Instructor: Coding with Kids
This class offers young children the perfect opportunity to develop their computational thinking skills and have a blast with their friends! The course is tailored for early readers and takes into consideration their cognitive abilities and attention span. Beginners learn essential coding concepts, such as Loops and Conditions. Returning students encounter new challenges. Projects include games, stories, and even animated characters.
Instructor: Coding with Kids
Get ready to learn how to code and express your creativity! Using Scratch, a fun drag-and-drop coding tool, you will build exciting projects like games, animations, and interactive stories. If you’re just starting out, you’ll code your games with basic concepts, such as loops and variables. Returning students will move on to more interesting concepts like using special conditions and functions. Advanced students will explore advanced topics like game physics! So get ready to have a blast!
How will you know when your child is ready to stay home alone? What should your child know about accident prevention, first aid, choking, and fire prevention? Have you begun important conversations on stranger-danger, abduction, abuse, or digital safety, like cyberbullying or sexting? This class teaches your child how to be safer at home and in the community! All participants will receive a Safe Kids 101 book. Please bring a healthy beverage and nut-free snack.
With summer birthday parties and gatherings around the corner, would a manners class help your child stay on track with kind and respectful behavior? This class covers how to: introduce yourself and others, interrupt politely, and set informal and formal table settings. We’ll also talk about table manners, being a guest in someone’s home, and behaving appropriately at home and at parties. All participants will receive a Polite Kids 101 handbook. To allow your child to practice some of what they learn, a light snack of crackers & cheese, apple slices and carrot sticks will be served, so please let us know of any food allergies. Feel free to bring a healthy beverage and an additional nut-free snack.
In the high-tech world we live in, it’s important to stay connected with our basic senses. Designed for beginner and intermediate students, this 2-week class will introduce young artists to fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting and macrame. Fee includes all child-friendly materials.
Designed for both new and returning students, this 2-week workshop will teach young artists about the techniques of hand building with clay, resulting in unique works of ceramic art. Artists will also learn about the science of glazing and firing clay. Projects will be kiln-fired and ready for pick up 3-4 weeks after the session ends. Fee includes firing and all child-friendly materials. Working with clay can be messy, so have your artist dress appropriately!
Join us to brush, sponge and pour our way to one-of-akind masterpieces. With acrylics, watercolor paints and pencils, and pastels, artists will learn about and apply various painting styles and techniques to create landscape, seascape, and still life paintings. Fee includes all child-friendly materials. Creating art can be messy, so have your artist dress appropriately!
Would your child like to create one-of-a-kind handcrafted art gifts for this holiday season? Here are two opportunities to learn and apply some art concepts and skills while making gorgeous gifts for someone special. In each workshop, young artists will create two unique gifts and decorate a gift bag for each. Workshop fees include all child-friendly materials. Creating art can be messy; please have your artist dress appropriately!
Instructor: Robot U
Let Robot U and LEGO Education help your child discover their inner MAD Scientist! In a series of fun classes, your young roboticist will create moving sensing colorful LEGO robots. There will be spinning tops, drumming monkeys, snapping alligators, flying planes, giggles, laughing, and much more. Each week students will build and program a new and different robot while soaking up new STEM concepts, such as levers, belts and pulleys. Also gearing, and programming concepts such as wait, if, repeat till, and messaging. They will also learn teamwork, computer skills, and material management. What a wonderful way for a young mind to be introduced to these advanced STEM concepts in a totally approachable and engaging way through one of their favorite toys, LEGOS.
