Program Descriptions

Teaching as Storytelling and Drama
Coordinator Vicki Johnston, M.Ed. (Vicki@rmcle.org)
Stories and plays that connect with the child on the levels of knowledge and wisdom simultaneously. The reason for teaching this way is that children universally love to listen to stories and dramatize them. The stories cover all areas of the curriculum including botany, zoology, Earth science, biology, meteorology, the history of the human family, American history, and an in depth cultural study each year. Each of these stories includes a synthesis of the various sciences are told in terms of the mutually sustaining relationship between the whole and its parts. Read more 

Community Members, Mentors, and Masters are encouraged to participate and/ or coordinate activities that will:

Develop a harmonious integration of landscape and people, providing food, energy, shelter and other needs in a sustainable way for ALL species. As a sustainable community we will utilize our property (7 acres) for the conscious, holistic design and maintenance of biologically productive ecosystems, in which children and adults will learn experientially from the stability, balance, and resilience of natural ecosystems.

• Creating Wetland Area
• Blackland Prairie Restoration
• Organic Gardening – Composting, worm farm, butterfly garden
• Build a Labyrinth and/or sweat lodge

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The Global Elementary Model United Nations (G.E.M.U.N.) is designed for children interested in solving global problems through role play.  The children will form a mock delegation representing the nation of South Africa.  They will study South Africa from many aspects; using this information to role-play a South African approach to global problems at the G.E.M.U.N. conference in May 2005.  The first semester is devoted to a general understanding of the UN, South Africa, and composing and submitting a position paper in December.  During the second semester, the delegates will focus on the particular global problems addressed in their committee.  They will create and submit a resolution to that problem, and submit it to the G.E.M.U.N. conference.  For information on G.E.M.U.N., you are invited to view the website at www.unol.org/gemun.  Delegates must be able to read at an elementary grade level.