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  • Chess with The Knight School

    The Knight School is the chess party for the well-rounded kids of America from brand-new beginners to highly advanced chess players. Unlike your typical chess program, our primary focuses are good sportsmanship and fun. That being the case, our students continue to win state championships year after year. Join The Knight School chess party and give your child the gift of undeniable academic confidence, amazing chess friends, a self-identity as a smart kid, and a weekly dose of childhood joy that is the highlight of their week! Click the link to view the intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XrRhGFNNE Semester at a Glance Week Lesson and Band Color Lesson 1 Welcome to TKS and Identifying (rainbow/white) Chess Basics: moves, values and names 2 Backrowing (olive) Smother-mate uses their pieces 3 Sacrificing (turquoise) Make them chess the “bunny” 4 Deflecting (blue) Simply remove the defender 5 Trapping (plum) Cut off their escape 6 Discovering (violet) Uncover a surprise attack 7 Double Checkmating (brown) Two separate checks please 8 Bughouse (sky) The winning team gets the band 9 Promoting (purple) One kid plays many kids at once 10 Showcase (gray) Parents will be welcome to join the last class to watch or jump in and join on the bead-tourney
  • Martial Arts

    Our Martial Arts Program is designed to help students cultivate discipline, self-defense skills, confidence, and physical fitness through martial arts techniques and principles. Semester at a Glance Skills Lesson/Activity 1 Intro to martial arts and how to hold a fist Rally races and punches 2 Roundhouse kick and sidekick Mountain climbers and paddles 3 Front stance, back stance, and blocks Jumping jack and follow the leader 4 Combos Jogging, punches, strikes, and kicks 5 Form Rally races and basic form 6 Advanced kicks and strikes Partner exercises, spinning, and turning kicks 7 Self defense Partner exercises, escaping chokes, grabs, and hug 8 Form, self-defense, advanced kicks Running and tornado kick 9 Practice for showcase Kicks, stances, punches, strikes, and blocks 10 Final showcase Presentation
  • Cake Craft Shoppe's Creative Confections

    Get ready for a delicious adventure with our Cake Decorating course designed just for young bakers! Over eight fun-filled weeks, they'll learn to whip up American Buttercream and get hands-on experience with piping bags. From creating eye-catching cake borders to crafting beautiful flowers, each session is packed with simple techniques that lead to stunning results. By the end, your little baker will be ready to wow friends and family with their impressive new skills! Semester at a Glance Week Skill Lesson/Activity 1 Class Introduction and basic food safety Food safety, set expectations, discuss schedule 2 Making American Buttercream and Piping Stars and Shells Measure ingredients to make buttercream. Learn how to prep, fill, and hold piping bags. Pipe stars and shells. 3 Piping Dots, Dot Borders, and Rosettes Learn how to pip dots, dot border, and rosettes. Decorate six cupcakes to take home. 4 Icing and Decorating Small Single Layer Cakes Decorate cake using skills learned to take home. 5 Pull Dots, Drop and Swirl Flowers and Leaves Learn how to pipe drop flowers with leaves. Decorate six cupcakes to take home. 6 Using Flower Nails to Create Sunflowers Make a new batch of American Buttercream. Teach students how to properly use flower nails and how to pipe sunflowers using the flower nail. 7 Piping Hydrangea Learn how to pipe hydrangeas. Decorate a cake with sunflowers and hydrangea designs. 8 Decorate Final Cupcakes Students will decorate cupcakes using skills learned and take it home.
  • Roblox Makers

    Unlock the power of ROBLOX® Studio, the world creation tool used by real-world ROBLOX® developers! Learn how to build 3D models and create an adventure in your ROBLOX® world. Bring characters to life with unique animations you design. Student-created projects will be available on a password-protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program. Semester at a Glance Week Lesson/Activity 1 Terrain Generation and Modification – introduce Roblox Studio and learn the terrain tools. 2 Basic 3D modeling with Roblox Studio – part editing and creating models and exporting assets. 3 Create a structure and use the Roblox toolbox. 4 Advance 3D modeling with Roblox studio. 5 Free build and create character outfits. 6 Create custom non-player characters. 7 Branch dialog trees. 8 Animate non-player character movements. 9 Use the animation editor and create custom animations. 10 Export and apply the animations. Parent showcase and download instructions.
  • French

