Fall Courses

What Is Self-Care?
Self-care describes a conscious act one takes to promote physical, mental, and emotional health. It’s important to assess how you’re caring for yourself in several different domains so you can ensure you’re caring for your mind, body, and spirit. In this course, you will develop a self-care plan after exploring and adopting 5 self-care practices. Scholars will participate in light exercise, mediation, and mindfulness.

Anytime is a great time to cuddle up to a good book. Grab your tanning lotion, and let’s READ. Scholars will participate in interactive read-aloud by the teacher and author. Students will learn to share their perspectives, socially interact, and collaborate.

Reader’s theater is a strategy for developing reading fluency. It involves scholars in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. In using this strategy, students do not need to memorize their part, but they need only to reread it several times, thus developing their fluency skills. The best reader’s theater scripts include lots of dialogue.

A vision board is a visual representation of the things you want to accomplish or acquire. People create vision boards to have a constant reminder of what they are working towards. Vision boards are used to keep YOU motivated and focused as you work toward your goals. This course helps scholars navigate through the goal-setting process to identify what’s important to them. Scholars will research job choices and incorporate steps in their vision board to become gainfully employed.

Writers need to understand the parts of a paragraph; however, there is more to good writing than just knowing these key components. The next step to improving your writing is to move beyond words and sentences. You must learn to consider how all of the sentences interact with each other and how your reader will relate to your paragraph. In this course, you will learn five elements of good writing:

• purpose
• audience
• clarity
• unity
• coherence

Being able to pay for items and stick to a budget is a barrier to successful independence. Many people can’t manage finances or handle money responsibly, directly impacting their quality of life and ability to live on their own. In this course, you will learn basic money management tips and techniques to help you gain financial independence.

This course will focus on the concepts elementary students tend to struggle with within math. Performing basic math operations is necessary for independent living. In this course, scholars will learn basic math essentials for everyday living.

This course focuses on the concepts that upper elementary and middle school students tend to struggle with but are necessary for employment. These include place value, decimals, fractions, mixed numbers, and percentages.

Literacy is a livelihood. If you can’t read words, many aspects of your life will be impacted. In this course, you will practice the five essential components of reading that every person needs to grow into a confident and fluent reader; Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Reading comprehension.

Readers continue their literacy journey focusing on fluency and reading comprehension. In this course, scholars will be engaged in the six reading comprehension strategies: Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing, Predicting, Identifying the Main Idea and Summarization, Questioning, Making Inferences, and Visualizing.

Art therapy, a hybrid field largely influenced by the disciplines of art and psychology, uses the creative process, pieces of art created in therapy, and third-party artwork to help people develop self-awareness, explore emotions, address unresolved emotional conflicts, improve social skills, and raise self-esteem. In this course, you will create, explore, evaluate, and analyze different forms of art.

Music can be used in daily life for relaxation, to gain energy when feeling drained, for catharsis when dealing with emotional stress, and in other ways as well. Most of us know from experience that music can dissolve the stress of a long drive, keep us motivated to exercise, and take us right back to positive experiences in our past, which can be a happiness booster and a stress reliever. In this course, scholars will explore different music genres and sounds. They will participate in listening exercises to reduce stress, relax, and meditate. Scholars will collaborate on favorite composers and share musical insights.