K-8 Pioneer Living (American Frontier)
FRIDAYS 1:30pm-2:20pm (12-Weeks) $190 / Semester (Payment due on 1st day)
Service Description
In this 'Frontier Fun' History class there are so many wonderful and interesting people who helped discover and establish settlements, customs and new ways of living in early America. To truly appreciate their stories, students will learn about their adventures and what life was like for them. We will not only read fun anecdotes but reenact some of those ways of living ourselves. Students will learn what it was like to be in a one-room schoolhouse setting. They will practice writing with chalk on slate boards just like Laura Ingalls, penning in cursive using a quill and hornbooks like George Washington, and writing secret Morse-Code messages using a real telegraph like Abraham Lincoln. They may also enjoy planting apple seeds like Johnny, panning for gold like James Marshall and constructing a fort like Daniel Boone. They will be introduced to land surveying, mock fishing and hunting with a “bow & arrow”, tracking, canning, cooking in a Dutch-oven, and traditional recess games. Students will learn about the origins of different pioneer holidays that we still celebrate today and the contrast of how they’ve changed over the years. Just as early settlers did, students will spend a large part of the semester learning about the different rules and chores children their own age had to follow like churning butter, fixing their own lunch, making wooden toys, collecting cow patties and fresh eggs, “chopping” firewood, milking Bessy the cow and much more. This class promotes History-Social Science State Standards which include chronological & spatial thinking, research, evidence & point of view, and historical interpretation. Although some highly requested activities may be repeated it is done in such a way that the content will introduce either a new person in history or a new approach to the activity. This class is designed to change every semester so that students can take this course for 3 years.
Cancellation Policy
All payments and/or vouchers are due by the first class of the semester. If you need to make special payment arrangements an email request must be sent before the first class and is not considered approved until a confirmation email is sent back. If you need to cancel your enrollment and don't plan on attending any classes during the semester, your $20 registration fee will be reimbursed up to 1-week before the first day of the semester. All unused class fees will be reimbursed up to 24 hours before the first day of the semester, minus the non-returnable portion of your class fees that went toward class materials for your student. If a child needs to drop a class after the semester has begun, we can prorate their class fees up til the end of the third week. No class fees will be returned or prorated after the end of the 3rd week. If you're joining the class late, prorated policies are determined on a case-by-case basis, by each instructor.
Contact Details
4205 Carson Road, Camino, CA, USA