    Give your child the gift of another language with our French class. Our music and play based methodology are fun, interactive, and innovative, helping children acquire the language through games and fun activities. Semester at a Glance Week Core Curriculum and Thematic Topic 1 Core Curriculum: The students can greet someone politely; can introduce themselves when they meet people and tell someone their name; can ask someone how they are doing; can tell someone how they are doing; can tell someone whether or not they understand them; can pronounce the vowels in Spanish; can say goodbye politely. Thematic Curriculum: The students can use verbs related to the five senses to describe what they experience in simple sentences, and they can recognize and understand simple sentences when someone describes what they experience using verbs related to the five senses. 2 Core Curriculum: The students can count up to ten; can respond to questions such as their age; can ask someone their age; can count how many colors are in the rainbow; can name days of the week; can answer when asked what day is today; can explain that in Spanish the days of the week are not capitalized; can say some activities they do in different on different days. Thematic Curriculum: Sense of Sight - The students can say what they see using simple phrases, such as 'I see a tree,' 'I see a dog,' or 'I see a book.' The students can respond to questions about what they see and ask others about what they see using simple phrases. 3 Core Curriculum: The students can greet someone based on the time of the day; can name foods they like; can name some foods they dislike; can name some of their favorite places to visit and find them in the map; can say where they live and where their family is from. Thematic Curriculum: Sense of Smell - The students can say what they smell using simple phrases, and they can recognize and understand words or phrases about things they can smell. The students can respond to questions about what they smell and ask others about what they smell using simple phrases. 4 Core Curriculum: The students can answer when asked how they are feeling; can name some members of their family; can say if they think their family is big or small. Students can say if they have a pet and describe their pets. Thematic Curriculum: Sense of Taste - The students can say what they taste using simple phrases, and they can recognize and understand words or phrases about things they can taste. The students can respond to questions about what they taste and ask others about what they taste using simple phrases. 5 Core Curriculum: The students can use some words to describe the weather; can say when they are hungry; can name some months of the year; can answer when asked which month are we in. Thematic Curriculum: Review of the senses of Sight, Smell and Taste. 6 Core curriculum: The students can say which month their birthday is in; can say when they are thirsty; can say the name of some beverages they like to drink; can say the names of some fruits; can say the color of the fruits; can say if a food is a vegetable or not. Thematic Curriculum: Sense of Touch - The students can say what they feel and touch using simple phrases, and they can recognize and understand words or phrases about things they can feel and touch. The students can respond to questions about what they feel and touch and ask others about what they feel and touch using simple phrases. 7 Core Curriculum: The students can express their emotions; can use opposite emotions accurately and can ask someone how they are doing.; can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Thematic Curriculum: Sense of Hearing - The students can say what they hear using simple phrases, and they can recognize and understand words or phrases about things they can hear. The students can respond to questions about what they hear and ask others about what they hear using simple phrases. 8 Core Curriculum: The students can name some clothing items; can say what clothing items they should wear in different types of weather; can say when something is long or short. Thematic Curriculum: Review of the senses of Touch and Hearing. 9 Core Curriculum: The students can say when something is near or far; can name the four seasons of the year; can say what the weather is like in the four seasons of the year; can say some things they like to do in each of the four seasons of the year. The students will begin practicing for the final showcase. Thematic Curriculum: Putting it all together - The students will work on a project in which they will showcase things they like and do not like to taste, smell, hear, feel and see, and will review the vocabulary and structures learned. 10 Party/Soirée; final showcase. * The order in which the core curriculum topics and vocabulary are incorporated may vary. * We follow a spiral curriculum in which each class will begin with a review of concepts previously learned, and, after incorporating the new content, we will close with a review of the concepts learned that class. * Can-do statements describe the goal of what we want learners to independently do after a lesson.
  • Center Stage Dance

    Your children will be introduced to all major styles of dance, including ballet, jazz, lyrical, modern, and hip-hop in an upbeat and encouraging atmosphere. Classes are tailored to each school and the interest of the students in the class. Semester at a Glance Week Dance Style Lesson/Skills 1 Jazz Chassés, levels of movements (low and high), stretches, parachute activity 2 Lyrical Grand jeté, tours and continuing with previous skills, stretches, rainbow streamers activity 3 Ballet Demi plié, tendu, grand battement, changement, sauté, pirouettes, stretches, dancing with scarves 4 Modern Crab walks, horse prances, stretches, students will make up animal dances, stretches 5 Dance game/Holiday dance Chassés with poses, penché, stretches, floor work including coffee grinders and poses, dancing with scarves 6 Dance Fun Rotate through dance stations or play Halloween dance game, parachute activity 7 Modern Review skills learned, floor spins, animal dance charades, dance with ribbons 8 Preparation for Parent Showcase Students will learn choreography of a new dance and work on parent show 9 Preparation for Parent Showcase Students will continue practicing the choreography for the parent showcase 10 Parent Showcase Parents will be invited to see the students’ performance.
  • Code SpHERObot

