Using songs, games, and resources from the SRA Phonics 1 book, students will study and practice the phonetic approach to reading words with short vowels, consonant blends, long vowels, and digraphs.  This course covers the foundation of reading as the student begins to build decoding skills to use as the reading level becomes more complex. This course is intended for students who have completed kindergarten, or incoming 1st Grade students, who need a "boost" before entering 1st grade. This course serves as an opportunity to refresh or reinforce foundational phonics skills needed for reading. 

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly to be determined Mondays or Tuesdays June 8^th through July 17^th that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

Using the Victory Drill Book, students will study and practice the phonetic approach to reading words with short vowels, consonant blends, and long vowels.  This course covers the foundation of reading as the student begins to build decoding skills to use as the reading level becomes more complex.  This course is intended for students who have completed the 1^st or 2^nd grade and serves as an opportunity to refresh or reinforce foundational phonics skills needed for reading. This course is intended for students who already know how to decode Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words (i.e. dog, run, cat).

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 9:00 AM CT on Wednesdays June 10^th through July 22^nd that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

Covering the second half of the Victory Drill Book, students will study digraphs (th, sh, ch, wh) and dipthongs (two vowels in the same syllable with a close relationship that causes each of the vowels to lose its pure quality, i.e., oi).  Students will have the opportunity to practice decoding and reading two and three-syllable words so that they are successful when reading increasingly complex literature and texts.

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 10:00 AM CT on Wednesdays June 10^th through July 22^nd that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

In this course students will hone their language skills through review of the fundamental concepts of the English language. Primary areas of exploration will include identifying parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions. Sentence structure components such as subjects and predicates, fragments and run-ons, compound sentences and sentence diagramming will also be examined. Students will also learn proper capitalization and punctuation. Focus will be given to principal writing skills including paragraph structure and unity.

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 10:00 AM CT on Thursdays June 18^th through August 6^th that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

Basic Arithmetic is a class to assist students in building confidence in Arithmetic as they enter Freedom Project Academy. The course content focuses on building fundamental Arithmetic skills and drilling math facts. Concepts include procedures and vocabulary relating to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Studying place value, rounding, creating and reading number lines, comparisons of numbers and procedures, word problems and fractions; students will become proficient in all areas. While some content may be review, teaching will focus on proper solving of algorithms and establishing work habits that demonstrate mastery. Math fact drills will include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through ten for third graders, and twelve for fourth and fifth graders. Students will attend live class once a week and complete four subsequent recorded classes and homework.

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 10:00 AM CT on Tuesdays June 16^th through August 4^th that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

Based on the initial phase of the IEW Structure and Style course students will learn outlining and rewriting techniques to enhance essay writing. They will learn how to add components (dress-ups and openers) to their writing, making it coherent, interesting, and varied. Practicing proper sentence and paragraph structure will be a focus of the course. Students will review basic parts of speech. While most of the course will focus on non-fiction writing we will dabble with creative story telling as well. This course uses materials taught in the fifth grade FPA classes. It could be a review or preview for those having completed or planning to attend our full-year fifth grade.

Materials Needed: Printed and bound notebook pages provided by instructor, pencil, computer

Meeting: Live class meeting twice per week: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 CST

Starting June 16^th-July 30^th. (No classes the week of July 4th)

Students will view about 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignments posted in Canvas.  Employing a progressive and structured approach, concepts covered include: the order of operations; geometry and measurement; integers; ratios; statistics and probability; prime and composite numbers; and powers and roots. Students will specifically learn about making a multiplication table, adding/subtracting fractions with a common denominator, multiplying by multiples of 10 and 100, perimeter, decimal parts, reciprocals, volume, square roots, graphing points on a coordinate plane, and more.  Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention. Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the entire problem set for the best development of strong math skills.

Students will view around 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignments posted in Canvas.  Employing a progressive and structured approach, students will learn about functions and coordinate graphing, integers, exponential expressions, and prime factorization. Students will specifically learn about the order of operations, number lines, decimal place value, how to find the percent of a number, how to round decimal numbers, attributes of geometric solids, and more. Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention. Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the entire problem set for the best development of strong math skills.

Students will view around 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignments posted in Canvas.  Employing a progressive and structured approach, students will learn arithmetic calculation and be introduced to pre-algebra. Students will specifically learn about solving word problems, adding/subtracting/multiplying fractions, equivalent fractions, repeating decimals, scientific notation, multiplying algebraic terms, and more. Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention. Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the selected problem set for the best development of strong math skills.  This is a “Bridge” course for students desiring to strengthen their math skills in preparation for pre-algebra.

Students will view around 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignment sheets in Canvas.  Employing a progressive and structured approach, algebraic expressions and their simplification, linear expressions, and geometric concepts are introduced, strengthening their core knowledge of pre-algebra concepts and preparing students for Algebra & Geometry I. Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention. Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the entire problem set for the best development of strong math skills.

Students will view about 36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignment sheets in Canvas Designed in a language arts format, grammar, composition, and literature are integrated into one course. Students continue the study of advanced grammar that forms the basis of literacy, primarily through composition, with writing being considered a process calling for repeated, multi-layered revisions. Course readings involve a survey of American literature, including poetry, a speech, a novel, and a play to improve comprehension skills while strengthening the writing and intellectual skills necessary for success in high school.