Students will learn Orton Gillingham based strategies in a small group format to improve decoding and spelling skills. Class runs from 9:15-11:30 AM Monday-Friday. Friday is Farm and Phonics FUN DAY at the Art Barn, 208 Roper Road, Canton. This class is most appropriate for elementary age students with or without a diagnosis of dyslexia. Class is also suitable for rising 1st-2nd graders with average abilities. For a detailed daily course outline, visit www.miltonspeechpathology.com and click on our WORD ATTACK link on the home page.

Spectacles is a one-week math and science camp designed for rising seventh, eighth, and ninth grade girls. The camp has been held on the Wesleyan College campus for more than 25 consecutive years.

More information, including a link to apply online (click "Pay Online", then "Spectacles Camp Registration" on the next page) can be found at:

http://www.wesleyancollege.edu/community/campsandyouthprograms/spectacles.cfm

Monthly lesson giveaway to prospective students: Contact our lesson coordinator to receive one free trial lesson for your student.

Kids Brain and Body group class at Heart Center Therapy and Social Skills lesson followed by dinner at Crust. Relaxation, Tai Chi, breathing exercises and FUN! Class is led by certified instructors. Outing is led by Amy Squires, MS CCC-SLP. 4:45-7 pm. Meet at the water fountain in downtown Alpharetta. www.miltonspeechpathology.com to sign up. Discount for early registration.

Join us for a farm mini-vacation including lunching at the creek. We begin in the barnyard, feeding the friendly farm animals and then leisurely ride the haywagon with our picnic lunches to the creek. We will explore what is living in the creek, the Cattail, a stream flowing into the Triadelphia Reservoir. Then lunch and relax stream side. Bring a lunch. Tour time: 10 A.M. – Noon Cost: $8.00/person Ages: Family event, under 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required on or before 8/12. Call (410) 489-2572 or register online at sharpfarm.com.

Your guide will bring you by hayride to the Cattail Creek. Make sure you wear old tennis shoes or water shoes as we go into the creek to catch a variety of critters that live there. (Nets are provided or you can bring your own.) After catching the critters we take time to identify what we have found and learn about their life cycles and habitats. We then head back to the barnyard to feed the farm animals! Tour time:10 -11:30 A.M. Cost: $8.00/child Adults are free Ages: 4 years & up Registration is required on or before 7/28. Call (410) 489-2572 or register online at sharpfarm.com.

This is a great introduction geared toward children as to the importance of composting and how worms help in the process! We will learn all about the worms and have an opportunity to watch them in our barn classroom. Bring a baggie of old food scraps as we will go through the steps in making a compost pile. The children will pot a plant to take home. A hayride and feeding the farm animals is also included. Tour time: 10-11:30 A.M. Cost: $8.00/child Adults are free Ages 4 years & up Registration is required on or before 7/13 Call (410) 489-2572 or register online at sharpfarm.com.

Learn to be a farmer. It is a relaxed 2 hours of animal feeding & farm chores. We’ll discuss farm sustainability and learn some Ag history. Sessions will be held the second Saturday of each month through July and a special pond and creek event in August. Each session will be different as we move through the farming season. But gardening, animals, farm history and old tools and methods, Ag ecology and sustainability will be our focus. In each session there is a scavenger hunt for all interested in testing their observational skills.

Your guide will bring you by hayride to the Cattail Creek. Make sure you wear old tennis shoes or water shoes as we go into the creek to catch a variety of critters that live there. (Nets are provided or you can bring your own.) After catching the critters we take time to identify what we have found and learn about their life cycles and habitats. We then head back to the barnyard to feed the farm animals! Tour time:10 -11:30 A.M. Cost: $8.00/child. Adults are free! Ages: 4 years & up Registration is required on or before 6/22. Call (410) 489-2572 or register at sharpfarm.com.

Learn to be a farmer. It is a relaxed 2 hours of animal feeding & farm chores. We’ll discuss farm sustainability and learn some Ag history. Sessions will be held the second Saturday of each month through July and a special pond and creek event in August. Each session will be different as we move through the farming season. But gardening, animals, farm history and old tools and methods, Ag ecology and sustainability will be our focus. In each session there is a scavenger hunt for all interested in testing their observational skills.