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ELECTIVES 2024-2025
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ELECTIVE CLASSES
All Elective class details follow, listed by class title, including ideas for how this carries through the week at home, if at all. Our elective classes are intended to help our students explore life skills and interests that will help direct their paths. These are carried out with age-appropriate activities and projects.
Our Elective day is a full day of 5 classes; classes are not offered as single class / a la carte.
PreK/K is $550 for the morning or $750 for the morning plus the afternoon extension activities. Cost is $900/student for academic day for 1st-8th grades, $950 for those in 9th-12th grades for science lab fees. Cost is $950/student for elective day for 1st-12th. There is also a nonrefundable registration fee of $50 per child per day to cover Journey t-shirts, registration software costs, class fees, and miscellaneous.
Note on required/optional books: I have added approximate (~) pricing and a link for required and optional books. Buying a "used" copy of the book is fine and can save you money in many cases. Prior to purchase, please confirm the "condition" of the book as well as the correct "edition", both are important!
PreK/Kindergarten (Full day or Half day)
Animal Adaptations & Behaviors
Business & Entrepreneurial Spirit!
Career Investigation: What's Your Path?
CSI & Fairy Tales & Green Screen/Journalism
Forensics & Green Screen / Journalism
Kitchen Science & Molecular Gastronomy
Men of Valor: Life skills, etiquette, leadership
Nature's Bounty: Herbals, Foraging, Bees, Syrup
STEM Innovators! Math & Science Games
PreK-Kindergarten
PreK-Kindergartners: We have put together a fun, bundle of mixed activities for our littlest learners. We use a multi-sensory approach, integrating movement, music, hands-on activities, outdoor activities, and character-building skills.
Grade: Pre-K, Kindergarten
Prerequisites: none
Day/Time: Monday mornings, 9:00-12:00
with optional extension activities available from 12:30-2:30
Class Cost: $550/half day, $750/full day
Supplies: See Kindergarten supply list
American Road Trip
Take a road trip across the United States and study maps, sites, and state "favorites"!
Grade: 1st-6th
Prerequisites: none
Day/Time: Mondays 12:30-1:30
Supplies: General supplies list: possible book tbd by teacher
Animal Adaptations & Behaviors
Explore animal adaptations and behaviors. Talk about the importance of color and camouflage, adaptations for self-defense, living in harsh conditions, animal rituals, utilizing and training of service animals, and more!
Grade: 1-3, 4-6, 7-12
Prerequisites: none
Supplies: General supplies list, To be announced: possibly a book per teacher request
Art & Handcrafts!
Learn a variety of methods and techniques that will grow you as an artist! We will explore and create art in many different forms, using styles from drawing to working with clay and creating handcrafts. Your imagination and creativity will be the only limit for the possibilities of this class!
Grade: 1-3, 4-6, 7-12
Prerequisites: none
Supplies: General supplies list, plus oil pastels, ruler, black ultra-fine lined sharpie, optional: paint smock or "cover" shirt.
ASL American Sign Language
The focus is on expressive and receptive American Sign Language, fingerspelling, and the culture of the Deaf community, including cover themes such as friends and family, activities, school, etc..
Grade: 7-12
Prerequisites: none
Supplies: General supplies list.
Aviation Science & History
This class will dive into the history of airplanes and the science behind flight. Areas of discussion will include a variety of aircrafts and their uses, navigation, pilot training and safety requirements, human and mechanical factors in aviation, and safety management systems.
Grade: 7-12
Prerequisites: none
Supplies: General supplies list.
BOOK Club / Girls of Grace
This dual-topic class will read, discuss, and do projects related to books that exemplify virtues and character qualities that honor God. We will also spend time with self-care, skin, nail & hair care, and modest expression of our inner and outer beauty!
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th
Supplies: book list & beauty/self-care items list to be updated.
Business & Entrepreneurial Spirit!
Young kiddos can be business-savvy too! Let's work together to learn how to choose, develop, and market a product. Learn how to present and sell, how to work as a team and support each other, and hold a "maker's market" to sell your product.
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th
Supplies: General supplies;
Additional Fees: there may be an additional fee depending on your
child's choice of product to develop/sell in our "maker's market".
Career investigation
What's Your Path? Let's spend time investigating who God created you to be. What are your passions, your talents, your spiritual gifts? How do you best learn? What are activities and jobs that you love to do, and what do you try to avoid? We will be learning about ourselves, investigating career options, meeting with people from different job backgrounds, building resumes, learn to fill out job applications, do some basic book-keeping/banking, and more!
Grade: 7th-12th
Supplies: General supplies; binder to retain documents, if possible a laptop would be helpful but we can share Journey's if needed
MEN OF VALOR
Valor: “strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness, courage and decisiveness”. Our young men will be working on life skills, etiquette, chivalry, and leadership skills that honor and bring glory to God. Being a leader, communicating with kindness and clarity, dressing for success, hygiene, skin and hair care, and more!
