Shelton Summer 2025 Catalog - Flipbook - Page 20
5th - 8th
Course Descriptions
Sports Club
Grades 5 – 6
Enhance your knowledge of soccer and basketball, while building on your sportsmanship skills. Students will work with
a specialty-trained Shelton coach for each sport to learn basic techniques. This class is ideal for both those new to
the sport and students that come with experience. Coaches will improve coordination and agility while working with
students in drills, conditioning, and games. Athletic shoes are required.
STEM & Songwriting
Grades 7-8
The musically inclined songwriter, DJ, or music-lover will love merging songs and technology. Using the interactive
Specdrums rings, students will design color patterns and use the color-recognition technology to tap the colors with the
ring, triggering the app to play corresponding sounds. Specdrums have pre-programmed loops to help the DJ. Students
will study existing songs and recreate them with technology, write the music using color, and write their own lyrics to
accompany their songs. Take music-writing to the next level!
Vocabulary Boosters
Grades 6 – 8
What do the Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek languages have to do with our English language? Students will examine
the morphology of English and discover where many of our prefixes, suffixes, and root words originated, while sifting
through the layers of English and uncovering a rich history that reveals many mysteries of our English vocabulary.
Writing with a Plan and a Purpose
Grades 7 – 8
Does your child have great ideas for fabulous stories but can’t get them written? This class will guide students through
the process of paragraph writing from brainstorming to the final product. Beginning with basic paragraph structure,
students develop paragraphs with a specific purpose, such as to persuade, to explain, to present facts, or to describe.
The steps of the writing process will be the emphasis of the class.
Computers in the Shelton Mobile Lab will be used during class time. Documents may be saved to Google Docs or to a
flash drive.
Yoga Movement and Mindfulness
Grades 5 – 8
Yoga is the practice of moving and breathing. We will work to build healthy bodies and learn how to reduce stress in the
process. Yoga also promotes mindfulness, develops balance, coordination and overall body awareness, relaxes the body,
reduces anxiety, boosts brainpower, and develops a strong body and lifelong healthy habits.
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