• Aesop Fables
• Just So Stories
• Craft or Art time
• Singing/Music time
• Nursery Rhyme Games (London Bidge, etc.)
• Playground Games
• Letter and Number play

Form 1:

• Playground games
• Composer study with art

Form 2:

• Deep dive into a historical personality (king or queen, maybe?)
• Foreign Language
• Geography
• Cardboard sloyd
• Swedish Drill
• Print making
• Wood carving
• Book binding
• Weaving
• Drawing
• Watercolor
• Macrame 

Form 3+:

• The Iliad or The Odyssey
• Foreign Language
• Geography
• Cardboard sloyd
• Swedish Drill
• Print making
• Wood carving
• Book binding
• Weaving
• Drawing
• Watercolor
• Wagashi/Omiyage
• Macrame

Sept 12 Classes 

Sept 19 Off week

Sept 26 Classes 

Oct 3 ??

Oct 10 Classes 

Oct 17 Folk Dance Club

Oct 24 co-op (this is the weekend Great Room is used for service, so we have no conflicts)

Oct 31 ??

Nov 7 Classes

Nov 14 Folk Dance Club

Nov 21 Classes

Nov 28 Off Week (Friday after Thanksgiving)

Dec 5 Classes 

Dec 12 Folk Dance Club

Dec 19 Classes 

These guidelines are meant to give us a framework for how students are expected to behave during ACOW classes. They will mainly focus on where students are allowed to be and how we treat the building. St. John Lutheran has been so gracious to allow us the use of their building and we certainly want to leave it each week in as good, if not better condition than when we found it. Teachers may have specific rules other than these for their classrooms. These guidelines are in no particular order.

• Arrive with a cheerful spirit and a curious mind, ready to engage with new experiences and ideas. Philippians 3:13 “Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead...”

• Be respectful and kind to others, their thoughts and ideas, and to our surroundings.

• Students must ask for and receive permission before leaving a classroom.

• Students are to be supervised at all times.

• Room Moms are to escort students to the bathrooms during breaks as well as escort them to the Community Room for Handicraft and at Release time.

• Students are to remain in the building unless they are going out for a class and accompanied by adults.

• No playing in the bathroom or with the water fountains.

• Bathroom breaks are to be taken between classes, if possible. Room Mom’s should be present in the hall to make sure children are behaving appropriately. There are bathrooms with multiple stalls available at the bottom of the stairs if a line starts to form for the single bathrooms upstairs.

• We have no need to be downstairs unless to use the bathrooms mentioned above.

• Elevators are for use by physically disabled persons only.

• Students are permitted only in the rooms designated for our use – the four assigned classrooms and Community Room. Some of the other rooms are set up for the church and they need to not be disturbed.

• Any electronics in the rooms are to be used by adults only.

• We will walk through the hallways to and from our classrooms. No running or rough-housing inside the building.

• Gentle treatment of the furniture is expected. Feet remain on the floor, not on the furniture.

• At the end of each day teachers and Room Moms are to facilitate the cleaning of their classrooms. Blinds should be closed, toys put away, surfaces cleaned off and any trash picked up off the floor. If there is food in the trash, it should be taken out. Lights are to be turned off and the door closed by the last person out. Students can then be escorted to the Community Room where they can help clean any remaining mess and set the room back up. A few Moms can supervise the Community Room while the rest be sure the bathrooms and hallways are in good condition. If we keep tidy as we go and all work together, it won’t take long at the end of the day! Students will be released from the Community Room when their parent is ready to take them home.

Please sign below that you have received and reviewed these guidelines with each of your enrolled students.

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Potential non-friday field trip days:

Hokie BugFest 10/18 starts at 10:00am. My fam is already planning on this one so just let me know if you plan to come too and we can be sure to meet up. This is a BIG event. And totally free. 

https://www.ento.vt.edu/4-H_Entomology/hokiebugfest.html

The second one was the Sheep and Goat Festival at the NRV Fairgrounds in Dublin on Sept 27th. Our family and the Fellows are already planning on this one as well, so let me or Eileen know if you want to meet up! Again, totally free (except for food vendors and craft vendors). It’s a great “cheap” fall event to go to as they have had pumpkin painting, soap felting, hay maze, story time, goat milking demonstration, sheep shearing demonstration, a tractor ride and more in past years. 

https://www.nrvsheepandgoatclub.com/

Those both sound fun! I'll put it on my calendar and coordinate with you closer to the dates.

Potential non-friday field trip days:

Hokie BugFest 10/18 starts at 10:00am. My fam is already planning on this one so just let me know if you plan to come too and we can be sure to meet up. This is a BIG event. And totally free. 

https://www.ento.vt.edu/4-H_Entomology/hokiebugfest.html

The second one was the Sheep and Goat Festival at the NRV Fairgrounds in Dublin on Sept 27th. Our family and the Fellows are already planning on this one as well, so let me or Eileen know if you want to meet up! Again, totally free (except for food vendors and craft vendors). It’s a great “cheap” fall event to go to as they have had pumpkin painting, soap felting, hay maze, story time, goat milking demonstration, sheep shearing demonstration, a tractor ride and more in past years. 

https://www.nrvsheepandgoatclub.com/

I'm happy to play Lady Macbeth. The witches are honestly fun, and I'll probably skip at least one of the scenes with Hecate because they aren't really essential. I already have the SCM book and can provide printed scripts, so no one has to buy a book unless they prefer to do so. Or I can email the PDF to families and you can print your own.