FALL 2025 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Number Ninjas (K–2 Math)

Young learners will build strong foundations in counting, addition, subtraction, place value, and problem-solving through engaging games, activities, and creative challenges. Students will sharpen their math skills while exploring patterns, shapes, and word problems. Every class is packed with movement, laughter, and plenty of "aha!" moments after direct instructions as students grow their confidence with numbers.

Number Navigators I (3rd–5th Grade Math)

Students will explore multiplication, division, fractions, geometry, and more as they navigate through challenging problems and real-world applications. This course blends fun activities and projects, group problem-solving, and interactive lessons to strengthen math fluency and critical thinking. This class encourages collaboration, builds resilience, and helps every student see themselves as a capable and confident mathematician.

Number Navigators II (6th–7th Grade Math)

This course is designed for middle school students ready to dive deep into advanced math concepts including ratios, expressions, equations, percentages, and early algebra topics. Through collaborative projects, puzzles, and real-life applications, and lectures students will strengthen their problem-solving abilities and mathematical reasoning. Lessons are engaging, relevant, helping students develop confidence and prepare for higher-level math.

Little Explorers Science Lab (K–2 Science)

Young scientists will investigate the wonders of the world through hands-on experiments, captivating stories, and lively discussions. Using a mix of observation, inquiry, and play, students will explore topics such as plants, animals, weather, motion, etc. Whether they're growing a seed, testing how things move, or discovering the magic of magnets, students will learn to think like scientists while having fun.

Literacy Lab (K–2 Language Arts)

This class helps students develop key literacy skills such as phonics, reading comprehension, spelling, handwriting, and writing basics. Through interactive read-alouds, phonics games, and creative writing activities, students will build a strong foundation in reading and writing. Lessons are interactive, hands-on, and designed to nurture a lifelong love for books and storytelling.

Literacy Lounge (3rd–5th Grade Language Arts)

This class guides students through rich reading experiences, grammar practice, vocabulary development, and creative writing. Students will read and analyze engaging stories, work on organizing their thoughts into clear writing, and participate in fun group discussions. All Lessons emphasize building confidence, improving communication skills, and inspiring a love of reading and writing.

Reading Comprehension 

This engaging and skill-building course is designed to help students in grades 6–8 strengthen their reading comprehension abilities, improve comprehension, reading stamina, and confidence across fiction and nonfiction texts. Through a variety of texts, students will practice identifying main ideas, making inferences, analyzing characters, understanding vocabulary in context, and citing evidence to support their answers.

Each week will focus on a specific strategy, such as summarizing, comparing texts, or drawing conclusions, with fun group discussions and guided activities to deepen understanding. Students will also build their confidence in test-taking strategies and critical thinking, helping them become more thoughtful and effective readers. This class offers the tools and support to grow as a reader, thinker, and communicator.

Skills Covered: Identifying main ideas and supporting details, making inferences and predictions, understanding context clues and vocabulary, analyzing characters, setting, and plot, Comparing and contrasting texts, Summarizing and drawing conclusions, Supporting answers with text evidence

ELA/WRITING

In this interactive English Language Arts and Writing class, students will strengthen their reading, writing, grammar, and communication skills. Through engaging texts and creative writing prompts, students will learn how to analyze literature, write clearly and effectively, and build strong arguments and narratives. Weekly lessons will include grammar practice, reading comprehension, and writing workshops to help students express themselves with confidence and clarity. Perfect for middle schoolers looking to grow as readers and writers!

ACTING BIZ 101/ Mindset & Learn to Navigate through the Industry

This dynamic acting class goes beyond the stage to prepare students for a real career in the entertainment industry. Students will learn foundational acting techniques while also developing the mindset, confidence, and discipline needed to succeed as a professional actor. From audition prep and on-camera presence to understanding casting calls, agents, and self-promotion, this class offers a practical look at what it takes to break into the business. Perfect for aspiring actors ready to take their passion seriously.

Money Smart Kids: Financial Literacy for Future Leaders

This fun and engaging course introduces children ages 6 to 12 to the foundational concepts of money and financial responsibility. Through age-appropriate lessons, games, stories, and hands-on activities, students will learn how money works, how to earn it, save it, spend wisely, and even give generously. The course fosters a positive relationship with money and equips kids with the tools to make smart financial choices now and in the future. 

Young Moguls: Entrepreneurship for Future Leaders

Young Moguls is a hands-on entrepreneurship course designed to equip teens ages 13–18 with the skills, mindset, and tools to turn their ideas into income. Students will learn how to identify problems, create solutions, build business plans, and launch real or simulated ventures.  Throughout the course, students will explore the fundamentals of starting and running a business, including branding, marketing, budgeting, customer engagement, and pitching. With a focus on creativity, leadership, and financial responsibility, this course nurtures young visionaries to become confident innovators and future CEOs.

Film For Beginners: Intro to Film History

Whether you’re an aspiring filmmaker or movie mogul, a YouTube blogger, or just enjoy beating everyone at Trivia Pursuit, this course will provide the foundation students need to be competitively film literate in any setting.  In Part A (semester 1), students will learn about the fundamental differences between “live-action”, “animation”, “documentary”, and “Independent” cinema by studying such classics as Mary Poppins, Trolls, and 2001 A Space Odyssey.  In part B (semester 2) you will take a deeper dive into film history, exploring the 13 most popular film genres in our culture and, ultimately, learn how these traditional genres can be combined to create a brand new, unique film that could be the next Oscar winner.

Health and Wellness

Students will dive into the essential topics of personal health, nutrition, physical wellness, and emotional well-being. This engaging, age-appropriate course equips middle schoolers with practical knowledge and lifelong skills in areas such as body systems, hygiene, healthy eating, fitness, stress management, and first aid basics. The instructor, who is a nurse, will engage learners through hands-on activities, interactive discussions, and real-world applications.