Electives are a great way to enhance your child’s Hybrid experience! Primary students can take up to 4 onsite electives. Middle School students may take up to 2 onsite electives. Material fees are for Part-Time OVA and Self-Pay students.
Monday 9:00 AM- Middle and High School Electives: (Please see below for material fees, and class descriptions)
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MS (6-8th grade) |
MS/HS (6-12 grade) Combined |
HS (9-12th grade) |
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Painting |
Yearbook 1B |
Spanish 1B (HS credit) |
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Food Around the World |
Wednesday 9:00 AM- Middle and High School Electives: (Please see below for material fees, and class descriptions)
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MS (6-8th grade) |
MS/HS (6-12 grade) Combined |
HS (9-12 grade) |
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Choir |
Pottery |
Health (HS credit) |
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Board Games |
Drawing | |
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Strength and Wellness |
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Painting
6th-8th Grade
Monday 9:00
Material Fee: $100
Description: This course will Introduce students to famous artworks and details about famous artists through an ongoing series. Introduction to the fundamentals of painting. Exploration of traditional and contemporary techniques and methodologies through a variety of subjects including imagination, still life, self portrait, landscape and the figure.
Food Around the World
6th-8th Grade
Monday 9:00
Material Fee: $75
Description: In this class, students will dive deep into other cultures from around the world, through their rich and diverse food. Each week, we will learn about a different country, make a popular meal from their culture, and create a recipe book full of wonderful meals from around the world.
Yearbook 1B
6th-12th Grade
Monday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this course, students will gain skills in the following areas: page design, publishing techniques, copywriting, editing, photography, record keeping, time management, teamwork, marketing, and leadership skills. Students are tasked with producing a timeless, creative, and innovative publication which will record our school’s community, memories and events.
*This class is a full year commitment and students should register for Yearbook 1B if they completed by 1A.
Drawing
6th-12th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $100
Description: This course will focus on the fundamentals of drawing: elements of art, composition, proportion, spatial relationships, perspective, volume, light and shadow, value and texture. The course will enhance students’ observational sensibilities and enable their application to their work. The notion of visual perception will be explored and students will learn how to record what they observe. Students will become familiar with various ways in which the elements, principles of design and composition improve their creative approach and critical judgment.
Choir
6th-8th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee:$50
Description: Students will be exposed to choral elements, such as ensemble singing, blend, and vocal techniques. Students will sing and perform a variety of music in both formal and informal situations, both individually and in an ensemble.
Exploring Board Games
6th-8th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will learn the history and strategies behind many of our childhood favorites. This class will build critical thinking skills while also giving students the opportunity to play a different board game each week. They will also learn how to create their own board game.
Strength and Wellness
6th-8th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course will focus on moving through space and time. Students will learn to demonstrate the qualities of movement (space, time, force, flow, levels, directions, and pathways) as they perform a variety of fundamental locomotor (running, hopping, skipping, jumping, leading, sliding, galloping) and non-locomotor (bending, twisting, turning, rocking, swaying, balancing, stretching, pushing, and pulling) skills. Students will learn to manipulate objects with purposeful movement (throwing, catching, striking, kicking, bouncing, and rolling). Students will participate in a variety of fitness development exercises.
Pottery
6th-12th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $100Description: In this class, the students will be able to express their creativity in the hands-on art of pottery. Students will learn techniques, history, and create their own pottery implementing techniques learned.
Spanish 1B (HS credit)
9th-12th Grade
Monday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students cover basic vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and punctuation to build a solid foundation for further study. Assignments include engaging in simple conversation, writing, paragraphs, and listening to Spanish dialogue. Students also study the history and culture of Spanish-speaking peoples.
*Students that completed Spanish 1A should plan to take Spanish 1B to receive a full credit of foreign language.
Health (HS credit)
9th-12th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee:$50
Health-This course addresses topics in mental health, social health, nutrition, physical fitness, substance abuse, human development, and disease prevention. The course emphasizes the physical and emotional benefits of making healthful choices and discusses consequences of unhealthful behaviors. Critical thinking is encouraged through the use of open-ended questions, assessments, and videos that present real-life situations. Built using responsive design principles, this HTML course is mobile-friendly, meets accessibility requirements, and includes expanded projects and assessments (including performance assessments.)
*Students that completed PE during Fall Semester, should plan to take Health Spring Semester.
