Our Elementary Program
Empowering Students
Longmont Little HSE is dedicated to nurturing young minds and fostering a love for learning. Our school offers a diverse range of classes including Reading, Writing, Spanish, Culinary Arts, Science/STEM, and much more for elementary aged students. We believe in providing support for homeschool families that encourages creativity, critical thinking, and personal growth.
Read on to learn about our classes!
Class Descriptions
ELA Literacy
Each week students will make entries in their journal notebooks and work on handwriting skills. Kinder-1st We will focus on direct phonics instruction, decoding and blending, and syllabication. Sight words are introduced along with the fundamental tools needed for properly decoding words. Handwriting, drawing and hands on activities help student make meaning and develop fundamental literacy skills. 2nd-6th Students will be appropriately group by ability and age to hone their reading skills through instruction in reading strategies such as predicting, visualizing, questioning, inference, and vocabulary. Students will choose engaging texts at their level and given opportunities to read quietly and with the instructor. Writing will consist of word work, handwriting, spelling, journaling, spelling and typing.
Literacy/Math
Discover and excel in mathematics through interactive lessons tailored to enhance foundational skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. Join us to unlock the beauty and logic of numbers in a supportive learning environment.
Spanish
Using a variety of resources, lessons promote conversational language skills. It is important to understand that early language development comes through the natural means of communication. Grammatical understanding develops later. We use La Classe Divertida, as well as direct instruction to give children a great start in second language acquisition.
Art
Students immerse themselves in the world of art as we journey through different artists and styles each week. They get to create a masterpiece inspired by the featured artist and style, and take home a piece of their own artistic expression each week.
STEM
In Science, we will connect real-world events to our explorations of topics. Using methods of scientific inquiry students are challenged to ask questions and then set about through the steps of the scientific method to gather data, test hypotheses, and make conclusions.
Physical Education
This dynamic class gives us an opportunity to move our bodies, build teamwork and cooperations and practice patience. Students take turns and learn to follow the structures of a variety of active PE games.
