the day of the week that I'd go to the other school for my special classes was the day of the week they taught typing to all the other kids, so I didn't know how to type until 10th grade or so.
but that class taught me algebra a few years before I took algebra so then I didn't need to take pre algebra and was a year ahead in math, which allowed me to take calculus in highschool, which is normally a college class.
I wrote a paper on time travel in 6th grade.
all in all the class have VERY unconventional teaching methods and just taught us how to think outside the box.
(like we learned algebra as a game, and it wasn't until after we learned most of it that we were told it was even math)
I remember we had a language analyses part. where we were given a message in a made up alien language and split into groups, and we had to figure out what it meant, then every day we were given an additional message until we were able to translate it.
we played a lot of the games that were like, "you have to figure out what the rule is, and no one can tell you"
I'd feel stupid when I was one of the last people to figure it out, but sometimes I figured it out fast.
There was one called Black magic, where one student was picked to go outside, then the class decided on an object in the room, then he was brought inside and was asked, "is it this" about several objects, and they had to know what object we had picked based on certain rules that weren't told to them.
the rule was always the object we picked will be the one after the black object we ask about.
took me a while to figure that one out.
and there was one called "I'm going camping"
where the teacher would say, I'm going camping and bringing ________ and ________, what are you taking?
and would ask each student one at a time, and they had to pick two objects that coincided with whatever rule about the 2 objects the teacher had made up.
example would be: my teachers name was April Coleman, and she would say she's going camping and is going to take a apple and a calculator, then if John Smith said he was going to bring a Jetplane and a Squid he would be correct,
etc. but they wouldn't always be based on name.
each year there was a theme for the whole year, the year we went to california and on the fishing boat, the theme was the ocean, we also went to seaworld on that trip, and that year I wrote a paper on manatees,
there was a year based on flight, and we had a airplane competition, where we had to build paper airplanes and had to compete in a series of events with them, (who could go the farthest, who could go the highest, and who could stay in the air the longest)
I could talk about that class all day, I really enjoyed it and it really helped to open my mind.
also mind you this class was from 3rd grade to 6th grade.
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