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Norse Mythology and the Wonder Tales of the Native Americans

For Ages 8-10

Students meet twice weekly for 60-minute sessions, exploring subjects such as language arts, math, history, and science through storytelling, artistic activities, and hands-on projects. This curriculum encourages curiosity, independence, and a love for learning while fostering social development and creative thinking. Ms. Laura’s class provides a nurturing environment where students can deepen their understanding and enjoy the wonder of discovery.
Students ages 8-10 are considered 3rd and 4th graders in traditional school sorting and the work they do at this age includes more complicated math such as regrouping and long division. In writing they memorize longer poems and begin composing poetry and stories of their own.

For AGES 8-10

4th Grade

🎨 A Typical Main Lesson Rhythm

Each class follows a carefully designed flow that honors the natural unfolding of attention and creativity:

  1. 🌞 Welcome & Warm-Up
    We begin with a morning verse, seasonal songs, movement, simple dances, recorder playing, and spoken poetry. This grounding rhythm connects children to the day, the group, and themselves.
  2. ✂️ Review Through Free Rendering
    Children retell or reflect on the previous lesson by creating images with construction paper—a playful and expressive method I call Free Rendering. It allows ideas to be revisited through form and color.
  3. 🌱 Presentation of the New Concept
    I introduce a new story, skill, or idea, often through rich images, storytelling, or demonstration.
  4. 🧠 Practice
    We explore the new material through guided exercises, oral work, movement, or artistic expression.
  5. 🔁 Skill Refinement
    Children revisit and strengthen a previously learned skill to deepen retention and confidence.
  6. 📖 Main Lesson Book Creation
    We end the core portion of our lesson by crafting a beautiful main lesson book page—a personal record of what has been learned, written and illustrated by the child.
  7. 📚 Story Time
    A closing story nourishes the imagination and ties the lesson into a meaningful narrative.
  8. 🎵 Closing Verse or Song
    We say farewell with a verse or song, leaving your child with a feeling of completion and warmth.
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