Class Descriptions

Instructors: Children will be cared for by scheduled volunteers. While we will schedule the same people each week, we may have to substitute new faces in the event of an illness or absence. Please bring a labeled diaper bag with diapers, wipes, bottles, sippy-cups, etc. In addition, parents need to sign your child(ren) in/out each week listing your location and/or cell phone number applicable during nursery care.

Join the safari! Based on a “Jungle Theme”, the children will learn by playing games, hearing stories, and doing crafts.

This fun, “Spanish Immersion” based class takes full advantage of the child’s ability to learn through play and repetition. By immersing them in the Spanish language during games, snack, stories and song, the children learn at a surprisingly quick pace. This session will build on the “Jungle Theme” from the 1^st hour class. Please note: we will say a generic Blessing before snack.

This class will be a fun, energetic hour full of easy, outdoor games (weather permitting). Alternate activities provided on days with severe weather.

Open your child's understanding of the world around them through beginning foreign languages, cultures, and geography.

Each week we will read a true storybook. Some may be biographies and some about events, places or times in history. Subjects we will visit this session: Wild Horses, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Squanto, Pioneer Days, Penguins, Presidents, Kit Carson, Paul Revere’s Ride and more! After reading our storybook, we will do hands-on projects related to the book. This class is designed to instill an interest and love for history and geography while having fun!

New and returning students welcome! Come and enjoy hands-on experiments and activities in the sciences, including chemistry, biology, environmental science, and geology, to name a few. Students will learn about science while doing fun and sometimes messy and explosive experiments. We will be doing new activities this session (we might repeat a few favorite experiments that the students always beg for!), so new and returning students are welcome. Note: This class will be geared toward 1^st-4^th graders, but 5th & 6th are welcome to participate if space is available. Dress for a mess! Parents are forewarned…we send homework assignments to grow at home and sometimes a critter or two!

Travel back in time to the year 1824 to learn about the history and culture of Joseifina, a young Hispanic American girl. Discover what it was like to grow up on a Ranch near Santa Fe New Mexico. In this class, we will do crafts and cooking to bring the books to life. Students do not need to be readers. However, it is required that parents read the books to their student. In class, we will have active discussions about the books.

At Young Rembrandts, we believe art history opens children to a world of yet undiscovered treasures. Young Rembrandts' art history classes tell the stories of our past and demonstrate the significance of art throughout the world's history and cultures. In turn, children's horizons are broadened, their understanding and appreciation of art increases, and other learning is reinforced. Art History lessons include: Louis Comfort Tiffany who is famous for beautiful stained glass objects, the Capital Building complete with line detail. We will learn about the Navajo Indians and draw a replica Navajo blanket. Next we'll talk about Lewis and Clark who discovered the land and draw a scene full of layers and details. Taught in language children can understand, Young Rembrandts art history classes deepen children’s appreciation for art, and expose them to various images, vocabulary and cultures that expand their imaginations and their minds.

Do you remember your favorite book and/or poem? Now, imagine yourself writing like the author of your favorite literary work only with your words inspiring the same feelings as the ones you read! This year, long journey will take your student from being good storytellers to becoming good writers through poetry, short stories, and research papers. Your student will practice grammar, sentence structure, and overall composition with each week’s assignments presented in both written and oral form. I am looking forward to a great year working together with you as the “Home Team”.

This class will have a Swing Emphasis: Slow smooth West Coast danced to blues and jazz, East Coast danced to traditional swing music and Lindy Hop through high-powered jitterbug music! This will be a high energy and extremely fun class! Wear comfortable clothes and shoes that stay on your feet.

*The cost for this class is $90.00 for the first family member, $81.00 for the second, and $72.00 for the third and so on. Due to the cost of this class, a payment option is available: installments of 1/3 paid on the first, third, and sixth weeks of class.

Games and fun already provided! Dakota’s mom, Missy Pique, is a distributor for Simply Fun games. Those who have played theses games know how fun they are and those who have not will quickly discover for themselves. Simply Fun is a company who’s main goal is to bring families together with games that can be played in 20-30 minutes and include the whole family. Fun, fast paced and highly addictive, this game hour will be a great break from schoolwork.

This newly revised, 2^nd edition book will introduce the study of life, cells and the five major kingdoms of classification. (No human anatomy.) Our 2-hour class will include lectures, text review and labs; making it a complete high school science course. Attention: This class is a full year commitment; however, students must re-register for the subsequent sessions. Due to the brief co-op schedule, there will be 2-3 off site classes during the year. The material is written for the 9^th grade; however, upper 8th-10^th grades are welcome.

