• Develops literacy, vocabulary!
• Helps your child understand the world we live in!
• Fun, hands-on activities!
• Develops critical thinking skills!
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The final course for year one Study & Life Skills, for students ages 5-6. This series of courses is intended to provide the young student with fun, involving ways to understand the world they are a part of, and how to stay well in it, while exploring his own ideas and creativity.

This fourth course covers: The universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, the Solar System, Earth, what space is, what time is, and how we measure them. These ideas are personalized, and the student is given hands-on ways of discovering the ideas that make our world go 'round, and how they affect the student and his/her life.

Step 1 courses also enhance the relationship between teacher and student, and help define it in constructive and creative ways that both the student and teacher will enjoy. Subjects (such as time and space) which are usually too complex for young students (and some adults) are made understandable and fun to learn. The course is self-contained with 18 lessons, done two a week.

Concepts covered in this course include:

• What is a planet
• Planet Earth
• Oceans
• Continents
• Countries
• Where one's own country is on Earth
• Where Earth is in the Solar System
• Where our sun in in the Milky Way Galaxy
• What space is
• Ways that we measure space
• What is time
• Ways that we measure time
• Days and Nights
• Hours, minutes, seconds
• Calendars and the history of the names of the months
• Years and what a year is
• The student's own age