Classes start promptly at 11:00am, and conclude around 2:30p when the 1:00pm afternoon classes finish. Feel free to come for the whole time or just for the portion your family wants to participate in. Bring a lunch or participate in the community potluck!
Full details available on all class offerings below. For quick reference here is an overview of what is being offered this day:
11:00 - 12:00:
Thanks for Thanksgiving -- Preschool -- Beth Notch
Human Body: The Digestive & Renal System -- K-3 -- Heidi Moore
History of Thanksgiving -- K-3 -- Jan McCormick
Introduction to Poetry -- 4th-6th -- Samantha Marocco
Basics of Personal Finance -- middle/high school -- Tammy Neureuther
12:35 - 12:55:
Children’s Chorus -- PreK-3rd
Youth Chorus -- 4th+
Current Events Club -- middle/high school
1:00 - 2:00:
Making Music with Fractions -- K-4 -- Melissa Floyd
Paper Twirling -- 3rd & up -- Amanda Bokus
Native American of New York State -- Wars: Taking Sides -- 5th & up (class runs 1:00p - 2:30p) -- Jan McCormick
FULL DETAILS
Free Play Room: Legos
11:00a - 12:00p
Preschool:
Thanks for Thanksgiving
Students will participate in circle time reading two books "Thanks for Thanksgiving" & "The Littlest Pilgrim". There will be playdough, a tissue paper Indian corn craft, and a bead & pipe cleaner turkey craft.
Teacher: Beth Notch
Fee: $1 per student
K-3:
History of Thanksgiving
Learn about the history of Thanksgiving, and how myth vs historical reality.
Teacher: Jan McCormick
Fee: $3 per student, or $2 per student if participating in all 3 of Jan's fall elementary history classes (10/15, 11/5 & 11/19)
Class Size: 10
RSVP: Jan McCormick, jemick39@gmail.com
Human Body: Digestive & Renal System
Come learn some fun facts while exploring your digestive & renal systems and how they work!
Gr 4-6:
Introduction to Poetry
This second class on poetry will focus on poetry about food (as we will be so close to celebrating Thanksgiving!). You’ll be introduced to a number of different poets this class as it seems many poets have discovered poetry in their food! We will continue the fun with reading and listening to poems, completing arts and crafts related to poems, writing a Thanksgiving poem, and we will even have a poetry treasure hunt! Bring your appetites for some great poems and join in the fun!
Teacher: Samantha Marocco
Fee: $3 which will provide each student a second Dover book of poetry to bring home
Middle/High School:
Finanace
This class will be an ongoing series over several classes. Students will learn about various topics including: supply/demand; careers & income goals; budgeting & living expenses; using a checkbook; savings accounts; stocks, bonds & dividends; credit cards; your credit score & purchasing a home; insurance, taxes & retirement.
Teacher: Tammy Neureuther
Fee: $5 for the full semester or $1 per class
Extra Supplies: Additionally, please bring a notebook, pencil, and if you have the classified & food ads from a newspaper or the Wall Street Journal. If you will be bringing in newspapers please let the instructor know.
RSVP: Tammy Neureuther, tamneureuther@yahoo.com or Facebook Tammy Neureuther
12:00p - 1:00p
Potluck or bag lunch period.
***Please remember that co-op as a new nut free policy! This includes not only items brought for potluck, but also for holiday treats, snacks & bag lunches. If you are looking for a nut butter alternative, sun butter is OK to use! ***
We will meet upstairs in the fellowship hall for lunch break. Potluck lunch is open for everyone attending! If your family has special dietary needs (vegan, gluten free, etc), please consider bringing a dish to share that you family can also eat! Families who choose not to participate in potluck are encouraged to bring a bag lunch.
If you’d like to participate in a potluck lunch please email Cathy Morin at woodchop2011@hotmail.com
12:35p - 12:55p
Children’s Chorus -- (grades PreK - 3) Will be practicing Christmas songs this fall to be sung at Meadowbrook Nursing Home on 12/10/14 from 10-11am. The only requirement for Children's Chorus is your young children must be able to participate without distracting the other kids! Students interested in Children's Chorus will meet in the sanctuary upstairs.
