LEO - Session IV Classes

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Class Descriptions

You MUST register before enrolling in the classes below.

You do NOT have to register for third session if the student was previously registered, and took classes during the first two sessions.

If you need to register, visit the Registration page to register your students prior to enrolling!

Book, Supply, and Material Fees are paid to the Instructor.

IEW Student Writing Intensive - Level B - Kelley Tomkinson
Age Group : Grades 5-8
Course Fee : $100
Mondays, 9:00 - 10:00
Text Fee : $30

This Institute for Excellence in Writing class will provide structural models for teaching Essay and Creative Writing. Note Making & Outlines, Summarizing from Notes, Summarizing Narrative Stories, Summarizing a Reference, Writing from Pictures and Library Research Reports will all be covered in this year-long course.

No writing experience necessary. New students are welcome.

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Writing Mastery II - Cindy Rittenhouse
Age Group : Grades 9-12
Course Fee: $112
Mondays, 10:30-11:45
Materials fee: $35 due March 1st

Daily writing shorts--sponges--will continue as will the in-class writing explorations. The research papers that have been this year's goal will conclude at the end of this quarter. Learning how to do research and find research sources has been added to the competency achieved in critical thinking and writing skills.

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World Literature: Play Package II - Cindy Rittenhouse
Grades 9-12
Course Fee: $112
Mondays 9:00-10:15
Materials Fee: $45 due March 1st

20th century plays will be our focus for this last quarter. These will include "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw; "Mouse Trap" by Agatha Christie, the longest-ever running play; "The Odd Couple" by Neil Simon; "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekov; "Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams; and a Broadway musical.

Weekly in-class essays and class discussions will develop mastery of critical thinking and writing skills.

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Science thru Art
Age Group : Grades K-3
Fees : $50 w/ $10 supply fee
Mondays 11:30-12:30

Make things that fly, fling, spin, swim, whoosh, zoom and ooze, and discover the surprising science behind them.

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Elementary Spanish - Monica Velez
Age Group : Grades 1-4
Course Fee: $100
Mondays, 11:30-12:30

This course covers the introduction of the Spanish language that includes a lot of repetition and physical enactment that are the keys to learning at this age. We have created a fun and productive learning environment where the children have the opportunity to establish basic language and beginning conversation skills. We use vocabulary based curriculum which incorporates games, role play, music and various other activities to help build and maintain your child’s enthusiasm for learning a new language.

Each week lesson introduces vocabulary and includes several other activities. Using cooperative strategies for games and putting Spanish to use as many situations as possible. We use a lot of actions, visuals, and manipulative. All these become invaluable reinforcements in learning a language.

Overview of Topics:

* Numbers. Pronounce, sing and recognize numbers.
* Colors. Pronounce, sing and recognize colors.
* Greetings. Pronounce, sign and recognize some greetings.
* Parts of the body. Pronounce and recognize the parts of the body.
* Food. Pronounce, sign and recognize some foods.
* Clothing. Pronounce, sign and recognize.
* Animals. Pronounce, sign and recognize animals.
* Transportation. Pronounce, sign and recognize words of transportation.
* Family. Pronounce, sing and recognize members of the family.
* Classroom objects. Pronounce, sign and recognize classroom objects.
* Alphabet. Sing and recognize alphabet and vowels. Learn the 12 different consonants sounds.
* Basic expressions and greetings. The child will sing and recognize some Spanish greetings and introductions. Simply key questions/phrases, combined with learned vocabulary.
* Days of the week. Pronounce, sing and recognize the days of the week.
* Commands. Pronounce and recognize some commands.

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CONTINUING THE GLASS EXPEDITION
Age Group : 7+
Course Fees : $100 plus $25 materials/lab fee payable to the Instructor
Mondays 2:30-4:00
4 2 hour sessions (April 19, 26, May 3, 10)

Class Description : Continue exploring the science and art using glass as the medium. Projects include a garden mosaic stepping stone, a fused glass picture frame, painting on glass, and other projects as time allows.

Art Discussions: The golden rectangle and color theory.
Science Discussions: Glass use throughout time, Safety/thermal glass, and R factor insulated windows.

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Intro. to Robotics and Programming

Age Group : Ages 9+
Course Fees : $100

Mondays 1:00-2:30

Using the Lego NXT robot and programming language, your child will learn engineering principles and basic programming in a very hands-on, visual approach. Children will work in pairs to create robots and then program them to meet a variety of challenges. Some of the activities planned include creating a screaming ghost crab, climbing hills, bumper cars and an etch-a sketch. If time allows, we may even go on a Mayan Adventure.

Sorry, this class is full!

