2022-2023 Class Offerings
Thank you for your interest in our 2022-2023 academic year. We are delighted to offer a selection of subjects that will be taught in the spirit of classical education--in a liturgical format and at a pace that lends itself to mastery. This is an overview of classes offered. For a full description of classes, goals and objectives and class fees, please request the Family Handbook.
Early Learners (ages 3-5)
Casa Dei Bambini: A Montessori-style Children’s Room
In keeping with our goal to awaken wonder, we offer our earliest learners a “children’s room.”
Inspired by the the Montessori environment this space is quiet and simple, which allows for concentration and focus. The guide clearly communicates the boundaries and expectations to the children, enforces those boundaries respectfully, and observes the children in the environment in order to contemplate the works that should be presented to each individual child. The children choose their work freely (based on the works they’ve been shown) and work with each work for as long as they choose. Concentration leads to contemplation.
Based on the discretion of the “guide” early learners spend anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes in this space.
Arts, crafts and story time
Fine motor skills are further developed through guided play with playdough, watercolors, stickers and more. Through the use of scripture-based stories, fables, and gentle and beautiful picture books, our young learners will grow together in the virtues of patience, good manners, and perseverance; develop listening and oral language skills; and deepen their memorization skills.
A time for fellowship, snack, gross motor activity and free play is part of each day, too!
Lower Grammar Level (K-3)
Song School Latin 1
Target Age: Song School Latin 1 is offered to 1st and 2nd graders; advanced kindergarten students may be eligible. Students must be able to read.
Description: Did you know there is a Latin program that matches the energy, developmental level, and fun-loving nature of your youngest students? Song School Latin does just that. Tailored for young children up through 1st or 2nd grade, this delightfully gentle introduction to Latin offers lessons that are peppered with songs, enjoyable vocabulary, illustrations, handwriting practice, stories, games, and engaging activities. Children will love learning Latin!
Two class sessions will occur for the 2022-2023 academic year: The second half of Song School Latin will be offered to returning students and the workbook will be introduced for incoming students.
An Introduction to handwriting, poetry, literature and art
Through the use of scripture and scripture-based stories, great literature, fables with maxims, and picture book studies, coupled with a gentle introduction to classical art, nature and poetry, our young learners will grow together in virtue, develop listening and oral language skills, and deepen their memorization skills.
The introduction of poetry through the creation and cultivation of a poetry notebook, illustrated by the child, provides opportunity for further beauty of words and images, developing virtue, vocabulary growth and writing practice. The goal is to train the imagination to retain information, build the memory and bolster the moral imagination with a store of rich and varied images.
A time for fellowship, snack and gross motor activity is part of each day, too!
Children’s Theater
Target Age: Kindergarten through 4th grade
Description: Offered in the afternoons of the second semester, this is an opportunity for your budding thespians to shine! Though staging and acting in a simple, beautiful play, these young actors will grow in confidence and improve their memorization skills, public speaking abilities and teamwork.
Upper Grammar Level (3-6)
The Budding Botanist
Target Age: 3rd through 6th grade
Description: The Budding Botanist (an AIM curriculum) was written for children to provide an integrated and hands on experience of science. Students will joyfully investigate how the structure and function of flowers, leaves, roots, and stems help plants to live, grow and reproduce.
Activities may include examining cone-bearing plants and flowering plants, observing photosynthesis and transpiration, sorting and dissecting seeds, exploring germination, and modeling the structure of plant cells. These activities provide an opportunity to develop content knowledge along with process skills such as observing, comparing, measuring, organizing and reporting data, graphing data, communicating results and making models. Delving into the mysteries of plants will help students become more observant and appreciative of the plant world.
Hands-on activities, games, storytelling, and some pen-and-paper work will work as memory aids to achieve class objectives.
Song School Latin 2
Target Age: Either an introduction to Latin for your 3rd or 4th grader or the next step for your student from Song School Latin 1.
Description: A Latin program that matches the energy and developmental level of grammar-level students Song School Latin 2 lessons include songs, chants, new and review vocabulary, an introduction to grammar and derivatives—all without leaving behind illustrations, stories, games, and activities. Song School Latin Book 2 will more than prepare students for their journey on to Latina Christiana.
Latina Christiana: Building a foundation
Target Age: Latina Christiana is the ideal text for beginners, grades 4 & up, or is a great followup to Prima Latina or Song School Latin 2 at any age.
Description: This is a two year, grammar-first course of study that allows students time to master the basic components of Latin. It also provides a strong foundation in grammar, one of the primary reasons Latin has been taught to children. This course focuses on pronunciation, conjugating verbs, declining nouns, vocabulary building, and translating simple sentences. It also focuses on speaking Latin through learning songs and prayers.
Dialectic Level (6-9)
First Form Latin
Target Age: First Form Latin is the ideal text for all beginners, grades 7 & up, or is a great followup to Latina Christiana at any age.
