About Us
Nice to Meet You
My name is Taryn Kalagher and I have been homeschooling since 2015. I have 5 children, my oldest being 21 and my youngest is 5. I have a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Linguistics with a focus on child development and language acquisition. My husband and I started our homeschool journey with a friend in the basement of their house while we finished our bachelor's degrees. Education has always been important to us, but not just textbooks. We encourage our children to read, learn, and play to figure out what it is that they want to accomplish in life. We originally started Shield Academy for our family, but it has become something bigger as our family has grown and we now want to share our love and desire to learn with you!
Facts Masters Math
Monday and Wednesday 10:00 - 10:50 am
Facts Masters Course
Grades 2-7
Cost: $295/year
This math course is designed for those that are needing to strengthen their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. These are the basic building blocks for math and will help them to build a firm foundation to accel in later math courses. In addition to math facts, and we will also go over math skills that will include place value, fractions, decimals, geometry, and much more. Students will be grouped together based on level of knowledge.
Middle School Science
Monday and Wednesday 11:00 - 11:50 am
Grades 6-8 Biology
Cost: $395/year + $95 Lab Fee
Homework: about 1 hour a week
Book work and lessons will be done on Mondays and labs will be on Wednesday.
Elementary School Science
Monday and Wednesday 9:00 - 9:50 am
Grades 3-5
Cost: $295/year + $75 Lab Fee
Elementary science will consist of assignments, some videos, and hands on activities, as we go through a variety of topics such as, weather, animals, plants, volcanoes, forces, germs, the body, and much more.