SAT Prep: Vocabulary/Writing/Reading - Cindy Rittenhouse
Grades 9-12
Course Fee: $112
Tuesdays 11:00-12:00
Materials Fee: $45 due January 1st

The goal is greater self-confidence as well as skill sets for test-taking. I wrote for the SAT Exams and after 3 children, feel the educational system does not address these areas.The work includes intensive vocabulary building through traditional training sources as well as literature; timed essay exams; and paragraph interpretations.This is a 4-quarter course with changing materials, but same format.

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Math Essentials - Addition and Subtraction - Deayne Johnson-Troiano
Course Fee $50.00
Tuesdays, 10:00-11:00

Finally, cement those facts! Students will practice addition and subtraction facts with hands-on lively lessons and games. This class will complement your home math program by drilling speed and accuracy. Additional assistance will be given to parents to aid in reinforcing these facts at home.

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Math Essentials - Multiplication and Division - Christy Stromberg
Course Fee: $50.00
Tuesdays, 10:00-11:00

Finally, cement those facts! Students will practice multiplication and division facts with hands-on lessons and games. This class will complement your home math program by drilling speed and accuracy. Additional assistance will be given to parents to aid in reinforcing these facts at home.

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Art For All Ages - Teresa Stanton
Age Group: All Ages
Fees : $65
Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00
Supply Fee: $15

Come explore, create and discover through the wonderful world of ART! We will use a variety of mediums: chalks, watercolors, clay, fabric... to create beautiful original projects each week.

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Physical Education/Yoga by Candace Gordijn

Class: Physical Education
Age Group : Ages 7-14
Fees : $35
Tuesdays, 2:00-2:45
8 weeks

The purposes of a physical education class are to establish life-long healthy fitness behaviors, gain self-confidence, respect for self and others, and a positive self-image. This class will introduce safety, fitness principles of cardio-vascular exercise, strength training, flexibility training, coordination, working in teams and sports’ skills. Games, dance, and body toning will be woven into a daily lesson on the role of exercise and nutrition in creating a healthy lifestyle for the entire family. Positive encouragement and compassionate teamwork promote important life social skills.

Class : Yoga
Age Group : all ages
Fees : $35
Tuesdays, 1:00-1:45
8 weeks

Introduction to the ancient practice of Yoga for all ages. The purpose of Yoga is to attain a calm, centered mind and a supple, strong body. Yoga means ‘union’ of mind, body and breath. Practice includes breathing techniques, postures, which include animals and strong structures, allowing participants to learn self-control and coping skills. Children benefit specifically because they enjoy trying new postures and pretending to be something new. The benefits of Yoga for everyone are increased flexibility, relaxation, full-body strength, a kinder approach to others, and restoration of mental, physical and emotional alignment. Dress comfortably, and mats are provided.

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Electronic Creations
Ages 9+
Course Fees : $100 + $25 supply fee
Wednesdays 9:00-10:00

Have you ever wanted to make a light flash? Create a simple robot? Or make obnoxious sounds? In this class you will learn how to do all that and more. You will learn all about the different electronic parts and how to use them in simple to more complex circuits. In 8 weeks you will learn a fun and useful skill. During the class, you will make a light flasher, an obnoxious noise generator, a doorbell, a Doomsday Device(MUUHAHAHAHA!!!!), and many more. When the class is over, you will receive a soldering iron, a couple of different parts, an electronics glossary and other resources, a breadboard and all your creations.

Teacher: Owen Anderson, Moderator: Julie Anderson

Sorry, this class is full!

Physics for Kids - Tracy Wilson
Grades 3-6
Fees : $100 and $20.00 supply fee
Wednesdays 10:00-11:00

This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to embrace the concepts of pysics without the math. Students will become familiar with energy, heat and thermodynamics, friction, static electricity, basic DC circuits, batteries, magnets, simple machines, and discover Newton's laws of motion. These concepts will be taught using toys, when possible, with lots of "hands on" inquiry based learning.

Week One: Vibrations and waves. Cool dead person: Hertz
Week Two: Electric forces, resistance, conductor, insulator. Cool dead person: Ohm
Week Three: Reflections and refraction of light. Mirrors and lenses, lasers, Newton's rings. CDP: Huygens
Week Four: Jeopardy! Review of concepts. Controlled chaos, but the kids love it! Reinforces their newly formed concepts.
Week Five: Atoms, atomic physics, periodic table. CPG: Bohr
Week Six: Quantum physics, photo electric effect, x-rays, photons, wave properties of particles.
Week Seven: Radiation, relativity, fission, fusion, Geiger counter. CDP: Geiger
Week Eight: Jeopary! Review of concepts. Controlled chaos, but the kids love it! Reinforces their newly formed concepts

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Beginner/Intermediate Chess – Joseph Couvillion
Age Group: 6+
Course Fee: $100.00
Wednesday, 11:00-12:00

Beginners will learn how to move the pieces correctly and the basic fundamentals of chess. Intermediate players will learn to strategize, prepare and conquer! Level cards awarded to students.