Description: First Form’s grammar-first approach focuses on grammar forms and vocabulary because these are the skills suitable for the grammar stage student. All beginners—regardless of age—are in the grammar stage of learning. Syntax (how to use the grammar) and translation are logic and rhetoric stage skills, respectively, and may overwhelm the student unless introduced at a slow, gentle pace and taught for mastery.
The uniqueness of the Forms Series lies in two features: (2) Commitment to the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, and (2) extensive workbook exercises to ensure skills mastery.
Physical Science
Target Age: 6th through 8th/9th grade
Description: Good science instruction should draw students upward into the adult world of scientific inquiry. Combining mastery-learning and a unique textbook philosophy, this physical science course helps students break the Cram-Pass-Forget cycle so that they truly learn and retain course material. Topics covered include types of matter, energy, order and design in creation, forces and fields, measurement, motion, sound and light, electricity and magnetism, and the nature of scientific knowledge.
Novare Physical Science is beautiful and durable and organized around the principles guiding all Novare Science & Math texts: Mastery, Integration, and Kingdom perspective.
Each chapter begins with a list of quantifiable learning objectives and important vocabulary. Chapters also include periodic Learning Checks which provide a moment to stop and review.
NOTE: A young earth/old earth discussion briefly occurs several times in this text. These matters will not be discussed in class. As stated in our Statement of Faith, as any types of secondary or divisive doctrines arise, they will be referred back to the family for final authority.
Theater Arts: Shakespearean Comedy
Target Age: 5th through 12th grade
Parents will thrill to see their children rise to the challenge of staging and performing an abridged but faithful version of one of William Shakespeare’s comedies.
From casting to blocking to theatre production and design—your student gets to experience it all! If they don’t like to be on stage, there is still a role for them in set design, as master of props, stage management and more.
High school students may earn credit for this class under certain circumstances. Please inquire.
Rhetoric Stage (9-12)
American Government
A twenty-year veteran of American Government and political philosophy instruction will give students a lively foray into the principles of the American Constitution, institutions, and political behavior.
First Form Latin, part 2
Target Age: First Form Latin is the ideal text for all beginners, grades 7 & up, or is a great followup to Latina Christiana at any age.
Description: This is a continuation of last year’s introduction to First Form Latin. First Form’s grammar-first approach focuses on grammar forms and vocabulary because these are the skills suitable for the grammar stage student. All beginners—regardless of age—are in the grammar stage of learning. Syntax (how to use the grammar) and translation are logic and rhetoric stage skills, respectively, and quickly overwhelm the student unless introduced at a slow, gentle pace and taught for mastery.
The uniqueness of the Forms Series lies in two features: (2) Commitment to the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, rather than topically, to facilitate translation; and (2) extensive workbook exercises to ensure skills mastery and rapid recognition of inflected forms.
Casa Dei Bambini: A Montessori-style Children’s Room
In keeping with our goal to awaken wonder, we offer our earliest learners a “children’s room.”
Inspired by the the Montessori environment this space is quiet and simple, which allows for concentration and focus. The guide clearly communicates the boundaries and expectations to the children, enforces those boundaries respectfully, and observes the children in the environment in order to contemplate the works that should be presented to each individual child. The children choose their work freely (based on the works they’ve been shown) and work with each work for as long as they choose. Concentration leads to contemplation.
Based on the discretion of the “guide” early learners spend anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes in this space.
Arts, crafts and story time
Fine motor skills are further developed through guided play with playdough, watercolors, stickers and more. Through the use of scripture-based stories, fables, and gentle and beautiful picture books, our young learners will grow together in the virtues of patience, good manners, and perseverance; develop listening and oral language skills; and deepen their memorization skills.
A time for fellowship, snack, gross motor activity and free play is part of each day, too!
Lower Grammar Level (K-3)
Song School Latin 1
Target Age: Song School Latin 1 is offered to 1st and 2nd graders; advanced kindergarten students may be eligible. Students must be able to read.
Description: Did you know there is a Latin program that matches the energy, developmental level, and fun-loving nature of your youngest students? Song School Latin does just that. Tailored for young children up through 1st or 2nd grade, this delightfully gentle introduction to Latin offers lessons that are peppered with songs, enjoyable vocabulary, illustrations, handwriting practice, stories, games, and engaging activities. Children will love learning Latin!
Two class sessions will occur for the 2022-2023 academic year: The second half of Song School Latin will be offered to returning students and the workbook will be introduced for incoming students.
An Introduction to handwriting, poetry, literature and art
Through the use of scripture and scripture-based stories, great literature, fables with maxims, and picture book studies, coupled with a gentle introduction to classical art, nature and poetry, our young learners will grow together in virtue, develop listening and oral language skills, and deepen their memorization skills.
The introduction of poetry through the creation and cultivation of a poetry notebook, illustrated by the child, provides opportunity for further beauty of words and images, developing virtue, vocabulary growth and writing practice. The goal is to train the imagination to retain information, build the memory and bolster the moral imagination with a store of rich and varied images.
A time for fellowship, snack and gross motor activity is part of each day, too!
