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Category Archives: GHF Online
Fall 2015 Online Art Show Highlights
What do you get when you teach gifted kids about the great artists and their techniques? You get gifted kids who become great artists! This past autumn, I taught the GHFO class Painting Like the Greats. I had six fabulous students in my class, and together we learned about masters … Continue reading
Looking Back on Minecraft Math
By Christy Knockleby, GHF Online Instructor I kept my plans for the last class of Minecraft Math simple: I wrote up a scavenger hunt and asked the children to work on it in pairs. Then we played a Minecraft minigame, a version of TNT run, where players have to keep … Continue reading
Fall 2016 Art Show!
You are cordially invited to attend an online art show hosted by students from the GHF Online class, Face and Figure Drawing. Throughout this past semester, students have expanded their art skills in drawing, focusing on the human form and its many features. Our students would now like to … Continue reading
Painting Like the Greats
by Lisa Lauffer Imagine your student shading her drawings as daVinci shaded the Mona Lisa, painting in bright swaths of color as Van Gogh painted The Starry Night, and sketching mathematical renderings as M.C. Escher sketched Ascending and Descending. Your child’s ability plus inspiration plus exposure to the masters’ techniques … Continue reading
Exploring Planet Earth
by Madeline Goodwin, GHFO Instructor We live on a 127,56-kilometer-wide ball of rock hurtling through space at 108,000 kilometers an hour while spinning at 460 meters per second, which is composed of 32% iron, 30% oxygen, 15% silicon, 14% magnesium, and 7% other stuff. That ball of rock is surrounded … Continue reading
Mythology and Critical Thinking Skills
by Allison Stieger, GHFO Instructor In the fall of 2012, I had the privilege of being invited to teach an online class on Greek mythology for Gifted Homeschoolers Forum. The timing was good for me, as my two children were both in school for the first time that fall, and … Continue reading
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Online Learning Partnership
Working Together! When Visions Entwine GHF Online offers small, engaging classes for gifted and twice-exceptional students who thrive with advanced, interdisciplinary content without being overwhelmed with workload demands. We know that each student has different needs, interests, and learning preferences, and not every class or schedule will work for every student. … Continue reading
GHFO Fall 2015 Registration is Open!
We at GHFO are thrilled about the fall 2015 semester! We’ve upgraded to a much more robust technology platform with additional features, and developed an all-in-one registration system to simplify the process. This fall, we’re offering new courses, some favorites from previous years, and some that build on past courses, … Continue reading