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Adventures in Literature - A Unit Study Approach
Teacher:  Susan Price and Rhonda Bunce

Tuition:  $160.00 per year, payable in monthly installments of $20.00

Materials Fee (due at registration):  $15.00

Deposit Due at Registration:  $20.00

Grades:  K-1

Minimum Class Size:  12 students

Maximum Class Size:  16 students

Class Time: 3rd (10:30-11:25)

Required Materials:

  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Crayons
  • Colored pencils
  • Pencil
  • Lined K/1 paper tablet

Join us as we explore literature with a hands-on approach. We'll learn about the seasons, animals, holidays, and people through great literature, hands-on crafts, science experiments, history, geography, drama, games, and more.

 

Some sample unit studies include the following:

 

We'll study the seasons as we read about apple trees in every season; make red clay pot apples with googly-eye faces; make apple prints with paint; taste a variety of apple slices; and learn about how Johnny Appleseed pushed the frontier westward.

 

We'll learn about character traits such as loyalty, friendship, honesty, gratitude, and courage as we read stories such as The Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton, various fables, and stories from Bennett's Book of Virtues for Children.

 

We'll interview and introduce a friend; make friendship bracelets; play co-operation games, etc.

 

We'll study penguins as we read the Tacky the Penguin series, learn about different varieties of penguins, study their characteristics and habitat, make toilet-paper tube penguins, play bird-on-an iceberg games, and explore the Ant-Arctic region.

 

Some other units could include bears; butterflies; life on the farm; rhyming through song, poetry, and wiggles; and Pilgrims and Native Americans. We plan to take a hands-on approach that should make learning fun, interesting, interactive, and memorable. Please plan to join to us.

 

Teacher Information:

 

Susan Price is a homeschooling mother of three. She loves to teach children literature through a hands-on approach. She has taught a girls' summer reading club at the RB Hoover library with hands-on activities such as a tea-party, a story-board, a dog-bone magnet, a popsicle stick star, and a class-created pastel illustration book. She thinks that these sorts of activities combined with great literature bring ideas alive for children. She has been a pre-school Division Director and Childcare Coordinator for Columbus Avenue Baptist Church, and has taught 1st grade VBS and Sunday School. Susan also teaches piano, and loves to study classical literature.

Rhonda Bunce is a homeschooling mom of 3.  She is a teacher by heart and by trade.  She taught 2nd grade in the public schools before having children. She really enjoys the primary grades and loves picture books, hands-on activities, and anything dramatic.  This is her 2nd year to teach for the Brazos Valley Co-op.