Nitty Gritty Details of the Proposed Schedule - details subject to fine tuning.
10am Farm School
Be there rain, snow or shine each co-op will begin in the barn. The children will learn how to care for farm animals, feeding them, checking and filling water, cleaning stalls when needed, sweeping the barn, collecting chicken eggs, replacing straw in nesting boxes. We will be hatching fertilized eggs and caring for the chicks and caring for them as they grow. The children will learn how to transition them into the coop with the big hens. There may be baby goats and lambs born over the course of the year and they will watch the progress of the animals' pregnancies and of course get to play with the animals. There will be shoveling, wheel barrow hauling, raking, potentially helping milk goats and learning how make cheese and yogurt from the milk. Dirty boots and dirty hands and lots of fun! In the winter we will start our own tomato plants and in the spring students can take their plants home to pot and grow their plant.
10:30 (Snack/Story)
10:45 Study Group 1 Poetry/creative writing/drama
4 weeks Poetry Unit Learning all about different kinds of poems! Students will have the chance to study poems by Prelutzky, Silverstein, Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Robert Burns, Langston Hughes and more. Students will practice writing their own poems, learning different styles, formats, about rhyming, expression, alliteration, adjectives, metaphor, meter. Students at the end of this unit will share their favorite poems that they created and studied. Students who are less confident in writing skills of course can have help from parents. Developing a love of words and expression is the main goal of this unit.
4-5 weeks Creative Writing Unit: Lots of reading excerpts from good stories and practicing creating characters, how to describe settings, people, create dialog, dream up good villains and other problems and the idea behind a story arc. This unit will get kids brain storming as a group how to come up with ideas for stories and elements needed for plot. They will collaborate a lot at the beginning learning elements of stories (verbs, adjectives, nouns, Pronouns, adverbs!) and by the end they will create their own "book" with illustrations, those who want can share their stories with the whole group! (Students may end up taking their books home to work on them the last two weeks)
3-4 weeks: Putting on a play! Students will learn parts, staging, learn about projecting and stage craft, wear costumes. We hope to find a place for all students to participate, even ones feeling a bit nervous about performance. At the end the students will perform on the stage we have out in the woods!
11:45 Study Group 2 Hands On Science
- History of magnets, how they work, create your own compass
- Galileo's experiments about falling objects, duplicate his experiments, learn how to record and analyze results with graphs. learn about gravity, mass, etc.
- Crime Scene Detectives- Learn about fingerprints, take finger prints and compare, talk about application in real world. Do animals have unique markings as well?
- Science behind rainbows, making a homemade spectroscope
- Simple machines: build a catapult and learn about force (catapult launch competition!)
- Water Cycle. Homemade rain clouds demonstration and do-it-yourself water cycle in a bag
- Environment - how to deal with oil spills and study the effects of oil spills on animals and habitats with oil clean up activity
- Human Anatomy - create your own life size you with organs, bones, and working lungs! (2 weeks)
- Astronomy Day - using a flashlight to create our own constellation projectors
- Animals of the Arctic - study their habitat and why/how blubber works, learn how scientists observe
with the game of Have? Can? Are?
- Beach Day! Physics behind building a sand castle (off site at Waengersheek Beach in Gloucester)
- The Science behind homemade ice cream (End of Semester Party)
12:30 Lunch Break
1:00pm-2pm Study Group 3 History
4 weeks - Colonial Life
- Study laws of a 1639 American Colony. Students elect a governor and as a colony create their own laws. What is fair? How did colonists respect and disrespect Native Americans? Learn about the jobs needed in a colony, assign roles within the community, problem solve challenges, like early winter, crop failure, illness, accidents etc.
- Beeswax candle dipping and how to cross stitch a sampler + readings from historical journals
- Butter churning, wool carding, a closer look at Jamestown Settlement.
- TBD
4 weeks - Civil Rights in the US
- Celebrating the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's Fannie Lou Hammer, Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, Malcom X, Mary McLeod Bethune. Students will have a chance to peruse books and pictures and will choose one person they want to focus on and learn to give a synopsis of their most imporant accomplishments, quotes, and teach the group a little about why their work mattered.
- Segregation, Voter Rights, March on Washington, Montgomery Bus Boycott - ways progress was made
- How can we enact change and make voices heard today? Are Civil Rights over? (Activity: Writing letters to local and state government on issues important to each student. We will cover variety of possible issues and talk about today's civil rights' leaders. Students will work with parents to decide what "cause" they care about at home, lesson on proper letter writing format. )
4 weeks - World War II
- Holocaust. Gentle and thoughtful introduction to this time period through three children's books based on real life survivors with a focus on those who helped them and fought against hate.
- Art of the war, propaganda posters in the US, Rosie the riveter, factory work activit, many hands doing each a different part. Making a conveyor belt and teams have to accomplish tasks as belt goes by
- Learning about Morse Code, practice using sounds and if time permits mirrors to communicate messages, study the uses of Morse Code by soldiers during WW II and Code Talkers - how Native Americans assisted the war effort.
- Racism and Fear in WWI - Japanese internment and Tuskagee Airmen, learning about civil rights and bravery even amid wartime. How history is told can affect how we understand things. Activity on "relocation"
2:00pm Free Play/Nature Walk
2:30 Optional Study Group 4 Violin Lessons
More details to come - must have 4+ students enrolled to do this program.
