SAT Prep Course

This one on one tutoring course is designed to help students master skills required by the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test). Such skills/categories include but are not limited to: verbal, mathematical and reasoning abilities, etc... Other strategies such as essay writing, analogies, and comprehension tips will also be addressed.

The goal of this course is to encourage high test performance, decrease testing anxiety, prepare and equip the mind for testing and to develop useful strategies. Students will meet with the instructor once a week for the entire summer. To contact the instructor directly, please forward e-mails to Elizabeth Slagg via: email link

• Tuition: Contact our office
• Dates: Evnening hours to be determined by student and instructor, as they will commit to coming once a week for the entire summer.

Advanced Classic Literature Experience: Small Groups

In an effort to revive the realm of classic literature in the hearts of avid, young readers this fun and laid back course is designed to excite and excel students. Class discussions, higher level thinking, and other critical literary skills such as comprehension, inferencing, etc... will be encouraged. Students enrolled are to vote upon the novel they are most interested in reading. Offered novels include:

• Dickens, Charles..... Oliver Twist (1839)
• Farley, Walter..... The Black Stallion (1941)
• London, Jack..... White Fang (1906)
• Louis Stevenson, Robert..... Treasure Island (1883)
• Rawls, Wilson...... Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)

Tuition Cost:

• Tuition: $95.00 per student

Class Times

Module 1: (meeting weekly) - Mondays from 4:30 to 5:30, starting June 6th for 4 consecutive weeks. (June 6, 13, 20, 27).
Module 2: (meeting four consecutive sessions)
Monday through Thursday, June 20, 21, 22, and 23, daily from 3:00 to 4:00.

Summer Reading Maintenance Class:

This small group class is designed to maintain the average student’s reading skills over the summer by practicing skills through the use of fun activities. The reading of novels will be encouraged and rewarded. Students will meet once a week for 4 consecutive weeks.

As research has proven, the "summer slides" of academic skills occurs in most students, therefore all ages need to maintain reading abilities over the summer to keep such skills sharp for the following school year. To contact the instructor directly, please forward e-mails to Amanda Peterson via: email link

• Tuition: $95.00 per student
• TBA for the month of July 2011

*This is not a remedial class and it is not recommended for struggling readers. Struggling readers require one-on-one therapy.
* A non-refundable deposit of one-half of the tuition cost will reserve your child's place in a class.

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES

This is a spiraling curriculum for students interested in learning American Sign Language. Courses address both receptive and expressive skills needed to fully dialogue among the Deaf and hearing people who converse using ASL.

Each course’s focus (there are three options) will be tapered depending on the age range of students participating. Students in the 4-Day Happy Hands course will acquire categorical vocabulary, the alphabet and numbers, and elementary conversational fluency.

Students in twice-a-week Serious Signers Course can be sure to acquire all that the previous course teaches, as well as higher conversational fluency, a more well-round vocabulary, and lessons in Deaf Culture. Students involved in the twice a week Adult Course will acquire the skills taught in an entire year of Sign Language condensed into eight classes.

Quizzes, Tests, and other homework will be administered; this course is to be considered rigorous but worth the challenge. *Note: ASL is now widely accepted as a foreign language in both high schools & colleges. To contact the instructor directly, please forward emails to Kendra Randall via: email link

4-Day Happy Hands Class

• Four(4) Consecutive One-hour Sessions
• Tuition: $95.00 per student per module

Class Times: Monday thru Thursday 9:00am - 10:00am
Class Dates (call for availability):
Module #1: June 13th - 16th
Module #2: June 20th-23rd
Module #3: July 11th-14th
Module #4: July 18th-21st
Module #5: Aug 8th-11th
Module #6: Aug 15th-18th

Twice-A-Week Serious Signers Class

• Eight Sessions Total
• Tuition: $190.00 per student per module

Class Times: Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Module #1: Every Tues & Thurs in June, starting on June 7th.
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Module #2: Every Tues & Thurs in July, starting on July 5th.

Twice-A-Week Adult Course

• Eight Sessions Total
• Tuition - $190.00 per student per module

Class Times: Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Module #1: Every Tues & Thurs in June, starting on June 7th.
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Module #2: Every Tues & Thurs in July, starting on July 5th.