INDEPENDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
Touch the Music
Touch the Music is a unique music program that gives children an extraordinary opportunity to explore REAL instruments. It stimulates their senses and exposes them to a whole new world, which is very important in this era of virtual reality. All instruments used in Touch the Music are real orchestral instruments. String instruments (such as the violin, cello, bass and harp) are smaller proportioned versions to fit the children's size and height, allowing them to handle the instruments by themselves. Wind and percussion instruments are regular sizes. It is amazing to see how the children in a Touch the Music class pick up any instrument and play music within just a few moments. It is our wish that Touch the Music will plant seeds in all children to make music an important and everlasting part of their lives. www.TouchTheMusic.us
Computertots
Computertots is an international computer enrichment program, open to children in the Fours’ classes and to children in the Threes’ classes. Students will develop and strengthen both technological and educational skills giving them a competitive advantage as they embark on new learning situations. The curriculum changes each year, bringing all new software and projects. Children will use Laptops, JamC@M Digital Cameras, KidBoard Animation Stations and Roamer Robots as they create exciting projects. Four ½-hour classes per month. Software changes weekly and educational themes change monthly. “Children play on a computer at home but they learn with COMPUTERTOTS.”
Kids’ Dance Caravan
Kid's Dance Caravan is a dance program for both boys and girls, ages 3–6. The weekly half-hour class is a combination of tap/jazz for the boys and ballet/jazz for the girls. Each dance session lasts for several months. Parents are invited to view their child's progress periodically, and the children have the opportunity to perform at a recital during the holiday season and again in the Spring. After school dance classes for children in Kindergarten and 1st grade are offered on Wednesdays at 3:15 PM.
Arttra
Arttra Creations is an art enrichment program for preschoolers that provides a chance to learn and experience art-making with a variety of media, such as paint, clay, crayon, collage, chalk, oil pastels, etc.
Travelin' Tumblers
This gymnastics class for 3–5 year olds improves a child's physical fitness, stimulates whole brain and body use, enhances motor skill development, sensory integration and self esteem while also improving social and stress management skills. Equipment such as parallel bars, balance beams, vaulters, ladders, hoops and wedges are used to develop locomotor skills. Tumbling and Yoga are also incorporated.
Wee Sign
Wee Sign is a stimulating language enrichment program for hearing children ages 3–6. In weekly, half-hour classes students are provided with experiences in American Sign Language or ASL by engaging in a variety of familiar early school activities. Art projects, songs, fingerplays, games, and dramatic play are just some of the fun that will help expose students to the visual, expressive and beautiful language of sign!