ASL 1

Monday/Wednesday

American Sign Language (ASL) is the 3rd most common language in the United States. This course introduces the basics of ASL. It is designed for students who have little or no previous knowledge of ASL. In this course, learning is visually based. ASL questions, commands, and other simple sentence structures are introduced to develop conversational skills and beyond in ASL. Students will learn basic vocabulary, grammar, history, fingerspelling, numbers, and Deaf terminology. Information about the Deaf Community and Deaf Culture is introduced. This course is suitable for middle-school-age students who are serious about learning a language, high school language credit, or general community learning. Practice outside of class and/or Deaf events is required!

Taught by Kiesha Shoemaker

Class is $250 per semester

Offered MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY at 1:00pm-2:15 pm

Biology and Lab

Mondays Only

 This Biology course takes the student on a quest to understand the living world, from the microscopic world of the cells to the macroscopic world of plants, animals, NAD the humans body. clear scientific images helps students picture the cell and it’s inner workings. Each chapter gives them a sense of the classification of life. This full year class counts for one high school credit with lab. This class requires time management and may require some work over breaks. Expect outside reading, questions, videos, to study vocabulary, labs, dissection, and assessments. This class will include a break and/or lunch time. Bring your lunch.

Taught by Heather Lavigne

Class is $300/ per semester

Offered MONDAYS at 12:00pm-2:15pm

Gardening: Vegetables, Herbs and Flowers

Monday ONLY

In this class, your student will learn about preparing soil, seeds, plants and how to grow, control pests, harvest and even cook your good fromthe garden.

Taught by

Class is $150 per semester

Offered MONDAY at 9:00am-10:00am

SIBLING DISCOUNT

If a family signs up for classes with 3 or 4 children, each registered child receives a 10% discount at the time of registration. If a third or fourth child is added at a later date, the discount does not apply.

If a family signs up for classes with 5 or more children, each child receives a 15% discount at the time of registration. If the 5th child is added after the original registration, the discount does not apply.

Homesteading with Younger Students: Animals

This class is homesteading animal - focused. An in-depth look at skills in working with chickens, goats, donkeys, horses, and ducks. They will learn body structures, eating habits, husbandry (caring for and handling ) for each of these types of animals. Students will have hand-on opportunities to interact, care for, feed and clean up after each of these farm animals.

Taught by Kiesha Shoemaker

Class is $150 per semester

Offered MONDAYS at 9:00 - 10:00am

Elementary 4 Hours of Nature, Play and Cores.

Join us for all the outdoor fun of nature and farm-life, plus exploring reading time, math, science and history. We will add these important core subjects to a forest exploring, pond stomping, game playing good time, while building friendships. This class will be taught by skilled teachers who know how to teach to multiple levels at once. This class also includes 45 mins to one hour of arts, crafts and creations. Parents are not required in class but always welcome.

Class is $595 per semester

Offered MONDAYS 10:00am-2:15pm

Extracurricular Weekly Sign Ups

These classes have a separate schedule and are always providing something new for you and your family to explore. We encourage your ideas and suggestions! Come share your talents with us! Every Monday and Wednesday 2:30- 3:30 or 4:00.

WEDNESDAYS

Homesteading 9:00am-9:55am

Students will learn the anatomy of farm animals, their habits, habitat and eating style. Students will experience fall, winter, ands spring changes with each group of animals. Students will care for them, clean up, trim, collect and clean eggs, and do all the general farmer things for chickens, ducks, goats, donkey, and horses. $150/per semester

5th/6th Grade Math

Students will increase their adding, subtracting, multiplication, division skills. Students will learn what a decimal, fractions and percents are and learn to graph. Students will learn basic geometry terms and prepare for pre-algebra. $150/per semester

General Science

Students will learn little about our home, Earth, its environment, its plants trees, electricity and some atoms. $200/per semester

Literature Around the World (join with 7th & 8th)

Students will explore the continents around the world and their great writings passed down for us to enjoy. $150/per semester

World History (Join with 7th & 8th)

Students will explore the continents around the world and their great history, art, and music passed down for us to enjoy. $150/per semester

Life Science

Wednesday Only

This course will focus on a multi-disciplined approach to Biology and Anatomy learning. This is a flipped learning approach wherein class time will focus on project learning and conducting experiments. We will learn the scientific process, how to write lab reports, and explore the six kingdoms of life. This is a fun interactive class with at home videos and questions. Students should expect 1 hour of outside of class homework.

Taught by Kiesha Shoemaker

Class is $150 per semester

Offered WEDNESDAYS at 11:00-11:55am

Middle School Math

Monday /Wednesday

This class will focus on working on the math fundamentals needed to confidently move into a pre-algebra problem. Hands-on activities help to solidify concepts, making them readable and understandable to students so these principles can be applied in higher levels of math. We will also learn logical thinking using games and activities. This allows students to better problem solve and rationally think through the problems. Concepts covered will be: •Decimals •Number Theory and Fractions •Collecting and Displaying Data •Plane Geometry •Ratio, Proportion & Percentages •Integers •Perimeter, Area & Volume •Functions & Coordinate Geometry.

Taught by Kiesha Shoemaker

Class is $250 per semester

Offered MONDAY at 10:00am-10:55am

Life Skills/Social Skills

Monday ONLY

This class is Life Skills for the first semester and Social Skills for the second semester. In Life Skills students will learn how to properly do household chores like loading a dishwasher, sorting laundry, plunging a toilet and mopping a floor, they also will learn how to measure to hang a picture, use a screwdriver, hammer and nail., and make a menu for meals. Students will budget and making a shopping list for 3 meals. Lastly, students will learn a few car basics.

Taught by

Class is $150 per semester

Offered MONDAY at 11:00am-11:55am

LUNCH/GAMES

Monday ONLY

An opportunity to hang out with friends. From organized games, to relaxing under trees and exploring, we will enjoy being with friends. Rainy days will bring board games, inside group games, and chatting.

Emergency Preparedness

Transcripts as a high school 4th science or can be transcript as an elective credits.

Certified Emergency Rescue Team is a Georgia-approved fourth science credit for high school. CERT educates individuals about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT volunteers can assist others in their community following a disaster when professional responders are not immediately available to help. •Includes a certificate with an ID# from Cobb County upon completion.

** CERT qualifies as Georgia colleges' admission requirement under science electives**

Taught by Kiesha Shoemaker

Class is $200 per semester

Offered 12:00-1:00pm