The whole family for one low price!

Yes, you, the parent, are enrolled in this class!

Our family classes are partnership classes where the parent posts student writing in the class and interacts directly with the instructor.

Activities are done all together as a family, then you, the parent, check in with our writing coach at your convenience. 

Independent teens (13-14 years old) who are ready to read the material and engage in writing activities on their own are welcome to post separately in class.

The absolute best part? Everyone is enrolled for a single enrollment fee!

Here’s a preview of the classes—click the images below for more information and to register.

  • Elementary Writing: Story Switcheroo (ages 5-8)
    Join us on a whimsical journey as we mold and reshape favorite fairy tales, combining story elements, lighthearted writing exercises, and imaginative play to introduce your child to a whole new magical world—of writing!
  • Elementary Writing: Telling Tales (ages 7-10)
    Grab your favorite assortment of books about myths and legends for this class. Play storytelling games, make a character collage, and act out a daring rescue that becomes your very own tale.
  • Elementary Writing: Animal Stories (ages 7-10)
    Using favorite animal stories, you and your kids will uncover literary elements, narrative structure, and plot devices commonly used in these types of tales. Includes a project to write an animal tale from start to finish!
  • Groovy Grammar Workshop (ages 7-14)
    Explore verbs, nouns, and adjectives in the context of how we actually use them as kids discover relationships between words that make the 'rules' true.
  • Nature Journaling (ages 7-14)
    This class exposes children to earth science, art, math, and the benefits of physical education. Families venture outside to observe nature and draw and write about it!
  • Playing with Poetry: Discovery (ages 7-14)
    Give your kids a chance to experience poetry in a way you probably didn’t. Focus on free verse, visual poetry, cinquains, and Japanese poetry.
  • Playing with Poetry: Experience (ages 7-14)
    A new exploration of poetry following the interests of your writers. Focus on couplets, limericks, palindromes, Kenning poems, and blackout poetry.
  • Shakespeare Workshop (ages 7-14)
    The workshop provides a multi-sensory approach to the study of Shakespeare and his works. A few informal writing assignments will be provided for families to do together or separately.

Highlights of these courses:

  • Four weeks long and asynchronous, for maximum flexibility
  • One price for the whole family
  • Capped at 25 families who interact with each other, writer's workshop-style
  • Adults are the ones who post in class—get all your questions about writing answered!
  • Includes a live instructor giving personalized feedback to help writers grow

Okay, families! Time to jump into some writing, together!

Word on the Street

  1. I appreciate that I could do as much or as little as fits my family. That has been invaluable to me. It has kept the class exciting and fun for all because I didn't feel like I needed to push past the interest point. ~ Millie, parent

  2. My kid who truly does hate reading and books, ended up snatching the poetry book right out of my hands and reading aloud to her sister and me as we enjoyed our after-dinner brownie during our fourth Poetry Teatime in two days. ~ Alice, parent

  3. I learned that I feel more connected to myself, my children, my world when taking the time to be curious. ~ Jen, parent

  4. Me and my siblings grew in our enjoyment. This is because we slowly started to like grammar more and more! ~ Charlie, 11

  5. Writing was a bit like pulling teeth at the beginning of the year, but I can see he can organize his thoughts a bit better and express it more clearly now (rather than just write a bunch of words on a page for freewriting). ~ Jenna, parent