Welcome to Shooting Star Academy! 💫

✨MISSION STATEMENT✨

Our mission is to empower young through Montessori-inspired Curriculum, to build lasting bonds, establish a firm foundation in all core subjects, and build confidence.

We are dedicated to supporting parents and families with their Homeschooler's learning journeys while creating lasting bonds. 

We all value our students and make sure to communicate closely with parents about their learner needs!

✨OUR TEACHERS✨

We are a group of seven teachers: Ms. Daniela, Ms. Theresa, Ms. Victoria, Ms. Teri, Ms. Natalie, and Ms. Jennifer.

We all have experience and training in Montessori and Reggio Emilia teaching techniques. All of us have had formal teaching positions in various capacities such as children programs or local school districts. We all have vast experience teaching online, have professional home office online classrooms, and are dedicated and hard working. Shooting Star Academy Teachers are required to have 5+ years of teaching experience.

We all have experience and certification teaching Montessori Math and Grammar, English Language Arts, STEM Science, and basic Spanish learning. 

✨COURSES WE OFFER✨

We specialize in interactive, exciting online learning for primary school-aged children. We focus on ages 3-8, and we teach a full year curriculum with educational techniques and resources inspired by Montessori and Reggio Emilia from preschool to second grade. The ones that we have had the privilege to work with so far are all homeschoolers, and they primarily live in the USA. 

Our star classes include American Sign-Language, English Language Arts, Spanish Language Arts, Science, and Math.  These classes are modeled with Montessori techniques that have been developed and tested over hundreds of students over the past year.

We offer a few fun and interactive specialized Spanish courses, like Minecraft Spanish and weekly build and talk with legos. Everything we work on incorporates hands-on learning and student-driven discussions while maintaining small class sizes.

Ms. Natalie is a certified American Sign Language teacher, and she has over 16 years experience in learning and teaching ASL with both children and adults. 

Grant Pray is a mechanical engineer for BAE Systems (British Aerospace Engineering), and he works on ICBM projects. In his undergraduate degree, he spent 5 years private tutoring ages 16-40 to help put himself through college. He has extensive knowledge in Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus.

Kendal Smith graduated from BYU-Idaho where he help pay for his BS in Mechanical Engineering by tutoring all the core math classes for engineering. HIs first job after collage was a mechanical designer for a MEP consulting firm where he optimized the HVAC system in all types of buildings in Southern California. Kendal is currently a sales engineer and has become a fluid hydronic specialist for the HVAC engineers designing with his equipment.

It is our goal to have long term, ongoing classes that give students freedom to come and go as necessary, while still covering topics that will set them up with a firm foundation in all core subjects.

We hope to see you in class soon!