Children’s Theater
Target Age: Kindergarten through 4th grade
Description: Offered in the afternoons of the second semester, this is an opportunity for your budding thespians to shine! Though staging and acting in a simple, beautiful play, these young actors will grow in confidence and improve their memorization skills, public speaking abilities and teamwork.
Upper Grammar Level (3-6)
The Budding Botanist
Target Age: 3rd through 6th grade
Description: The Budding Botanist (an AIM curriculum) was written for children to provide an integrated and hands on experience of science. Students will joyfully investigate how the structure and function of flowers, leaves, roots, and stems help plants to live, grow and reproduce.
Activities may include examining cone-bearing plants and flowering plants, observing photosynthesis and transpiration, sorting and dissecting seeds, exploring germination, and modeling the structure of plant cells. These activities provide an opportunity to develop content knowledge along with process skills such as observing, comparing, measuring, organizing and reporting data, graphing data, communicating results and making models. Delving into the mysteries of plants will help students become more observant and appreciative of the plant world.
Hands-on activities, games, storytelling, and some pen-and-paper work will work as memory aids to achieve class objectives.
Song School Latin 2
Target Age: Either an introduction to Latin for your 3rd or 4th grader or the next step for your student from Song School Latin 1.
Description: A Latin program that matches the energy and developmental level of grammar-level students Song School Latin 2 lessons include songs, chants, new and review vocabulary, an introduction to grammar and derivatives—all without leaving behind illustrations, stories, games, and activities. Song School Latin Book 2 will more than prepare students for their journey on to Latina Christiana.
Latina Christiana: Building a foundation
Target Age: Latina Christiana is the ideal text for beginners, grades 4 & up, or is a great followup to Prima Latina or Song School Latin 2 at any age.
Description: This is a two year, grammar-first course of study that allows students time to master the basic components of Latin. It also provides a strong foundation in grammar, one of the primary reasons Latin has been taught to children. This course focuses on pronunciation, conjugating verbs, declining nouns, vocabulary building, and translating simple sentences. It also focuses on speaking Latin through learning songs and prayers.
Dialectic Level (6-9)
First Form Latin
Target Age: First Form Latin is the ideal text for all beginners, grades 7 & up, or is a great followup to Latina Christiana at any age.
Description: First Form’s grammar-first approach focuses on grammar forms and vocabulary because these are the skills suitable for the grammar stage student. All beginners—regardless of age—are in the grammar stage of learning. Syntax (how to use the grammar) and translation are logic and rhetoric stage skills, respectively, and may overwhelm the student unless introduced at a slow, gentle pace and taught for mastery.
The uniqueness of the Forms Series lies in two features: (2) Commitment to the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, and (2) extensive workbook exercises to ensure skills mastery.
Physical Science
Target Age: 6th through 8th/9th grade
Description: Good science instruction should draw students upward into the adult world of scientific inquiry. Combining mastery-learning and a unique textbook philosophy, this physical science course helps students break the Cram-Pass-Forget cycle so that they truly learn and retain course material. Topics covered include types of matter, energy, order and design in creation, forces and fields, measurement, motion, sound and light, electricity and magnetism, and the nature of scientific knowledge.
Novare Physical Science is beautiful and durable and organized around the principles guiding all Novare Science & Math texts: Mastery, Integration, and Kingdom perspective.
Each chapter begins with a list of quantifiable learning objectives and important vocabulary. Chapters also include periodic Learning Checks which provide a moment to stop and review.
NOTE: A young earth/old earth discussion briefly occurs several times in this text. These matters will not be discussed in class. As stated in our Statement of Faith, as any types of secondary or divisive doctrines arise, they will be referred back to the family for final authority.
Theater Arts: Shakespearean Comedy
Target Age: 5th through 12th grade
Parents will thrill to see their children rise to the challenge of staging and performing an abridged but faithful version of one of William Shakespeare’s comedies.
From casting to blocking to theatre production and design—your student gets to experience it all! If they don’t like to be on stage, there is still a role for them in set design, as master of props, stage management and more.
High school students may earn credit for this class under certain circumstances. Please inquire.
Rhetoric Stage (9-12)
American Government
A twenty-year veteran of American Government and political philosophy instruction will give students a lively foray into the principles of the American Constitution, institutions, and political behavior.
First Form Latin, part 2
Target Age: First Form Latin is the ideal text for all beginners, grades 7 & up, or is a great followup to Latina Christiana at any age.
Description: This is a continuation of last year’s introduction to First Form Latin. First Form’s grammar-first approach focuses on grammar forms and vocabulary because these are the skills suitable for the grammar stage student. All beginners—regardless of age—are in the grammar stage of learning. Syntax (how to use the grammar) and translation are logic and rhetoric stage skills, respectively, and quickly overwhelm the student unless introduced at a slow, gentle pace and taught for mastery.
The uniqueness of the Forms Series lies in two features: (2) Commitment to the trivium model of teaching grammar systematically in order to facilitate retention and understanding, rather than topically, to facilitate translation; and (2) extensive workbook exercises to ensure skills mastery and rapid recognition of inflected forms.
