Learning the essentials of... language, writing, and arithmetic
Meet the Essential's tutors!!!
This dynamic
program provides Classical Christian community for home school families
with students in grades 3rd-6th. This program, which emphasizes language
and writing "grammar" while also incorporating highly-dialectic lessons,
is designed to reinforce language arts and structure, writing, and
arithmetic mastery.
The Essentials Program meets every Thursday for
twelve weeks in the fall and twelve weeks in the winter/spring. Students
meet in the afternoons after the Foundations program. A trained tutor
helps strengthen the "essential" subjects of language arts and structure,
writing, and arithmetic.
The language arts and
structure portion employs Classical Conversations own The Essentials of
the English Language (EEL) Guide which includes lessons that provide a
mixture of grammar and dialectic learning tools used to establish language
structure understanding. The unique EEL approach takes students beyond
"the worksheet" and the ubiquitous fill-in-the-blank method. Upon a firm
foundation of memorized vocabulary, rules, and lists, students build
strong language skills through the use of a series of analytical tasks.
Students are taught how to thoughtfully analyze sentences and language
structure, resulting in stronger language skills, which also strengthens
students written and oral works.
The writing portion is
based on the method of the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) by
Andrew Pudewa utilizing IEW's signature method of structure and style.
This method teaches students how to organize their writing through
different writing structures, while also providing stylist techniques that
make a student's writing more engaging. Students often practice writing
skills on the same subjects that are being studied in their current
Foundations cycle. (writing samples)
The math portion focuses
on reinforcing the "essential" elements of arithmetic through challenging
math games and problems. This program is designed to complement your home
math program by drilling speed and accuracy with basic operations of
arithmetic.
This highly-dialectic program,
along with Foundations, is academically charged, and is great preparation
for the later Challenge programs.
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