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"Encouraging wonderful children, youth, and adults to become fully themselves in spiritual gifts and educational potential."

The Five Rooms of our School are:

Room One ~ Religion and Faith
o Faith Based Knowledge
o Music of the Faith ~ Knowing, Appreciating, Singing, Playing
o Heart Connections with People
o Serve the Lord in the Congregation
o Bible & Living Life By Faith
o Going to Worship and Partaking of Holy Communion
o Spiritual Gifts Survey and Application - Children and Adults
o Going to Sunday School and learning the Bible and its life application
o In Mission in the community and internationally using our gifts and talents

Room Two ~ Real Life Responsibility
o Daily Living Skills – Repeated, repeated.
o Working Skills ~ Teamwork, "Stick-to-it-ive-ness," and patience - knowing the Fruit of the Holy Spirit as Life for life itself
o Personal Care Skills - How do I take care of my body, mind, and emotions
o At Home, For the Home, Away From Home, While Traveling Self-Control - Sportsmanship, Boundaries, Self-Defense and Safe Behavior - Safe "Me"...Safe "You"
o People Skills - Getting to Know Others, Caring for Others, Doing for Others
o Building Social Relationships in contexts, and knowing the Hidden Curriculum of each Social context
o Learning Foreign Languages to Enrich the Home and World Experience
o Community Skills - Working and Giving of Time and Talent to Others
o Cub/Boy Scouts – Daisy/Girl Scouts and 4-H ~ Our Club "Hearth, Land and Sky"

Room Three ~ Reading & Writing and Mathematics
o Pre-Reading Work ~ Hands on and Matching, Eye Motion / Direction and Sorting, Identification of Patterns, Puzzles, and Large Body Mapping / Motion
o Reading ~ Books & Magazines every day - Phonics and whole language approach
o Puzzles and Games
o Numbers as real things
o Use of numbers in real life situations
o Sequencing of numbers (counting, then tens, fives, and twos)
o Matching objects to numbers, matching sets
o Sets and Lists (shopping)
o Coins and their Meaning
o Volume and Comparison
o Music, Music and Mathematics and Language
o Picture Communication ~ Left-Brained and Right Brained Skills for Sequencing and Pattern Recognition
o Sight recognition of initial letters, associated sounds, and letter names; identification of sight words; build words; rhyme words
o Picture Assisted Communication. Training, Talking, Reading Techniques
o Practice in recognizing words, reading using phonics, and writing them
o Practice in writing stories
o Computer skills every day
o Dictating, Reading Back, and Dramatic Telling of Stories

Room Four ~ Tactile Experience ~ Team ~ Sensory Integration
o Physical Skills - Horseback Riding [a.k.a. Hippotherapy] & Weekly Gymnastics and Large Muscle activity for Children, Youth, and Adults ~ for focus, fitness, confidence, and sensory integration
o Play Therapy / Occupational Therapy / Therapy Activities and Developmental (individual)
o Team and Self-Development / Sports – 2007 (for us, 10 year old son: Flag Football, Traditional Wrestling, Baseball; 8 1/2 yr. old daughter: Basketball, Dancing; for 8 1/2 year old MR-DD son: Large Bicycle, Swimming, Pushing Large Carts, Beginning Basketball);

Room Five ~ The Natural World, Music, and Life
o Tools – measurement – bike repair and riding
o Science, Science Experiments, Hands-On Museums, and Cooking!
o Appreciation of the natural world around us from the stars to the microscopic - we observe the stars through a telescope for the galactic world, and use two microscopes to look at the structure of the tiny world.
o Care for the environment around us
o Taking care of our bodies in healthy ways
o Music! Rhythm, Tempo, Musical Notation, and many instruments (brass, flutes, woodwind, percussion and keyboard!)
o Art, Art, Art - and community classes during summer with ART!!!
o Music, at all levels
o Experimentation with and participation in music: for the boys, drums (hand and snare), daughter playing clarinet and recorders; all playing piano and harmonicas; for older son and Mom playing brass instruments - trumpet, french horn, and trombone (I also played Baritone) and all kinds of music listening.
o Memorization of music related to life from popular good message tunes - like HS Musical 1 and 2 - and, lastly ~
o Putting it all together by starting to learn to read music and play together on a tune.