Coming soon to 2024-2025’s season – a revamped Thursday experience!
Looking for the perfect place for your homeschooler to build community, make friends and learn together?
So what exactly is a “Trailside Thursday”? and what are the changes coming to the 2024-2025 season?
This is a 4 hour once a week for 30 weeks drop off from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm on Thursdays. If you are looking for warm and upbeat community for your student to build friendships, create, build, play, work on projects, and learn together through with peers and a dedicated and caring team leader – you’ve come to the right place!
New to 2024-2025 – Unit Studies!
Our new monthly unit studies will enrich class time with ample opportunity to dive into various different monthly topics.
Topics for 2024-2025
Early to Mid Elementary
- August: Weather Investigators
- September: Art Around the World
- October: Fall Fun
- November: Fascinating People
- January: Space Explorers
- February: Storytelling and Puppetry
- March: Life on the Farm
- April: Hands-on Science and STEM
- May: Under the Sea
Upper Elementary – Middle School
- August: Weather Investigators
- September: Art Around the World
- October: Career Exploration, Entrepreneurship, and Business
- November: Fascinating People
- January: Astronomy
- February: Storytelling and Puppetry
- March: Agriculture and Farming
- April: Hands-on Science and STEM
- May: Marine Biology
Highschool
- August: Media Production and Multimedia Storytelling
- September: Fine Arts and Art History
- November: Fascinating People
- October: Career Exploration, Entrepreneurship, and Business
- January: Financial Literacy
- February: Legal Studies and Mock Trial
- March: Agriculture and Farming
- April: Innovation and Robotics
- May: Olympics Unit Study (ending with a highschool Olympics!)
Your student will gather routinely each week with a small group of peers for tons of hands-on fun, hands-on learning, and a lot of time for socialization too. Each student will be placed in a group with an instructor that will help guide the students through the hands-on unit study related activities.
Students enrolled in Trailside Thursdays will also get to participate in beloved classroom traditions such as class parties, recess time, valentine’s exchanges, lunching together, and more.
Calendar
This offering runs for the full program year of 30 weeks – August to May with a month break in December as well as various other holiday breaks. The full calendar can be found under “about us” here on the website.
Times
Our times are changing for 2024-2025! This program now runs 11:00 am to 3:00 pm on Thursdays.
Ages
New to 2024-2025 – we have learning groups available from grades K-12.
Pricing
Tuition for this program is $850 for the full program year.
Tuition may be made in 2 installments of $425 (one in August and the second by March)
We are also able to split tuition into 9 monthly installments. Please notify us at trailsidebookkeeping@gmail.com if you would like to be placed on an installment plan.
If paying in full, payment must be made by the first month of classes.
If paying in installments, payments must be paid by each month’s due date.
Failure to fulfill payments or communicate with the program will result in removal from the program.
Discounts
The cost of tuition per additional sibling is decreased 10% down to $765 for the second sibling, 20% to $680 for third, and 30% down to $595 for any additional siblings fourth or after.
Registration
To register, please click here and select the class “Trailside Thursday” as your registration choice. Please note: students will then be grouped into small groups after registering based on age. Your group assignment and instructor will be sent over the summer. Instructor requests can be made, but are not guaranteed.
A $5 registration fee per class applies. This helps to secure that spots are legitimately held. The fee caps at $50 per program year – and will not be charged after the threshold is reached. This fee helps us to provide events to the community like Halloween Parties, Spring Dances, Craft Fairs, Summer Kick-offs, and more.