Spring 2019 Kindergarten and First Grade
2:00-3:00pm
SU 10 Exercise The Body
While learning about how the body needs exercise to stay healthy, we will do a hands-on activity to keep the children having fun but also staying healthy and fit. We will achieve this goal by doing many engaging activities to illustrate different ways to stay healthy while having fun. We will use jump ropes, hula hoops, jumping jacks, and races. We will include music and station activities. Having fun while learning will create lasting learning for the students! Come to this class to “exercise the body”.
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid Hall Foundations
Ms. Chelsey Bolish is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College. She is an Early Education major with a Special Education Minor. Ms. Bolish babysits for many different families of children for countless years. She babysits throughout the summer and also works full time in a local family restaurant called Valley Dairy. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in the outdoors enjoy the sun and being around family and friends. She is very excited to start this new chapter in life and begin spending time teaching your children.
SU 11 What Do Animals Do In the Winter?
By taking this course, students will learn some of the different animals from the winter and what they do during the winter to survive. Students will learn to match the baby animals to their parents and learn the noises they make. They will play different games and get to learn about the different habitats, food and climate that these animals need to survive. Students will get to express themselves through art and other means.
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Miss Cassandra Murcko is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College in the education program. She is an early education major for grades pre-k through four. She has been babysitting since she was younger and when she was in high school, she helped teach a volleyball clinic for children ages six through twelve. Miss Murcko used to teach volleyball lessons to many students in middle school while she was in high school and still helps with the team when she is home from school. She is on the Saint Vincent College volleyball team and on the bowling team and is a member in the early education club. In her free time, she likes to adventure outdoors and spend time with her family.
3:00 - 4:00pm
SU 12 Shape the World
As students enter school age, they begin to learn about the seven basic geometric shapes in our lives. These shapes are an important foundation for a future math education. Students in Miss Taylor’s class will embark on a journey of fun activities, educational games, and real-world applications with all kinds of shapes! Welcome to a basic foundation in geometry!
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Ms. Taylor Berardi is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College majoring in Mathematics with a Secondary Education minor. Taylor has had a love for math, children, and helping others for her entire life. She has also had several opportunities to observe middle and high school classes, which have only increased her excitement for this career path. In her free time, Taylor can be found running all over campus as she is involved in student government, residence life, math club, musical theatre and much more. She is very excited to show her students how fun math can be this semester!
SU 13 “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” is a course centered on Mister Rogers neighborhood. Fred Rogers taught many lessons in the show that should be passed down to our children. The course will focus on these lessons in a fun and interactive way. The students will watch clips from the show and then do activities and crafts based on the clip. In the process of doing the activities, students will be taught lifelong lessons like sharing, proper manners, and caring for others. Our class will be used to reflect on the works of Fred Rogers and to be sure his principles are still being taught to our children today.
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Ms. Cory Holland is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College majoring in Early Childhood Education and a minor in Special Education. She has developed a love for working with children from her many experiences. She spent the summer working as a counselor at the Wilmerding YMCA summer camp. She worked with the children in the five to seven age group. Ms. Cory has also spent many years teaching Sunday School for Kindergarteners and Preschoolers at her church. She likes to spend time with her friends and family in her free time.
4:00 - 5:00pm
SU 14 ‘Dino-mite' Dinosaurs
‘Dino-mite' Dinosaurs is a course that students, of any skill level, can enjoy! This course will be conducted at a moderate pace for students to fully enjoy each activity being offered in class. The class will be completing 2-3 activities each day. During this course students will expand their artistic, social, listening, and motor skills through fun, dinosaur themed lessons! Some activities available to the students include, bringing out their inner art skills by making custom dinosaurs, creating dinosaur fossils from pasta, challenging their motor skills by racing to sort dinosaur stickers, becoming dinosaur hunters in a dinosaur themed scavenger hunt, researching dinosaurs through reading about different dinosaur books in class, and hunting for dinosaur eggs that students must dig out to hatch the baby dinosaurs! There are many more activities planned, but I can’t ruin all the fun surprises! I hope to see you in my class!
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Ms. Schmidt is a second semester freshman at Saint Vincent College, majoring in Early Childhood Education and a minor in Special Education. She has had many experiences with children, including three years of ABCs & Me as well as having many opportunities to shadow teachers of different expertise. Ms. Schmidt is very creative, funny and enjoys making others happy. During her free time, Ms. Schmidt can always be seen getting ahead on her assignments or running. She enjoys being active so much that she plans to run a half marathon in May and join SVC’s Cross-Country team next year.