Monday Primary Electives: (Please see below for grade levels, material fees, and class descriptions)
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9:00 AM |
10:10 AM |
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Typing (3-5) |
Coding (3-5) |
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Beginner Piano (2-5) |
Exploring Board Games (DK-5) |
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LEGO (DK-5) |
Animation 101 (3-5) |
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French (1-5) |
Painting (2-5) |
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Food Around the World (DK-5) |
Wednesday Primary Electives: (Please see below for grade levels, material fees, and class descriptions)
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9:00 AM |
10:10 AM |
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Cake and Cookie Decorating (3-5) |
KinderKrafts (DK-1) |
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Inventors and Inventions (3-5) |
LEGO (DK-5) |
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Strength and Wellness (DK-5) |
KinderBop (DK-1) |
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Spanish (DK-2) |
Spanish (3-5) |
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Globetrotters (DK-5) |
Drawing (2-5) |
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Choir (1-5) |
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Pottery (DK-5) |
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Typing
3rd-5th Grade
Monday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course is intended to increase student’s finger dexterity, skill, and proficiencies necessary for quick and accurate information processing on any keyboard. Correct key-stroking is stressed. Students also demonstrate their knowledge of word processing as a labor enhancing and problem-solving tool utilizing touch keyboarding skills and document processing in order to format letters. This course provides the keyboarding basics necessary for future academic requirements and job placement. It is geared towards students who are: 1) new to keying or do not key efficiently; 2) looking to increase keying speed and accuracy; or 3) interested in learning a basic overview of word documents.
Lego – STEM
DK-5th Grade
Monday at 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this class students will be presented with a STEM building challenge to encourage their critical thinking with some hands on creative fun!
French
1st-5th Grade
Monday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course gives a thorough grounding in all aspects of French language and culture with a balanced coverage of all four skill areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Beginner Piano
2nd-5th Grade
Monday 9:00
Material Fee:$50
Description: The course will be split into several units that cover various aspects of understanding the instrument and the music that can be created with it. Each day, students will be led through a routine of tuning, warming-up, group instruction, and independent group practicing and playing. Students will also learn basic maintenance of the instrument. Highly recommended to have a piano/semi-weighted keyboard at home for daily practice.
Coding
3rd-5th Grade
Monday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this beginning/intermediate coding class, students will use Scratch and Code.org to increase their coding skills. They will begin with close-ended projects and work toward open-ended projects.
Exploring Board Games
DK-5th Grade
Monday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: Students will learn the history and strategies behind many of our childhood favorites. This class will build critical thinking skills while also giving students the opportunity to play a different board game each week. They will also learn how to create their own board game.
Animation 101
3rd-5th Grade
Monday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Join us as we explore the wonderful world of animation. We will discover the history of animation around the world, how animation is made, and making our own animations. Students will learn about various animation techniques, such as storyboarding, perspective, action blocking, and editing. By the end of the class, students will have a full flipbook story as well as completion of a digital animation project.
Painting
2nd-5th Grade
Monday 10:10
Material Fee: $100
Description: This course will Introduce students to famous artworks and details about famous artists through an ongoing series. Introduction to the fundamentals of painting. Exploration of traditional and contemporary techniques and methodologies through a variety of subjects including imagination, still life, self portrait, landscape and the figure.
Food Around the World
DK-5th Grade
Monday 10:10
Material Fee: $75
Description: In this class, students will dive deep into other cultures from around the world, through their rich and diverse food. Each week, we will learn about a different country, make a popular meal from their culture, and create a recipe book full of wonderful meals from around the world.
Inventors and Inventions
3rd-5th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Learn and discover “Who Made it?” Every two weeks we will learn about an inventor and one of their specific inventions. At the end of the two weeks, we will make a replica of their invention for us to take home.
Cake and Cookie Decorating
3rd-5th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this course students will learn how to plan, prepare, design, create and deliver beautiful cakes and cookies. They will learn different frosting techniques as well as how to achieve different colors and textures of frosting. Students will also learn about what it takes to market and sell their own cakes and cookies.
Strength and Wellness
DK-5th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee:$50
Description: This course will focus on moving through space and time. Students will learn to demonstrate the qualities of movement (space, time, force, flow, levels, directions, and pathways) as they perform a variety of fundamental locomotor (running, hopping, skipping, jumping, leading, sliding, galloping) and non-locomotor (bending, twisting, turning, rocking, swaying, balancing, stretching, pushing, and pulling) skills. Students will learn to manipulate objects with purposeful movement (throwing, catching, striking, kicking, bouncing, and rolling). Students will participate in a variety of fitness development exercises.
Spanish
DK-2nd Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will be introduced to Spanish language and culture while learning through vocabulary and building sentences. Themes will include food, arts, music, animals, holidays, traditions and more. Students will end the semester with a real Spanish Fiesta! No prior knowledge necessary.
