Our services
Independent Lessons
Independent lessons are based on areas of development where your child needs support. Our goal is to provide your child with a rich experience where they can focus on three important aspects: engagement, retention, and motivation. Lessons are personalized to meet their needs and focus on the growth of one child only.
Our small cohort lessons are based on the areas of development that your child needs support in with the idea of developing team-building skills in small groups. Our goal is to focus on three aspects: engagement, retention, and motivation but also to nurture the development of social-emotional skills that children need to succeed in a social setting with peers.
Small Cohort
FAQs
What age group do you work with?
Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary School-aged children (K-6th).
Where are you located?
If you feel that your child learns best in the comfort of your home or that your child needs to learn in nature, we are flexible with the locations of our lessons. Whether you prefer in-house lessons, activities at the park, Temescal Canyon, or the beach, we are able to travel with our materials to various locations.
Based on the needs of your child, we develop a curriculum that supports their growth. For instance, if your child needs support in mathematics, we would develop S.T.E.A.M based lesson plans for the day that incorporate all of the areas of S.T.E.A.M., with a greater emphasis on math.
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
Pacific Palisades
Woodland Hills
Reseda
How do you incorporate S.T.E.A.M. curriculum in the lessons?
Through Project-based learning, we foster a love for learning by providing children with an opportunity to tackle past, present, and future problems in the real world. For example, if the children’s area of need consists of language and literacy development, our goals for that child would be to learn new vocabulary words and their meanings by exploring different topics that expose children to new words.
Example: Introducing children to electricity and finding a way to use different forms of energy to provide people with electricity.
During the project, we would implement the use of the following terms: Voltages, air mass, current, temperature, conductor, ampere (amp), etc., and encourage the children to use the terms throughout their lessons, while exploring the science behind energy through a project and/or activity for the day.
Are your lessons the same for all ages?
Our lessons will be developmentally appropriate for the age group that we would be working with. For instance, if a 3-4-year old is working on developing their fine motor skills, we will implement activities that encourage them to use their small muscles throughout the lesson. Once that child develops those skills, we would transition into literacy development and encourage the child to use line tools (pens, markers, etc) throughout the lessons.
If a 4-6-year-old is already using line tools but needs support with language literacy development, we would incorporate a lesson plan that encourages them to use a variety of line tools the strengthen their skills and challenge them to use those skills to write words, sentences, develop the skills necessary for the next grade level.
How do you determine what my child’s needs are?
We determine the child’s needs based on the information given by parents, getting in contact with their school for a more thorough assessment, and ongoing observations during our private and/or cohort lessons.
What is the difference between independent lessons and a cohort?
Independent lessons consist of only one child and the curriculum and or lessons are based on the child’s interests and needs.
Small Cohorts consist of 2-10 children and the lesson plan and curriculum are based on the interest and needs of the group with an emphasis on team building.