Grade: 1st-6th grades
Supplies: TBD; general supplies
Building Trades & DIY
** Please note that this is a 3-hour class to be able to adequately provide time to delve into more substantial projects and learning opportunities ** Students will sign up for this class plus 2 single hour classes.
This class will have a $100 additional charge to offset some of the material costs.
Get hands-on experience with planning and carrying out home and DIY projects to enrich and develop your student's growing skills set/experience. This year our students learned the basics of DIY and hands-on experience with several projects, including the basics of working with drywall, electric outlets, mitering corners and installing baseboards, fixing toilets, and more. Specific projects are TBD and will be added shortly!
Grade: 7th-12th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: TBD
Supplies needed: Tool box, with a hammer, flat head screwdriver(s), Phillips head screwdriver(s), tape measure, work gloves, heavy rubber gloves. Dollar Tree has some options. This can be a messy class - an extra pair of shoes/shirt/jeans may be great some weeks.
Cooking and Baking
Students will learn techniques and methods for cooking and baking, how to meal plan, nutritional concepts, as well as safe storage principles, and proper clean-up and food safety. Please take into consideration that we will be working with a variety of ingredients, so please use consideration and caution for enrolling your child in this class if your child has a food allergy. Thank you.
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th, 7th-12th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: none
Supplies needed: General supplies list; suggested: an apron or "cover" shirt.
CSI & Fairy Tales, with Green Screen Journalism
We are reporting LIVE from "The Wall", where Mr. Humpty Dumpty is falling to pieces! Was he pushed? Did he trip? We suspect fowl play! Let's dig in to the story and see what our clues tell us, investigate the possibilities, write up our reports and insights, and then prepare to update the community via LIVE! Green screen film footage! This will become a favorite!
Grade: 4th-6th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: none
Supplies needed: General supplies list
Design Careers
We will be stepping into the world of careers in design. Touching base on Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Product Design, Event Design, Floral Design, Merchandise Design and more. We will learn about what these careers look like in a daily setting, the different skills and people that make them run. Creating projects in each design field as we move through the different careers. Such as creating a piece of apparel from reusable items. Designing a brand identity with a logo and marketing elements. Constructing a floral arrangement along side a full tablescape. These projects will help your student learn design skills while allowing them to be innovative with their projects.
Grade: 7th-12th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: none
Supplies needed: General supplies. Laptop if available.
Entrepreneurial Kids
Running a Business for Kids: Young kiddos can be business-savvy too! Let's work together to learn how to choose, develop, and market a product. Learn how to present and sell, how to work as a team and support each other, and hold a "maker's market" to sell your product.
Grade: 1st-6th
Prerequisites: Ability to add and subtract 2- and 3-digit numbers
Day/Time: Mondays, 09:00-10:30
Additional Fees: $20 (there may be an additional fee depending on your
child's choice of product to develop/sell in our "maker's market".)
Required books: None
Supplies needed:
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A 2-pocket folder, lined paper, a pad of graph paper, pencil, pen
Forensics & Green Screen Journalism
The science of forensics, digging into clues to examine and analyze evidence from crime scenes and elsewhere to develop objective findings that can assist in the investigation and prosecution of perpetrators of crime or absolve an innocent person from suspicion. We will discuss crime scenes, physical and biological evidence, forensic tools, forensic careers & specialties, and the judicial system. Labs will include casting footprint / shoe print impressions, using fingerprints, remembering & recording details and events, analyzing fibers, hair identification, and more. Then students will work with filming interviews and cases on green screen.
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Grade: 7th-12th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: TBD
Supplies needed: TBD; General supplies list, dry erase markers
Gameschooling (and the Art of Winning & Losing Gracefully)
Students will develop critical thinking skills, communication skills, self-regulation, creativity, and other skills involved with board gaming. In the course of the year we will learn different types of games including puzzle, cooperative, player vs. player, and strategy. To end the year, the kids will develop their own game!
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: none
Supplies needed: None
GroSSOlogy & MythBusters
Get ready to be totally grossed out by all things sticky, smelly, slimy, gooey, and disgusting. This class is not for the faint of fart, I mean, heart. Activities may or may not involve discussing normal kid-friendly bodily functions and spit/vomit/poo/ pee/mucus/bugs/scat/etc.
And, yes, at some point you will probably end up with more slime at your house.
Mix this with science from the beloved MythBusters, and you have a new favorite class in the making!
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th,
7th-12th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: None
Supplies needed: TBD; General supplies list
Gym
Students will learn and play a variety of sports and activities, indoors and outdoors as weather allows. Team sports, individual challenges, and opportunities to grow physically and mentally!
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th,
7th-12th
Supplies: None
For 7th-12th graders:
This class will also do some offsite activities, with signed gym waiver/liability waiver, per the child's availability. There potentially could be additional "event" costs if the group decides to go bowling or such... your family can choose to opt in or out per the event. Open gym will be available for students during that time as well.
KiTchen Science & molecular gastronomy
Please note that this is a 2-hour class commitment!
