Learning for Intermediate Students
Our educational program, designed around Rooted Family’s philosophy, offers a unique school day structure for our late elementary/middle school-aged students (ages 8-11). 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 into music as a large group.
10:00 a.m.- Music will continue for our middle group.
10:30 a.m.- Our middle school-aged kids study physics this year with hands-on, experiment-based lessons.
11:30 a.m.
12:00 p.m.- The middle group will participate in exercises and games.
12:30 p.m.- Our middle school group will also be engaging in a project-based class similar to the high school-aged class, but they will also spend time learning more of the mechanics of writing, early entrepreneurial concepts, and history/economics principles.
1:30 p.m.- Collectively the group will clean up and the day will end.