Elective Course Catalog

ART K-2*:

BEGINNERS DANCE K-2:

Our every semester favorite! Learn the basics of ceramics and clay in a hands-on class. Students will make projects to take home.

Game theory studies interactive decision-making, where the outcome for each participant or “player” depends on the actions of all. If you are a player in such a game, when choosing your course of action or “strategy” you must consider the choices of others. This time, participants are “stuck” in a situation and will apply learned strategies to ESCAPE. Can they get out before the time runs out?

You are many things. You are miles of blood vessels, hundreds of muscles, and thousands of hairs. Students will learn how God fearfully and wonderfully created them.  Each week will have a different area of study that students will explore through books, song, and lap booking.

GARDENING K-2*:

Lead children to celebrate the beautiful and awesome world God created. Too often, people think that science and faith are at war with each other. But God is the Creator of science. It is he who wrote all the rules that govern our great Earth. Through bible stories, object lessons, memory verses, and activities, students will learn Bible truths with scientific truths God wrote to make sure our world is the best possible place for us to live.

Lords, queens, soldiers, enemy invaders; and even cooks, cleaners, squires, and traders! Calling all Princes and Princesses ready to journey through lands of legend! Come join us for stories, reenactments, crafts, and more in this exciting class, just please, first knock at the grand door. 

 LEGO STEM K-2*:

Ready to make butter, mend/sew a few things, build bird houses and mini vegetable box to grow? How about canning fruit, pickling cucumbers, milking goats and meeting Piglets, Goats, Chickens, Turkeys, even Aussie and Pyres to learn about livestock guardian dogs on a farm? Well, this is the right class to do just that!  Additionally, craft art projects related to farm/homestead topics and learn where food comes from! All from inside the classroom thanks to dedicated Awaken Academy farming families!

LIL WORLD TRAVELERS K-2*:

Towers, bridges, skyscrapers, statues and more! Using various materials, students will be challenged to engineer a structure for the day.  Simple STEM activities using hand-eye coordination, team building skills, and design.

Influence beyond social media! Marketing design is an essential piece of a business’s marketing strategy, since good design is one of the primary ways to grab your target audience’s attention. The marketing graphics that a design team creates are also vital to a positive user experience since welcoming visuals will make customers more likely to return. Students will learn how marketers deliver value in satisfying customer needs and wants, determine which target markets the organization can best serve, and decide upon appropriate products, services, and programs to serve these markets.

Students of all ages will learn, explore, and engage in the history and style of many art masters and great musicians. The students will be challenged to learn specific aspects of art and recreate famous art pieces that are highlighted through the artist, such as clay with Rodin, or color use with Monet, meanwhile, while listening to stories and music from great composers.

Children will learn  through hands-on experience and group instruction to measure, combine ingredients, and work together. Your young chef will have fun making and tasting what they make! As they learn new skills, gain experiences and use of safe practices in the kitchen, your kids will gain confidence and self-esteem. Cooking can also help young kids learn and practice some basic math concepts and build language skills.

MINI METEOROLOGIST /ARCHAEOLOGIST K-2*:

Does your child love to sing in the car, the bath, shout praises and worship in Kids church? How about dancing around the living room and grocery aisles? A wonderful way to work on physical skills, while encouraging young students to learn sounds, words, music patterns, and voice projection while singing and dancing along to worship songs. This class is surely to please the crowd!

MUSIC K-2 & 3-4*:

In this course, students learn blocking, stage directions, script analysis, audition techniques, projection tips, vocal warmups and acting skills. Then they put all these elements together in a theater performance. Depending on class size and existing skill set, the production will hopefully include dancing and singing as well as acting.

This class focuses on building the strength and endurance required to conquer new obstacles with their peers and improve overall fitness. A typical class will consist of warm up/games, obstacle skill training, agility/balance training, as well as 15 minutes of open play at the end of class. These in-depth, skill-based classes focus on goal setting and personal development. Starting at a beginner level with no prior experience needed, participants of these courses will learn a wide variety of functional movements, principles of parkour, and ninja. Non-slip, flexible, lace-up gym shoes required.

Not your average table tennis class, but a fun, skill-based, dynamic course to include variations of games played on a ping pong table. Students will have class time to learn rules, strategies, and get creative with team challenge, then take it to the court to show off the acquired skills.

In this class we will be learning about the components of video production. As a group we will work on creating 3 different videos for the class. Through the process of creating these videos students will learn story writing, filming, editing, team building, and advertisement skills. Each student has been given a role from holding a camera to directing.

What an amazing city we live in! Students will be inspired by God’s goodness in the changing seasons and celebrated holidays while being encouraged to use their imagination, creativity, and storytelling in crafting pieces of art.

Target Games involve propelling an object with the aim to place it on, in or near a target to obtain the best possible score. Students will participate and develop accuracy and control through engaging Phys Ed sports that use target game objectives, such as (but not limited to) archery, bocce, croquet, golf and ten pin bowling to develop movement skills, movement strategies and movement concepts. They will also develop fair play, leadership, teamwork, and communication skills through team sport activities.

Students in this class will gain an understanding of the basics of worship leading, including song selection, audience engagement, and verbal communication. Students will learn what worship is on and off the stage. and will lead Academy Worship at least two mornings per week. They are expected to learn, engage, grow and model Awaken Worship Leader culture – in and outside of the classroom.