesday - Art Studio - 129: 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm
Description:
A continuation from last semester. The life skill of cooking is an important skill for any child. In this class we will continue to learn the art of reading recipes, knife skills, nutrition, and making simple meals and snacks, both savory and sweet. We will also continue to learn safety when using various appliances.
Requirements:
Assistants:
Homework:
< 1 Hour Week
Billable Hours Per Week:
1
Admin Tier:
Specialty
Admin Fee:
$4, Term Total = $64
Class Fee:
$130.00
Supply Fee:
$45.00
Survival And Adventure Skills
Ages 13yr-19yr+
Summer St John
Spring 2024
Arts
- Cartooning
Schedule:
Wednesday - Classroom - 135: 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm
Description:
In a class like Dungeons and Dragons, Survival And Adventure Skills will teach you how to survive in the wilderness as we set the stage through a fictional scenario. Using only the supplies chosen at the beginning of the semester, students will learn everything there is to know about food and water sourcing, shelter building, and how to build a homestead from the ground up in this educational adventure on survival and bushcraft for beginners.
Requirements:
You must be brave enough
Assistants:
Homework:
< 1 Hour Week
Billable Hours Per Week:
1
Admin Tier:
Specialty
Admin Fee:
$4.00, Term Total = $64
Class Fee:
$100.00
Supply Fee:
$50.00
Improv Comedy
Ages 12yr-18yr
Melanie Neal
Winter/Spring 2021
Arts
Schedule:
Tuesday - Auditorium - 002: 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Description:
This class introduces students to the core fundamentals and principles of improv, focusing on various games and exercises that encourage trust, communication, agreement (“yes and”), character, status, and making your scene partner look good.
We will focus on skills needed for character work, an element essential to dynamic improvised scenes. Actors will explore creating their characters through both internal motivations (point of view, status, wants and intentions) and external motivations (like experimenting with physicality). Actors learn how to make choices in scenes that help define their character. We will complete active exercises that explore different ways to create and sustain characters in a scene. We will also continue to hone the skills necessary for doing strong scene work and building ensemble.
Additional outside workshops and performance/competition opportunities may be available throughout the year at an additional cost.
Improv students will be able to perform for family and friends at the Main Stage Theatre
Showcase on April 27th (mandatory dress rehearsal April 26th).
Requirements:
Assistants:
Homework:
None
Billable Hours Per Week:
1
Admin Tier:
Class Override
Admin Fee:
$32, Term Total = $32
Class Fee:
$160.00
Supply Fee:
$0.00
Basic Hand Stitch Sewing
Ages 10yr-19yr+
Megan Douglas
Fall 2021
Arts
- Sewing
Schedule:
Tuesday - Art Studio - 129: 10:00 am - 10:50 am
Description:
Basic hand sewing techniques for fashion and everyday objects used inside and outside the home. In this course we will complete 2 smaller projects and one fashion project. This fashion project will be selected with the student and myself with approval of parents from historical sewing books. These books are AMAZING for custom fitted items with out the hassle of altering a pattern. It may seam like this is not beginner level but creating your own pattern from the step by step graphing technique used in historical books it is much easier than using someone else’s pattern in the basic sizing options given. Projects: Leather thimble, Needle Book and fashion project.