Pentathlon is our main elementary community day that provides fun, fast-paced, memory-based learning across several subject areas - Scripture, Science, History, Geography, Timeline, Math, English Grammar, Latin & Greek Roots, and Hymns. Each week, students engage in class presentations, exploratory projects and experiments, fine arts creation and expression, games and activity -- all engaging the senses and solidifying learning alongside friends! We celebrate birthdays, major holidays, and go on field trips together through the year. 

Memory work is meant to be a supplemental help to the basics of at-home learning in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Parents are required to be in class with their students, engaging and providing help where needed. On-site, paid childcare is available for younger siblings (select Childcare during registration). Compass community discount available for Claritas curriculum.

Grade Range: Pre-K through 5th

Requirement: Parent/Guardian Attendance

Required Curriculum:

• Claritas Cycle 4 Memory Guide
• Audio CD or Downloads

Other Cycle 4 Helps

Latin/Greek Adapted from English from the Roots Up, Vol.2 (out of print)

Days: Mondays, 28 weeks

Tutors: Abby Anderson, Joy Wyatt, Kelsey Gow, Michaela Stolarz

Contact: Bailey Cline, Pentathlon Program Director

[email protected]

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

Surveys world history from a Christian worldview, 1300AD to the present, with the overarching class question: 'How has Christian culture influenced history?' Material and events will be presented in class for discussion and evaluation. Parents are asked to participate -- questions to be provided --on a rotation schedule for smaller discussion groups, frequency depending on class size. Class will continue memorizing the Claritas timeline from previous year, and relevant Scriptures for perspective and consideration.

Class will use BJU World Studies 5th Edition to use as the scope & sequence and main reference for historical events, though for families looking for further research, additional outside sources are encouraged. Open to 6th-8th graders, this class encourages parents to tailor the amount of home reading/research for their student, based on the syllabus and topics provided.

Geography will use a combination of Memoria Press curriculums: Geography I -- The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe; and Geography II -- Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & the Americas. Students will be learning/researching facts, geography, climate and people in countries around the world, with the goal to be able to identify each country on the map.

About BJU World Studies 5th Edition: Students will learn about key events in history and how events impacted the existing culture and other events and analyze the actions of world societies based on biblical teachings. The Student Edition will engage students with its vivid photography, artwork, maps, charts, and timelines.  Chapters open with an outline and a detailed, personal narrative about an event to capture students’ interest. Important terms are in bold print and Guiding, Reading, and Critical Thinking Questions throughout the chapter check for comprehension. Infographics, biographies, case studies, and Turning Points sidebars provide additional information. Section and chapter reviews challenge students to consider events from a worldview perspective.

BJU Press offers a group order discount rate. Please hold on ordering World Studies book until enrollment is complete to see the offered group rate.

Required Curriculum:

• BJU World Studies 5th Edition Student Text
• Memoria Press Geography I Student Text & Student Workbook
• Memoria Press Geography II Student Text & Student Workbook

Grades: 6th-8th

Days: Mondays 8:30-10:30

Tutors: Wade & Denise Smith

Childcare fee / more info to follow.

Tutors: Breanna (Roth) Hunt, Sarah Heard 

In Chorus, students age 11+ will develop the gift God has given us of singing.  The choir will sing a variety of music, with a focus on songs written by master composers throughout history and songs that reflect the truth of God’s word and character. Music theory and sight reading skills will be practiced.  Students will develop their sense of pitch, tone, blend, harmony, and expression. 

Ages: 11+

Days: Mon, Wed 10:30-11

Tutor: Ally Harmon

Explore the Government of the United States from its beginning to the present. Learn about operations of federal, state, and local governments. Hear from local people in government positions, discuss the foundations of government from the Bible, and study the constitution.

Curriculum: Exploring Government, by Ray Notgrass

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Tutors: Brian and Jennifer Vaughn

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

Course includes new student book, tests/answer keys booklet, and lab supplies. Books to be returned at the end of the year.

This middle school science class will cover concepts and research on Mondays; labs and evaluation on Wednesdays. Discussing relevant thoughts and connections as we go, we will explore God's intelligent design, and be analytical thinkers when approaching conclusions. In addition to doing group lab reports in class, we will also present individual projects at our 2025 Spring Science Fair. It will be a fun, learning-filled year!

