HuckleBerry offers classes
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
THIS IS THE FALL 2015 CLASS SCHEDULE - NOT THE SPRING 2016 SCHEDULE!!!
We are vendors for the following charter schools:
Excel, Golden Valley Charter School, Gorman Charter School, iLead,
Sage Oak Charter School, SCVi, Sky Mountain Charter School
THURSDAY 9:30 - 11:00
Tracy Quick
Language acquisition through immersion methods! Play, eat, listen, create art, design projects, and converse!
Scott Bartholomew
build LEGO models featuring working motors and sensors; program models; and explore a series of cross-curricular, theme-based activities
DOing Place Value, Money, Number Patterns and more! (8-10)
Heidi Marino
Game & projects help kids understand place value, adding/subtracting money, number patterns, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes, lines/rays/angles, measurement and more!
Penny Sande
group class in music instruction, music theory, work on Rhythm skills and reading rhythm through musical notation, reading music and more!
Serious Science Exploration (10-16)
Lori Rivas
Focused on modern applications of science using podcasts, magazines and science kits! Older students. Two levels of class for different ages!
Literature & Writing Through The Great Books! (11+)
Stephanie Berry
All of the stories within the Great Books series carry deep and meaningful themes that help readers to not only develop vocabulary and analysis skills, but to also find out more about themselves and how they see the world.
TUESDAY 9:30 - 11:00
Read To Me, I'll Read To You (5-7)
Megan Trawick / Adrienne Alonso
Learning to read can be hard work, but if it’s fun, you’ll never know how hard it is! Uses PhonoGraphix as the base program for reading instruction, plus lots of games, stories and activities!
Charlotte Van Houten / Shannon Iniguez
Exploring Fairy Tales, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Mystery, Historical, Western, and Fantasy. This will be a noisy, boisterous and fun class as we learn how to get our ideas about those subjects down on paper!
March into the Middle Ages! (10-12)
Jennie Andrews
Investigate everyday medieval life, what people ate and drank, what they wore, where the lived, medieval science, medicine, inventions, education, art, and business, along with the history of the Church, the Crusades, Vikings, knights, and medieval battles and wars!
Creative Drawing and Painting (10+)
Lori Powers
Advanced Writing & Literature; for High School and College Prep (15+)
Holly Van Houten
Prep for English 101, SAT and ACT tests! Explore critically acclaimed gems while learning to organize, develop and argue ideas in writing.
WEDNESDAY 9:30 - 11:00
American Holidays & Heroes (5-7)
Lynnette Bedard
Learn about some of our most important American Heroes along with the holidays they have inspired!
Animal Art and Science! (8-10)
Jerry Koechendoefer
Hold, feed, dissect and study animals and then create artwork every week representing your animal!
Writing with Structure and Style IEW Level I (9-12)
Marsha Bradbury
Using the IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing) approach to teach outlines, summarization, research reports and more!
Private Guitar Lessons with Frank Browne!
TUESDAY 11:00 - 12:30
Lori Powers
Exploration in paint, paper mâché, sculpty clay, collage and more!
Lori Rivas
All new games for Fall '15 covering grouping for quick addition, multiplication, fraction work, money math and more!
Holly Van Houten
Learn to write essays in various “modes” such as: description, narration, definition, classification, comparison/contrast, cause and effect and persuasion
Jennie Andrews
Create great gifts or personal items for the holidays!
When Societies Collapse: World History & Human Geography (14+)
Stephanie Berry
What does deforestation, nasty neighbors, tribal infighting, population growth, trade and strong leadership have to do with world history? As it turns out, just about everything...
WEDNESDAY 11:00 - 12:30
Math and Science are FUN! (5-7)
Tracy Quick
Learn so many math and science facts as we listen to stories, play games, create art, build structures, design, and PLAY!
Newton's Lab (7-9)
Jerry Koechendoefer
Learn about matter, motion, and the laws of physics by creating fun moveable projects and structures!
Mostly Magnets, and other Science Explorations! (9-12)
Natalie Sydejko
Discover the principals of magnetism and electricity. Build working circuits and more!
Lynnette Bedard
Labs and Learning on the Science of Life!
Marsha Bradbury
basic arithmetic through the foundation of many areas of mathematics, including geometry, measurement, algebra, and scale & graph reading. This class will teach BOTH levels of Saxon math!
Great Books / Great Discussions Book Club (14+)
Stephanie Berry
The best stories create the best conversations and introspection. Come introduce yourself to the best authors and delve into great themes.
Private Guitar Lessons with Frank!
Frank Browne
THURSDAY 11:00 - 12:30
Simple Machines using Legos! (6-8)
Heidi Marino
Gears, axles, levers and pulleys, and more! Focused on STEM based learning as the build and test their models!
Meet the Masters; History through the world of Art (7-10)
Jennie Andrews
Learn about the great artists, see what type of art they did, and then turn the classroom into a studio!
Tumbling, Combat & Physical Comedy (8-15)
Karen Baughm / Yvonne Senat
lifts, rolls and catches! Get your PE done in a fun way and reenact a combat scene as well!
Scott Bartholomew
Learn both basic and advanced robotics through the Lego system!
Lori Rivas
Kids create their very own newspaper! Kids decide on the content, write, edit, sell, and start all over!
Stephanie Berry
Includes all the common core concepts, reinforced with games and activities!
LUNCH 12:30 - 1:00
TUESDAY 1:00 - 2:30
Jennie Andrews
Make fun holiday inspired projects for yourself or to give away!
Mastering the Fundamentals of Writing (10-13)
Marsha Bradbury
Spelling, punctuation, grammar and more! If the fundamentals of good writing are still a little too hard, come and practice with Marsha!
Holly Van Houten
Create an elegant and well written essay! For kids that are new to longer essays and those that are already writing essays but need to refine their skills.
Public Speaking and debate through Model UN & Joint Crisis Committee (14+)
Stephanie Berry
A collaboration between multiple homeschool groups. Model UN & the JCC is one of the fasting growing trends in collaborative learning. Learn geography, global issues, persuasive speaking, and collaboration. Role play a historical event and change its course!
THURSDAY 1:00 - 2:30
Waves - They're not just in the Ocean! A Science Exploration (5-7)
Lynnette Bedard
Explore all types of waves to understand one of the basic principles behind physics and also our solar system and Earth’s place in it.
Tania Solomon
Learn to enjoy your very own musical instument - your voice! Sing and perform!
Making History - Learning Through Improv - The Royals (9-15)
Karen Baughm / Yvonne Senat
Serious Science Exploration! (10-16)
Lori Rivas
Focused on modern applications of science using podcasts, magazines and science kits! Older students. Two levels of class for different ages!