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      • Bittersweet Stables: All About Horses
      • Equine Studies: Red Bud Gypsies Ranch
      • Sandmann Farm: Horsemanship 101 & 102
      • Horses from Head to Tail: Circle C Stables
      • Ground Zero - Exploring Equine Education
      • Mounted Archery
      • Horse Care and Management with Patsy Little
      • Janine Frizzo: Small Animal Husbandry
      • Spring Creek Equestrian Center
      • YMCA Camp Eberhart
    • Art Classes >
      • Architecture
      • Buchanan Art Center
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      • Ceramics/Pottery >
        • Ceramics with Jill Dodge
        • Wheel Fun Pottery!
      • Creative Design with Robert Ritzenthaler
      • Collage
      • Design Street in Plainwell
      • Drawing and Painting Classes: see tabs >
        • Drawing with Niki McNeil
        • Calligraphy: Lettering By Hand
        • Elementary Art with Jill Dodge
        • Elements of Design
        • Janine Frizzo: Drawing, Painting or Sculpture
        • Animal Art with Lori Ehlke
        • Young Rembrandts
      • Jewelry /Beadwork >
        • Beadwork: with Kim Bollman
        • Jewelry with Kim Bollman
      • FLC: Art and Culture Around the World
      • Ground Zero: Archery Art
      • Krasl Art Center
      • Nature and Community Arts
      • Photography and Videography >
        • Photography or Videography with Robert Ritzenthaler
      • Stained Glass Options >
        • Stained Glass: Stevensville: Heidi Martin
      • Water Street Glassworks >
        • Water Street Glassworks
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      • Sawyer Dance Studios
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      • CMW: Children's Music Workshop
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      • Foreign Languages >
        • Battle Creek Japanese School
        • Bridge to China
        • Conversational Spanish
      • Historical Arts & Technology >
        • American Girl Project
        • Janine Frizzo - Colonial Studies
      • Re-enactment Arts >
        • Archery
        • Blacksmithing: Ted Guimond
        • Blacksmith I & II: Birchbank Farms
        • Fencing: Blue Steel
        • Historic Dance
    • Life Skills >
      • Cooking >
        • Janine Frizzo - Cooking with class (Little Red Hen)
      • Crochet: with Niki McNeil
      • Sewing and Textiles >
        • Creative Sewing with Jessica Yoder
        • Ground Zero Sewing - Prairie Days
        • Quilting: Beginning
        • Sewing or Quilting: Doreen Cox
        • Sewing and Quilting: Robin English
        • Sewing: Jackie Ransom
        • Janine Frizzo - Sewing, tailoring and textiles with Janine Frizzo
        • Janine Frizzo - Sheep to Shawl
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      • Music Lessons: Group >
        • Berrien Springs Public School - Band or Choir
        • Choir - Berrien Center
        • Dave Carlock's FRS Program
        • Kindermusik at The Citadel
        • Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra
        • The Music Academies - Niles
        • School of American Music
        • West Michigan Homeschool Fine Arts
        • Shoreline Music Classes
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      • Community & Landscape Workshop
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      • Love Creek: Outdoor Explorers
      • Nature Heritage 1
      • Sarett: Nature Explorers
      • Syrup to Cider: A Year of Eating and Growing Locally
      • Wilderness and Culture
    • Physical Education >
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        • Elite Sports Academy
        • Infinite Gymnastics at Andrews
        • Kids' Gym: Portage
        • Power In Motion
        • The Club for Gymnastics
        • YMCA gymnastics
      • Martial Arts
      • Physical Fitness & Sports >
        • Basketball >
          • Basketball: Andrews Jr. Cardinals
          • Basketball: Niles with Dan Oates
          • Basketball: YMCA
        • CrossFit Locations
        • Ground Zero: Fitness In Archery
        • Hockey: Youth League
        • Ice Skating: Learn to Skate: Garden Ice Arena
        • Physical Fitness Classes at the BH/SJ YMCA
        • Physical Fitness Classes at the Niles-Buchanan YMCA
        • Soccer >
          • Soccer: Kickers or Kingdom Sports
          • Soccer: YMCA
        • Tennis: Group Lessons
        • Volleyball >
          • Ground Zero Volleyball
          • Volleyball: Southwest and Other
        • Youth Dance Fitness Training
      • Rock Climbing
      • Swim and Gym Locations
      • Swim Lessons/Swim Teams >
        • Group Swim Lessons: various locations
        • Lifeguarding Certification and Junior Lifeguarding
        • Swim Clubs
    • Technology >
      • EEME: Electronics Kits
      • Fab Lab, Intro to Digital Fabrication with Tom Hurst
      • FLC Tech Classes
      • Intro to Electronic Music
      • Recording Studio
      • Robotics: Meg Edwards
      • Self-A-STEAM Robotics, Engineering, and Coding
    • Vocational Education >
      • Auto Mechanics
      • Ground Zero - Know Your Bow
      • Woodworking >
        • Woodworking with Tom Hurst
        • Woodworking with Jim
      • YMCA: Boat Building
  • Dual Enrollment / CTE
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Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy​​
Music Classes             Fall 2018

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The Parent Partnership offers many options for musical development.  Choose from choir, orchestra and many instruments at the Music Academy or the experience of playing in a 140 member Youth Orchestra at the Lake Michigan Orchestra.  Explore the links below to find the perfect fit for you.




  • Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra  A division of Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, located in St. Joseph and performing at the Mendel Center in Benton Harbor.    www.smso.org
  • Berrien Springs Public Schools : Middle and High school bands and choirs
  • ​Choir - Berrien Center   520-991-8394
  • Citadel Music Classes ( Kindermusik) Located in the Arts District in Benton Harbor, the Citadel Dance & Music Center offers Make Way for Music for young children.  Younger siblings may join under a self-pay arrangement. 
  • Dave Carlock's FRS Program​
  • ​The Music Academies Follow the link for the complete course list for all ages.  Located in Niles, the Music Academies offers all levels of classes for the beginner up to the most advanced players.  Classes are offered in keyboard, guitar, choral, Music theory/history, band and much more. 
  • School of American Music in Three Oaks
  • Shoreline Dance Academy:  Group music classes in South Haven
  • ​West Michigan Homeschool Fine Arts​
Photo used under Creative Commons from Яick Harris