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
Computer Explorers
Computer Explorers 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. Software changes weekly and educational themes change monthly. “Children play on a computer at home but they learn with Computer Explorers.”
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. An after school program is offered for ages 5 and up.
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.
ChampKidz
This special program is based on popular sports. ChampKidz increases fitness, boosts self-esteem, and builds locomotor skills, such as throwing, catching, jumping, and kicking, through basic athletic fundamentals.
ChampKidz recognizes the importance of social skills such as sharing, taking turns, and following directions, in conjunction with the physical skills of hand eye coordination, agility, and flexibility. We encourage teamwork, as well as individual attention in a non-competitive, age appropriate, and supportive environment. As parents and teachers know, children love modified versions of the sports the older kids play.