Village East Gifted of Huntington
Village East Gifted (VEG), celebrating its "13th Year of Academic Excellence", offers a highly-creative, academically-rigorous curriculum, in all academic subjects, for gifted students ages 2-15. Weekly classes are held during the day (ages 2-5), after school (grades K-10) and on the weekends (grades 2-10) between September and June. Summer STREAM Program (Science , Technology, Research, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) offers private enrichment combining steam topics and Instructional Writing.
VILLAGE EAST GIFTED CURRICULUM
Classes are formed based on each participant's grade level, academic competency and social/emotional development.
PRE-CORE (AGES 2-3)
The Pre-CORE curriculum, for ages 2-3, covers the following "simplified" components of the CORE curriculum: SAT/ACT vocabulary, Latin word roots, early reading skills, geography, sign language, biology activities, earth science, meteorology, early math concepts, basic geometry, dialectical writing, "hands-on" grammar, lateral thinking, early logic, time concepts, spatial reasoning, blueprint patterning, memory development, and a unique, foundational architectural curriculum.
CORE (AGES 4-15)
The CORE (all subjects) curriculum, for ages 4-15, includes instruction in the following content areas: writing and grammar, linguistics, Latin, social studies, SAT/ACT vocabulary, orthography, global studies, geography, public speaking, science, economics, civil engineering, anatomy and physiology, mathematics, civil engineering, entrepreneurship, STREAM, creative problem-solving, research and study skills, and American Sign Language.
INSTRUCTIONAL WRITING (AGES 5-15)
The Instructional Writing Workshops, for ages 5-15, ensure that the students are correctly integrating what they learned in the CORE class into their writing samples. Participants, of all ages, are brought "back to basics" by rebuilding their skills … one-word-at-a-time. Students are taught strategies for organizing their thoughts and transposing them into grammatically-correct and non-repetitive sentences that more closely resemble the profound depth of their minds and emotions. Skill areas covered include: grammar, syntax, orthography, structured brainstorming, collaborative writing, advanced vocabulary building and integration, fine editing, idea sequencing and summarization, data research and collection, essay writing, creative writing, journalism and factual content reports. Improvement can be easily identified after the first class.
SUMMER STREAM - SUMMER PRIVATE ENRICHMENT (AGES 9-15)
STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) combines instructional writing with the following topics: earth science, microbiology, virology, anatomy/physiology, meteorology, zoology, bio medical Art, mathematics, geology, gemology, underwater archeology, international business, civil engineering, entrepreneurship, STEAM professions, architecture, geometry, physics, chemistry, and pre-med studies.
