Miscellaneous
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We offer a wide variety of classes that introduce students to new topics and experiences, and enable them to interact with a wide variety of students.
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FCT T/TH pm
Teacher: Christie Sawyer
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 6 and up
0.5 Hour Class; 2 days/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $0.00
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For younger students staying all day, Free Choice time is an important part of our program and is structured into their schedule. This free time enables students to help balance their day according to individual needs. They will have opportunities to play games outside, run, build forts, hunt for bugs, play board games, play dress-up, put on a puppet show, or sit quietly and read. Teachers will supervise this time and be available, but the beauty lies in its unstructured quality.
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Advanced Lego Workshop Rm #20
Teacher: Dan Carlson
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 11 - 13
1.5 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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Advanced Lego Workshop will focus on helping students develop their Lego building skills and imaginations as we explore a variety of possible activities, from diorama construction and photography to stop motion animation and board game design.
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Aftercare Fri. Rm # 11
Teacher: Christie Sawyer
Outside Work: Optional
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Ages: 3 and up
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $0.00
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Students can work on homework, play games, socialize, etc.from 3:30-4:30 PM. Before-care can also be arranged. The cost is $5.00/hr.
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Aftercare TH Rm # 11
Teacher: Christie Sawyer
Outside Work: Optional
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Ages: 3 and up
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $0.00
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Students can work on homework, play games, socialize, etc.from 3:30-4:30 PM. Before-care can also be arranged. The cost is $5.00/hr.
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Aftercare Tues. Rm # 11
Teacher: Christie Sawyer
Outside Work: Optional
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Ages: 3 and up
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $0.00
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Students can work on homework, play games, socialize, etc.from 3:30-4:30 PM. Before-care can also be arranged. The cost is $5.00/hr.
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Aftercare Wed. Rm # 11
Teacher: Christie Sawyer
Outside Work: Optional
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Ages: 3 and up
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $0.00
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Students can work on homework, play games, socialize, etc.from 3:30-4:30 PM. Before-care can also be arranged. The cost is $5.00/hr.
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Book Cooks (6-8)
Teacher: Elizabeth Tillis-Gilland
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 6 - 8
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $40.00
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This is a class focused on the enjoyment and excitement of reading and cooking! Each week we’ll read a picture book together followed by time to prepare a simple recipe connected to the story. Beginning readers will develop literacy skills in a meaningful way as they follow simple directions with words and illustrations to prepare their culinary delights. We’ll learn decoding skills, high frequency words, and comprehension strategies as we read and cook. Students will learn basic kitchen skills and safety. Students will collect their recipes throughout the year to create their own literary cookbook to take home.
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Fantasy Workshop Rm # 20
Teacher: Dan Carlson
Outside Work: Moderate
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Ages: 11 - 13
1.5 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $45.00
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The theme of this years' Fantasy Workshop is 'Strange Tales of Thrilling Adventure!'. We'll be exploring the origins of the fantasy and science fiction genres in the 'weird tales' and pulp adventure stories of the early 20th century. We'll read a handful of influential stories and then use them as inspiration in developing characters, creatures, and an entire fantasy world of our own. The central focus of the class will be a year-long fantasy role-playing game that lets students shape their own story of magic, monsters, heroes, and lost civilizations!
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Fantasy Workshop Rm # 20
Teacher: Dan Carlson
Outside Work: Moderate
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Ages: 14 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $45.00
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The theme of this years' Fantasy Workshop is 'Strange Tales of Thrilling Adventure!'. We'll be exploring the origins of the fantasy and science fiction genres in the 'weird tales' and pulp adventure stories of the early 20th century. We'll read a handful of influential stories and then use them as inspiration in developing characters, creatures, and an entire fantasy world of our own. The central focus of the class will be a year-long fantasy role-playing game that lets students shape their own story of magic, monsters, heroes, and lost civilizations!
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Fencing (10+)
Teacher: Kim Miller
Outside Work: Minimal
Prerequisites: This class is for students who have taken a beginning fencing class and are ready to learn more advanced skills. Students must have their own equipment.
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Ages: 10 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $20.00
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This class is for students who have taken a beginning fencing class and are ready to learn more advanced skills.
Students are taught to focus on the joy of self- improvement and to "forget about winning". They learn to appreciate the contribution of others, value what they have to offer, how to enjoy the process of self-improvement, and get a great work-out as well! They learn how to deal with frustration, control anger and remain cool under pressure. Fencing improves hand-eye coordination, balance, timing, strength, and reflex management. But the best part is... it's a lot of fun!