3. Must provide full internet access & possess an active email account checked daily.

This fall we learn fundamental skills that will help us in other subjects. As we learn to draw different subject matter, we practice sophisticated art techniques. We draw a tree house complete with a ladder. We also learn to draw a patterned graphic drawing highlighting the sun and moon simultaneously. Next, we draw a still life to help us learn how to create a realistic drawing. In this lesson, we focus on shading and highlights and begin to master our color pencil technique. We also draw a creepy – but detailed – spider complete with a large web to catch its next meal. YUM! We see how the skills we learn one week help us the next! Each session offers new lessons that focus on artistic fundamentals for new students and provide engaging challenges for returning students.

Come join us for a very “hands on” hour of fun and signing. We will be learning ASL using many different teacher directed approaches: videos, books, cards, games (large and small motor), and a few crafts to keep things interesting. There will be some light homework and/or requests to learn new signs independently.

This is a beginning geology course describing the three kinds of rocks, their formations, and uses. We will view examples in class of onyx, quartz, limestone, granite and more. The discussion of fossils will be in relation to the process living things undergo in order to fossilize. There will not be discussions regarding the age of the Earth or of the fossils. (Fossil examples will include sand dollar, shark teeth, and plants.) I'd like to plan 2 field trips: one to the free W. R. Keck museum at UNR and one to Crystal Peak. If possible, we hope to end the session with something for each student to take home like a polished stone in a keychain or piece of jewelry.

Mr. Butterfield has taught strings in the Reno/Sparks area for over 25 years. Teaching at schools like Our Lady of the Snows and New Holt Christian Academy, he has also worked closely with the Reno Opera Orchestra. Dennis now has his own studio where he offers private lessons and keeps busy performing with various headliners when they come to perform in the Reno/Tahoe area. This class will focus on the violin, viola and cello. Multiple age groups pose no problem since he has developed a system that teaches children at their own pace. Note: due to the growing and changing needs of each child, Dennis recommends renting your instrument in the beginning.

Each child will need to purchase a music stand, which costs approximately $15.00 and beginning music books, which will cost approximately $25.00. Dennis will supply these items and you may pay him directly.

Due to the minimum number of students required, we recommend waiting until Sept. 5th to rent equipment or make any final purchases. IMPACT will know by Sept. 5th if the minimum requirements for this class are met. If not, participants will be notified immediately and offered other class options.

This class will use returning students to introduce and challenge new ones in the techniques and principles of fencing. New students are welcome, but will need to learn and observe the first 1-2 weeks and returning students will continue to expand upon what they’ve learned. Eric is very skilled in the sport of fencing and this class has developed a loyal following. We are pleased he will be joining us for yet another session.

New and returning students are welcome. In this class, we will learn different stitches used in embroidery and learn to work with different colors. I compare learning stitches with learning the letters of the alphabet: once you know the letters, you can write anything you want. In the same way, once you know even just a few stitches, you can use them to create anything. After 12 years of teaching homeschool kids, I have developed a successful format. This class is informal, very enjoyable and there is no assigned homework. First time students will have a $5.00 materials fee over and above the class cost.

Explore the world around you through hands-on physical science. This class will feature experiments on atoms and molecules, air and atmosphere, water, hydrosphere, Earth and the lithosphere, weather, physics, the forces in creation, etc. Although not provided, a good companion program for this course is Exploring Creation with Physical Science from Apologia Educational Ministries. Use of the internet to research each week will also compliment this course.

We’re off on an exciting journey through every state in our nation! We will use the miniseries “The States” by THE HISTORY CHANNEL© to explore the most interesting and unusual aspects of five states each week. This will be an entertaining and informative whirlwind tour! There is no mandatory homework, however, we will offer reward tickets for work done at home. We will also give tickets for little things like having been to the state, etc. At the end of the session, the students will receive prizes for the number of tickets they have earned. Everyone will get something! This class can stand alone as a co-op class or be expounded upon at home with a complimentary history/geography course.

This class will have a Smooth Emphasis: Float on the dance floor with the classic Waltz, race with Foxtrot and work out your angst in the Tango! This will be a high energy and extremely fun class! Wear comfortable clothes and shoes that stay on your feet.

This is a great chance for IMPACT Biology students to get a jump on their homework. They will have a supervised, quiet environment to work on each week’s lesson with an instructor available to answer questions. Please note: this is not a social hour and is reserved for IMPACT Biology students only. We will adhere to a “no chat” policy. Attendance is NOT mandatory, but students must arrive no later than 12:50pm to participate.

Are there any inventors out there? Help us explore the world of great inventors from the past, present and maybe the future with the use of lap books, songs and hands-on experiments.

