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Three mornings a week · Ages 6–8
Half an hour of reading aloud together, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same time each morning. At this age frequency does more than length.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
Six-year-olds do not get better at reading in one long weekly session. They get better by reading a little, out loud, to a patient adult, often. So this class is short and frequent: thirty minutes, three mornings a week, always at the same hour so it becomes part of the morning rather than an appointment.
Each child reads aloud every meeting. Mrs. Finch reads too, because hearing it done well is half of learning to do it. Nothing is assigned between meetings.
Every meeting stands on its own, so a family can take the weeks that suit them. A child who comes to nine meetings has read aloud nine times, and that is the entire measure.
This one meets three times a week, always at the same hour. That is a real claim on your week, and it is deliberate: this material is learned faster in short frequent contact than in one long meeting, and the gap between meetings is short enough that nothing has to be re-established at the start of each one.
Every meeting of this class stands on its own. Nothing in week six assumes week five, so a student can join in the middle, take the four weeks that fit around a busy month, and stop when they want to. There is no catching up to do, because there is nothing to be behind on.
That is also why there is no grade here and no such thing as an incomplete. The record keeps what actually happened: the meetings attended live and the recordings watched. A student who came to three meetings has a record of three meetings, not a failure.
Every meeting
Five minutes of sounds and sight words, done as a game.
Every meeting
Each child reads a short passage aloud. No child is ever made to struggle in silence.
Every meeting
The instructor reads the next part of a story properly, with voices.
Reader packet
Odysseus Lyceum
Printable passages for each meeting. Supplied at no cost, and nothing needs to be bought.
None. Any student in the age range can enroll.
Reading is taught as a pleasure and a skill, with stories chosen for being worth a child’s time.
Read our academic philosophyMeetings are recorded and released to enrolled families for fourteen days. Recordings capture the instructor and shared materials; student video is not published.
Full refund up to seven days before the first meeting; inside seven days, everything paid is credited to your Lyceum balance. No refunds or credits once the class has begun. Cancel any section from your parent account.
These describe how this instructor has been trained, reviewed with educators and accessibility specialists. They are not a diagnosis and not a marketing claim.
Students and parents review separately, on different questions, and the two aggregates are never blended. Every review is verified and moderated.
No parent reviews for this class yet.
Reviews from students are published as “Student, age 13”, never with a full name. Photo and short video reviews are supported and moderated before they appear.
American Art
Graphite, watercolor, and the Hudson River School
A real studio class. Students draw and paint the American landscape every single meeting, with Cole, Church and Bierstadt as teachers rather than slides.
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Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$10/wk
$60 in total
$24 for add’l siblings
Art
Look first, then draw · Ages 6–9
A leaf, a shell, a feather, a bird. Mrs. Finch teaches young children to actually look at a thing before they draw it, the one habit that makes every later drawing better.
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Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Literature
Read together, out loud · Ages 7–9
The bridge between being read to and reading alone. Three short novels, a few pages aloud each week, and a teacher who will not let a hard word go by.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$49 in total
$19.60 for add’l siblings
