Take your child on an adventure around the world to explore exciting countries and cultural themes!
Provide that extra academic development with individually guided tutoring lessons!
Weekly themes
Each quarterly adventure centers around a learning experience by journeying to a world country - or - examining art history. Each adventure will feature carefully designed activities. With our world countries adventure, we will discover the geography, history, and unique cultural qualities. The art history adventure will reveal art, cultural movements, and artists that shaped the world of art. Students learn through hands-on experiences which deepen their knowledge and supports concrete learning. Each week offers exciting activities, group collaboration, robust discussions, and cultural awareness.
Tutoring
Looking for that individualized academic boost on a specific subject for your child? Private tutoring sessions for 4-8 year-old children is designed to cultivate the joy-of-learning while building academic confidence. Carefully designed materials support learning through hands-on interaction between the lesson content and discovery. Prior to our tutoring sessions, I will meet with parents to identify your child’s learning needs, establish goals, and communication partnership.
Hands on Education
Whether with culture adventures experiencing new countries - art explorations learning about different art movements and artists - or tutoring programs, all are curated for different age groups. Each adventure and learning experience offers the appropriate level of engagement for each student with hands-on materials. The materials and experiences are designed with interactive role playing, books, pictures and matching cards, writing, art projects, along with science experiments. Utilizing my expertise in Early Childhood Education and a Montessori teacher, I am excited to work with children in discovering new cultures, art movements, and “aha” moments for academic success.
Each Quarter is a new adventure!
Our 2024 fall adventure exploring France was exciting where we discovered historical importance of Charlemagne, feudalism and the Three Estates, followed with The French Revolution, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and Impressionism. It was quite a journey! Our winter adventure will feature Art Through Time by focusing on individual artists by examining not only their artwork, but also the culture that shaped their art. Using clues from iconography and symbolism, students will become art historians by examining what the artists are expressing and importance of the art to the audience. Is the figure looking at the viewers, or are they in profile? Why is this important? What objects surround the work, and why did the artist choose them? How is the painting style different in each artwork? These are some questions we will explore when we examine works through time. Our featured artists begin with Sandro Botticelli, Judith Leyster, Gustav Klimpt, Camille Claudel, Georgia O’Keeffe, and ending with Jean-Michel Basquiat. Using our hands-on activities to further enhance our journey, students will become art historians developing their critical thinking, then practice their art skills by creating artwork inspired by the featured artist. As Marcel Proust said “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” With sharpened eyes, students experience all things French.
Tutoring in an individualized approach!
As a lifelong academic, I take pride in teaching children the joy of learning - especially when at times it can seem so hard. Using tried and true Montessori tactics, my hands-on materials, and the art-of-questioning approach to learning can help all children grasp even the hardest to learn topics. Drawing from my Early Childhood Education and Montessori background, I am specialized in phonetic sound and reading development, reading analysis, grammar, writing, mathematical operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, place value, word problems, and linear counting.
