Home School Enrichment was designed to enrich your families home schooling experience. We offer parent taught classes one day a week that vary from year to year. Parents sign up their children to take classes and then volunteer to teach, aid, or help in one of the other important areas such as bringing snacks for the snack bar. We currently have 2 semesters per school year. The Fall semester starts in September and the Spring Semester starts in February. We will be enrolling soon so don't wait!
If enrichment is something you would like to consider for your family, then join the yahoo group for the latest information -- www.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSEnrichment.
For more information about the Enrichment, please go to:
SAC Classes are meant to be a full high school credit and often require students to commit to a full year of class. In the past we have offered Chemistry, Economics, Intro to Justice and Government, Physics, Philosophy and Theater.
Fall of 2009 we added a Writing class as well as Biology.
These classes may involve discussion; out of class reading, projects and labs; field trips and special speakers.
For more information on our SAC classes, please watch for announcements here and join the SAC Yahoo Group found on the
"SAC Class" is simply an umbrella name for high school level courses offered in the Wichita Falls area. These classes are all "advertised" together, listed together on the web site, and the instructors use the SAC loop to communicate with the students (which also cuts down the number of loops a mom needs to join).
Here are some of the differences between Enrichment and SAC:
Class periods may be longer than the one hour usually allocated for Enrichment courses. Some classes are flexible in that we may meet one hour one week and 2.5 hours the next.
Because of the level of study, these classes usually meet for 12-15 weeks per semester
Classes are not held at the same time, on the same day, or at the same place as Enrichment. In fact, the classes last year were held in four different locations on 2 days of the week. Some are full year, others are one semester. The first Theater class was 8 weeks of two 4-hour classes per week.
Parents do not need to volunteer in any way for their child to participate in SAC classes.
Most have paid instructors.
Students usually have a couple of weeks of work prior to the beginning of class, and much outside work is required. The science courses have work the students must complete and mail to the instructor during the Christmas holiday break.
These classes usually have field trips, monthly labs or speakers outside of the regular class period.
Some SAC classes were done in a Co-op format. In these two courses - Economics and Gov/Justice - each parent needed to help with only one class period per course, not the entire course.
Anyone who wants to put one together may do so. It does not need to go through anyone or any board; however, we do ask that the times and courses not duplicate or compete with Enrichment so that families may participate in both if they want to do so. As a courtesy, we ask that you contact the SAC Volunteer Coordinator before setting one up so that we do not duplicate efforts.
Registration for a SAC course is done directly with the person coordinating that course.
All Sac Classes are for students in high school. Any student not in high school must have special permission from the instructor.
We encourage anyone who wants to organize a SAC class to do so. The original idea was to concentrate on CORE courses like English/writing, Science, Social Studies. This semester there is a Theater class that will be listed on the SAC page of the website, but info about that class will, most likely, go out on the ACT loop once the class begins. The Theater class is actually a Language Arts type course in that they will be studying Victorian plays and that time period which is part of Literature.
