Our classes vary based on the needs of the collective and our vision for the co-op. Apart from the classes listed below, we focused on a number of enrichment style classes and theme based activities such as life skills and cooking, making gifts for ramadan such as personalized t-shirts, making treats, book club parties, hands on extensions to classes such as making the heart model with a functional pump, math club, student led classes such as Rocket Science.
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Some of the more formal classes offered in the year 2023-24 are listed below
Book Club
Target Groups: (Early Elementary, Elementary, Intermediate)
Description: Targeted deep-dive into unit studies focusing on a plethora of books covering multiple genres of writing.
Goals: Providing empathy building, broader perspectives on a topic through student - led discussions figuring out opinions and providing sophistication in writing over long term through the exposure of rich reading, and creative writing projects.
Curriculum: custom picked unit studies inspired by Brave Writer
Science
Target Groups: (Elementary, Intermediate, Middle/ Junior High)
Description: a comprehensive and hands-on series that builds scientific understanding from the ground up. Child-centered, hands-on activities at the core of all lessons bring children to observe, think, and reason.
Goals: guiding students to question, observe, think, interpret, and draw rational conclusions in addition to performing the activity.
Tools/Resources/curriculum: Bernard Nebel’s Scientific Understanding
Spiritual Wellness
Target Groups: (Middle/Junior High)
Description: A clear presentation of the science of internal purification in a format which enables easy access to symptoms of spiritual illnesses and their cures.
Goals: This class uses a guide for tazkiyah or 'self-purification' to illustrate the maladies of the human spiritual condition, recognizes the struggles and insecurities we all succumb to from time to time, and offers up the remedies too. The antidotes to our ailments are drawn from Qur'anic verses and authenticate ahadith (Prophetic sayings), inspiring mindfulness of the Almighty Cherisher (SWT) and His Beloved Prophet (PBUH).
Tools/Resources/curriculum: A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine by Ibn Daud
Art Study
Target Groups: (Early Elementary, Elementary, Intermediate, Middle/ Junior High)
Description: 15 week course deep immersion into the study of different artists lives over the period of 300 years to present day.
Goals: Immersive study on the impact of the culture and styles of painting and art expression.
Tools/Resources/curriculum : Blossom and root artist study.
Geography
Target groups: ((Pre-School, Early Elementary, Elementary, Intermediate, Middle/ Junior High)
Description: exploring the history, geography, and human geography, of different countries around the world
Goals: to create culturally aware children who are emphatic to the differences surrounding them and to help cultivate a love and appreciation for diversity.
Tools/Resources/curriculum: enriching books, custom picked unit studies, culinary experiences, crafts, live study, projects, and interpersonal group experiences.
*class details will vary based on class level.