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.
*If you attempt to register for an elective class and receive a notification that the form has been turned off, this is because the class has reached capacity. If you would still like to be added to a waitlist for that class, please email Janel Deaver at j.deaver@thehybridlearningco.com to ask to be placed on the waitlist. Be sure to include the site location (Legacy Hybrid or Oxford Hybrid), the elective class name, the student name and grade, as well as your main hybrid communication email address and phone number in this email. In the meantime, please consider choosing another class in case the waitlisted class does not become available.*
Tuesday Electives: (Please see below for grade levels, material fees, and class descriptions)
| 9:00 AM | 10:10 AM |
| French Language and Culture (1-6)* | KinderBop (DK-2) |
| Exploring Board Games (DK-5) | Spanish Language and Culture (3-5) |
| Intro to Keyboarding and Computer Basics (3-6)* | Exploring Nature (DK-5) |
| Animation (3-6)* | Art Techniques (3-5) |
| Cake and Cookie Decorating (3-6)* | Strength and Wellness (DK-2) |
| Strength and Wellness (3-6)* |
*These 6th grade classes will be combined with the elementary grades on-site, but will have their own online Buzz course.
Thursday Electives: (Please see below for grade levels, material fees, and class descriptions)
Thursday Electives: (Please see below for grade levels, material fees, and class descriptions)
| 9:00 AM | 10:10 AM |
| Inventors and Inventions (3-6)* | KinderKrafts (DK-2) |
| Detective Science (3-6)* | Coding (3-5) |
| LEGO (DK-5) | Spanish Language and Culture (Dk-2) |
| Choir (4-5) | Globetrotters (DK-5) |
| Choir (K-3) | |
| Food Around the World (3-5) |
*These 6th grade classes will be combined with the elementary grades on-site, but will have their own online Buzz course.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
| Tuesday 9:00 AM |
| French Language and Culture (1-6) |
| Exploring Board Games (DK-5) |
| Intro to Keyboarding and Computer Basics (3-6) |
| Cake and Cookie Decorating (3-6) |
| Strength and Wellness (3-6) |
| Animation (3-6) |
French Language and Culture
1st-6th Grade
Tuesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will be introduced to French language and culture. Themes will include food, arts, music, animals, holidays, traditions and more. No prior knowledge necessary. Note: While language will be introduced and explored as part of this class, this is not a language mastery class.
Exploring Board Games
DK-5th grade
Tuesday 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.
Introduction to Keyboarding and Computer Basic Skills
3rd-6th 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. Note: Students will need to bring in a laptop/OVA chromebook for this class.
Cake and Cookie Decorating
3rd-6th grade
Tuesday 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
3-6th Grade
Tuesday 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.
Animation 101
3rd-6th Grade
Tuesday 9:00
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.
| Tuesday 10:10 AM |
| KinderBop (DK-2) |
| Spanish Language and Culture (3-5) |
| Exploring Nature (DK-5) |
| Art Techniques (3-5) |
| Strength and Wellness (DK-2) |
KinderBop
DK-2nd 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 Nature
DK-5th grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee: $50
Description: This class builds on children’s sense of wonder about nature through outdoor exploration. Spending time in nature can build their confidence. There’s a lot less structure than most types of indoor play and they can choose how they interact with the nature around them. This gives them practice managing their own actions and encourages creativity and imagination. Being outdoors can also teach them responsibility.
Spanish Language and Culture 1
3rd-5th Grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: Students will be introduced to Spanish language and culture. 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. Note: While language will be introduced and explored as part of this class, this is not a language mastery class.
Art Techniques
3rd-5th Grade
Tuesday 10:10
Material Fee:$100
Description: Children learn a lot through art. As they draw, paint, and make collages, they are learning about their world (colors, shapes, and sizes of objects). When they use paints, glue, and markers, children are planning, trying out new things and solving problems. As they mix paints they learn to understand that one thing can make changes in another. This class will introduce all of the above through the use of mixed media.
Strength and Wellness
DK-2nd Grade
Tuesday 10:10
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.
| Thursday 9:00 AM |
| Inventors and Inventions (3-6) |
| Detective Science (3-6) |
| LEGO (DK-5) |
| Choir (4-5) |
Inventors and Inventions
3rd-6th Grade
Thursday 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.
Detective Science
3rd-6th Grade
Thursday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Have you ever wondered how detectives and forensic science technicians find and examine evidence? Join us and 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, fingerprints, DNA, breaking glass, footprints, and more. Students will learn the techniques and science that are used to solve crimes and put those skills to use in hands-on activities in the classroom.
Lego STEM
DK-5th Grade
Thursday 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!
Choir
4-5th Grade
Thursday 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.
| Thursday 10:10 AM |
| KinderKrafts (DK-2) |
| Coding (3-5) |
| Spanish Language and Culture (Dk-2) |
| Globetrotters (DK-5) |
| Choir (K-3) |
| Food Around the World (3-5) |
KinderKrafts
DK-2nd 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.
Coding
3rd-5th Grade
Thursday 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. Note: Students will need to bring in a laptop/OVA chromebook for this class.
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
K-3rd 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.
Spanish Language and Culture 1
DK-2nd Grade
Thursday 10:10
Material Fee:$50
Description: Students will be introduced to Spanish language and culture. 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. Note: While language will be introduced and explored as part of this class, this is not a language mastery class.
Food Around the World
3rd-5th Grade
Thursday 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.
Tuesday 9:00 AM- Middle School Electives: (Please see below for material fees, and class descriptions)
| MS (6-8th grade) | MS (6th graders only*) |
| Art Techniques | French Language and Culture** |
| Team Sports and Games | Animation** |
| Intro to Keyboarding and Computer Basics** | |
| Cake and Cookie Decorating** | |
| Strength and Wellness** |
*These 6th grader only elective classes will be combined with the upper elementary grades on-site, but will have their own online Buzz course.
** To register for these classes, please scroll to the top of this page and click the “Oxford Hybrid Primary” tab, then scroll to the class you are looking for for the registration button.
Thursday 9:00 AM- Middle School Electives: (Please see below for material fees, and class descriptions)
| MS (6-8th grade) | MS (6th graders only*) |
| Yearbook 1A | Detective Science** |
| Choir * | Inventors and Inventions** |
* These MS classes will be combined with the elementary grades on-site, but will have their own online Buzz course.
** To register for these classes, please scroll to the top of this page and click the “Oxford Hybrid Primary” tab, then scroll to the class you are looking for for the registration button.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
| Tuesday 9:00 AM |
| MS (6-8th grade) |
| Art Techniques |
| Team Sports and Games |
Art Techniques
6th-8th Grade
Tuesday 9:00
Material Fee:$100
Description: Children learn a lot through art. As they draw, paint, and make collages, they are learning about their world (colors, shapes, and sizes of objects). When they use paints, glue, and markers, children are planning, trying out new things and solving problems. As they mix paints they learn to understand that one thing can make changes in another. This class will introduce all of the above through the use of mixed media.
Team Sports and Games
6th-8th Grade
Tuesday 9:00
Material Fee: $50
Description: Students will participate in and explore a variety of team sports, including basketball, volleyball, dodgeball, blob tag, yard games (such as cornhole, wacky golf, and horseshoes), and other team games. They will learn the skills, rules, and strategies associated with each activity, with a focus on teamwork, communication, and sportsmanship.
| Thursday 9:00 AM |
| MS (6-8th grade) |
| Yearbook 1A |
| Choir |
Choir
6th-8th Grade
Thursday 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.
Yearbook 1A
6th-8th Grade
Thursday 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 plan to register for Yearbook 1B for the second semester.