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Primary II Course Listings
Morning Courses (9am-12:30pm)
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* Indicates that classes may have mixed age groups
Express, explore, create! Develop acting skills through fast-moving fun and challenging theatre games. Participate in creative moment, vocal games and storytelling. Learn how to move on stage and stage terms. Performance for paren0ts and friends the last day of class. Take the class more than once to gain skills and confidence! Instructor: Kay Rosenblum (Free-Lance Instructor)
*ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN
BRAIN
Understand the working of the human brain in detail. Discover what part of our
brain controls what body functions. Understand how the central nervous system
keeps our body running smoothly and what nutrients do our brain need to stay
vibrant and healthy!
All students need to wear old clothing, as we will do 95% hands on projects
involving, food coloring, food, paint, and water. Please send your child with a
clean towel or wet wipes for every session. Your child will also be asked to
help by bringing a brain food snack and meal on week 3. I will send home a list
so parents can prepare a simple snack and meal. Instructor: Reesa-Marie Dawkins
(Gwinnett County Schools)
ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE
Pretend to be astronauts on a mission to another planet! Using technology and language arts, students will become experts about another planet in the solar system, create a cyber badge and postcard, and communicate impression and data by sending messages via e-mail. Students will work cooperatively to list the planets in order, observe and compare different planets and compose a text from research facts. Instructor: Precious Goodson (Dekalb County Schools)
CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES
The purpose of this class is for students to identify surface features of the Earth caused by constructive and destructive processes and what humans can do to measure and control these processes. Throughout this curricular unit the following question will be asked and answered: What processes change the Earth’s surface and what can humans do to control them? Instructor: James A. Payne (Fulton County Schools)
Have you ever wondered why the lights come on in a room when you flip the switch on? Have you ever thought about why when one light goes out in a room the other lights still stay on? The purpose of this unit is to understand that the flow of electricity can also produce magnetism. This course will help students deepen their understanding of how parallel and series circuits work. Instructor: James A. Payne (Fulton County Schools)
Escape and take a wonderful adventure trip to South America. We will journey by ship completely around the Continent of South America. We will sail the Amazon River and travel to every single country. We will experience culture, language, and animal life. We will attempt to duplicate native artists, and we will explore why most of these countries remain remote and cut off from our world. We will learn geography, and explore the three oceans surrounding it. We will practice the skills of map reading, routing, compass headings, latitude and longitude. We will also discuss how ships and Planes navigate. Instructor: Reesa-Marie Dawkins (Gwinnett County Schools)
Calling all math lovers! Come and join the fun. In this course we will apply our math skills to games, logic puzzles, and story problems related to real life experiences. Students will explore the importance of mathematical thinking, approach problem solving in different ways. We will have fun and find out how math can be pleasurable and exciting. Instructor: Nilay Manzagol (GSU Mathematics Department)
Do you wonder about all the microbes around you that help us in our daily lives? Ever want to see the bacteria that make your throat hurt? Or that give you an upset stomach? The Microbiology class will answer these questions and many more. We will explore microbes all around us, how they make us sick, help us and how we transmit them from person to person. Instructor:
Dr. Tanushree Soni (Post-doc Emory University)Explore the world around you starting with your own backyard! We will explore what makes your world special and find out what is special about everyone else’s and how we are all connected. We will travel the globe and find out what types of animals where and even go on a treasure hunt following the treasure maps we make. We will learn different ways to create maps and learn about map keps, symbols, compass rose, and scale. Instructor: Lynore Dost (Artist/ Free-Lance Instructor)
Students will become storybook authors and illustrators as they formulate their own tales. They will engage in the writing process as they produce their own work for publication. Students will read short stories and create puppets to represent the characters. They then will use their puppets to act out their favorite part of the story!! If you like to cut, past, draw and act, then this is the course for you! Instructor: Sherette Wright (Fulton County Schools)