CHEC Junior High
6th/7th Grade - Onyx Class
Two Day - Tuesday & Thursday
CHEC Junior High Three Day program is for our 6th-7th graders. Our two day program meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am-3pm at CHEC Academy. Students wear their assigned class t-shirt on Tuesdays and Thursdays their professional school uniform by Flynn O'Hara. Our program offers students Science, History, and electives in addition to outside recreation and social time.
Sudents take a biblically based Science class, with experiments, and biblically based History focusing on civics. Students meet virtually on Wednesdays for an additional hour of math and english. In addition, students select their electives from the selection offered each semester in the Fine Arts, STEM or Liberal Arts fields, taking them throughout the days. Note all electives below may not be offered each year and vary/rotate year to year. Their lunch and recess periods provide them with the opportunity to socialize outside and exercise on our field.
Our JH follows the 32 week CHEC calendar designed for students to have opportunities to explore, learn, and grow, in a school like setting while allowing ample time to meet personal homeschool goals.
Core Classes
Science
JH students prepare for their required high school sciences by participating in 4-5 unit studies each year diving deep into specific science topics using a biblically based curriculum taught by a former middle school science teacher with over 15 years of classroom experience experience. They participate in an annual science fair and at least 15 experiments a year. They enter our HS program well prepared for a high school level science class.
History
While history does not appear on most college entrance exams, it develops wisdom and virtue. Junior High Students take a twice weekly history class covering a full Biblically based curriculum. There is 1.5-2 hours of mandatory homework for this class. Students will go in depth as they discuss, engage, and create together. CHEC rotates through 4 history cycles: Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Modern. Offered - All cycles
Fine Arts Classes
L.I.F.E in Theatre
Learning Intentional Fun Exercises
Theater has been a part of the education process for thousands of years. Participation in theater improves self esteem, teaches empathy and teamwork, increases academic motivation and performance and above all gives the students the chance to fail, get back up and try again in a safe environment. Our junior high students learn, study and perform in a full musical play in the spring session. They will learn all aspects of theater from sound, lighting, costuming, set design and more.
Art
A study done on Florida students that took in-school arts classes and/or private arts classes throughout their school career showed significantly higher scores on their college placement tests in the verbal and and increased scores on their math. Hundreds, if not thousands, of years of evidence support the link between participating in arts programs and higher academic achievement, deeper appreciation of life, greater capacity to empathize and problem solving abilities. Elementary students take an art class each week .
Sport Skills
Remember the good old days in PE where you learned different sports throughout the year? We have designed our sports program on Mondays to model old school PE classes. Students may play kickball, volleyball, flag football, jump rope, dance, martial arts, obstacle courses, archery and more.
Music
Junior High students learn to play the ukulele together while also studying music theory and classical composers. They have the opportunity to perform their newly learned songs at either the Christmas production or the end of the year production.
STEM Classes
Drones
In their STEM pillar of learning, JH students are introduced to drones and the world of drone piloting. The will hear about drone careers, learn the basics and discover how they can use drones in their personal or professional lives.
Chess
CHEC loves Chess! Whereas most schools with a chess program don't begin until 2nd or 3rd grade, we begin in kindergarten. Children are taught the history, basics and how to play a game without errors and as they improve, they are instructed on strategy. A pastime at CHEC, you will see CHEC kids playing chess together at meetups, parks, and other unusual places. Since the whole school learns how to play together there's never a shortage of other people to play with at any CHEC event.
Robotics
LEGO® Education Robotics introduce children to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Students gain real-world problem solving experience through a guided program.
Math Olympiads
CHEC Junior High students participate in Math Olympiads, an international program created in 1977 with nearly 170,000 students around the world participating annually. We strive to provide students experiences that are most valuable to their education in a group setting. While parents of CHEC students are responsible for their student’s core math education, CHEC’s Math Olympiads club teaches major strategies for problem solving, develops mathematical flexibility, strengthens mathematical intuitions, and prepares them for test taking strategies they can utilize on the ACT and SAT.
Liberal Arts Classes
Debate
Constructing an argument is an art. Mock trials, debates, arguments and more. Students love this class and learn the art of debate.
Writing
Studying and teaching everyday writing that pertains to our junior high students is vital to helping them develop in today's world. They will learn writing etiquette, how to present oneself and privacy options across media platforms such as email, text and social media. As these students prepare for the world of online classes whether it be their HS language classes at FLVS or their dual enrollment classes they will learn how to communicate with teachers/professors for effectively navigating through the online world of classes.
Public Speaking
Public speaking skills are taught in a fun, engaging class based on Toastmasters’ basics, which is a speaking program that has developed leaders in over 100 countries for almost a century. In the logic stage of the trivium, kids love to argue and debate. This class provides them with structured teaching on this process.
Latin
One semester students will spend studying Latin, history of the language, root words, prefixes, suffixes, commonly used Latin words and what careers still use Latin.
Physical Education
Knowing that physical activity has a positive influence on concentration, academic performance, and classroom behavior, we strive to provide an environment that supports the relationship of physical activity to cognitive development. P.E. includes unstructured free play as well as organized games and sports instruction.