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Fitness, Health and Nutrition
Teacher: Robyn Williams
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 13 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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Students will get fit while learning concepts, skills and behaviors for healthy living in a positive, encouraging environment.
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Geofinity Rm #25
Teacher: To be determined
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 7 - 9
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $40.00
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WELCOME TO A GEOMETRIC ADVENTURE! You have been selected to take a trip to a new planet called Geo. Learn Geolanguage, build a spaceship, meet aliens, and much more, during this OUT-OF-THIS WORLD hands-on geometry space simulation. Also, in a mysterious galaxy far, far, away, there are planets shaped like polygons and aliens with bodies made of angles. This galaxy is called INFINITY LANDING. Are you ready for a visit?
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Imagination Workshop
Teacher: Robyn Williams
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 9 - 12
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $40.00
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Have fun using your imagination while using different materials to create crafts,puppets, game characters, recycle creatures, and make things out of natural objects. This class incorporates crafts from all over the world. It is a crazy, fun and wild time!
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Inner World (6-8)
Teacher: Sherry McHenry
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 6 - 8
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $50.00
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This interactive class is designed to provide students with a “toolbox” of positive, nurturing techniques to strengthen their resilience, connectivity and ability to manage everyday life.
Each class incorporates simple techniques that increase the ability to: quiet the mind, focus, stay present, gain control, listen effectively, communicate from the heart, resolve conflict and develop empathy. Positive use of their creative imagination is also taught for problem solving, self-esteem and wellness.
Techniques include: Mindfulness, Guided Meditation, Breath Awareness, Biofeedback (HeartMath), Heart-Centered Communication (based on nonviolent communication developed by Marshall Rosenberg), Reflection and Journaling.
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Inner World (9-12)
Teacher: Sherry McHenry
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 9 - 12
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $50.00
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This interactive class is designed to provide students with a “toolbox” of positive, nurturing techniques to strengthen their resilience, connectivity and ability to manage everyday life.
Each class incorporates simple techniques that increase the ability to: quiet the mind, focus, stay present, gain control, listen effectively, communicate from the heart, resolve conflict and develop empathy. Positive use of their creative imagination is also taught for problem solving, self-esteem and wellness.
Techniques include: Mindfulness, Guided Meditation, Breath Awareness, Biofeedback (HeartMath), Heart-Centered Communication (based on nonviolent communication developed by Marshall Rosenberg), Reflection and Journaling.
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Leaf Press Rm #24
Teacher: Charity Smith
Outside Work: Moderate
Prerequisites: This class is for independent writers who enjoy writing for fun.
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Ages: 12 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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In this class, students learn writing skills they they put to use while reporting, copy-writing, editing and proofreading LOL's school newspaper, The Leaf Press. In addition, students generate visual images, lay out the copy and images, and then publish and distribute the newspaper.
The writing skills section of the class includes spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Students become very familiar with and learn how to correctly use the parts of speech in order to construct coherent sentences. Parts of speech include pronouns, nouns, determiners, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and conjunctions. We review verb tenses, comparisons, degree, relative clauses, prepositional phrases, contractions and numbers.
In the newspaper section of the class, students focus on writing in a journalistic style. This includes learning to choose the correct and concise word for greatest impact, placing modifiers carefully, using action verbs and active sentences, eliminating redundancies, and avoiding cliches. Students learn how to research, interview, write headlines and cutlines, report accurately and objectively, write creative and captivating leads, handle direct and indirect quotes, and organize a story.
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Lego Workshop Rm #20
Teacher: Dan Carlson
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 8 - 10
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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In Lego Workshop, students tackle a variety of building and creative challenges. We build structures, characters and vehicles from history, the world around us, and from our own imaginations. We also design, modify, and play lots of Lego games as we find new ways of using our creations in class tournaments and activities.
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Lego Workshop Rm #20
Teacher: To be determined
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 8 - 10
1.5 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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In Lego Workshop, students tackle a variety of building and creative challenges. We build structures, characters and vehicles from history, the world around us, and from our own imaginations. We also design, modify, and play lots of Lego games as we find new ways of using our creations in class tournaments and activities.