Teacher: Holly Warren
Fee: FREE
RSVP: Holly Warren, hollyjwarren@gmail.com, or Facebook Holly Warren. No need to RSVP unless the student is a new participant.
Youth Chorus -- (grades 4 & up) Youth Chorus is new this year! Students will be practicing modern Christmas songs to be sun at Meadowbrook Nursing home on 12/10/14 from 10-11am.
Teacher: Cheryl Lussier
Fee: FREE
RSVP: Cheryl Lussier, lussierinbox@hotmail.com, or Facebook Cheryl Corsetti Lussier. No need to RSVP unless the student is a new participant.
Current Events -- (middle/high school)
This weekly group will discuss and explore what is happening locally, nationally and around the world. Due to some of the content that may be discussed this will be for the middle school and highschool students only (with parental approval). Students will be asked to contribute weekly. This class will meet in the downstairs board room.
Teacher: Tammy Neureuther
Fee: FREE
RSVP: Tammy Neureuther, tamneureuther@yahoo.com or Facebook Tammy Neureuther
1:00p - 2:00p
Elementary (K-3):
Making Music with Fractions
Music can make introduction to fractions fun for children. Through humming, drumming, and playing out music notes on a recorder, students will learn about whole notes, half notes, quarter notes and eighth notes. We will introduce the concept of basic fractions and how they are related to music. Please note, this class will meet from 1-2p on 10/15, 10/29, 11/19 & 12/3.
Teacher: Melissa Floyd
Fee: If your child has a recorder, please have him or her bring it. If you need me to order one, please let me know by October 3rd . There will be a $8 fee for recorders. The class is free otherwise.
Class size: 12
RSVP: Melissa Floyd, msafloyd@gmail.com , or Facebook Melissa Floyd
Gr 4-6:
Paper Twirling
Paper twirl projects using the Klutz paper twirling kit. If you have quilling supplies, bring them, but there will be plenty to share. You do NOT need to buy a kit, but this is what will be used:
Teacher: Amanda Bokus
Fee: FREE
Middle/High School:
Native Americans of New York State -- Wars - Taking Sides
***Please note this class concludes at 2:30p ***
This class will meet for 5 sessions: 10/15, 10/29, 11/5, 11/29, & 12/3. Through the class the students will have a better understanding of the day to day lives of the Native Americans of New York State from pre-contatct up to the American Revolution and their influence on the Colonial Constitution.
The five programs will cover: 1) The Early People 2)Explorers/Contact 3)Trade Relations & Treaties 4)Wars - taking sides 5)The Aftermath
Note: Those interested in participating will be emailed a selection of readings a week before class, and students will pick one reading and write an abstract before class. (An abstract is an analysis of the reading - Did the author prove his thesis and support whether or not the author was successful and then conclude your belief. Reading and abstract expectations will be age and level appropriate. It will be an introduction to the 4th grades and a greater expectation for the older students.)
Classes will include artifact analysis, use of maps and primary documents to detect how the early people and the tribes that followed lived, their politics and relations with other tribes and Nations. There will be some role play. Students will break into groups or tribes to make political decisions on trade, treaties and war.
My goal for these lessons are to prepare students to think critically in their readings and writings. It will be an introduction for the younger ones and preparing the older students for college.
I will provide the first readings, but will be open to students picking readings that apply to the lesson - but a topic they personally have an interest in.
Teacher: Jan McCormick
Cost: $10 for semester or $3 per class
Board Games & Afternoon Free play --
Board games for the preschool & elementary age children will be set up in the preschool room downstairs. There will also be building blocks, basic art supplies, and other items to help keep our youngest co-op members entertained throughout the afternoon.
Board games for older kids (ages 9+) will be set up in the board room for the afternoon. Bring your favorite game to share!