10am Farm School
Be there rain, snow or shine each co-op will begin in the barn. The children will learn how to care for farm animals, feeding them, checking and filling water, cleaning stalls when needed, sweeping the barn, collecting chicken eggs, replacing straw in nesting boxes. We will be hatching fertilized eggs and caring for the chicks and caring for them as they grow. The children will learn how to transition them into the coop with the big hens. There may be baby goats and lambs born over the course of the year and they will watch the progress of the animals' pregnancies and of course get to play with the animals. There will be shoveling, wheel barrow hauling, raking, potentially helping milk goats and learning how make cheese and yogurt from the milk. Dirty boots and dirty hands and lots of fun! In the winter we will start our own tomato plants and in the spring students can take their plants home to pot and grow their plant.
10:30 (Snack/Story)
10:45 Study Group 1 Poetry/creative writing/drama
4 weeks Poetry Unit Learning all about different kinds of poems! Students will have the chance to study poems by Prelutzky, Silverstein, Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Robert Burns, Langston Hughes and more. Students will practice writing their own poems, learning different styles, formats, about rhyming, expression, alliteration, adjectives, metaphor, meter. Students at the end of this unit will share their favorite poems that they created and studied. Students who are less confident in writing skills of course can have help from parents. Developing a love of words and expression is the main goal of this unit.
4-5 weeks Creative Writing Unit: Lots of reading excerpts from good stories and practicing creating characters, how to describe settings, people, create dialog, dream up good villains and other problems and the idea behind a story arc. This unit will get kids brain storming as a group how to come up with ideas for stories and elements needed for plot. They will collaborate a lot at the beginning learning elements of stories (verbs, adjectives, nouns, Pronouns, adverbs!) and by the end they will create their own "book" with illustrations, those who want can share their stories with the whole group! (Students may end up taking their books home to work on them the last two weeks)
3-4 weeks: Putting on a play! Students will learn parts, staging, learn about projecting and stage craft, wear costumes. We hope to find a place for all students to participate, even ones feeling a bit nervous about performance. At the end the students will perform on the stage we have out in the woods!
11:45 Study Group 2 Hands On Science
- History of magnets, how they work, create your own compass
- Galileo's experiments about falling objects, duplicate his experiments, learn how to record and analyze results with graphs. learn about gravity, mass, etc.
- Crime Scene Detectives- Learn about fingerprints, take finger prints and compare, talk about application in real world. Do animals have unique markings as well?
- Science behind rainbows, making a homemade spectroscope
- Simple machines: build a catapult and learn about force (catapult launch competition!)
- Water Cycle. Homemade rain clouds demonstration and do-it-yourself water cycle in a bag
- Environment - how to deal with oil spills and study the effects of oil spills on animals and habitats with oil clean up activity
- Human Anatomy - create your own life size you with organs, bones, and working lungs! (2 weeks)
- Astronomy Day - using a flashlight to create our own constellation projectors
- Animals of the Arctic - study their habitat and why/how blubber works, learn how scientists observe
with the game of Have? Can? Are?
- Beach Day! Physics behind building a sand castle (off site at Waengersheek Beach in Gloucester)
- The Science behind homemade ice cream (End of Semester Party)
12:30 Lunch Break
1:00pm-2pm Study Group 3 History
4 weeks - Colonial Life
- Study laws of a 1639 American Colony. Students elect a governor and as a colony create their own laws. What is fair? How did colonists respect and disrespect Native Americans? Learn about the jobs needed in a colony, assign roles within the community, problem solve challenges, like early winter, crop failure, illness, accidents etc.
- Beeswax candle dipping and how to cross stitch a sampler + readings from historical journals
- Butter churning, wool carding, a closer look at Jamestown Settlement.
- TBD
4 weeks - Civil Rights in the US
- Celebrating the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's Fannie Lou Hammer, Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, Malcom X, Mary McLeod Bethune. Students will have a chance to peruse books and pictures and will choose one person they want to focus on and learn to give a synopsis of their most imporant accomplishments, quotes, and teach the group a little about why their work mattered.
- Segregation, Voter Rights, March on Washington, Montgomery Bus Boycott - ways progress was made
- How can we enact change and make voices heard today? Are Civil Rights over? (Activity: Writing letters to local and state government on issues important to each student. We will cover variety of possible issues and talk about today's civil rights' leaders. Students will work with parents to decide what "cause" they care about at home, lesson on proper letter writing format. )
4 weeks - World War II
- Holocaust. Gentle and thoughtful introduction to this time period through three children's books based on real life survivors with a focus on those who helped them and fought against hate.
- Art of the war, propaganda posters in the US, Rosie the riveter, factory work activit, many hands doing each a different part. Making a conveyor belt and teams have to accomplish tasks as belt goes by
- Learning about Morse Code, practice using sounds and if time permits mirrors to communicate messages, study the uses of Morse Code by soldiers during WW II and Code Talkers - how Native Americans assisted the war effort.
- Racism and Fear in WWI - Japanese internment and Tuskagee Airmen, learning about civil rights and bravery even amid wartime. How history is told can affect how we understand things. Activity on "relocation"
2:00pm Free Play/Nature Walk
2:30 Optional Study Group 4 Violin Lessons
More details to come - must have 4+ students enrolled to do this program.
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