    Sphero is an adorable, durable, interactive—you guessed it—spherebot. Its functionality is almost boundless. Students will use the Sphero has a programmable 8x8 LED matrix, so students can code it to change colors when Sphero rolls, stops or starts, reaches a goal, or whenever else they’d like. Coding sounds hard, but our younger coders utilize what’s called block coding. This means they’re not typing out code by hand—which can be complicated for such an age group—but rather dragging visual blocks into the coding area and connecting them. Semester at a Glance Build Lesson/Activity 1 What is a SpHERO – Bolt and how to use the app and device Students will be introduced to the bot and how to care for their bot, including how to navigate the tablet with the app. Students will be provided with 3 objectives during this workshop: Program, Problem Solve and Play. 2 Challenge 1 – Let’s Get Rolling PROGRAM: The bot to roll specific distance and speed. Add in delays. PROBLEM SOLVE: Change program to move around the entire area. Can you make it all around. PLAY: Set Bot at max speed. How fast can it go? 3 Challenge 2 – Ready, Set, Drive! PROGRAM: Students will learn how to turn on and off drive in a program. PROBLEM SOLVE: Change program to make Bot end where it started. PLAY: When the drive is turned on what happens? Modify! 4 Challenge 3 – Sound Timing PROGRAM: Students learn to control how to make the BOT program plays sounds. PROBLEM SOLVE: Modify the program in the sound blocks. What’s the difference. PLAY: Try other sounds or make the two sounds at the same time. 5 Challenge 4 – Two Truths & A Lie PROGRAM: Students learn how to show text on BOT display. PROBLEM SOLVE: Come up with two facts and one lie. PLAY: Run your program with a friend. Can they guess which one is a lie? 6 Challenge 5 – Matrix Pictures PROGRAM: Students learn how to program their own picture using matrix animation. PROBLEM SOLVE: Add a Matrix in a loop. PLAY: Run your program. What happens? Add frames to animate your picture. 7 Challenge 6 – Fade the LEDs PROGRAM: Students learn how to fade the LEDs from one color to another. PROBLEM SOLVE: Modify the program to a different color. PLAY: Program the Bot to show your three favorite colors. 8 Challenge 8 – A Ring of Lights PROGRAM: Students learn how to program Bot to turn on and off LEDS to make a light show. PROBLEM SOLVE: Modify by adding blocks to the program so that lights continue around the Bot. PLAY: Change to your favorite color and timing to move slower or faster. 9 Challenge 9 – Four Corners PROGRAM: Students learn how to program individual LEDS on the matrix. PROBLEM SOLVE: Modify by adding Pixels highlighted in each four corners of the matrix. PLAY: Create your first initial on the matrix. 10 Challenge 10 – Metamorphosis PROGRAM: Students will explore the BOT image library. PROBLEM SOLVE: Run the program. What do you see? Add one more block to end the display sequence with a butterfly. PLAY: Show a different life cycle on the Bot.
  • Pickleball with I Adore Athletics

    IAC is here to give you the ultimate Pickleball experience! Pickleball is a fun, social and friendly sport that combines elements of tennis, ping pong, and volleyball! The rules are super simple, making this sport easy to learn and enjoy! No prior experience is required for our IAC Pickleball program as our coach’s focus on the FUN of learning. Semester at a Glance Week Skills/Activities 1 (1) Introductions and ice breaker (2) Review rules and expectations (3) Fun warm up to get the body moving (4) Introduce equipment (5) Learn scoring system (6) Practice basic ball control skills 2 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Teach proper grip techniques (4) Introduce basic stances (5) Practice hitting with different grips and stances 3 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Teach serving techniques and strategies (4) Practice serving drills 4 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Teach footwork and positioning (4) Practice drills and serving from different angles and speeds 5 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Introduce volleys (4) Teach proper techniques for volleying (5) Practice volleying drills 6 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Teach dinks and drop shots (4) Practice drills for dinking and dropping shots 7 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Introduce basic game strategies (4) Teach how to anticipate opponent’s moves (5) Play mini games 8 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Teach basics of doubles (4) Focus on positioning on the court (5) Double play drills 9 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Simulate various game situations (4) Teach how to stay calm and focused (5) Play matches 10 Parents will be invited to see our Pickleball Showcase
  • Volleyball with I Adore Athletics

    Get ready to BUMP, SET & Spike!... with our IAC Volleyball program. Students learn the fundamentals of volleyball through fun exercises and drills! The adrenaline they get to keep the ball in the air during a game is like no other! No prior volleyball experience is required as our coaches focus on the FUN of learning volleyball. Semester at a Glance Week Skills/Activities 1 (1) Introductions and ice breaker (2) Review rules and expectations (3) Fun warm up to get the body moving (4) Learn how to bump and set the ball 2 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Set hit (4) Learn underhand/overhand service and positions 3 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Practice rotation with serve, set, and hit 4 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Learn game rules (4) Practice drills and rotation with rules 5 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Practice drills and rotation with rules 6 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Review game rules (4) Practice drills: rules, set, serve, pass, rotations, and positions 7 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving (3) Review game rules (4) Practice drills: rules, set, serve, pass, rotations, and positions (5) Practice a real game 8 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving 3) Review game rules (4) Practice drills: rules, set, serve, pass, rotations, and positions (5) Practice a real game 9 (1) Review rules and expectation (2) Fun warm up to get the body moving 3) Review game rules (4) Practice drills: rules, set, serve, pass, rotations, and positions (5) Practice a real game 10 Parents will be invited to see our Volleyball Showcase
  • Chalk Pastels with Young Rembrandts

    Journey around the world with the vibrant medium of chalk pastels! We invite young artists to explore global cultures through their rich artistic traditions. This class session is more than just an art class; it's a passport to diverse cultures, celebrated through the soft glow and brilliance of pastels. Perfect for young explorers with a passion for art and discovery. Enroll now and let the global adventure begin!