From Berean Builders:

This laboratory-based, junior high science course covers a wide range of topics that are of interest to modern scientists. It starts by describing our current understanding of atoms, molecules, the chemicals that are necessary for life, DNA, and cells. These topics are all discussed in the context of history, explaining how specific scientific advances led to the scientific explanations that the students are being taught. This allows students to learn not only the current scientific understanding of these topics, but also how scientists reached that understanding. 

The course then uses what the student has learned to describe the living world. It discusses the levels of organization found in creation and spends time discussing topics at each level. As a result, students learn how cells work together to make tissues, how tissues come together to make organs, how organs form organ systems, how those organ systems produce organisms, and how those organisms relate to one another in populations and communities. The student then learns how those communities interact with the physical environment to form ecosystems, which then form biomes. Along the way, students learn about fascinating new discoveries such as the function of the human appendix, the human microbiome, and soft tissue found in dinosaur fossils. Throughout the course, God’s design in nature is highlighted, and topics in the creation/evolution debate are discussed.

Curriculum: Science in the Atomic Age, from Berean Builders

Grades: 6th-8th

Days: Mon, Wed

Tutor: Denise Smith

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

La Clase Divertida, meaning "The Fun Class" in English, will be just that! Class will follow 15 2-week video lessons taught by Senor Gamache, implemented with class conversation and activities facilitated by Breanna Hunt.

6th and 7th graders will begin with a "review" of Level 1, and then will dive into Level 2.

A Complete Children's Intermediate Level (Latin American) Conversational Spanish Class Curriculum for Private Schools, Home-School Families, Home-School Co-ops, Missionaries, Special Needs Educators, Speech Therapists, and Hispanic Families, etc. The DVD/CD complete Children's Conversation Spanish Instruction-all you need in a set- completely-provided format is designed for multi-ages and various learning styles to learn together (or individually) as needed.

The Level 2 set is the second part of a three part set Children's Conversation Spanish Language Instruction/Acquisition series. Upon completing all three levels of La Clase Divertida (with individual conversational mastery considered), this curriculum introduces approximately the same material and practical skill level as a High School Spanish I Conversation class.

LANGUAGE TOPICS COVERED: Weather conditions, Seasons, Months of the year, Holidays, Foods, Restaurant Ordering, Wild animals and their habitats, and the beginning introduction of Grammar (prepositions: in, out, around, and verbs: to be, to have, to live, to want, to eat, to like, to cook).

CULTURAL TOPICS COVERED: Level 2 culturally features Spain. There are (4) Spanish Food Cooking Segments, (6) Cultural Songs, (4) Historical Stories told by Don Quixote with Dulcinea, (7) Different Cultural Arts Activities, A Map Study of Spain, and some "Field Trips" to: St. Augustine, Florida with Profesor Dale Gamache, his wife Robin, and daughter Erin; we also visit Orlando, Florida to learn along with some Authentic Flamenco Dancers, and we visit a Spanish Restaurant to practice our conversation.

ACTIVITIES: map of Spain, Spanish coat of arms, puppet story of Don Quixote, spelling names, review numbers, telling time, make gazpacho, seasons, months, birthdays, make castanets, weather, holidays, make paella, Columbus/Queen Isabella/King Ferdinand, ordinal numbers, las torrijas, decorate tiles, animals, restaurant, fan craft, make a pinata and a flan. 

All students will receive a consumable student workbook, supplies for food and activities, with each family receiving a take home audio CD with pronunciation practice and songs.

Grades: 6th-8th

Cost breakdown:

• Supplies: $50 to Compass
• Tutor Cost: $75 to Breanna Hunt

Tutor: Breanna Hunt

More info to follow

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Grades: K-3

Days: Mondays

Tutor: Annie Bodeen

In Treble Choir (Treble being the upper range of voices common in children), students age 7-11 will develop the gift God has given us of singing. The choir will sing a variety of music, with a focus on songs written by master composers throughout history and songs that reflect the truth of God’s word and character. Beginner level music theory and sight reading will be practiced. 

Time: 12:30 - 1:00 for students in elementary Spanish OR 12:30 - 1:30 for all others. 

Ages: 7yr-11yr

Day: Mondays, 28 weeks

Tutor: Ally Harmon

More info to follow

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Grades: 4-5

Day: Mondays

Tutor: Annie Bodeen

Team Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

https://www.firstlegoleague.org/

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Tutor: Denise Smith

Grades: 2nd-5th

The goal of physical education is to develop individuals to have the knowledge, skills and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. This is to help students learn how to be active with physical activity that supports healthy living. Students will learn basic individual skills as well as organized group sports and games.

