Extra Curricular Activities

·  Health and Fitness – We are EXERcited to be welcoming Stretch-N-Grow to our school.  Stretch-N-Grow is an early childhood physical education, nutrition, and wellness program.  This program strives to improve the level of fitness in our children, help them master their FUNdamental motor skills, and teach them the importance of a healthy lifestyle and perils of inactivity.

Features:

·         Certified Youth Fitness Instructors

·         Continuous, Fun Exercise

·         No Waiting in Line

·         Age-Appropriate Lesson Plans

·         New Lessons Every Week

More information about Stretch-N-Grow online at www.sngfitness.com

·  Language – Research confirms that association between movement and language leads to vocabulary development and concept understanding: therefore, we offer sign language classes to all of our children.  Each week your child will have the unique opportunity to explore the “movement” of language.

Features:

·         Many signs actually look like the concept they represent, creating a picture in the air.

·         New lessons each week that build on the previous week.

·         Classroom concepts enhanced through sign.

·         American Sign Language (ASL) and Signed English (SE) are introduced.

·         On-site, certified teacher with experience teaching deaf education.

Search ASL on-line for additional resources and at home ideas that you can learn with your child.  Sign language is not only educationally beneficial, but it is tons of fun!

·  Dance – All students at Kids ‘R’ Kids participate in Dancercise Kids class for 20-30 minutes each week.  Dancercise Kids provides an energetic, educational program for toddlers and pre-school children.   It is based on original and high quality music, and a unique curriculum featuring basic dance (ballet, tap, and jazz) sign language, nutrition, manners, creative movement, and tumbling.  Through this program, boys and girls alike learn self-confidence, communication, balance, coordination, fine and gross motor skills, and, most of all, to have FUN!

Features:

·         New Songs/Lessons Each Week

·         Sign Language in Every Lesson

·         Muscle of the Month

·         Certified Dance Teacher

·         Songs can be downloaded for $1.99 each at www.dancercise.com

·  Music – Little Musicmaker classes provide an exciting and fun environment for your child’s first experience with music making.  Every class is a high energy, interactive class designed to promote your child’s musical growth.

Features:

·         Classes provide every child with the opportunity to experience the joys and benefits from not just listening to music, but actually making music.

·         Instruments are brought into each classroom so that all children may participate in guided music making activities.

·         Students and classroom teachers are introduced to a new concept every week.

·         Studies show behaviors improves and test scores are higher when children study music.

More information about Little Musicmaker online at www.littlemusicmaker.com

·  Computer Skills – Each week children will engage in a variety of activities to learn basic computer skills.

Features for Computer Skills:

·         Enhance fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination to operate a mouse or manipulate our interactive Hatch SmartBoard

·         Improve cognitive skills of causality and vertical/horizontal transfer in order to understand that what they are doing with the keyboard or mouse is making things happen on the computer screen.

·         Explore and experiment with cause and effect, problem solving, and beginning reading skills in simple environments like interactive stories and play rooms.  More information on our educational software and TeachSmart hardware can be found at HATCH Early Childhood.