ELA Option – A Story
One of the ELA options for learners is to have a story read to them. This helps them learn from hearing a story read aloud with prosody (correctly paced reading with intonation) and can also expose them to many new…
Math and Logical Thinking
We have lots of math going on at Wild Hearts in Kingsburg! Chess, CTC math, self-correcting Think it Through Tiles, and even some handwritten math problems!
Science at Wild Hearts – Food Chain, Digestion, and Chemical Change
We had a great time studying digestion and the food chain one week. The next we studied chemical change and got to try it out ourselves with a baking soda solution mixed with berry juice from blackberries. The invisible baking…
Cave Paintings and Chapter 3 in Our Audiobook
We started off our history lesson this week with cave paintings due to popular demand. The learners in this group saw the older kids group do this activity last week and really wanted to try it. After this activity, we…
Starting Our Classbook
This week we got started working on our classbook . It is a book that we are making together to finish by the end of October so that we can have it printed by the end of our first session…
Creativity, Challenge, and Competition
On our first Wednesday, we had lots of creativity, challenging materials to stack and create with, and a competition to see which team could create the tallest structure using only 8 pieces of paper and 12 inches of masking tape.…