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Middle School Learning Pods

Learn with a group of friends, have fun, build community, develop relationships, and enjoy the social aspect of learning in addition to learning all content area from a biblical worldview!

Customize Your Pod

Core Academics:
✅ English
✅ Math
✅ Science
✅ Social Studies
Electives: 
✅ Bible
✅ Guitar or Ukulele
✅ Spanish
✅ Theater
✅ Tech/Coding
✅ More coming

Homeroom & Organization Classes Are Included in Every Pod at no Additional Cost.

Organization & Personal Responsibility:
✅ Teen, Get Your Groove

Homeroom With Exploratory Intensives: 
✅ Jr. EMT
✅ Song Writing
✅ Cooking & Baking
✅ Missionary Hearts
✅ Marketplace / Business
✅ Logic
✅ Art
✅ Student Council

Online Pods on Zoom

Go From class to class with a group of friends!

What is a Pod?

🫛 A bundle of live, online classes
🥰 K-12 learners go class to class with friends
💯 Core Academics & Electives, Customized by YOU
💪 Great for Busy Homeschool Families, Working Moms, or families with multiple kids
🏠 All learners attend free homeroom and organization classes.
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Core Academics

Select Courses From:
✅ Math (2x per week) Choose from pre-algebra, algebra, or geometry.
✅ English: reading, writing, communication (2x per week)
✅ Advanced Grammar (1x per week)
✅ Social Studies (2x per week)
✅ Science (2x per week)

Add the Electives (if you want)

💃 Spanish (1 live class per week)
🎶 Music (1 live class per week)
Choose between guitar, ukulele, songwriting, and piano
📖 Bible (1 live class per week)
📚 Book Club
Grow in wisdom

Exploratory Intensives in Homeroom

In our homeroom that meets once per week, learners explore interesting intensives from our passionate educators who are teaching what they love. These intensives rotate every 3-4 weeks and meet once per week. These are included in all pods at no additional charge! Topics are subject to change as we complete the schedule.
Student Council

Student Council

Marketplace

Marketplace

Logic

Logic

Jr. EMT

Jr. EMT

Missionary Hearts

Missionary Hearts

Cooking & Baking

Cooking & Baking

Song Writing

Song Writing

Art

Art

Homework
Expectations & Grading

Homework
Teenage grades

Learners can expect to have homework for some classes. Since we cover an entire semester with only two live classes per week, they will need to work on homework twice weekly to complete all of their learning. 

  • English: 1-1.5 hours of homework twice per week.
  • Math: 30-60 minutes of homework twice per week.  
  • Science: 30 minutes of homework twice per week.
  • Social Studies: 20 minutes of homework twice per week
  • Music: 45 minutes of practice twice per week.
  • Spanish I (high school level): 
  • Electives such as Bible and theater either have optional homework or very little. 

As veteran homeschool moms ourselves, we see the value in grades, homework, and tests to prepare learners to succeed in their learning journey. We have seen learners struggle in college if they don’t learn to take tests or write essays quickly. We aim to prepare them to perform at a high academic level in their academic courses. Accountability in the form of grades, class presentations, and checking in with teachers also increases learning and personal responsibility. 

The Schedule

The Pod Schedule: January 2025

All three middle school pod calendars are shown below. To turn schedules on or off, click the calendar icon in the top right corner. ⤵

The Support You Need, Just in Case

If your learner needs a little extra support, we have safety nets in place such as additional classes, tutoring, and self-paced courses to fill gaps or offer enrichment. Pod learners have access to these supports at a special discounted rate.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Yes! Yes! We are mission-minded organization and our love for the Lord and intense desire to glorify Him drive us to do what we do. We exist to see children come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ and then to grow in wisdom and knowledge so they can walk in a manner worthy of their calling. We want them to develop an authentic biblical worldview. Karen Lemons, the founder of Lemons-Aid, is fiercely protective of the mission and puts all teachers and staff through a rigorous application process. Our teachers have professional development in how to teach with from a biblical perspective.

Yes! All of our teachers have gone through background checks, identification verification, and have training on how to keep learners safe while teaching online. We teach our learners to keep their own personal identifying information private while online. All communication between teachers and students are copied or accessible to parents. We follow COPPA policies to protect young learners while on line. Classes are recorded for transparency with parents.  

We have capped the secondary classes to 16 learners. Our teachers have experience building relationships with each learner and making them feel special and loved. 

To make it easy for parents, we include the cost of materials in your tuition and will send you everything you need. We will even mail you a ukulele! The only exceptions are novels for English and if your learner joins a book club. We do not mail you the books. Some parents like the Kindle version, can use the library, or already have the books. We do offer books for the book clubs as part of our special “library” that comes in a beautiful wooden crate, but this is an add-on fee. 

Teachers offer helpful and frequent feedback to learners both on the work they do in class and for homework. This is done verbally, through video recordings, messages, and comments on Google docs. 

All classes are recorded and enrolled learners will have access to view those recordings. 

The enrollment process is quick and easy. You will follow the process below for each of your learners. 

Each class meets once per week for 45 minutes. Some of the elective classes meet for 25 minutes.

Each class meets once per week for 45 minutes. Some of the elective classes meet for 25 minutes.

Classes begin Sept 8, 2025 and end May 9, 2026.
Holidays: 

  • Columbus Day
  • 1 week at Thanksgiving
  • 2 weeks at Christmas
  • MLK Jr Day
  • President’s Day
  • 1 week after Easter

We develop our own custom-designed curriculum created by our expert educators. This original approach allows us to craft comprehensive, engaging, and effective learning experiences tailored to our students’ needs. While we supplement our core materials with carefully selected high-quality resources from trusted sources, our primary focus is on our proprietary educational content that we’ve developed specifically for our learners.

For our early elementary students, we strictly adhere to the Science of Reading principles, implementing proven, research-based methods for teaching reading. These evidence-based approaches ensure our youngest learners develop strong foundational literacy skills from the start.

For our oldest learners, our curriculum is designed to prepare them for the academic rigor of college across all content areas. We place special emphasis on developing advanced reading comprehension and writing skills that meet college-level expectations, ensuring a smooth transition to higher education.

This custom approach allows us to adapt to different learning styles, incorporate the latest educational research, and ensure all our students receive the most relevant and impactful instruction possible at every stage of their academic journey.

If you would like to pay for the entire year, you can do so at a discount. Just reach out to ask.

If you live in a state that offers families ESA dollars (Education Savings Accounts), we are an approved vendor in multiple states. View our tuition help page for more information.

If you need help getting your charter school to pay for classes, contact us for support. 

As we work with your child, if we think we need to do something more, we will let you know. We will give you various options and advice from things you can do at home, to additional group classes and tutoring. We want to see your child grow to love learning and to have success.

The foundational learning done in this pod will properly prepare your learner for the rigors of advanced high school work. Our teacher are very good at identifying when a learner needs more challenge, and we work with the students and parents to adapt and modify the learning to meet his or her needs. 

You can contact us with more questions. We are happy to chat via email, text. or phone call. We can also pop onto a Zoom call to meet you and a group of friends. 

Lemonade

The Sweet Not Sour Guarantee

If things go sour, we will do everything we can to turn lemons into lemonade. We’ll make it right. But if you still aren’t happy, we will refund your unused tuition if you withdraw in the first three weeks.

Customize Your Pod!

Customize the pod how you want. These pods includes a homeroom class and organization class at no additional charge. The price also includes materials. 

Come Pod With Us...

Tuition:

2-Course Pod

2-Course Pod

$295 / month

4-Course Pod

4-Course Pod

$495 / month

Unlimited Pod

Unlimited pod

$699 / month

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