Ages: 10-15
Class size: Maximum - 8 Students
Meets: 1x per week
Level: All Levels
Price: $30.60 weekly
Interactive Storytelling Summer Course
Unleash your creativity in this learner-directed, collaborative storytelling adventure! In each class, students will work together to create a complete story — from setting and characters to conflict and resolution — all through improvised storytelling. No reading or writing required!
What to Expect:
🎭 Storytelling in Action: Guided by Ms. Jackson — a teacher, actor, and writer — students will build a unique story each session, starting with a creative prompt and switching storytellers along the way.
🎭 Emotion Bag Twist: Add an extra layer of excitement as surprise emotions are drawn and incorporated into the tale, challenging students to think on their feet!
🎭 Story Arc & Conflict Review: Each class begins with a quick overview of story structure, helping students understand narrative flow, internal/external conflict, and satisfying resolutions.
Every session is a fresh, imaginative journey where students can explore new ideas, build confidence, and celebrate their creativity — together!
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Interactive Storytelling: Create, Collaborate & Imagine Together! 📚✨
Unleash your creativity in this learner-directed, collaborative storytelling adventure! In each class, students will work together to create a complete story — from setting and characters to conflict and resolution — all through improvised storytelling. No reading or writing required!
What to Expect:
🎭 Storytelling in Action: Guided by Ms. Jackson — a teacher, actor, and writer — students will build a unique story each session, starting with a creative prompt and switching storytellers along the way.
🎭 Emotion Bag Twist: Add an extra layer of excitement as surprise emotions are drawn and incorporated into the tale, challenging students to think on their feet!
🎭 Story Arc & Conflict Review: Each class begins with a quick overview of story structure, helping students understand narrative flow, internal/external conflict, and satisfying resolutions.Why This Class is Perfect for Your Child:
✨ For Budding Writers: Learn storytelling fundamentals in a fun, low-pressure environment.
✨ For Imaginative Minds: Express creativity through spontaneous, dramatic storytelling.
✨ For English Learners: Practice pronunciation and fluency in an engaging, supportive setting.
✨ For Theater Enthusiasts: Explore improvisation, vocal dynamics, and expressive storytelling.
✨ For Social Connection: Build friendships and practice teamwork in a collaborative space.
✨ For Flexible Thinkers: Learn to adapt and enjoy when a story takes an unexpected turn!Every session is a fresh, imaginative journey where students can explore new ideas, build confidence, and celebrate their creativity — together!
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Why This Class is Perfect for Your Child:
✨ For Budding Writers: Learn storytelling fundamentals in a fun, low-pressure environment.
✨ For Imaginative Minds: Express creativity through spontaneous, dramatic storytelling.
✨ For English Learners: Practice pronunciation and fluency in an engaging, supportive setting.
✨ For Theater Enthusiasts: Explore improvisation, vocal dynamics, and expressive storytelling.
✨ For Social Connection: Build friendships and practice teamwork in a collaborative space.
✨ For Flexible Thinkers: Learn to adapt and enjoy when a story takes an unexpected turn! -
Internet connection and being ready to put on a show!
Friendship Social Club: Belonging and Succeeding
🚨 DISCOUNTED COST to families who enroll in at least 2 courses. Spaces limited! -Enroll in any 2 courses PLUS Social Club & your tuition for Social Club will be refunded within 72 hours!
🤝 👭 Are you in search of a supportive and inclusive space where your child can forge meaningful friendships?
Do you dream of an environment that fosters a sense of belonging for your kiddo? Look no further than the Homeroom Social Club!
At Homeroom Social Club (HRSC), your child will find a home—a place where they can immediately connect with like-minded friends and be part of a consistent and supportive community.
Our club offers a safe, predictable, and structured space where your child can engage in weekly activities designed to foster connection and growth, including:
Community building exercises
Check-ins to express thoughts and feelings
Sharing of interests and passions
Group problem-solving activities
Watch Our Students In Action
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Friendship Social Club: Music, Movement & Games
This friendship social club class for kids ages 5 - 7 was created to help improve young childrens’ confidence while making new friends while enjoying socializing and practicing real life skills in a fun way… through play! Our engaging friendship club teacher utilizes her fun and unique style of play-based learning as they chat, laugh, & play games meant to help build meaningful connections & real friendships.
Each week will include an opportunity for kids to shine like a star as they enjoy:
✅ Share their thoughts with the teacher and new friends
✅ Share things that are special to them with others in a special and nurturing show and tell time.
✅ Enjoy practicing socializing during fun & engaging games with friends
✅ Getting wiggles out through silly dance & movement games
✅ Improve their self confidence
✅ Have chances to practice public speaking
✅ Practice patiently taking turns
✅ And so much more!
Our engaging friendship club teacher takes the time to make sure each child truly feels seen and heard in this special friendship club and gives them lots of opportunities to get up and move around as they get their wiggles out too!
Materials
"We're so excited to have you join their new circle of friends in our Friendship Social Club where young kids will create real friendships and learn real life skills while having a blast!
Each week kids will get a chance to show off something they love for their new friends to see! Please plan to have your child come to class with one item that is special to them to share with the rest of the class during show & tell sharing time.