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Miniature Worlds: Lord of the Rings 1:00
Teacher: Dan Carlson
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 13 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $65.00
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In Miniature Worlds, students will learn to assemble and paint 28mm models, and to build dioramic scenery from scratch in the 28mm scale. These models will then be used in a variety of strategy games that allow students to see their miniature worlds come to life interactively. This years' focus is 'The Lord of the Rings'--specifically the first part of the trilogy--'The Fellowship of the Ring'. Students will read through the book over the course of the year as they create models and games inspired by the text. Will Frodo escape the pursuit of the Ringwraiths? Will Tom Bombadil help the hobbits evade the evil of the Barrow Downs? Will Gandalf survive the dangers of Moria? Not only will students find out what the preceding questions actually mean, they'll be able to answer them through miniature recreation of these pivotal scenes from one of the most popular books of the 20th century.
A secondary focus of the class will be the life of JRR Tolkien, and the events and literature that shaped him. From time to time, we'll also be exploring topics like World War 1 and the European Dark Ages through our model-building and gaming (as time permits).
This class is offered in two sections each Friday. Students are encouraged to sign up for both sections if possible: many of the projects we'll be building and the games we'll be playing are very time-consuming, and two classes a week will allow students to make significant progress quickly. That being said, students who can only attend one of the two class sections are welcome to sign up, and will get to enjoy as much modeling and gaming as their schedule permits.
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Miniature Worlds: Lord of the Rings 2:15
Teacher: Dan Carlson
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 13 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $65.00
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In Miniature Worlds, students will learn to assemble and paint 28mm models, and to build dioramic scenery from scratch in the 28mm scale. These models will then be used in a variety of strategy games that allow students to see their miniature worlds come to life interactively. This years' focus is 'The Lord of the Rings'--specifically the first part of the trilogy--'The Fellowship of the Ring'. Students will read through the book over the course of the year as they create models and games inspired by the text. Will Frodo escape the pursuit of the Ringwraiths? Will Tom Bombadil help the hobbits evade the evil of the Barrow Downs? Will Gandalf survive the dangers of Moria? Not only will students find out what the preceding questions actually mean, they'll be able to answer them through miniature recreation of these pivotal scenes from one of the most popular books of the 20th century.
A secondary focus of the class will be the life of JRR Tolkien, and the events and literature that shaped him. From time to time, we'll also be exploring topics like World War 1 and the European Dark Ages through our model-building and gaming (as time permits).
This class is offered in two sections each Friday. Students are encouraged to sign up for both sections if possible: many of the projects we'll be building and the games we'll be playing are very time-consuming, and two classes a week will allow students to make significant progress quickly. That being said, students who can only attend one of the two class sections are welcome to sign up, and will get to enjoy as much modeling and gaming as their schedule permits.
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Peace Jam Ambassadors Rm #36
Teacher: Leslie Hamilton
Outside Work: Moderate
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Ages: 14 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $30.00
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You can take one or both days (offered Wed.and Fri.) of PJ Ambassadors!!! Both days offer stand-alone activities that will complement each other. Designed for high school students, PeaceJam Ambassadors explores issues related to peace, violence, social justice and oppression. Youth study the lives and works of a Nobel Peace Laureate and the strategies he or she uses to address pressing global issues. Students create and implement their own Global Call to Action Projects, becoming creative leaders who are committed to solving the most difficult problems facing our world. This program also includes an annual PeaceJam Youth Conference where youth spend a weekend with that Nobel Peace Laureate, giving them an unprecedented opportunity to share with, learn from, and be inspired by a world leader for peace. Based on the quality and scope of our work, our club has been chosen as one of only five groups in the world to pilot an equality and inclusivity addendum to the curriculum, and our projects have been recognized by the leaders of PeaceJam and our regional affiliate, Great Lakes PeaceJam.
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Peace Jam Ambassadors Rm #36
Teacher: Leslie Hamilton
Outside Work: Moderate
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Ages: 14 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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You can take one or both days (offered Wed. and Fri.) of PJ Ambassadors!!! Both days will offer stand-alone activities that will complement each other. Designed for high school students, PeaceJam Ambassadors explores issues related to peace, violence, social justice and oppression. Youth study the lives and works of a Nobel Peace Laureate and the strategies he or she uses to address pressing global issues. Participating youth create and implement their own Global Call to Action Projects, becoming creative leaders who are committed to solving the most difficult problems facing our world. This program also includes an annual PeaceJam Youth Conference where youth spend a weekend with that Nobel Peace Laureate, giving them an unprecedented opportunity to share with, learn from, and be inspired by a world leader for peace. Based on the quality and scope of our work, our club has been chosen as one of only 5 groups in the world to pilot an equality and inclusivity addendum to the curriculum, and our projects have been recognized by the leaders of PeaceJam and our regional affiliate, Great Lakes PeaceJam.