Globetrotters
DK-5th Grade
Wednesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Adventurers and explorers unite in traveling across the globe to learn more about different countries and cultures. Fun activities, crafts, recipes, traditions, and maps galore!
Kinder Krafts
DK-1st Grade
Wednesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this class we will discover new activities that teach and reinforce color, and shape. We will be using our fine motor skills to cut, color, and glue fun projects each week.
Kinderbop
DK-1st Grade
Wednesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course will teach children how to read musical notation, play instruments such as the recorder and glockenspiel, provide an outlet to explore new genres, and give children what they need to succeed in future instrument-specific music lessons.
Spanish
3rd-5th Grade
Wednesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will be introduced to Spanish language and culture while learning through vocabulary and building sentences. Themes will include food, arts, music, animals, holidays, traditions and more. Students will end the semester with a real Spanish Fiesta! No prior knowledge necessary.
Lego STEM
DK-5th Grade
Wednesday at 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this class students will be presented with a STEM building challenge to encourage their critical thinking with some hands on creative fun!
Choir
1-5th Grade
Wednesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will be exposed to choral elements, such as ensemble singing, blend, and vocal techniques. Students will sing and perform a variety of music in both formal and informal situations, both individually and in an ensemble.
Pottery
1st-5th Grade
Wednesday 10:10
Material Fee: $100Description: In this class, the students will be able to express their creativity in the hands-on art of pottery. Students will learn techniques, history, and create their own pottery implementing techniques learned. Students in grades 1-2 will need to have a parent present with them during class.
Drawing
2nd-5th Grade
Wednesday 10:10
Material Fee: $100
Description: This course will focus on the fundamentals of drawing: elements of art, composition, proportion, spatial relationships, perspective, volume, light and shadow, value and texture. The course will enhance students’ observational sensibilities and enable their application to their work. The notion of visual perception will be explored and students will learn how to record what they observe. Students will become familiar with various ways in which the elements, principles of design and composition improve their creative approach and critical judgment.
Tuesday Electives: (Please see below for grade levels, material fees, and class descriptions)
| 9:00 AM | 10:10 AM |
| French (1-5) | KinderBop (DK-1) |
| Animation 101 (3-5) | |
| Typing (3-5) | Exploring Board Games (DK-5) |
| Pottery (DK-2) | Pottery (3-5) |
| Lego STEM (DK-5) | Spanish (Dk-2) |
| Detective Science (3-5) | |
Thursday Electives: (Please see below for grade levels, material fees, and class descriptions)
| 9:00 AM | 10:10 AM |
| LEGO (DK-5) | KinderKrafts (DK-1) |
| Spanish (3-5) | |
| Drawing (2-5) | Painting (2-5) |
| Coding (3-5) | Inventors and Inventions (3-5) |
| Strength and Wellness (DK-5) | Globetrotters (DK-5) |
| Beginner Piano (2-5) | Choir (1-5) |
| Cake and Cookie Decorating (3-5) |
French
1st-5th Grade
Tuesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course gives a thorough grounding in all aspects of French language and culture with a balanced coverage of all four skill areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Typing
3rd-5th grade
Tuesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course is intended to increase student’s finger dexterity, skill, and proficiencies necessary for quick and accurate information processing on any keyboard. Correct key-stroking is stressed. Students also demonstrate their knowledge of word processing as a labor enhancing and problem-solving tool utilizing touch keyboarding skills and document processing in order to format letters. This course provides the keyboarding basics necessary for future academic requirements and job placement. It is geared towards students who are: 1) new to keying or do not key efficiently; 2) looking to increase keying speed and accuracy; or 3) interested in learning a basic overview of word documents.
Pottery
DK-2nd grade
Tuesday 9:00
Material Fee: $100
Description: In this class, the students will be able to express their creativity in the hands-on art of pottery. Students will learn techniques, history, and create their own pottery implementing techniques learned. Students in grades DK-2 will need to have a parent present with them during class.
Lego STEM
DK-5th grade
Tuesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this class students will be presented with a STEM building challenge to encourage their critical thinking with some hands on creative fun!
Kinderbop
DK-1st grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course will teach children how to read musical notation, play instruments such as the recorder and glockenspiel, provide an outlet to explore new genres, and give children what they need to succeed in future instrument-specific music lessons.
Exploring Board Games
DK-5th grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: Students will learn the history and strategies behind many of our childhood favorites. This class will build critical thinking skills while also giving students the opportunity to play a different board game each week. They will also learn how to create their own board game.
