We offer a variety of enrichment programs that meet once a week during after school hours such as:

Music, Dance, Art, Yoga and Sports (Children’s House and Elementary)

Robotics and Destination Imagination (Elementary)

Music

In Music Enrichment children will cultivate a love of music through the development of ear training (recognition of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, phrasing), visual discrimination (note recognition, the grand staff, ledger lines), physical movement (legato, staccato, tempo changes), and ensemble skills (following a conductor, singing on pitch, playing instruments).  Students will be exposed to quality music of various genres and of great composers.  They will have opportunity to improvise and learn beginning basics of composition.

Dance

Creative Dance is a special program for boys and girls who love to run, jump, slide, spin and swing to music. The curriculum presents and explores the following (with attention to detail and complexity at every advancing age):

• Body parts: whole and isolated body parts, leading and initiating with a part
• Time: quick, slow, clock time and rhythmic time
• Space and Pathways: personal, general space, air and floor designs, direct, indirect, straight, twisted, bent, narrow, wide
• Directions: toward floor, ceiling, walls, distance
• Levels and Directions of Focus: high, middle and lowWeight: heavy, light, strong, gentle, tense, relaxed
• Locomotion: walk, leap, run, hop, jump, skip, gallop, stride, slide and roll
• Action: thrust, slash, press, wring, float, flick, tap and glide
• Flow: sudden, sustained, successive, simultaneous, bound and free
• Shape and Size: drawing shapes in space, becoming shapes
• Awareness of others: partners, groups – large and small

Art

The Art Enrichment program is designed to flex the students’ imaginations, introduce them to art styles and techniques from throughout the globe, and get them comfortable using mediums they may or may not be familiar with.  While learning about art from different cultures, they will create artwork in markers, tempera paint, paper, collage (mixed media), and clay.  Students will also learn about the color wheel, geometric shapes, and making work in 2 and 3 dimensions.

Yoga

The Yoga Kids program offers more than just poses: It blends traditional yoga and its benefits with new theories of multiple learning styles in a comprehensive, imaginative and playful approach to education. Yoga kids presents more than 20 carefully selected poses paired with special activities that stimulate children’s verbal, spatial and artistic skills. The poses are arranged in groups (Four-legged friends, Peace & Quiet, Moving & Grooving, and Shake Like Jelly, among others). This program includes routines to cover a multitude of common situations such as calming down, getting ready for a test or even riding in a car.

Robotics

Enter a new world where the power of technology meets the power of your mind! In Robotics club, students learn to build and program robotic creations using LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System. They start by building simple robots using step-by-step guides, then program their innovations using RCX Code, a simple yet powerful programming language. Robotics teaches spacial and deductive skills through following diagrams and construction, and logic and sequencing skills through programming and design.