Some parent assistance will be requested to help when introducing new games or concepts.

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Days: Mondays, 1st Sem

Tutor: Jaqui Beecroft

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

Grades: 4th-5th

A fun class for 4th/5th grade students! In this beginner survival class, students will be building their own survival kit, learning the basics of how to read a compass, fire building, shelter building, how to purify water and using water purification tools, first aid and much more! Some classes will feature guest speakers.

There are currently 9 planned survival lessons, class will be joining the PE class on the off weeks for a total of 14 weeks. Please note that parent assistance may be needed.

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Days: Mondays, 14 weeks

Tutor: Ashley Dorland

Class fee / more info to follow.

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Ages: 9+

Day: Mondays, 10wks, Nov-Feb

Tutor: Sunday Jensen

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

Grades: 7th/8th

Lost Tools of Writing

From CiRCE Institute:

Teaching students to think and to communicate ideas--it's a large goal and a worthy one. It's also the classical way of approaching the skills of rhetoric to focus on the thinking that leads to good writing. Lost Tools of Writing provides a thorough breakdown of skills, tools and basic principles to learn and use in the step-by-step process of developing the art of communication. After all, (in their words) "writing on paper, parchment, or a screen is only a record of something that has previously happened in the mind."Students and teachers have typically struggled with some universal writing challenges: coming up with ideas, putting ideas in order, and expressing ideas appropriately. Classical rhetoric consists of five Canons (principles/laws). The first three of these define the writing process, providing solutions to these three universal writing challenges: Invention (ideas), Arrangement (ordering of ideas), and Elocution (expression of ideas) are explained and then incorporated into lesson exercises and assignments.

Required Curriculum:

• Lost Tools of Writing Level 1 Complete Set (Teacher Edition, Student Workbook, w/Instructional Videos)

Tutor: Jill Evans

The Art of Argument - (Intro to Logic)

The goal of this class is for students to learn to be truth seekers who approach disagreement, debate, and argument from a point of humility by seeking what is true without being distracted by the desire to be right.

Students will be provided opportunities to practice the virtue of prudence as they build the tools necessary to learn how to reason well. They will learn to detect 28 logical fallacies in their own statements, the arguments of others and identify the flawed arguments found so frequently in commercials, articles, books, movies, songs, TV shows, everyday discussions, and other media.

20% off community discount code available for all Classical Academic Press products

Required Curriculum:

• The Art of Argument, by Classical Academic Press

Tutor: Megan Vanderpool

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

There will be assigned weekly reading and guided notes to go along with the reading to be completed at home.  We will be using the class time to go over any questions regarding the reading, cover key concepts, and perform labs.

INCLUDED: New curriculum books with tests/answer keys, and lab supplies. Books to be returned at the end of the school year.

From Berean Builders:

Discovering Design with Biology is a laboratory-based high school biology course is the first biology course a college-bound student should take.  It gives the student an introduction to how living organisms are designed, how they interact with one another, and how they interact with their physical environment.  Students are taught how biologists classify life, the chemical processes that make life possible, the structures of RNA and DNA, and the designs of the different cells found in living organisms.  Students also learn the means by which photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and cellular reproduction occur. They then learn the current state of biotechnology.  With the molecular and cellular basis of life covered, the students are then given a survey of the different kinds of organisms found in nature: archaea, bacteria, protists, fungi, invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants. The students then learn the biogeochemical cycles that keep environments hospitable to life, which leads to a discussion of ecosystems. Throughout the course, students see that life is the result of design and that organisms have been given the ability to adapt to their surroundings. In addition, they learn various problems associated with the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Grades: High School

Curriculum: Discovering Design with Biology, from Berean Builders

Day: Wednesdays

Tutor: Kelley Sommer

Grades: 5th/6th

More info to follow

Required Curriculum (Compass Community Discount Code available for all Claritas Materials):

• IEW Structure & Style: Modern World History Student Book and Teacher Manual
• Claritas Fundamental Grammar Guide (one per family) (Other grammar curriculums may be used at home; however the scope and sequence of the Claritas Grammar will be the focus of in class instruction.)
• Claritas Fundamental Grammar Cycle 4 Workbook Units I & II, and Cycle 4 Workbook Unit III
  
• Claritas Master Grammar Charts (optional but recommended nonconsumable) 

Day: Wednesdays

Tutors: Ally Harmon, Joy Wyatt

Childcare fee / more info to follow

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

Grades: 3rd/4th

*Parent/guardian required to attend with their student.

