Our first-semester Unit Study features Math-Minded ways of integrating a multi-disciplinary study. Classes are fun and provide hands on learning.
Our groups will explore these mathmagical topics with their class (Chrysalis K-2 or Tortoise 3-5th).
Join us for “Mathmagic,” a unit featuring lessons in Focus Studies, Art, Science, and Language Arts. Math is all around us and we’ll take children on a math adventure.
This course includes 34 hours of instructor-led of class, 20 hours of parties and events, access to 4-6 field trips, member clubs, and parent resource nights. The fee for the course is $700 (payable in 4 payments of $175 each).
Each class will feature an open circle time, a nature observation break outside, and a closing gratitude routine.
Family orientation is September 10, 2019. Classes begin September 17 and will take place from 9:30am – 11:30am.
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Fall 2019 Enrichment Schedule K-5th “Mathmagic”
The class schedule will be followed by a Mid-Year Review of the contraptions and other work created by students.
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 |
9:30-11:30 Focus Studies Math Everywhere | Pythagoras and the Golden Ratio | Solving a Triangle with Legos | Fibonacci & Patterns | Geometric Forms |
11:30-1:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:00-2:00 Skillful Play: Gameschooling | Team Building | Cooperative Game Creation and Play | Relay and rally | Engineering Challenges |
| Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 |
9:30-11:30 Science The Art of Physics | Simple and Complex Machines | Rube Goldberg & Reaction Contraptions | Plan and Hypothesize | Build and Implement |
11:30-1:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:00-2:00 Skillful Play: Mindful Art | Resistance | Geometric Prints | Spirals | Patterns |
| Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 |
9:30-11:30 Language Arts Poetry | Intro to Poetry and Patterns | Haiku | Poetry Shapes | Word Fib |
11:30-1:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:00-2:00 Skillful Play: Public Speaking | Action Storytelling | Make a Commercial | Creative Beginnings | Picture Worth 1000 Words |
| Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 |
9:30-11:30 Art Forms & Shapes | Intro to Form Drawing | Basic Forms 1 | Basic Forms 2 | Combining Forms |
11:30-1:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:00-2:00 Skillful Play: Mindful Body | Mindful Seeing | Mindful Hearing | Mindful Tasting & Smelling | Mindful Whole Body |
Note: Lunch Bunch and Skillful Play sessions may be added with an additional $500 fee (for 40 additional Coop hours) but are not required to participate in the course.