Lower Elementary

New Readers

Welcome, all beginning readers who want to grow spelling, reading, and handwriting skills. In this class, Mrs. Eleni uses a variety of teaching methods to build and rebuild these foundational skill sets. She is an experienced English teacher and has an active certificate with an endorsement for support for speakers of other languages (ESOL).

In this course, the core teaching methods include Alpha-Phonics and Word Mastery Cursive: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades Featuring Cursive. This is an effective, step-by-step program focusing on teaching students to read, including older struggling readers, dyslexic students, and others. Alpha-Phonics' systematic phonetic approach will help students build a logical framework for English reading. Books are above for reference.

2. Zaner-Bloser Spelling Connections Grade 1 Student Edition Workbook

3. Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Grade 1 Student Edition Workbook

Birds & Bugs: Zoology 1

Let's homeschool together in this hands on science learning course. Throughout this homeschool science curriculum, students will learn about the amazing design and characteristics of flying creatures as part of God’s creation. They’ll also be empowered to apply their newfound knowledge as they observe the wonder of flight in their own backyards!

Mrs. Jannette is passionate about introducing our Elementary students to fun concepts and observing life cycles in the classroom. Planned labs include birdhouses, ant farms, and butterflies. Optional meet-up opportunities are posted throughout the year at local parks. Additional field-trip opportunities, dates, and details to be decided.

Materials list:
1. Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day textbook 1st edition
ISBN 9781932012613

2. Exploring Creation with Zoology Junior Notebooking Journal (Apologia's "junior" notebooking journals are designed for younger students who are still developing basic writing skills.) ISBN: 1935495607

There is also the Zoology 1 Notebooking Journal standard option. ISBN 9781935495116

3. Coloring supplies of your choice: crayons, markers, and/or colored pencils. A pouch or student supplies carrier. Community supplies are available for use as backup.

Can't find the Notebooking Journal? Bring a package of printer paper for our hand selected worksheets as an alternative to the text.

Dino Discovery & Animal Adventures

Join us September 4, 2026 from 2:00-2:50pm for Little Hands Sensory & STEM class!
Students dive into a world of dinosaurs, wild animals, fossils, and textures as they build, explore, and investigate. Children rotate through interactive stations designed to strengthen fine‑motor skills, spark curiosity, and encourage open‑ended exploration. Sensory bins filled with dinosaur figurines, animal toys, kinetic sand, and playdough invite students to dig, scoop, mold, and create their own habitats and stories. Students also make animal track paintings using toy footprints and paint to learn about patterns, movement, and nature.

Hometown Heroes: Community Play & STEM Exploration

Join us September 18, 2026 from 2:00-2:50pm for Little Hands Sesnsory & STEM class!
Hometown Heroes is an exciting dramatic‑play and STEM‑inspired class where students step into the roles of everyday community helpers and build a miniature world of teamwork, creativity, and problem‑solving. Children design and construct their own play city complete with street signs, buildings, police cars, firetrucks, and construction zones, learning how communities work and how helpers keep people safe.

Students rotate through themed stations that blend sensory play, art, engineering, and imaginative storytelling. They create tire‑track paintings using toy vehicles, explore construction‑site sensory bins filled with rocks, sand, scoops, and trucks, and participate in a hands‑on car‑wash experience where they scrub, rinse, and polish toy vehicles.