When Chemistry meets Cooking, amazing creations and connections appear!
Some of the topics for this culinary class: Ratios, density, measurement, chemistry of whipped cream, colloids, suspensions, oils, how cheese is made, food preservation, detergent vs. soap, The Sweet Science of Candymaking, and more!
Grade: 7th-12th
Supplies: General supplies list, apron or cover shirt
Lego robotics
One of our most-loved classes, by boys and girls alike. Working in pairs, our teams work together to do lego builds plus coding to build fun and engaging vehicles, animals, buildings, machines, and more. Team members learn to work collaboratively to plan out detailed builds, strategize the coding, and, in some projects, compete against each other.
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th,
7th-12th
Supplies: None, laptop (optional)
Music, Movement, & Rhythm
Our kiddos will be learning music, playing instruments, moving to rhythms, and discovering drumming and percussion!
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: TBD if required by the teacher
Supplies needed: None
Nature's Bounty: Herbals, foraging, beekeeping, & tree-tapping
** Please be aware of any plant allergies or sensitivities that your child may have, prior to signing up for this class, thank you!**
This course will include learning about plant identification, safe/proper foraging, and wildcrafting. We will discuss using plants as natural medicine, making tinctures, salves, syrups, soaps, lotions, and more, using herbs and other plants. We will discuss how to make medicines, how and when to use them, and how to store them safely. We will learn to utilize fresh as well as dried herbs. We also will discuss the important role of bees in our ecosystems, discuss beekeeping, and learn about maple syrup and tapping other trees as well!
Kids will set up a binder and bring it each week for them to journal, keep recipes, and maintain printouts of information.
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th, 7th-12th
Required books: None
Supplies needed: General supplies list; A 2-pocket folder or 3-ring binder, lined paper, a pad of graph paper, pencil, pen
Daughters of the King!
Photography & Yearbook
Students will learn the art of photography through exploration of equipment, lighting, composition, and skill building. In each area, students will complete photo shoot activities, discuss methods and outcomes, and work together to create a Journey yearbook!
Grade: 7th-12th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: none
Supplies needed: General Supplies; DSLR camera, spiral notebook, pencil, optional: laptop
Consumer Math: Students in 9th-12th grade will be taught the fine art of smart financial decision-making. This book begins by establishing the foundation of ratios, percents, and solving basic algebraic equations (the basics of solving for a missing number). It then proceeds to cover: measurement, income, credit cards, budgeting, personal banking, borrowing money/loans, how math applies to "life costs", insurance, home maintenance. , and income taxes. Math is filtered through the perspective of Christianity and how to properly implement financial knowledge via problem-solving, skill development, and logical decisions.
Grade: 9th-12th
Credit: 1 math credit
Prerequisites: none
Day/Time: Mondays, 9:00-10:30
Class Length: 1.5 hours
Teacher: TBA
Class Cost: $340
Additional Fees: none
Required books: BJU Consumer Math student book, (~$60 new)
https://www.christianbook.com/bju-press-consumer-math-student-text/9781606828113/pd/296806
Supplies needed:
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Wear: Journey shirt (issued at Open House), jeans or dress pants, tennis shoes,
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Bring: Backpack, water bottle, lunch (depending on schedule)
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Supplies for the year: A 1” 3-ringed binder with 3-hole punched lined paper
STEM Innovators! Math & Science Games
Students will explore STEM/Engineering activities using everyday items. We will help guide students through hands-on activities that encourage our students to use the processes and approaches of science; the planning and conceptual design of engineering; and the application of technology in their personal skills and abilities. Many activities are based on National Science Education Standards and Standards for Technological Literacy, and are focused on developing abilities in science, math, engineering, and technology.
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: none
Supplies needed: General supplies
Survival & First Aid ... Revisited!
It's back, with some review plus lots of new content and opportunities as well!
Learn basic survival skills, with topics ranging from building shelter, making fires, navigating with maps, and finding food and water. Learn basic first aid skills that will help you know how to respond in medical emergencies. Get hands on practical skills to prepare for disasters. This was a favorite class last year for many students!
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th, 7th-12th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: * Survival for Beginners: A step-by-step guide to camping and outdoor skills [ https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Beginners-step-step-camping/dp/0241339898/ ]* ACEP First Aid Manual 5th Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/ACEP-First-Manual-Step-Step/dp/1465419500/
Woodworking projects ... Revisited!
Work with hand tools, learn measurement and proper techniques, use creativity and problem-solving skills, while building/crafting projects of wood and other materials. This hands-on class will engage and challenge your kiddos and build their knowledge and confidence in basic wood working projects!
Grade: 1st-3rd, 4th-6th
Prerequisites: none
Required books: none
Supplies: Supplies provided by student. We will have some extras available as well : hammer, flat head screwdriver(s), Phillips head screwdriver(s), tape measure, work gloves, heavy rubber gloves. Dollar Tree has some options. This can be a messy class - an extra pair of shoes/shirt/jeans may be great some weeks.