This session of Music Adventures will be “Level 1” and similar to the session taught in the fall of 2007. We will explore the different aspects of music appreciation and theory. This includes concepts such as: music history, instruments and their families, movement and art to music, playing basic instruments (“Boomwhackers”, rhythm sticks, and a variety of others), and learning about beat, pitch, note construction, dynamics, tempo, etc. There will be an emphasis on instrumental music. We will start at the beginning.

New and returning students welcome! Come and enjoy hands-on experiments and activities in the sciences including chemistry, biology, environmental science, and geology, to name a few. Students will learn about science while doing fun and sometimes messy and explosive experiments. We will do new activities this session (we might repeat a few favorite experiments that the students always beg for!), so new and returning students are welcome. Note: This class will be geared toward 1^st-4^th graders, but 5th & 6th are welcome to participate if space is available. Dress for a mess! Parents are forewarned…we send homework assignments to grow at home and sometimes a critter or two!

Join the fun as we build bridges from straws, chairs from newspapers, balloon columns you can walk on, spool racers, and so much more. We will learn about structures such as bridges, domes, and columns, and explore simple machines such as levers, gears and pulleys all while exploring the dynamics of engineering around us. This class will be very hands on and students should be able to follow instructions while working in small groups.

This class will be for those students who took Dennis’ class last spring. Please bring your instrument, music stand and book(s). Due to the minimum number of students required, we recommend waiting until Sept 5th to rent equipment or make any final purchases. IMPACT will know by Sept 5th if the minimum requirements for this class are met. If they are not, participants will be notified immediately and offered other class options.

Come explore different countries of the world with us! We will investigate the music, art, religion, geography, economy, government, lifestyle, and foods of several countries including Brazil, Fiji, India, Israel, and more! Several guest missionary speakers will be invited to come and share a first-hand look at particular countries and their experiences. No boring missionary talks here... we will hear exciting, faith-filled, and funny stories of encounters in other countries. Plan to discuss different countries through a Biblical, Judeo-Christian worldview, and learn specific ways to pray for people-groups of the world. Students will have the opportunity to try different ethnic foods each week and enjoy cultural music and art projects. Each week will be a different adventure as we learn about and explore our world!

Using his advanced students as helpers, Eric will run these classes simultaneously. Sabre will introduce and explore the fastest and most action packed of the three weapons of modern fencing. We will cover movement and tactics for saber, working off the foundation developed in the foil class. Long pants and closed toed shoes are mandatory for participation and a sweatshirt is recommended for extra padding. Have a positive attitude and be ready to learn and have fun. Students must have completed a minimum of one semester of Foil before registering for Sabre. Epee is one of the three weapons used in modern sport fencing. Added to sport fencing in the 1920's, its rules are designed to bring the sport closer to a duel. Epee is fenced to the Olympic level in both Fencing and Pentathlon events. Students must have completed at least one session of Foil prior to signing up for this class.

In this dynamic class, the students will learn the political process through teaching and hands on activities. The class will be divided into teams that will learn to work together by designing and running a campaign. These activities will include: a real running platform, a campaign speech, campaign slogan, and media public image. They will design yard signs, determine how to spend the campaign money and what to look for in a running mate. They will look at various news articles and learn to distinguish between subjection and factual statements. Please note: since we will be covering campaign platforms, some controversial subject material may come up. Students will be encouraged to do their own research and to share their findings. Children’s viewpoints although supervised will not be NOT censored. Respect for classmates’ views and opinions will be mandatory.

Enjoy making truffles, almond roca, and other Holiday favorites! In order to trim class costs, each student will receive a list of supplies to purchase prior to the start of each class. We will cover the basics of candy making and invent some treats of our own. By the end of the course, you will have plenty of treats to keep or give-away as gifts! Caution! Extremely hot materials are used and some recipes will contain nuts.

This class will have a Latin Emphasis: Learn the beautiful Rumba, sassy Cha-Cha and energetic Salsa. Great for burning off all those nachos! This will be a high energy and extremely fun class! Wear comfortable clothes and shoes that stay on your feet. Number of students: minimum 6; maximum none.

Wednesday Afternoon Live!

Grades 7-12

Instructors: LaRena Fry & Sharon Zenz

Would the Gettysburg address have had the same impact if Lincoln had said, 'Just over a hundred years ago, European immigrants formed a new government here,' instead of, 'Fourscore and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty'? Do you ever wish you could ask for a date, or ask to borrow your parents' car, in a way that increased the chance of the answer being 'yes'? Do you ever wish you could tell stories of ordinary events so that they seemed hysterically funny, or tragically sad? Join us to learn how to choose the right words, body language and presentation for numerous occasions! We'll be studying famous speeches and speakers, improv and memorization, and giving you plenty of opportunity to both perform and give feedback to others.