Sarah has been working hard to arrange some classes for the co-op. (Thank you, Sarah!) She has tried to keep the costs at a minimum. Below are the fees, schedule, and class descriptions with teacher bios. If you are interested, please download and fill out the Sign Up Sheet and e-mail it to Sarah at snsple (at) yahoo (dot) com. Also e-mail her with any questions, comments, suggestions.
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FEES
$50 co-op fee per family (location fee)
Additional class fees (paid to teacher):
$40 total semester fee for Latin
$40 total semester fee for Kick boxing
$40 total semester fee for Break dancing
$0 total semester fee for Film making
$0 total semester fee for preschool
$35 total semester fee for Spanish ($30 for siblings.)
CLASSES
Classes will be held on Tuesdays beginning Sept. 7, and the classes will alternate weeks as follows. Note that the location will also alternate. Walker Hall is located at Sandy Creek Nature Center and Ben Burton Park is located on Mitchell Bridge Road.
Note: Time has changed to 11a.m. – 2p.m. with a lunch/play break from 12-1. And ALL classes will now be held at Lifeboat Tutoring in Watkinsville.
Class schedule:
Sept 7- 11am-2pm: Spanish, Latin, Break dancing, preschool
Sept 14- 11am-2pm: Kick boxing,, Film making, preschool
Sept 21- Spanish, Latin, Break dancing, preschool
Sept 28- Kickboxing, film making, preschool
Oct. 4- Latin, Spanish, Break dancing, preschool
Oct. 11- Kick boxing, Film making, preschool
Oct. 18- Spanish, Latin, Break dancing, preschool
Oct 25- Kick boxing, Film making, Preschool
Nov. 2- Spanish, Latin, Break dancing, preschool
Nov. 9- Kick boxing, Film making, preschool
Nov. 16- Spanish, Latin, Break dancing, preschool
Nov. 23- Kick boxing, Film making, preschool
Nov. 30- Spanish, Latin, Break dancing, preschool
Dec. 7- Kick boxing, preschool
Dec. 14- Spanish, Latin, Break dancing, film making (screening)
Note that the preschool class will be a cooperative effort among parents to plan activities for the children. Park days will give the students a chance to explore nature and do some outdoor games and activities.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS & TEACHER BIOS
Latin: a cordial introduction, is a fairly structured class, as one of the benefits of learning Latin is the practice of orderly thinking. Students will receive weekly lists of words to learn, along with puzzles and fun worksheets to aid in their memorization. We will spend part of our class time reviewing the words and their various forms (conjugations and declensions) and part of our time will be spent playing Latin word games and reading from various Latin translations including selections from Dr. Seuss, Hans Orberg’s Lingua Latina, and Latin for All Occasions, which includes fun phrases such as “Paene adventimus? (Are we there yet?) and Suntne illi glires novi? (Are these dormice fresh?).
Latin will be taught by Valerye McGreevy who, according to her children, lives “in the middle of nowhere” (more exactly, that would be just east of Lexington) in a home that is, more often than not, filled with joyful noise. She has been “officially” homeschooling since 2005 when her eldest would have started Kindergarten. After sampling many curricula and teaching “methods,” the McGreevy family finally settled on the ‘what is working best right now’ method of teaching, which combines elements of Charlotte Mason, unschooling and very structured theme or unit studies.
Spanish: As Spanish has become the second most spoken language in the United States, this class will provide a background into “el español” by covering basic topics such as the alphabet, numbering, colors, foods, household items, family members, and beginning grammatical expression of thoughts, ideas, and everyday conversations. An introduction to Spanish countries and cultures will also be presented through forms such as music and geography, in order to further help students gain a basic understanding of the multiplicity of peoples who speak the language.
Kickboxing: styles taught will be boxing, kickboxing, and a little bit of jeet kune do, which is the form of martial arts that Bruce Lee uses.
Breakdancing: a very demanding and fun workout
Sanquan Holland will be teaching both Kickboxing and Breakdancing. He practices martial arts with his friends so that they can help each other improve their fighting styles. He has been practicing breakdancing for three years. Sanquan is attending Athens Tech in order to get his Health-care assistant certificate. He currently works at Bell’s.
Film Making: In this intro to film making, the students will learn basic film making terminology, write and edit their screenplay and make their own storyboard. They will cast their short films, hold a rehearsal, film their short (and act as a crew member on their peer’s short films), edit their short film, and screen the finished film.
Sarah Stennett will teach the film making class. Sarah is the founder of Red Clay co-op, and she is new to homeschooling. She will be homeschooling her two nephews, ages 10 and 4. Sarah says her movie, “Zombie Outbreak,” was terrible, but it’s still listed on the IMDb (Internet Movie Database). She says almost the whole town of Byron played as extras.
