Verbal Gerbil
K-8 Tutoring helping kids master language and logic skills through personalized learning paths and engaging pets on our farm!
Think pet 🐹shop meets tutoring 👩🏫center!
Our farm-based learning center has small 🦎animals, birds🐤, and tropical 🐟 fish and larger farm 🐄animals. Verbal Gerbil’s unique nature-aligned academic lessons will fascinate and motivate your children and accelerate their learning.
Verbal Gerbil is a new and innovative approach to teaching and learning. At Verbal Gerbil we embrace your child's love and curiosity about the natural world and use it as a springboard to launch into fun lessons that reinforce language arts, math, critical thinking, and science skills and involve popular pets and amazing plants.
Engaging & Effective
Verbal Gerbil Tutoring Playdates are more than lessons—they’re adventures that spark curiosity, build knowledge, and make learning unforgettable!
Engaging: Learning becomes a fun adventure with pets as the star.
Effective: Gamification encourages effort and focus, building stamina and academic skills.
Memorable: Students leave with stories, facts, and prizes that make them eager to return.
Flexible: Sessions can be adjusted for virtual or in-person settings, catering to individual or group formats.
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Where Education Meets Curiosity and Fun!
At Verbal Gerbil Tutoring, we believe learning should be as engaging as it is effective. By combining academic excellence with playful, pet-themed adventures, we spark a love for learning in every child.
Parents can save big and guarantee consistent progress with a Verbal Gerbil monthly or quarterly subscription.
Verbal Gerbil ✨sparks joy!
Most kids love pets and are innately intrigued by them. In our family of 6 kids, a trip to the pet shop is the next best thing to going to the zoo! Our multidisciplinary enrichment lessons involve popular fury, feathered, and scaly pets, sparking joy and engagement.
Verbal Gerbil Pet-Play Model
🙌Motivation & Engagement
Your kids will beg you to sign them up for extra sessions! We use gamification, edutainment techniques, extrinsic rewards, and of course high-interest pets to keep your child focused and making progress along their learning path. While completing their learning paths, VG kids get up close and personal with animals and plants.
✂️Project-Based Learning
Verbal Gerbil kids learn by doing and observing. Private, small-group tutorial sessions are near-paperless, and unlike other tutoring companies, there are no repetitive worksheets. Kids engage in exercises and projects that bring real-life context and technology into every lesson and that teach and reinforce 21st-century skills.
🐹Why Animals? What’s the Connection?
Animals and amazing plants offer a unique perspective on the world from which we can learn. Engaging with nature can enhance student motivation, learning, leadership, empathy, and character building. Involving high-interest pets and plants in learning can also help students with ADD, ADHD improve focus.
📅 1:1 Play Dates (Tutoring) Private Pods (1:3)
VG offers highly-personalized and fun hands-on private tutorials, we call these Play Dates. Whether your child needs intervention, acceleration, or enrichment, our trained learning guides will deliver big results during every private pod or one-on-one tutoring session. Pick a pet and book your play date today!
FAQs- Benefits of Pet-Play
Our Learning Guides enhance students’ educational and personal development through positive interaction with pets. According to studies and teacher feedback, interacting with a classroom pet can:
Improve focus.
Teach empathy and compassion.
Facilitate student responsibility.
Increase student engagement.
Improve attendance due to their classroom pet.
Develop social skills.
Reduce anxiety.
Improve students’ self-esteem.
Decrease necessary disciplinary measures.
Improve test/academic performance.
Be a best friend.
Our Pod Pets and Guest Pets help stimulate learning and enrich the learning experience for all students.
"As a homeschooling mom, I'm thrilled about the opening of the new learning center in our area, which combines pet play with natural world exploration. It's such a unique concept! My children have always been drawn to animals, and being able to interact with pets while learning about their characteristics, quirks, and habitats, is a dream come true for them.
— ESTHER L., MOTHER OF TWO
