2020 Fall Classes

8:30 am Think Public Speaking is stressful? It doesn’t have to be… Come join Gina Denckhoff as she facilitates this exceptional opportunity for your students to be encouraged and have fun with their friends while gaining confidence speaking amongst their peers. The Junior Toastmasters program is an informal course in the arts of communication and leadership. The ability to clearly express your thoughts to others so that they are heard and understood is important if you want to participate in group discussions and decision-making activities. By participating, you will learn speaking and leadership skills that you will be able to use for the rest of your life. You’ll learn to:

• Overcome the nervousness everyone feels when asked to speak before an audience

• Organize and present your ideas logically and convincingly

• Listen carefully to others’ ideas

• Offer helpful advice that will help others improve their speaking and leadership skills

• Participate in -and even lead- group discussions or meetings

Students will present a minimum of 2 speeches during the 12-week sessions (The number of speeches depends on the number of participants in the class). Each week students will also practice answering 1-2 minute impromptu questions, as well as hold a weekly “Toastmaster job” that will help improve listening and evaluating skills. Gina Denckhoff teaches this class.

9:00 am Join us for a mixed media class which includes working with pastels, watercolor, charcoal, paper mâché, and more. Use invaluable elements of design to create quality pieces. Students will conduct peer to peer critique skills. Katie Seitzinger teaches this class.

This year ASL is divided into skill levels. Please read class descriptions to determine which class is a good fit for your student.

10:00 AM ASL LEVEL 3
This class will pick up from our sign book, A Basic Course in Sign Language, on Chapter 12. We will finish the book, completing Chapters 12-22. We will also dive into the anatomy of the ear, Deaf Culture, book studies of famous Deaf people, group work & hosting our first “Deaf Awareness Day Breakfast.” Students will have monthly vocabulary checks & presentations, as well as voice & sign interpreters in class. It will be very important to keep up with the vocabulary, reviewing weekly. As this class counts as a foreign language credit over two semesters, our ASL Online Boot Camp is required and included in tuition.If your student is more interested in signing for fun (which is awesome too) but not for a high school credit, then the ASL 2 class will be where they need to register this year.

12:30 PM ASL LEVEL 2 ($100)
This class is designed for the intermediate signer...2 or more classes with Jayna...this one’s for you! Do you have a little bit of sign language knowledge, but are not a fluent signer? This is where you need to be!
We’ll dig deeper into different types of sign language, more rules of signing & sign language classifiers, what a deaf person may or may not hear at their level of hearing, learn about some famous deaf people, and hear some true stories about the deaf. We will also learn and use 600+ words for this year as well as some songs, poems, & how to tell stories in ASL!

1:30 pm Horsemanship covers a wide range of topics aimed at providing a complete education in the skills and knowledge involved in caring for horses. Students learn equine basics, enjoy time with horses, and experience time at a farm. Soak in knowledge like reading a horse's body language, catching and haltering, hand-walking a horse, getting to know brushes and tools, becoming familiar with anatomy and diet, and learning how to tack. This class is organized to expose the students to various situations and knowledge levels to help them feel more comfortable and confident around horses.

Dale Wells teaches this class.