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SOME SCHOOL EVENTS: Homestead Harvest for the Rainforest Second Grade class play: "If
Trees Could Talk" Homestead students make Tote
Bags to save the Rainforest 3-day field
trip to the Northern
Berkshires in Massachusetts The second grade
class performs the Bremen Town Musicians in "The
Barnyard Rules" The first grade
class builds a Thatched
Roof.
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Staffed with trained and dedicated teachers, The Homestead School provides each child with a choice of constructive academic and social experiences of suitable challenge to his level. The school's handcrafted, manipulative materials offer the child a concrete approach to sequenced programs in math and numbers, language, science, geography, social studies, daily living skills, sensorial training, and large muscle activities. Attractive and designed for individual use, the learning materials allow each child the chance to take on tasks repeatedly until mastery. As a result, the child develops independence, self-discipline, and the ability to work with concentration on solving problems.
The Homestead School derives its uniqueness from the number of enrichment opportunities that it offers. A national evaluation team from the American Montessori Society recognized the school for its "total" environment in which children experience the living lessons of a traditional working barn, complete with livestock and poultry and of a mile-long natural and historical trail.
A regular schedule of field trips and classroom visits by experts and hobbyists in various fields, stimulates, maintains and extends the child's interest in the formal disciplines.
In addition to its emphasis on outdoor education, The Homestead School offers in-depth specialty subjects such as foreign language, computer training, music, drama and physical education. Commonly viewed as "frills" in education, such specialties are embraced by the Homestead staff as the essence of a program which helps the child to see constant applications for the regular classroom lessons, while firing the creative imagination and stimulating interests to last a lifetime.
