Course Schedule
schedule
Tuesdays at St. Mary in Littleton, 11 AM -4 PM, 2nd semester starts 1/18/22
11:00 AM: Business
11:55 AM: Lunch and Coffee Shop (operated by the Business class)
12:50 PM: PE, Fit for Heaven
2 PM: Art OR Beginning Conversational Spanish
3 PM: Writing
(Classes will be 55 minutes long to allow for transitions)
2nd Semester Class Dates:
1/18, 1/25
2/1, 2/8, 2/15, (no class on 2/22)
3/1, 3/8, (no class 3/15 & 3/22 Spring Break), 3/29
4/5, (no class 4/12 Holy Week), 4/19, 4/26
5/3, 5/10 snow makeup day if needed
Instructors
danielle goodnight, business instructor & mater dei coordinator
I have five sons and have been homeschooling for the last 18 years. During this time I have also been a business owner. My entrepreneurship started when I was in college with my children’s birthday party entertainment business. After college I started and ran a bookkeeping business and then a customer satisfaction consulting business. As a young mother, I started and owned a natural mothering website and maternity boutique in Omaha, NE from 2003-2006. In 2006, I started a communications and IT business with my husband in Albuquerque, NM and we currently operate the business in Angel Fire, NM and here in Littleton, CO. We connect businesses, hospitality properties, condo complexes, and vacation homes to broadband and WiFi, satellite TV, and internet based phone service- and we maintain all of those systems. St. Zelie Martin has been a model to me in my endeavors and I will seek her intercession as I start a new venture with enterprising young homeschoolers, seeking to teach them to be creative and principled entrepreneurs. I am a parishioner at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Littleton.
hope hecker, art & writing instructor
Hope Hecker is returning to Mater Dei after teaching a Drama class last year. She is originally from Colorado, though in 2016, she spent nine months in the postulancy of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Tennessee. While there, she studied with a focus on theology, Scripture, and philosophy. She returned home to Colorado in May of 2017 and spent a semester as the Elementary Youth Minister at St. Mary, teaching catechism to 5-10 year-olds, and three years as a Nursery attendant. After a number of odd jobs, working mainly with children, she now works front office at a clinic. She is excited to teach again this year.
ana jorda, beginning & intermediate spanish instructor
Ana Jorda is a native of Madrid, Spain, has a B. A., Major in English, from Long Island University, N.Y. She has taught Freshman High School Spanish at Bishop Carroll High School, Ebensburg, Pa., High School Spanish summer exchange programs at St Mary's school, Littleton, CO., after school Spanish K - 6 at Montessori Peaks Academy, Littleton, and Most Precious Blood, Denver. Has tutored in Spanish 9th -10th graders in Littleton; relocated ten years ago to the Denver area to live near her son and daughter in law and their family. She travels to Spain whenever possible.
aaron mikita, pe "fit for heaven" instructor
Aaron Mikita is the Athletic Director for Highlight Catholic Ministries and the Head Coach for Frassati Sports & Adventure. Coach Mikita has over 15 years of coaching and leadership experience. He has coached youth from age 4 to middle school. As a two-sport athlete in high school (basketball and soccer), he excelled at soccer as an All-State Defensemen and led his high school team to their first state championship appearance in 30 years. Mr. Mikita has been coaching with Frassati Sports since its inception and was named a 2019 Coach of the Year by the Colorado Soccer Association. He and his wife of 17 years, along with their four children, are parishioners at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Parish in Littleton, CO, where Mr. Mikita has served as a religious education instructor.