Animation 101
3rd-5th Grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Join us as we explore the wonderful world of animation. We will discover the history of animation around the world, how animation is made, and making our own animations. Students will learn about various animation techniques, such as storyboarding, perspective, action blocking, and editing. By the end of the class, students will have a full flipbook story as well as completion of a digital animation project.
Pottery
3rd-5th Grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee:$100
Description: In this class, the students will be able to express their creativity in the hands-on art of pottery. Students will learn techniques, history, and create their own pottery implementing techniques learned.
Spanish
DK-2nd Grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: Students will be introduced to Spanish language and culture while learning through vocabulary and building sentences. Themes will include food, arts, music, animals, holidays, traditions and more. Students will end the semester with a real Spanish Fiesta! No prior knowledge necessary.
Detective Science
3rd-5th grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Learn how detectives investigate crime scenes in hands-on labs. Subjects such as chemistry, biology, and physics are behind the scenes in investigations, substance analysis, blood splatters, DNA, breaking glass, and more. The classroom will be turned into a crime scene as student teams collect evidence and come to conclusions.
Drawing
2-5th grade
Thursday 9:00
Material Fee:$100
Description: This course will focus on the fundamentals of drawing: elements of art, composition, proportion, spatial relationships, perspective, volume, light and shadow, value and texture. The course will enhance students’ observational sensibilities and enable their application to their work. The notion of visual perception will be explored and students will learn how to record what they observe. Students will become familiar with various ways in which the elements, principles of design and composition improve their creative approach and critical judgment.
Coding
3rd-5th Grade
Thursday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: In this beginning/intermediate coding class, students will use Scratch and Code.org to increase their coding skills. They will begin with close-ended projects and work toward open-ended projects.
Lego STEM
DK-5th Grade
Thursday at 9:00
Material Fee:$50
Description: In this class students will be presented with a STEM building challenge to encourage their critical thinking with some hands on creative fun!
Strength and Wellness
DK-5th Grade
Thursday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: This course will focus on moving through space and time. Students will learn to demonstrate the qualities of movement (space, time, force, flow, levels, directions, and pathways) as they perform a variety of fundamental locomotor (running, hopping, skipping, jumping, leading, sliding, galloping) and non-locomotor (bending, twisting, turning, rocking, swaying, balancing, stretching, pushing, and pulling) skills. Students will learn to manipulate objects with purposeful movement (throwing, catching, striking, kicking, bouncing, and rolling). Students will participate in a variety of fitness development exercises.
Beginner Piano
2nd-5th Grade
Thursday 9:00
Material Fee:$50
Description: The course will be split into several units that cover various aspects of understanding the instrument and the music that can be created with it. Each day, students will be led through a routine of tuning, warming-up, group instruction, and independent group practicing and playing. Students will also learn basic maintenance of the instrument. Highly recommended to have a piano/semi-weighted keyboard at home for daily practice.
Kinder Krafts
DK-1st Grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: In this class we will discover new activities that teach and reinforce color, and shape. We will be using our fine motor skills to cut, color, and glue fun projects each week.
Spanish
3rd-5th Grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will be introduced to Spanish language and culture while learning through vocabulary and building sentences. Themes will include food, arts, music, animals, holidays, traditions and more. Students will end the semester with a real Spanish Fiesta! No prior knowledge necessary.
Painting
2nd-5th Grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee:$100
Description: This course will Introduce students to famous artworks and details about famous artists through an ongoing series. Introduction to the fundamentals of painting. Exploration of traditional and contemporary techniques and methodologies through a variety of subjects including imagination, still life, self portrait, landscape and the figure.
Inventors and Inventions
3rd-5th Grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: Learn and discover “Who Made it?” Every two weeks we will learn about an inventor and one of their specific inventions. At the end of the two weeks, we will make a replica of their invention for us to take home.
Globetrotters
DK-5th Grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Adventurers and explorers unite in traveling across the globe to learn more about different countries and cultures. Fun activities, crafts, recipes, traditions, and maps galore!
Choir
1st-5th Grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will be exposed to choral elements, such as ensemble singing, blend, and vocal techniques. Students will sing and perform a variety of music in both formal and informal situations, both individually and in an ensemble.
Cake and Cookie Decorating
3rd-5th grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: In this course students will learn how to plan, prepare, design, create and deliver beautiful cakes and cookies. They will learn different frosting techniques as well as how to achieve different colors and textures of frosting. Students will also learn about what it takes to market and sell their own cakes and cookies.