SU 10 Exercise The Body
While learning about how the body needs exercise to stay healthy, we will do a hands-on activity to keep the children having fun but also staying healthy and fit. We will achieve this goal by doing many engaging activities to illustrate different ways to stay healthy while having fun. We will use jump ropes, hula hoops, jumping jacks, and races. We will include music and station activities. Having fun while learning will create lasting learning for the students! Come to this class to “exercise the body”.
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid Hall Foundations
Ms. Chelsey Bolish is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College. She is an Early Education major with a Special Education Minor. Ms. Bolish babysits for many different families of children for countless years. She babysits throughout the summer and also works full time in a local family restaurant called Valley Dairy. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in the outdoors enjoy the sun and being around family and friends. She is very excited to start this new chapter in life and begin spending time teaching your children.
SU 11 What Do Animals Do In the Winter?
By taking this course, students will learn some of the different animals from the winter and what they do during the winter to survive. Students will learn to match the baby animals to their parents and learn the noises they make. They will play different games and get to learn about the different habitats, food and climate that these animals need to survive. Students will get to express themselves through art and other means.
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Miss Cassandra Murcko is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College in the education program. She is an early education major for grades pre-k through four. She has been babysitting since she was younger and when she was in high school, she helped teach a volleyball clinic for children ages six through twelve. Miss Murcko used to teach volleyball lessons to many students in middle school while she was in high school and still helps with the team when she is home from school. She is on the Saint Vincent College volleyball team and on the bowling team and is a member in the early education club. In her free time, she likes to adventure outdoors and spend time with her family.
3:00 - 4:00pm
SU 12 Shape the World
As students enter school age, they begin to learn about the seven basic geometric shapes in our lives. These shapes are an important foundation for a future math education. Students in Miss Taylor’s class will embark on a journey of fun activities, educational games, and real-world applications with all kinds of shapes! Welcome to a basic foundation in geometry!
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Ms. Taylor Berardi is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College majoring in Mathematics with a Secondary Education minor. Taylor has had a love for math, children, and helping others for her entire life. She has also had several opportunities to observe middle and high school classes, which have only increased her excitement for this career path. In her free time, Taylor can be found running all over campus as she is involved in student government, residence life, math club, musical theatre and much more. She is very excited to show her students how fun math can be this semester!
SU 13 “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” is a course centered on Mister Rogers neighborhood. Fred Rogers taught many lessons in the show that should be passed down to our children. The course will focus on these lessons in a fun and interactive way. The students will watch clips from the show and then do activities and crafts based on the clip. In the process of doing the activities, students will be taught lifelong lessons like sharing, proper manners, and caring for others. Our class will be used to reflect on the works of Fred Rogers and to be sure his principles are still being taught to our children today.
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Ms. Cory Holland is a sophomore at Saint Vincent College majoring in Early Childhood Education and a minor in Special Education. She has developed a love for working with children from her many experiences. She spent the summer working as a counselor at the Wilmerding YMCA summer camp. She worked with the children in the five to seven age group. Ms. Cory has also spent many years teaching Sunday School for Kindergarteners and Preschoolers at her church. She likes to spend time with her friends and family in her free time.
4:00 - 5:00pm
SU 14 ‘Dino-mite' Dinosaurs
‘Dino-mite' Dinosaurs is a course that students, of any skill level, can enjoy! This course will be conducted at a moderate pace for students to fully enjoy each activity being offered in class. The class will be completing 2-3 activities each day. During this course students will expand their artistic, social, listening, and motor skills through fun, dinosaur themed lessons! Some activities available to the students include, bringing out their inner art skills by making custom dinosaurs, creating dinosaur fossils from pasta, challenging their motor skills by racing to sort dinosaur stickers, becoming dinosaur hunters in a dinosaur themed scavenger hunt, researching dinosaurs through reading about different dinosaur books in class, and hunting for dinosaur eggs that students must dig out to hatch the baby dinosaurs! There are many more activities planned, but I can’t ruin all the fun surprises! I hope to see you in my class!
COST: $ 20 ROOM: Placid 1B
Ms. Schmidt is a second semester freshman at Saint Vincent College, majoring in Early Childhood Education and a minor in Special Education. She has had many experiences with children, including three years of ABCs & Me as well as having many opportunities to shadow teachers of different expertise. Ms. Schmidt is very creative, funny and enjoys making others happy. During her free time, Ms. Schmidt can always be seen getting ahead on her assignments or running. She enjoys being active so much that she plans to run a half marathon in May and join SVC’s Cross-Country team next year.
