Instructor: Coding with Kids
Calling all young Minecrafters! Unleash your creativity while customizing your beloved game, Minecraft! Using an age-appropriate drag-and-drop coding environment, young students will learn fundamental coding concepts like Sequence and Loops. They'll apply these skills to create exciting projects, such as building their own zoo, aquarium, dazzling diamond house, and even code a magic wand to summon animals and items. Get ready to embark on a journey to code your very own Minecraft mods!
Instructor: Coding with Kids
Calling all Minecrafters! Join us in this course to build Minecraft mods (modifications) while learning coding. With a drag-and-drop coding environment, students learn coding concepts, such as Variables, Conditionals, and Loops. They apply the concepts to personalize the game with custom world maps, new items, chat commands, and mini-games! It will be an exciting journey of coding and creativity!
Instructor: Sharilyn Lux
Grades K-3 will learn the following: basics of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in Spanish. We will practice vocabulary, listen to music in Spanish, this is a beginning level class. We will use the book Poemas para chicos y grandes, by All Bilingual Press in the class. The fee includes one book per student.
Grades 4-8 will learn the following: Students will focus on reading, writing, speaking, listening, and the diverse cultures of the many Spanish speaking countries of the world, as well as the cultural opportunities to encounter traditions of Spanish Speakers in our state and throughout the United States. We will use the book, Espanol por Chicos y Grandes, by All Bilingual Press.
Instructor: Sam Sinanan
Students will learn about and apply the elements and principles of art and experience a variety of art media and techniques – including painting with acrylics and watercolors, drawing with pastels, and sculpting with beads and wire. We will also explore combining different media into one work of art. With age-appropriate guidance, young artists will create unique projects each day, often with a seasonal theme. Designed for both new and returning students of different ages and abilities, each session offers new projects, and no previous experience is necessary. Class fee includes all child-friendly materials, including an art kit for keeps. Creating art can be messy – please have your artist dress appropriately!
Instructor: Sam Sinanan
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 class will introduce young artists to creating with fabric and fiber, including needle arts and collage. Fee includes all child-friendly materials.
Instructor: Sam Sinanan
Students will learn about and apply hand building techniques to create unique works of ceramic art. Artists will also learn about the science of glazing and firing clay. Projects are designed for both new and returning students, and 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!
Instructor: Sam Sinanan
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.
Instructor: Sam Sinanan
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.
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!
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!
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.
