Learning for Intermediate Students
Our educational program, designed around Rooted Family’s philosophy, offers a unique school day structure for our middle school-aged students (ages 9-13). With longer class times, we prioritize peer discussions and in-depth study, allowing students to shine in their gifts, talents, and interests.
Our middle school-aged students will be participating in music, art, gym, chemistry, and will be encouraged to become more independent in their studies as they learn the mechanics of writing, early entrepreneurial concepts, and history/economics principles.
Having left the elementary class they were in last year and in anticipation of joining the older class, this group will spend time in shared classes with the elementary and high school, continuing the relationships they built last year and gaining the skills they need to join the oldest students.
We teach toward the level of the oldest children in the room while adjusting assignments and expectations for the younger students’ levels. This allows us to challenge each student and allows the older students to set an example for the younger ones while the older ones learn to be role models and mentors.
The Friday Schedule
9:30 a.m.- Students arrive, and the day opens with prayer. We will then move through a devotional as a large group.
10:00 a.m.- In music, the focus is on actively working all the muscles that make strong musicians: beat and rhythm, ear training, and creative instruction. Using mainly their voices and bodies as instruments, students will experience choral pieces, improv, and write their own songs.
This middle school group will join the high school group for music.
10:50 a.m.- Our middle school-aged kids study chemistry this year with hands-on experiment-based lessons.
11:55 a.m.– Lunch will be enjoyed with the high school-aged group.
12:35 p.m.- They will participate in physical education activities with the high school-aged group.
1:20 p.m.- Our middle school group will also be engaging in a project-based class similar to the high school-aged class and will join the older kids in the execution of their projects, but they will also spend time learning more of the mechanics of writing, early entrepreneurial concepts, and history/economics principles.
2:00 p.m.- Dismissal