Million Dollar Money Management
Instructors: WSA parent Steve Bentley and Allan Batchelder
This course will begin in the Department of Imagination with each participant suddenly becoming an imaginary overnight multi-millionaire. With such a windfall becomes tremendous responsibility and business management savvy.
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Students will become their own money managers at an introductory level with introductions to Banks, Stock Market Investing, Retirement, Educational Planning and Budgets. The course is designed to be game-oriented with a web based work each module with clearly defined objectives adjusted based on the student’s grade level.
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Students will learn the ins and outs of money management with unexpected problems to solve, choices to make and long term financial planning. Students will also learn how to conduct oneself in a professional, business-like manner.
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French Language Immersion in Montréal
Instructors: Instructors: Kim Uyyek and WSA parent Teresa Bentley
A group of students will travel to Montréal where they'll spend two weeks immersed in the French language and culture of La belle ville.
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For three hours each morning, they will attend classes based on their knowledge of the language. There are several field trips planned for the afternoons, but there will also be some free time for them to choose activities. There are two full day trips planned to visit the cities of Québec and Ottawa. The students will stay with French speaking families.
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Participation is contingent on a C average. Please contact Madame Uyyek in regards to specific costs and deadlines for participation.
Maximum Student enrollment: 12 students
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Rockin’ the Rube Goldberg
Instructors: Instructors: : Jen Silvernale and Karen Mattick
Do you day dream of making amazing machines or plot crazy schemes to solve simple problems? Are you a creator, inventor, experimenter or engineer? Then welcome, friends, to the world of Rube Goldberg!
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This exceptionally exploratory Jan Term offers you the chance to see through the life of Reuben Lucius Goldberg – author, engineer, sculptor, cartoonist – by inventing amazing contraptions to stun and captivate your friends. The National Machine Contest yearly celebrates such Rube Goldberg creations as the “perfect mouse trap,” and winners are featured on television shows like David Letterman and Jay Leno! Come investigate how you can transform simple objects into a complex machine, test your creations and document your data, then record your genius on video for the world for the world to see and marvel at your genius!
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Will YOU be the next Rube Goldberg? Space is limited, so act quickly – operators are standing by!
Maximum Student enrollment: 12 students
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Winter Expressions – Photography, Poetry, Outdoor Experiential Education & Music Composition
Instructors: Gary Perless and Eleanor Johnson
Winter Expressions: a creative workshop of photography, poetry and music, inspired by Nature while being in Nature.
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In this program, you'll explore the creative process, from inspiration to final product. Each day, we'll go outdoors to experience Winter--usually on campus, plus weekly field trips to inspiring places (snowshoeing in the mountains, wilderness trail, or a visit to the city). We'll use photography to capture our experiences and the moods of Nature, learning basic digital photography skills including composition, lighting, depth of field, artistic effect, symmetry and the effect of distractions. Students will learn the components of their cameras and how to properly adjust resolution and settings. Back at school, we'll sort through our photographs and select the best, learning from our successes and failures.
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Then, inspired by these images and our personal experiences, we'll experiment with expressing ourselves through words and/or melodies, taking creative risks as we compose original songs around the theme of Winter. Ultimately, we'll record these songs and share them in the final presentation which is a multimedia show about Winter integrating images, words, and music inspired by our personal experiences.
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Students will be coached to work collaboratively as they create and reflect on their photographs, and as they compose and record their own original songs. Some previous musical or photography experience is helpful, but not required, just an interest in music and creativity. We'll explore different forms and genres of music, becoming more familiar with musical instruments and the elements that make up music (rhythm, tempo, melody, etc.)
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Students will learn how to dress properly for winter activities in the outdoors. Students must have daily access to their own digital camera (point and shoot is fine) including a protective case and at least a 2G memory card.
Maximum Student enrollment: 12 students
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Cajun Culture and Culinary Arts
Instructors: Sharon Moncada and Susan Trower
Guest teachers: Barrie Hillman and D’Arcy Clements
"Laissez les bons temps rouler!" Let the good times roll as you learn about and celebrate the tasty culture of Southern Louisiana.
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Sharon, a native of N'Awlins (New Orleans) and Susan, our beloved librarian, will teach you how to prepare world famous Cajun/Creole dishes such as gumbo and jambalaya. We'll listen to jazz, the blues and zydeco and explore the lives of some of the many famous people who found their inspiration in Louisiana: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Kate Chopin, Louis Armstrong and Mahalia Jackson.
Even though Jan Term ends three weeks before Fat Tuesday, we'll celebrate our own extra-early version of Mardi Gras! Our final project will be to reenact a traditional Mardi Gras parade. You’ll dress up, toss beads and doubloons to onlookers while struttin’ your stuff. We may take a field trip to a Cajun restaurant in Seattle and visit Central Market.
Limit: 10 students
Culinary Arts Supply Fee: $30
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Polystyrene 3-D Sculpture
Instructors: Gary White and Will Gray
Carve it, Cast it, Shape it, Mold it, Roll it, Hold it.
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Learn basic and advanced sculpting skills by working with foam and plaster. Polystyrene is easy and fun to carve. Students can sand it smooth and paint it pretty. Students can carve relief sculpture like an Egyptian or shape it into a spirit animal like that of a Pacific Northwest story pole. Or students can develop their own sculpture ideas! The possibilities are endless. The class also make an exact plaster copies of their hands that they will be able to then carve and customize. The class will also look for a nice day with a low tide to sand sculpt.
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Materials Cost: $12 for a 2-ft x 4ft piece of foam and plaster or $20 for an 8 foot piece.
Maximum Student Enrollment: 12 students
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Music Ensemble
Instructor - Paul Burback
Students considering taking this class should have intermediate to advanced experience on at least one instrument. Being able to read music is not mandatory.
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Students will have the opportunity to improve their music reading and playing skills on their instrument of choice. The class will work together as an ensemble. The students will be actively involved in putting together a concert for their final performance. The final performance will include student made videos and feature an eclectic mix of styles of music. The students will be actively involved in coming up with the material as well as how it arranged. Previous Jan Term Music Ensemble performances included World music, Classical, Gypsy Jazz, Rock, Movie and video game themes and much more. Paul's wife Justine will be lending a hand with arranging and conducting the string instruments like violin, viola and cello. The idea is to free your mind and see where the music takes you! Space is limited so if you are interested in this class you should try to connect with Paul and see if he agrees that this class is right for you.
Maximum number of students: 12
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Independent Jan Term
Upper School students may use the Independent Jan Term Form to propose a three week independent study. No proposals will be considered without a completed form with parental signature and a designated mentor. Independent Jan Terms require initiative and dedication with concrete deliverables assigned including a presentation to the school community.
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Additional Enrichment Programs
Students will participate in some of these additional programming activities during the non-Jan Term block of the day. Each student will receive a schedule for their additional programming.
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