Upcoming Ways to Enrich Your Child’s Private School Education
Fall is nearly here and there are opportunities to enrich an education everywhere you look. Encouraging your child to find something to enjoy and building happy memories in every season as the year progresses is a great way to combat the seasonal depression that nearly everyone becomes a victim of in the middle of January. Keeping the family active and ensuring that they enjoy the various seasons for their individual opportunities for fun can be enriching for their classical education as well. While life experience can often not be imitated in the classroom, it’s important to bring learning and expanding your knowledge base into every portion of life so that your child is inspired to become a lifelong learner. We’ve collected a few of our favorite opportunities for fun and learning around Northern Colorado to help you enrich your child’s private school education even when they’re not with RCS.
Tour De Corgi
The Tour De Corgi is exactly what it sounds like: an opportunity to watch a parade of the dogs with notoriously short legs and funny waddles dressed in costumes with their owner. There’s a costume contest, a corgi meetup where the pups frolic and play and various vendors to shop and enjoy. Apart from the obvious appeal of allowing the family to take part in the pure joy of a gaggle of corgis, there’s also the costuming aspect which presents a great opportunity to talk about past pop culture trends that formed the culture during a certain period in American history as well as the effect it had on you and your parents when you were younger. It has the potential to be plenty of family fun and a great bonding moment for you and your children.
The French Nest Open Air Market
The U.S. is defined by its entrepreneurial spirit. Take your children shopping inside the French Open Air Market that’s full of budding entrepreneurs that are all offering various scrumptious fall treats and amazing vintage finds. From old weathered plantation shutters to Victorian-era shoes turned into purses, each item can be a peek at history as well as an observation to be made about entrepreneurism and how these shop owners are going about marketing their wares. It’s in the open park in Old Town Fort Collins, so you can smell the crisp air and see the fall leaves changing colors while browsing local vendor’s items.
Harvest Farm Corn Maze
From hayrides to corn pits and choosing a pumpkin, you can do all of your fall farm-themed activities at this one-stop shop. Let your children go through the pumpkin patch and pick out their own, perfect pumpkin to carve while sipping hot apple cider than let the elementary aged kids go check out the petting zoo. If you’re looking for an entertaining time for your older high school or middle school aged kids, a haunted corn maze is always good wholesome fun. A few jumps scares and a chilly night walk through a darkened corn maze nearly always proves to be the thrilling teen experience your kids are hoping for. Safe yet adventurous, it’s the perfect fall activity for your teen.
Fort Collins Reads
If you’re trying to inspire your children to read more, Fort Collins Reads offers a unique opportunity to read the same book as a whole city. The idea is to offer opportunities to initiate literarily fueled conversations with peers and make connections with the community. This year’s read is “Manhattan Beach” by the Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan. If you don’t have time to read the novel, or you don’t want to give your child too much work in addition to their school schedule, be sure to check out the culminating event where you can watch the renowned author give an author talk about her work. Who knows, it might inspire your child to pursue literary achievements of their own.
Enroll In Private School In Fort Collins
Put the right foot forward for your child and invest in a classical education from the premier private schooling institution in town: Resurrection Christian School. Our curriculum for all of our school years highlights the morality and pure lifestyle that Christian morals inspire as well as instilling a well-crafted classically based education. Reach out to us to find out more about our application process, our tuition, and our curriculum basics today.