Enhancing Achievement in Core Curriculum Subjects
A majority of APE Center’s programs are designed to integrate with the core subject standards for the particular grade level. Children learn new ways to practice skills needed for those subjects in a playful way in their free time, and be more likely to succeed at passing standardized tests.
Various Art forms serve as tools providing the students with a wide range of hands-on activities to enable multi-sense learning. Socialization, successful communication and conflict resolution skills are another essential part of all APE Center’s programs. Such Character Education application is especially important nowadays when students from the early age spent hours playing video games and phoning instead of interacting with their peers face to face.
The after-school programs take place in schools, community centers or libraries.
“Social Skills through Theater” is currently happening at ARTS/West, Athens, OH.
Whole-school year anti-bullying program “Bully-proof School” is running at West Elementary School in Athens, OH. Whole-school self-esteem and team work increasing program will start at West Elementary School, Athens, OH, in January 2008.
ARTS & CRAFTS for YOUNGLINGS
Grades pre-K - K, Home schoolers welcomed
Program developed and taught by APE Center tutors.
Come and join us for play-dough sculpting, singing, mask making, coloring, puppet making, rhyming, shaker making, painting, acting and T-shirt making.
Make friends and learn how to freely express yourself and explore the world of Art!
Let’s have fun together!
LIFE OF A BUTTERFLY
Grades pre-K-2
Program developed and taught by Domi Adamova.The core curriculum area is Science and Reading. Students discover and experience how butterflies come to being through turning into butterflies themselves. The lesson combines Drama/Theater, Science, and Reading with story-telling and cooperation skills.
ENHANCING LITERACY THROUGH ARTS & CRAFTS
Grades K-2
Literacy Enhancing Program Using Arts and Crafts as a Tool
Program developed and taught by Domi Adamova.This after-school program increases students’ interest in reading by introducing them to worldwide stories, appropriate to the students’ age, using arts and crafts, and theater techniques (like still picture, alley, voices in head) to get acquainted with the story and the characters, and to prepare a little show. Students also practice their teamwork and communication and social skills.
The program is closely tied to Language Arts, Character Education and Theater.
EXPLORING THE WORLD
Grades K - 6
Run by different APE Center tutors.This cultural awareness and education program enables students to meet, interact and understand people from different countries, spiritual backgrounds and social environments. Students will experience bits and pieces of other cultures like their language, traditional music, holidays and traditions, arts and crafts, and cuisine.
The program is tied to Social Studies in participating grades.
The program can be incorporated into the school curriculum through assemblies, whole-school projects, and special events according to the needs and wishes of a school, but it can also take place regularly once a week as an after-school program.
Teachers, parents and school personnel will be given materials and lesson plans, as our aim for the program is to be sustainable.
Can be arranged to be taught as a regular after-school program in your school.
ARTS & CRAFTS for YOUNG SCHOOLERS
Grades 1-2, Home schoolers welcomed
Program developed and taught by APE Center tutors.
Come and join us for recyclable art, crafts typical for different countries around the world, dream-catchers making, pipe cleaner sculpting, puppet making, mask making, environmental art painting, and T-shirt making.
Make friends and learn how to freely express yourself and explore the world of Art!
Let’s have fun together!
SOCIAL STUDIES THROUGH THEATER TECHNIQUES
Grades K- 6
Program developed and taught by a teacher and a school counselor Domi Adamova.The curriculum area is Social Studies and Character Education. Students learn and practice basic character values such as empathy, self-esteem, self-control, assertion, responsibility etc., and communication skills like problem solving, conflict resolution, and effective interaction with peers and teachers.
Can be arranged to be taught as a regular after-school program in your school.HISTORY OF COUNTRY MUSIC
Grades 1-6
Program developed and taught by Eric "Junebug" Leighton.
Long before the current meaning of the term Country Music, the phrase meant simply music from the country, as in countryside. Cajun, Zydeco, Country and Western, Old-timey, Bluegrass, Western Swing and many more can be overviewed. This lesson can be tailored to fit a particular historical lesson. All ages.
EXPLORING LANGUAGES
Grades 1-6
Program developed by APE Center, and run by different APE Center tutors.This series of units supports culture and language awareness in students. It brings a variety of languages (Spanish, French, Czech etc.) to classrooms for students to get a taste of foreign language and get motivated to speak more languages than just English. Traditional rhymes, games, songs, art and other hands-on activities are helping students to grasp the basic knowledge of a foreign language.
The program can be incorporated into the school curriculum through assemblies, whole-school projects, and special events according to the needs and wishes of a school, but it can also take place regularly once a week as an after-school program.
Teachers, parents and school personnel will be given materials and lesson plans, as our aim for the program is to be sustainable.
Can be arranged to be taught as a regular after-school program in your school.
INTRODUCTION TO APPALACHIAN MUSIC
Grades 1-6
Program developed and taught by Eric "Junebug" Leighton.The curriculum area is Social Studies and Music.
This lesson will give a broad overview of music produced in the Appalachian region, its history, roots, contemporary issues, and its future. This lesson can be tailored to fit a particular historical lesson, e.g. the Civil War.
MUSIC THROUGHOUT THE AGES
Grades 1-6
Program developed and taught by Eric "Junebug" Leighton.The curriculum area is Social Studies and Music.
A broad overview of the origins of music or a specific time period and location can be arranged to broaden the participants understanding of music. Can be very technical or very general.
SONGWRITING
Grades 2-6
Program developed and taught by Eric "Junebug" Leighton.The curriculum area is Language Arts and Math.
How to get an idea from your head to a finished song. How to write the lyrics, how to craft a melody, how to combine the many aspects it takes to bring a song into this world.
MUSIC WRITING
Grades 2-6
Program developed and taught by Eric "Junebug" Leighton.The curriculum area is
How to coax those musical melodies out from the mind and into the world. Can be very technical, e.g. theory and how to write music; or can be very general, e.g. whistling, humming or using a kazoo.
ENHANCING LITERACY THROUGH THEATER & PLAY
Grades 3 – 6
Program developed and taught by Domi Adamova.
This after-school program increases students’ interest in reading by introducing them to worldwide playwrights, appropriate to the students’ age, using theater techniques (like still picture, alley, voices in head) to get acquainted with the story and the characters, and to prepare a little show. Students also practice their teamwork and communication and social skills.
The program is closely tied to Language Arts, Character Education and Theater.
Can be arranged to be taught as a regular after-school program in your school.
SOCIAL STUDIES THROUGH SCULPTING
Grades 4- 6
Exploring Past Eras through Sculpting
Program developed and taught by a local visual artist Art Kopczinsky.Thisprogram focuses on learning about different eras (like Ancient civilizations) through sculpting. The workshop combines Social Studies, Arts, and Geometry. Participants will enhance their world knowledge, esp. Social Studies knowledge, their team working and cooperation skills as well as their creativity and artistic skills. Play-dough, pipe cleaners, modeling clay and other affordable materials will be used to work with.
Can be arranged to be taught as a regular after-school program in your school.LANGUAGE ARTS THROUGH POETRY
Grades 4-6
Program developed and taught by Eric "Junebug" Leighton.The curriculum area is Language Arts.
For those more interested in the flow of words, the timing, the expression of ideas, playing with words can be fun. From free verse to iambic pentameter, this is a malleable program.