Socrates

10:00am – 3:00pm Mondays
Class Seven & Eight, Age 12 - 13 on or before Sept 1

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Students are invited to join us on Mondays from 10:00am to 3:00pm for a Waldorf-inspired schedule that includes: Woodworking, Main Lesson, Lunch and Theater.

WOODWORKING

This woodworking class aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of woodworking, including tool safety, measuring, cutting, assembling, and finishing simple projects. By the end of the course, students will have completed a small woodworking project and gained confidence in using basic hand and power tools.

Main Lesson

The main lesson is the academic cornerstone of each day and is planned around a block system so that students may dive deep into a subject. This unique period gives students time for in-depth exploration of mathematics, sciences, language arts, and social studies, while utilizing main lesson books in which students record their academic and artistic reflections of learning. The teacher may use any or all of the lively arts (storytelling, drawing, painting, modeling, drama, etc.) to investigate the material and engage the students. Subjects that may be infused into your student’s main lesson time include:

• History (The Renaissance, Age of Exploration, American & French Revolution, American History: Civil War forward)

• Science (Inorganic Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Physics, Anatomy, Meteorology, Organic Chemistry)

• Geography (Africa, Asia)

• Math (Algebra & Geometry, Loci & Stereometry)

• Language Arts (Creative Writing)

• The Astronomers (Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus)

THEATER

In this theater course, students will be encouraged to embrace their inner performer with optimal performance opportunities, improv games, and theater history. Students will also learn what goes into the behind the scenes process of being in a performance. Students will gain confidence, as well as social and communication skills while working as a group or independently.