This class will be an excellent introduction to the writing process and basics of grammar for your 3rd or 4th grade student. The class setting will provide us a safe place to ask questions, share essays, and encourage and motivate one another.

Institute for Excellence in Writing will prepare your student to take notes, retell stories, summarize references and expand their vocabulary to create amazing essays. This class will provide clear step-by-step instructions for each lesson provided in the IEW curriculum to be built on at home. 

Although the main focus will be writing, grammar will be another component of this class. During class, your student will review the grammar concepts from Pentathlon and put them to use in their writing and grammar workbooks. We will sing songs/chants, play games and have incentives to keep it fun and memorable!

Required Curriculum (Compass Community Discount Code available for all Claritas Materials):

• IEW Adventures in Writing Student Book and Teacher Manual
• Claritas Fundamental Grammar Guide (one per family) (Other grammar curriculums may be used at home; however the scope and sequence of the Claritas Grammar will be the focus of in class instruction.)
• Claritas Fundamental Grammar for the Lower Grammar Stage: Level 1 OR Level 2 Workbook
  
• Claritas Grammar Mastery Charts (optional but recommended non consumable)

Day: Wednesday

Tutor: Kelly Karnofski

In Chorus, students age 11+ will develop the gift God has given us of singing.  The choir will sing a variety of music, with a focus on songs written by master composers throughout history and songs that reflect the truth of God’s word and character. Music theory and sight reading skills will be practiced.  Students will develop their sense of pitch, tone, blend, harmony, and expression. 

Ages: 11+

Days: Mon, Wed 10:30-11

Tutor: Ally Harmon

High School literature course covering several different genres.  Course is discussion based.  Students will do weekly reading and come to class prepared with discussion questions.  Students may also be asked to help lead discussions.

Reading plan for Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job included in the course planner.  Each month, the students will be focusing on a longer passage from the Bible to commit to memory.  Book list coming at the end of June.

Grades: High School

Tutor: Shannon Risley

Round robin reading of history stories that expand on weekly history memory work from Pentathlon. Class discussion, comprehension questions with games, project/activity from curriculum Activity Guide.

Required Curriculum: Story of the World V4, 4th Edition, by Susan Wise Bauer

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Grades: 3rd-5th

Day: Wednesdays

Tutor: Joy Wyatt

Class Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

Course includes new student book, tests/answer keys booklet, and lab supplies. Books to be returned at the end of the year.

This middle school science class will cover concepts and research on Mondays; labs and evaluation on Wednesdays. Discussing relevant thoughts and connections as we go, we will explore God's intelligent design, and be analytical thinkers when approaching conclusions. In addition to doing group lab reports in class, we will also present individual projects at our 2025 Spring Science Fair. It will be a fun, learning-filled year!

From Berean Builders:

This laboratory-based, junior high science course covers a wide range of topics that are of interest to modern scientists. It starts by describing our current understanding of atoms, molecules, the chemicals that are necessary for life, DNA, and cells. These topics are all discussed in the context of history, explaining how specific scientific advances led to the scientific explanations that the students are being taught. This allows students to learn not only the current scientific understanding of these topics, but also how scientists reached that understanding. 

The course then uses what the student has learned to describe the living world. It discusses the levels of organization found in creation and spends time discussing topics at each level. As a result, students learn how cells work together to make tissues, how tissues come together to make organs, how organs form organ systems, how those organ systems produce organisms, and how those organisms relate to one another in populations and communities. The student then learns how those communities interact with the physical environment to form ecosystems, which then form biomes. Along the way, students learn about fascinating new discoveries such as the function of the human appendix, the human microbiome, and soft tissue found in dinosaur fossils. Throughout the course, God’s design in nature is highlighted, and topics in the creation/evolution debate are discussed.

Curriculum: Science in the Atomic Age, from Berean Builders

Grades: 6th-8th

Days: Mon, Wed

Tutor: Denise Smith

Course Duration: Full Year Credit: This course could be considered 1 credit of Personal Finance or .5 Personal Finance and .5 Microeconomics.

*Please note: The online portion of this course via Ron Paul Homeschool requires an annual family membership of $250 and $50/student for the Personal Finance course.

*Supplies Payment to Tutor: TBD

*Target Audience for the course is 11th/12th graders who are ready to take on their own financial decisions, motivated to discuss money and economics, and are perhaps entrepreneurial minded.

