At Apogee Yellowstone, our young leaders help decide how they spend their time learning. We love to be outside, as fresh air and movement keep us healthy and minimize stress. Our mornings begin with outdoor play from arrival (between 8:00 and 8:55 am, at each family's preference) until the Pledge of Allegiance at 9:00 am.

From then until 10:00 am, we have snack together as a mixed-age group, before splitting into separate groups for our academic goals. Children help designate their own goals for reading, writing, and math. This helps teach time management, appropriate goal-setting (challenging, yet attainable), and self-motivation. These kids don't wait around to be told what to do next - they are ready to grab life by the horns! We are accountable to parents, so they have the final say in these SMART goals for their kids.

We believe in real physical education, the kind that gets the blood flowing and the mind ready to concentrate. We partner with Physiology First to make real health attainable and sustainable for life.

A leisurely lunch and more outdoor play, from about noon to 1:00 pm, bring us into the afternoon. We incorporate real-life skills including cooking, meaningful conversation following our rules of engagement, and cleaning up after ourselves. Our coaches are no longer surprised when lunchtime talk naturally turns into a math word problem or a science experiment in the making...curiosity rules!

From 1:00 to 2:00 pm, we dive into learning through projects, in which students build on their skills and develop new ones to accomplish a project of which they can be proud. These involve overlapping areas of academic interest, such as history, arts and sciences. These young leaders put in the work, and then get to show off their mastery of concepts to their parents, family and friends at our showcase days throughout the year!

Our day ends between 2:00 and 3:00 pm, buffered with more free play before pickup. We love that Apogee Yellowstone students aren't in a rush to leave campus,

and can't wait to return!