TUESDAYS in El Dorado Hills
2/3 ELA: Fractured Tales (grades 2-3) 9:00am-10:00am
$190 per semester
This exciting class will focus on improving reading and writing skills while encouraging the love of books. The class will focus on building reading vocabulary, fluency, and confidence through studying (and reading) engaging age appropriate "fractured" tales together. We will be reading The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, and Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox. Students will also respond to their reading with creative crafts, activities, and writing their own fractured tale.
Elementary Write On! ABC State Books (grades 4-6) 10:00am-11:00am
$190 per semester
Spring semester will be all about creativity, research, and informative writing! The students will learn effective research and summarizing skills as they create an ABC book on a state of their choice. This class will satisfy your child's state project curriculum requirement in a unique and exciting way. The semester begins with a field trip to the EDH library and ends with a FLA Book Tour where the students will showcase their creations. This has always been a favorite project and the ABC books become cherished keepsakes.
Middle School Write On! Powerful Poetry (grades 6-8)
11:00am-12:00pm and 12:30pm-1:30pm (two class times offered)
$190 per semester
Our focus spring semester will be poetry and response to literature. We will begin with learning to recognize and create a variety of literary/poetic devices (simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, symbolism). We will then apply that knowledge in annotating, analyzing, and responding to several super-engaging short stories and poems. Students will become poets themselves and create a variety of poems including rhyme, free verse, concrete, cinquain, haiku, diamonte, and limerick. Analyzing and responding to literature is an essential skill for all students and will be the main type of writing required from them as they move into high school and beyond.
The Hunger Games: Novel Study (grades 5-8) 1:30pm-2:30pm
$190 per semester
By popular demand we are reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This interactive class is completely literature-based and fun! We read, discuss, and analyze super engaging, age-level appropriate novels. Each week the students will read and annotate focusing on various aspects of the novel including mood, theme, characters, conflict, literary devices, and personal connections. There is optional homework students can complete for a grade to prepare them for discussion, increase their critical thinking skills, and satisfy state curriculum requirements. This class is perfect not only for students who love to read, but for students who are resistant readers as well. All books will be provided and are included in the class tuition. The title of our second novel will be announced soon. Come join us and READ ON!
Wednesdays in El Dorado Hills
High School Literature Study (grades 9-12) 12:30pm-1:30pm
$190 per semester
This interactive class is completely literature-based and fun! We read, discuss, and analyze engaging, high school level novels, so the class is not appropriate younger middle school students. Each week the students will read and annotate focusing on various aspects of the novel including mood, theme, characters, conflict, literary devices, and personal connections. There is homework students complete to prepare them for discussion, increase their critical thinking skills, and satisfy state curriculum requirements. All books will be provided and are included in the class tuition. This semester we will be studying two novels and various other short stories consistent with A-G curriculum requirements.
High School Write on! (grades 9-12) 1:30pm-2:30pm
$195 per semester
This class will work in combination with the High School Literature Study class and will focus on writing projects, essays, and responses centered around the novels studied. This semester, students will complete an argument/research essay along with other short answer responses, essays, and projects. This class is aligned with A-G requirements.
Thursdays in Placerville
2/3 ELA: Fractured Tales (grades 2-3) 10:00am-11:00am
$190 per semester
This exciting class will focus on improving reading and writing skills while encouraging the love of books. The class will focus on building reading vocabulary, fluency, and confidence through studying (and reading) engaging age appropriate "fractured" tales together. We will be reading The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, and Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox. Students will also respond to their reading with creative crafts, activities, and writing their own fractured tale.
Elementary Write On! ABC State Books (grades 4-5) 11:00am-12:00pm
$190 per semester
Spring semester will be all about creativity, research, and informative writing! The students will learn effective research and summarizing skills as they create an ABC book on a state of their choice. This class will satisfy your child's state project curriculum requirement in a unique and exciting way. The semester begins with a field trip to the EDH library and ends with a FLA Book Tour where the students will showcase their creations. This has always been a favorite project and the ABC books become cherished keepsakes.
Middle School Write On! Powerful Poetry (grades 6-8)
12:30pm-1:30pm (two class times offered)
$190 per semester
Our focus spring semester will be poetry and response to literature. We will begin with learning to recognize and create a variety of literary/poetic devices (simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, symbolism). We will then apply that knowledge in annotating, analyzing, and responding to several super-engaging short stories and poems. Students will become poets themselves and create a variety of poems including rhyme, free verse, concrete, cinquain, haiku, diamonte, and limerick. Analyzing and responding to literature is an essential skill for all students and will be the main type of writing required from them as they move into high school and beyond.
The Hunger Games: Novel Study (grades 5-8) 1:30pm-2:30pm
$190 per semester
By popular demand we are reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This interactive class is completely literature-based and fun! We read, discuss, and analyze super engaging, age-level appropriate novels. Each week the students will read and annotate focusing on various aspects of the novel including mood, theme, characters, conflict, literary devices, and personal connections. There is optional homework students can complete for a grade to prepare them for discussion, increase their critical thinking skills, and satisfy state curriculum requirements. This class is perfect not only for students who love to read, but for students who are resistant readers as well. All books will be provided and are included in the class tuition. The title of our second novel will be announced soon. Come join us and READ ON!
Middle School Bible (grades 6-8) 9:00am-10:00am
FREE
Get ready to dig into God's Word together as we discover what it means to be a middle schooler following after Jesus. This class will be Bible-based and open to all students who want to learn more about or grow in their relationship with God. Come join us as we discuss, ask questions, find answers, and pray in an environment of support and encouragement.
"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24-25
This is a non-secular class, taught from a Christian world view, involving prayer.