Electives
Beyond Academics
Expand Your Horizons
At Scholaris Academy, our electives are an integral part of our holistic education, with each crafted to ignite curiosity, build practical skills, and widen the scope of understanding beyond the traditional curriculum.
Students contribute to a monthly newsletter and the creation of the yearbook, enhancing their writing skills and providing an understanding of journalism. They are taught how to interview, brainstorm, collaborate with peers, and sort images and information to fit a theme.
Promotes keyboarding proficiency and enhances Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Students practice keyboarding using the home row and working on speed an accuracy. Once they show proficiency in keyboarding, then they learn how to work through the Microsoft Office Suite.
Interactive lessons open to grades 1-8 leveraging activities to help students master Spanish vocabulary, phrases, numbers, and more, progressing at each student's pace.
A fun, experiment-driven class that encourages curiosity and reinforces understanding of the natural world. Students work through the scientific method to explore theories that align with their classroom instruction.
Guides students to hone their writing skills by expanding on their classroom ideas for more descriptive, exciting, and engaging narratives. The students work through visualization strategies to enhance expressive language, sequencing of events, and the writing process.
A guided exploration of line, shape, color, and texture using professional techniques, awakening and nurturing artistic talents within students.
A high-school level Spanish class tailored for 8th grade students, offering comprehensive language instruction four days a week.
Exclusive to 7th and 8th graders, this elective offers strategies to accelerate academic success by improving study habits.
A hands-on course providing exposure to a variety of tools and materials for experiential learning, problem-solving, and building creative structures.
Students work through carefully designed activities to promote neurological strengthening through the integration of primitive and postural reflexes along with hemisphere balancing.
Guides students to hone their writing skills by expanding on their classroom ideas for more descriptive, exciting, and engaging narratives.
A fun, experiment-driven class that encourages curiosity and reinforces understanding of the natural world.
A hands-on course providing exposure to a variety of tools and materials for experiential learning, problem-solving, and building creative structures.
Real-world application of free-market economy principles as students manage a school store and learn how to plan, design, and budget a small business.