One Day Enrichment
A day of enrichment for homeschool students
Interested in roboethics, poetry, or the Eurovision song contest? Sign up for these and other unusual classes as part of Cascade, a free, virtual program of weekly interactive classes for high schoolers on Tuesday nights from April 13 to May 11.
To register, make an account on our website and check out the “learn” tab:
Registration closes Monday, April 12, so sign up soon!
Questions? Email splashchicago@gmail.com.
I’m Cynthia Dunn.
I’ve honed my creative thinking skills through 20+ years of homeschooling, leading parenting and homeschool support groups, developing enrichment programs, classroom art teaching, volunteering in many activities with my church, and making a home with my family.
If you’re looking for a confidence boost from a resourcefulness-savvy family fun aficionado, you’re in the right place!
Art education is about more than just learning how to draw. Not everyone will grow up to be an artist, but we do grow up with a need to communicate ideas. My lessons teach you how to create beautiful works of art, but they also teach you how to understand another perspective. Artists are visual communicators. They teach us about what is going on in the world. When you listen to different voices you can learn compassion and grow to see the world in a new way. We take a deep dive into each artist so that you can explore their life, their work, and their inspiration. Right now we have a free video lesson on Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant who spent 33 years working on one sculpture. Come check us out at fillingthegapteaching.com
Filling the Gap Art Education is the culmination of Karina Jacks 10+ years of teaching experience. She has always had a desire to show students the untold art stories and to bring to light the voices that are often cast aside. Her desire to teach began in Chicago, IL at The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFAAE and discovered that she loved to help other artists find their true voice. Join us on this journey to listen, to learn and to grow.
Marshell Edwards shares some of her own homeschooling story. She tells how she found homeschooling, why it appeals to her, what kind of communities it has helped her discover, and shares some of her own successes and challenges over the years. She also offers encouragement and advice to young homeschoolers.
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Marshell Edwards is the homeschooling mother of six. She has been working with One Day Enrichment for four years and has personally conducted over 30 hours of recorded interviews with homeschooling parents. She will be offering a window into her days as she currently is in the trenches juggling the needs children and babies of various ages.
With the birth of your first child you became a teacher, so even if you are just embarking on homeschooling, you’re already experienced! This presentation is a confidence booster. You’ll learn creative and workable ways to continue to fuel your children’s “inner engines of learning” as Dorothy Rich put it in her book MegaSkills. These are the characteristics and qualities that will enhance your children’s performance with school work and on whatever roads they pursue in life, and make the journey more enjoyable for everyone along the way.
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Cindy Dunn left the employee benefits management field when she took up the managing of motherhood and has experienced benefits beyond calculation ever since. Having two children born eleven years apart meant two overlapping rounds of homeschooling over 23 years, winding up a couple years ago. She describes her teaching philosophy as paralleling a definition of organic – cultivating without force or contrivance – and enjoys sharing practical and creative means for nurturing students, and parents too, into full bloom.
In this workshop, Julie Polanco discusses eight different homeschooling styles and the pros and cons of each. She helps new homeschoolers understand the freedom they have. Come learn and figure out what will work best for you. Feel confident that you can succeed by following your instincts and listening to your children’s needs. You can view the entire webinar from the beginning here, or you can jump to a specific place using the links below.
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Julie Polanco is the mother of four amazing children and wife to one wonderful man. She has been imagining and writing since childhood. Julie has written more than seventy published articles and short works for the healthcare, alternative education, and parenting sectors. In addition to her own work, she has ghostwritten two full-length books for others. Julie loves the outdoors and imagining new worlds hidden among the bushes and trees. Music, too, has been part of her earliest memories. She loves learning new things, especially the locations of new restaurants and out-of-the-way places. To discover more about Julie, please visit her site at www.julienaturally.com and subscribe to her newsletter.
