BFPP offers a wide variety of enrichment classes.
These classes are typically:
- supplemental to home-based instruction,
- multi-grade,
- held once a week for an hour, and up to 3 hours
- limited to a class size maximum around 16 students,
- hands-on, interdisciplinary, and highly engaging.
Examples of enrichment classes offered in the past: Board games, Spanish, Ukulele, Rippin' Writers, Vegetarian Cooking, Makerblog, Process Art, Sewing, Lego, Coding, Sensory Science, Drama, Hand Drumming, Mountains to Sound, Marine Biology, Kindergarten Experience, Book Club, Math and Art.
Some classes last one semester, and some may continue the whole year.
Registration for classes typically occurs twice per year; at the start of first semester in the fall and then again in late January for second semester.
Students first register for up to three classes during the registration window, then more as space allows during open enrollment.
Here are things to consider when deciding how many enrichment classes your child will take:
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The purpose of the enrichment classes is to supplement your home learning program
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How many classes feels like a sustainable load to your family schedule?
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Are you allowing enough time and transition to support the rhythms and routines of your learner?
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In our experience, we've seen that the "right-fit-for-most" is no more than 2 class days on campus for our younger learners and 3 class days on campus for our older learners
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Talk to your LP for further information and insight
INFORMATION ON CLASS DAYS & FORMATS:
MONDAYS: “Discovery” courses are one hour with one teacher. Discovery classes have a variety of opportunities for students to discover their interests.
TUESDAYS/THURSDAYS: “Experience” classes are 3-hour learning experiences with one or two teachers which will run year-long. They are offered in 2 sections a week. There are two sections each of these classes: K-1 Experience, 2-3 Experience, 4-5 Experience and 6-8 Experience. You may only sign up for one section- either Tuesday OR Thursday class.
TUESDAY AFTERNOONS: “Zoom” classes are reserved for Tuesday afternoons. We have at least one Zoom class for each grade band. These courses are all open to all BFPP students, but we highly recommend them for our LEO students who may not be accessing other onsite enrichments.
WEDNESDAYS: “Exploration” classes run for 2-3 hours once a week with two or more teachers supporting them. “Exploration” classes are an opportunity to go deeper into student interests and project/experience-based learning. Some of the courses are semester long and some are all year.
FRIDAYS: “Community” classes are held on Fridays and are classes that tend to include wider grade bands and are for broader community connections. Fridays will also allow for community field trips, events, clubs and workshops and give more access to classrooms for family-created learning experiences. These can happen on all other days too; however, by giving it a space on the schedule we want to further encourage the community to use this building for the learning experiences that they want to create.