Students will meet once a week to discuss the previous week’s reading, video lectures and weekly assignment from the Ron Paul Personal Finance Course. In addition, we will be reading and discussing the books Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kyosaki, and Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller. We will also hear from local guest speakers on various finance and entrepreneurial topics.

Ron Paul Course Description as follows, from https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/members/Personal-Finance.cfm:

Teens face a lot of money problems. Many say they do not manage their own money at all. According to a 2012 Junior Achievement USA/Allstate Foundation survey, over 1/4 of teens do not expect to be able to support themselves financially until after the age of 25. According to the same survey, only 56 percent of teens think they will be financially as well off, or better off, than their parents. Many students will wind up in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt in the few years after graduating from high school, with a combination of student loans, credit cards, car loans, and mortgages.

Nationally, few high schools offer courses in personal finance. The statistics are here. This curriculum is different. It offers an economics course and a personal finance course.

Teens do not have confidence in their ability to handle their finances and their time, and this course is directed at changing that. Instead of working without goals, students will learn how to develop goals and achieve them. Instead of habitually over-spending, students will learn the techniques of managing their finances with longer-term goals. Instead of thinking about how to spend resources they did not earn, students will learn how to imaginatively create wealth. Instead of joining the 30% percent of student loan borrowers who are delinquent on their payments (and that's not counting those in deferment or grace periods), students will learn to avoid debt traps.

Dr. Timothy Terrel teaches this course from the point of view of a parent of teenagers and shows students how the real world works. In parts of the course, he brings his 15+ years of experience as a teacher of college economics to bear, to show students how broader economic events can affect their personal finances.

Curriculum: Ron Paul Homeschool Family Membership & Personal Finance Course

Day: Wednesdays

Tutor: Jill Evans

From Classical Academic Press:

What would you do if you were having a conversation with a friend and realized that you completely disagreed with her point of view? What if your friend wanted to debate you about this issue? Would you welcome such a challenge as an adventure, or would you shrink from it as a threat? If you are one who feels fearful about—or even repelled by—debate or disagreement, Everyday Debate & Discussion may change your mind. This book will give you debating confidence and open your eyes to the benefit of debate, disagreement, and discussion in your day-to-day life or in a formal debate setting.

Everyday Debate & Discussion: A Guide to Socratic Conversation, Informal Discussion, and Formal Debate (Student Edition) not only shows students how to conduct informal and formal debates, but also how to develop good arguments by using solid logic and the resources available in their own thinking as well as the world around them. Students will employ the techniques of logic and rhetoric, such as the common topics of definition, comparison, relationship, circumstance, and testimony. Additional study of ethos, pathos, and style is also included, as well as a study of debate arrangement.

20% off community discount code available for all Classical Academic Press products

Curriculum: Everyday Debate & Discussion, from Classical Academic Press

Day: Wednesdays

Tutor: Megan Vanderpool

Class expands on physics concepts covered in Pentathlon, and more. Using MasterBooks curriculum, God's Design for the Physical World, we will cover units ranging from Machines & Motion, Heat & Energy, to Inventions & Technology.

Each week, students will have fun, hands-on experiments and activities to help understand new concepts. Students will also participate in the Compass Science Fair in the spring.

Required Curriculum:

• God's Design for the Physical World, from Masterbooks (student book)

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Grades: 4th/5th

Tutor: Abby Anderson

Did you know that over half of all English words have Greek or Latin roots? When you enter the world of technology, the number reaches over 90%!

In ROOTS class, we will have a blast diving into 100 Greek and Latin words to help us decode and gain a better understanding of the English derivatives through fun games and activities. The goal is for students to have a better understanding of the language they speak daily, as well as prepare them for other languages based in Latin and Greek.

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Adapted from English from the Roots Up V.2 (out of print)

No curriculum purchase necessary

Grades: 6th/7th

Tutor: Joy Wyatt

The Animal Science Anywhere lesson series is designed to help engage youth in learning more about the science and life skills involved in animal and veterinary science projects. This will be a very interactive and hands-on class. Students may work in teams or individually to accomplish the lesson objectives. A few objectives will be:

• Identify and document the appearance and characteristics of objects
• Animal anatomy and physiology - locating common bones
• What do cows eat? Deconstructing dairy cow diets
• Sculpting Meat Science - Creating and evaluating steaks and more

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Grades: 5th-7th

Day: Wednesdays, 1st Sem only

Tutor: Tina Twarowski

Team Full - Please contact Director to be added to the waitlist

https://www.firstlegoleague.org/

*Fee paid directly to tutor

Tutor: Denise Smith