Friends of Cabrini

This weekend our little friends completed a zoo animal scavenger hunt at the Lincoln Park Zoo. They used the zoo campus maps as well as the ZooScav app to complete the challenges and earn points as a whole team. Congrats kiddos!

Summer learning is here! ☀️
And we're helping our learners to beat the summer slide. Schedule your child's tutoring session today at friendsofcabrini.com/tutoring.

Cabrini's Cinema Crew 🎟📽🎞🍿🥤

Are you looking for a fun, consistent way for your kids to connect with other local homeschoolers?

Join us for the Cabrini's Cinema Crew Movie Club, right here in Chicago!

This is the club where all homeschoolers from toddlers to teens can gather, enjoy great stories, and build lasting friendships. We meet weekly to attend matinee shows. All outings are organized by Friends of Cabrini.

RSVP 👇🏾

Cabrini’s Cinema Crew Are you looking for a fun, consistent way for your kids to connect with other local homeschoolers? Join us for the Cabrini's Cinema Crew Movie Club, right here in Chicago! This is the club where all homeschoolers from toddlers to teens can gather, enjoy great stories, and build lasting friendships.....

Here's to Historical Nonfiction. 📖
In our Unmasking the Letter American History class, our unschoolers are tackling a difficult text and learning to identify propaganda techniques such as fear-mongering, "us vs. Them," and dehumanization. They are learning how to read between the lines to understand a speaker’s hidden fears and motives.

They will continue to learn how to spot anachronism and verify the historical accuracy of sources using primary documents like the 1705 Slave Codes.

We are guiding them through analytical thinking and writing using the Willie Lynch Letter, and encouraging them to move beyond summarizing what happened and begin explaining how it was planned to work. This is unschooling.

We're excited to welcome a new class of students to our Road Trip USA geography class for the 3rd year! Woohoo!! 🎉

Join Friends of Cabrini Families on Wednesdays beginning April 29th at 10:00A CST for an amazing geography class for 1st-4th grade learners. Weekly tuition is $10 or $80 for the full class. We can't wait to explore the US and see what amazing artifacts we find together.

🔗 Enroll here: https://forms.gle/NSvfCbyAJB8rwuiR8.

Hey Chicago homeschoolers! We're hosting our next in-person field trip. Can you guess where? 🤔

It's to the Adler Planetarium! 🪐

Join Friends of Cabrini on May 5th at 11A CST for a Journey to the Stars at Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. DuSable Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, IL.

This field trip is absolutely free. That's right, FREE!! So sign up now before the closing of this form. We can't wait to see you! 👇🏾

Journey to the Stars at Adler Planetarium Calling all Chicago-area homeschooling and unschooling families! Join Friends of Cabrini for a hands-on exploration of the cosmos at the Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605. This field trip is designed for students in grades K–8 to step into the roles of scientis...

We love coming up with new ways to help our little friends learn and enjoy phonics. Here's how we help our tutoring friends track and recall what they learn while building a study notebook.

Vowel Sounds! 🍎
Try reading this: TH CT ST N TH MT.
Hard, right? That’s because vowels are the glue that holds our words together. Without them, we’re just a bunch of consonants shouting in a hallway. 🗣️❌

​Currently in the trenches with our 1st grade unschoolers teaching the difference between 'short a' (🍎) and 'short e' (🐘). It’s all fun and games until 'bat' becomes 'bet' and suddenly the whole sentence is a lie.

​Why we're obsessing over A-E-I-O-U in K-3rd:

1️⃣ Syllable Power: Every single syllable needs a vowel sound. No vowel = no word.

2️⃣ Decoding Magic: If they can't master these sounds, they’re basically guessing at words like they're playing a high-stakes game of Wheel of Fortune. 🎡

3️⃣ Spelling Sanity: It’s the difference between your kid writing 'I luv u' and 'I lv u.' (Okay, both are cute, but one is a lot easier to read on a Mother’s Day card!)

​Drop a '🙋🏾‍♀️' if you’ve spent more than 20 minutes today making an 'octopus' face to explain the letter O.

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We love seeing the progress our learners make. Continue to share how your unschooler's is using our curriculum content. Thank you!! 🖤

The Success Story! 🙌🏾
Data-driven and student-approved! ✅

Our latest math assessments are helping Friends of Cabrini middle schoolers bridge the gap between "getting it" and "mastering it."

These tools have been essential for gaining sight of individual improvements and keeping our learners motivated.

Watching that progress bar climb is our favorite part of the day?🚀📊