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Literature: Faves from Former Students - Cindy Rittenhouse
Age Group : Grades 4-5
Course Fees : $112
Wednesday 1:30-2:30

Materials Fee: $45 due March 1st

An 8th grade friend, Emily, read Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris 8 times in 5th grade. It was all she talked about that whole year. Love, Ruby Lavender is by Southern author and Marietta neighbor, Deborah Wiles, a National Book Award Winner for her Each Little Bird that Sings. When Tom read this in 5th grade he loved that the sister got in more trouble than the brother. Operation Red Jericho is the first in a spy, high adventure series by Joshua Mowll. Owen loved all the fold-outs of maps, submarines, and special equipment.
A fourth title will also be chosen.

Class discussions and projects are aimed to develop strong critical thinking skills.

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German 1 - Freya Fitzpatrick
Age Group: Grades 7-12
Course Fee: $112
Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30

Curriculum / Text (if available) : Ping Pong Neu 1, published by Hueber publishing company in Germany.

Guten Tag! Start speaking German on the first day of class. Our text “Ping Pong” is used all over the world to foster fluency in German alongside of mastering grammar. This courseware is ideal for classes that meet only once a week because the books are accompanied by CDs so students can work at home listening to native German speakers. Completion of the first book of this course is equivalent to one year of high school German.

The first year text consists of four parts: Pingpong Neu 1 – textbook, textbook CD set, workbook, workbook CD. The package of 4 items costs $100 + shipping. However, if there are two students in the same family or close neighbors who can share CDs, then the cost for just the text and workbook is $42 + shipping.

Homework: There will be regular homework with audio CD support.

Please Contact Instructor before enrolling in this class.

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Public Speaking – Introduction for Upper Grades - Freya Fitzpatrick
Age Group: Grades 7-12
Course Fee : $112
Wednesdays - 2:30-3:30

Learning to express yourself in public settings is an asset that will be valuable throughout life. The more professionally you can present your ideas, the greater will be the response by others and the more opportunities you will have to progress in areas that are important to you. Public speaking skills will build your self-confidence, can get you a job, get you into college, land a sales contract, help you build and share your convictions and influence other people’s opinions.

Students will present a speech about how to do something that has multiple steps. They will learn how to choose a topic, how to prepare their own note cards, and how to design and manage appropriate visual aids and to use these to illustrate their talk.

Homework: Students must spend time practicing at home what they learn in class.

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Philosophy for Kids - An Aspen Roberts
Age Group: 8-11
Course Fee: $85
Wednesday, 2:30-3:30
Curriculum / Text: Philosophy For Kids, http://tinyurl.com/ybgukd5

We will read Philosophy for Kids and discuss ideas of philosophy in everyday life examples.

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Latin III - Freya Fitzpatrick
Age Group : Grades 7-12
Course Fees : $112
Wednesdays, 3:30-4:00
16 weeks

If you are interested, please contact Freya Fitzpatrick (pippi_lotta3@yahoo.com) to arrange tutoring/class.

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Chemistry - The Elements: Ingredients of the Universe – Teresa Stanton
Age Group: Grades 5-8
Course Fee: $100
Thursdays, 11:00-12:00

The topics covered are the same as you would find in any beginning level high school text, but the interest level of the text and activities are geared to students who still like to play while they learn. This means that the student text has whimsical humor in it and is kid-friendly without being patronizing and the class will have lots of activities, games, songs, crafts, etc. All of these activities provide high-quality learning-- they are not "fluff." The overall theme of the curriculum is cooking and recipes, using cooking to explain chemistry concepts.

Topics covered: The carbon atom and its allotropes, introduction to organic chemistry, refining of crude oil, isomers, saturated and unsatured molecules, functional groups, combination of functional groups, plastics and polymers, rubber and silicon polymers, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and finally the carbon oxides and the carbon cycle.

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Kids Challenge - Teresa Stanton
Age Group: Grades 1-6
Course Fees: $50
Supply Fee: $20 supply fee
Wednesday 12:30-1:30

Weekly challenges to encourage kids to THINK outside the box. All hands-on!

This class will help develop problem-solving skills and creative thinking. Some challenges will be for the group and some for the individual student.