Note- Parents please plan to be somewhere to assist your child with helping them learn to use zoom features when needed and possibly adjust camera angles during show and tell when needed. Thank you so much for your understanding and help with this.
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🤝 👭 Are you in search of a supportive and inclusive space where your child can forge meaningful friendships?
Do you dream of an environment that fosters a sense of belonging for your kiddo? Look no further than the Homeroom Social Club!
At Homeroom Social Club (HRSC), your child will find a home—a place where they can immediately connect with like-minded friends and be part of a consistent and supportive community.
Our club offers a safe, predictable, and structured space where your child can engage in weekly activities designed to foster connection and growth, including:
✅ Community building exercises
✅ Check-ins to express thoughts and feelings
✅ Sharing of interests and passions
✅ Group problem-solving activities
Within this nurturing community, we focus on meeting both intellectual and social needs. Participants will have the opportunity to share their passions, collaborate on projects, receive supportive feedback, play engaging games, share resources, and much more!
We understand that many neurodivergent kiddos thrive in social environments that offer structure and routine. Your child is certain to appreciate the consistency and structure provided by HRSC, which will help them feel comfortable and supported.
Please note that Homeroom Social Club is not a social skills class aimed at "fixing" kids. We wholeheartedly believe that there is nothing wrong with them. Instead, we have created an ideal environment where your child can be themselves and thrive, celebrating their unique strengths and interests.
Join us at Homeroom Social Club and provide your child with a supportive community where they can cultivate a sense of belonging, forge lasting friendships, and thrive in a nurturing environment. Register now to secure your spot!
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Empower your child to gain confidence, organize their thoughts, improve their communication and listening skills and develop problem-solving abilities!
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From time to time students will be asked to bring certain materials to class for some fun activities =) - announcements will be made in advance, no surprises!
Ms. Jackson Homeroom and Social Club
Ages: 5-7, 8-11, 11-13 & 14-18
Class size: Maximum: 6 students for ages 8-10 and 8 students for ages 11-13 & 14-18.
Meets: 1x per week
Level: All Levels
Price: $26.10 weekly
Our Promise To You
100% Satisfaction Guarantee:
Due to the unique nature of our fast paced Summer camps, if you’re not 100% IN LOVE with this camp within the first 24 hours, you can either transfer to another camp or get a 100% refund to your family’s YSA account as credit toward a future class.
That’s it! No hassle!
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Questions Asked By Fellow Parents
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4 KEY things:
1- A focus on the positive! We don’t focus on what students aren’t doing, we support what they are and we know the rest will come. We develop strengths, interests, and relationships. We build students up so they can build a better world! And do it with the new friends they make in our program!
2- Like-minded neurodivergent peers. Our asynchronous students need one another and YSA is a safe haven for these kiddos to connect around their asynchronies, quirks, and interests. We’re a place where they can be their authentic selves and make friends while doing so!
3- Passionate, masterful neurodivergent mentors who have walked the walk and can authentically validate and support your child with personal experience and care AND expertise as we all have advanced masters + degrees
4-Content your students care about taught in a way they love! We offer the courses they need to be taking, not the ones they’re required to take.
Come by and see for yourself!
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Please don’t confuse reactive “distance learning” and virtual enrichment programming. After all, a student who is completely fried from a boring zoom class is often quick to pick up a tablet or phone, right?
Our courses are not at all the same animal =)
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We offer a satisfaction guarantee!
If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your camp, you can:
1- Transfer to another equal-value class at no charge (space permitting)
2- Get a 100% refund to a YSA credit
Refund requests must be received up to 24 hours after the first day of camp. After 24 hours after the first class begins there will be no refund of tuition.
Note- this is a satisfaction guarantee, therefore your child must attend class to qualify.
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We do! We have 3 kinds:
1- Word of mouth: GET UNLIMITED $35 COURSE/CAMP CREDITS!
We know that the best way to reach new families is word of mouth.
❇️ At checkout you will get a CUSTOM LINK that you can share with families
❇️ YOU GET A $35 CREDIT TOWARD MORE/FUTURE YSA CAMPS/COURSES every time a NEW family enrolls with your link!
❇️ Families who use your custom link WILL GET 10% off their 1st course at YSA!
❇️ THERE IS NO LIMIT on how many times you can use this with new families!
2- Homeroom Social Club 100% off- When the same student enrolls in 2 courses AND Homeroom Social Club you will automatically discount 100% of the tuition for Homeroom Social Club.
3- Multi-Camp: When you enroll in 3 or more summer camps in the same week, you will receive 10% off of all summer camps!
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Of course!
As we like to say, if you’re on our site, you’re in the right place.
Our programming is for students who are not being supported or challenged enough in school.
If you have an asynchronous kiddo who you know has strengths and struggles, our courses are for your child.
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2e students experience such asynchronous development that it proves difficult to have hard age limits.
We often evaluate students on a case by case basis =)
Please email us and we’ll discuss: sam@youngscholarsacademy.org
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All of our programs are 100% virtual. This allows us to bring together the twice-exceptional/neurodivergent students of the world, connect them, and nurture them!
Your child may very well enter a 6-person class with 5 other students from 5 different states/countries!
Cool, right?