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Peace Jam Juniors Rm #36
Teacher: Leslie Hamilton
Outside Work: Moderate
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Ages: 8 - 10
1.5 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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PeaceJam Juniors uses the stories of the childhoods of 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners to help youth become passionate and informed advocates for themselves and their world. Focusing on creating peacemakers from the earliest age, PJ Juniors allows students to explore the ideas of peace, justice, community, feelings, identity, and self-expression in a safe, inclusive environment. Students create many small projects throughout the year to put into practice their leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, and at the end of the year create a major Global Call to Action project to be showcased for lawmakers and other active students at the Youth For Justice Summit in Columbus. Using art, history, science, math, literature, and writing, we become great peacemakers!
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Peace Jam Leaders Rm #36
Teacher: Leslie Hamilton
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 11 - 13
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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Designed for 11-13 year olds, PeaceJam Leaders uses the stories of the lives of 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners to help youth become passionate and informed advocates for themselves and their world. Focusing on the need to help young people find their identities, express themselves in positive ways, and learn how to make a positive impact on the people around them, PJ Leaders inspires youth to truly become leaders. Through art, social sciences, video, literature, writing, and any other means the students choose, we can become better communicators and collaborators as we work together to create meaningful projects addressing serious issues at the root causes. We will have a chance to show off our amazing work in Columbus at either the Youth For Justice Summit or the Project Citizen showcase, the latter of which will allow us to actually change laws or public policies, and both of which will allow us to speak directly to our state and local lawmakers. This is an amazing, inspiring, and really fun class!
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Preschool /Kindergarten Lunch T/TH (12-1 PM)
Teacher: Lindsay Dewald
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 3 - 6
1 Hour Class; 2 days/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $0.00
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See description above.
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Runner`s Club
Teacher: Robyn Williams
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 12 and up
1 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $10.00
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Students will learn self-discipline as they enjoy the sport of running. Everyone will be working at their own individual level to acheive their goals. Encouragement and fun will be the center of this class.
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Strategies for Being
Teacher: Sherry McHenry
Outside Work: Optional
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Ages: 13 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $50.00
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This interactive class is designed to provide students with a “toolbox” of positive, nurturing techniques to strengthen their resilience, connectivity and ability to manage everyday life.
Each class incorporates simple techniques that increase the ability to: quiet the mind, focus, stay present, gain control, listen effectively, communicate from the heart, resolve conflict and develop empathy. Positive use of their creative imagination is also taught for problem solving, self-esteem and wellness.
Techniques include: Mindfulness, Guided Meditation, Breath Awareness, Biofeedback (HeartMath), Heart-Centered Communication (based on nonviolent communication developed by Marshall Rosenberg), Reflection and Journaling.
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Tae Kwon Do (10+) Rm# Gym
Teacher: R.J. Trusty
Outside Work: Minimal
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Ages: 10 and up
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $35.00
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This is a comprehensive Martial Arts class that uses the elements of Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing and practical self-defense. Master Trusty is a Fifth Degree Black Belt Master Trainer and has been teaching Martial Arts for over 20 years.
Master Trusty teaches Tae Kwon Do/Moo Duk Kwon which is a traditional style of martial arts. In this class students will learn traditional empty hand forms,self defense techniques rooted in Hapkido, as well as the ever popular Tae Kwon
Do kicks.
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Yoga Fun
Teacher: Robyn Williams
Outside Work: Optional
Prerequisites: Yoga mat purchase required.
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Ages: 8 - 12
1.25 Hour Class; 1 day/week
Yearly Materials Fee : $25.00
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This Yoga class promotes mind and body development in a creative and cooperative environment, allowing each child to develop body awareness, strength, flexibility, coordination, self-confidence, self-control, respect for others, relaxation and more. This pre-teen class will be taught as a basic, beginning adult class, with less focus on games and more focus on breathing exercises, alignment training in asanas, and relaxation techniques. Yoga mat required.
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