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Public Speaking Using PowerPoint
Grades 1-6th
Course Fees : $100 - no materials fee
Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30

Prerequisite: Laptop computer in class with PowerPoint installed.

Students will present a speech about a wild animal. They will learn how to choose a topic, select and document appropriate resources and how to prepare their own note cards. They will learn step-by-step how to design basic and effective PowerPoint presentations and to use these to illustrate their talk.

Learning to express yourself in public settings is an asset that will be valuable throughout life. The more professionally you can present your ideas, the greater will be the response by others and the more opportunities you will have to progress in areas that are important to you. Public speaking skills will build your self-confidence, can get you a job, get you into college, land a sales contract, help you build and share your convictions and influence other people’s opinions.

Homework: Depending on the speed at which students work in class, there will be varying levels of work required at home to complete projects begun in class.

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Literature: Very Mysterious - Cindy Rittenhouse
Grades 6-8
Course Fee: $112
Thursdays 8:55-9:55 a.m.
Materials Fee: $45 due January 1st

We will slip into who-done-its with film such as "Young Sherlock Holmes" and 4 diverse quests for the elusive "Who." The novels will include a young James Bond in Eaton (middle school) in Charlie Higson's Silverfin; the classic King Solomon's Mine by H. Rider Haggard; The Alchemyst, historical fiction about Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott; and a Victorian thriller with lots of fog by Marcus Sedgwick, The Book of Dead Days.

Practicing critical thinking and writing skills is the basis of this course.

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Writing I - Cindy Rittenhouse
Age Group: Grades 6-8
Course Fee: $112
Thursdays, 10:00-11:00
Materials fee: $35 due March 1st

Among the writing projects we will do this spring is a class movie--writing, directing, acting, filming, editing. This is in addition to the daily writing shorts and the in-class writing explorations. Being adept at the 5 paragraph essay has been the year's goal as well as confidence using critical thinking and writing skills.

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Art - Painting - An Aspen Roberts
Age Group: Grades 5-12
Course Fees: $100
Thursday 1:30-2:30

Students will learn about color theory, perspective and dimensional modeling through fun, expressive projects. Some supplies provided. Supply list available first day of class.

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Exploring Creation with Zoology 3- Land Animals of the Sixth Day (Christian-based science) - Kelley Tomkinson

Grades 3-5
$125.00 per 8 wk session
$25.00 supply fee
Thursday, 1:30-3:30

What separates people from apes? How can a Great Dane be related to a Chihuahua? Is there evidence that people and dinosaurs lived at the same time? What should you do if you encounter a bear? How can you tell if a snake is poisonous? Come find out answers to these questions and many, many more with Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Zoology 3! This third book in the zoology series takes students on a safari through jungles, deserts, forests, farms, and even their own backyard to explore, examine and enjoy the enchanting creatures God designed to inhabit the terrain. Discover the amazing animals from primates to parasites, kangaroos to caimans, and turtles to terrifying T-Rexs— this safari doesn’t end there! Students will also keep a record of where each animal is found on a map and learn to identify animal tracks. As with all the Apologia elementary books, students will continue the practice of narration, keeping a notebook of what they have learned, and enjoy many hands on projects and experiments throughout the course. Most experiments will be done during class.

This class will cover the whole book with a lap book in two sessions. A lap book, if you are new to them, is a learning tool that can be used for years after completion as a review tool and to show off to the family! The lap book will require some writing so writing skills are helpful but not required if the parent is ok with drawings instead.

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Pilates/Yoga
Wednesday 10:00-11:00
$40 (7 weeks)
mats provided

Rebecca Silvey of Alpharetta Pilates has her children in classes at LEO Wednesdays so has offered to lead a Pilates/Yoga class while she's here. Isn't that a great idea?! Drop your kids off for a class and you get to exercise (which none of us has "time" to do).

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ITBS Testing - Julie Grantier
Age Group : Grades 3-8
Fee: $50 due by March 29th
($1.75 is added if you pay through the Google Checkout button due to transaction fees)
Monday-Wednesday, 9:00-11:30
May 17,18,19

Registration for testing is now closed.

Meet state requirements for nationally standardized testing or just find out your student's strengths and areas for improvement: LEO is offering standardized testing for homeschool families May 17-19, 2010. We will be using the core battery of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) which meets Georgia's standard for a nationally normed test. Testing will be available for grades 3-8. Total cost of $50 per child will cover all expenses, including testing, scoring, taxes and shipping. Please contact Julie Grantier at julie.grantier@gmail.com before you register if you have any questions or concerns.
(Please note: Your child *must* be homeschooled to take advantage of this testing at LEO. ITBS/BJU rules do not allow me to test any children in public or private school.

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