A game based sports program designed to engage children in active wellness through advanced physical fitness challenges and interactive sports lessons. Children are introduced to different sports each week.

For kids that LOVE to read - either independently or as a group - this class will give children time to dig deeper into their own reading or to form book clubs to share their thoughts and ideas. The format will be KID driven and allow for a range of formats that work for each individual reader.

building fun!

Various arts & crafts activities for K-2nd grade students.

Students learn the art of persuasion and help select debate topics they find interesting. Students work in rotating groups and practice their debating skills in a supportive environment, including developing arguments, issuing rebuttals, providing examples, rebuilding their case and summarizing points of view. Students learn to think on their feet and enhance their public-speaking skills, gaining self-confidence in the process. This is a premium class, $40.00 per week

Participants will be learning rhythms playing drums and other percussion instruments, including agogo bells and shakers. Students will also learn freestyle and choreographed steps, spins and jumps from Maculelê, a warrior dance created by Africans in Brazil. Our participants will experience the connection of dance and rhythm in a fun, easy to learn and supportive class. No experience with drumming or dance necessary. All levels welcome.

Adventurers wanted for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)! In Dungeons & Dragons, players form an adventuring party to explore fantasy worlds together, go on epic quests and level up in experience. The Game Master (also known as the GM) is the game's referee and storyteller. There’s no winning or losing in D&D—at least, not in the conventional way. Create a character and join others on an adventure as you roll dice and decide what happens next!

Do you like plants? Are you interested in biology (the science of living things)? If so, then this is the place for you! We're going to learn all about the many different types of plant life on Earth and even grow a few of our own! We'll study how plants evolved and learn how they are both similar and different to animal life with some fun experiments, a few plant-based crafts, some really silly games and even a few plant-dissections too! We'll grow plants of our very own using traditional soil, hydroponics and even a few alternative mediums too, like super-absorbent polymers instead of soil. We'll even attempt to grow plants alongside insects to see if we can help create symbiotic habitats. So if you're interested in learning more about plants, this is the place for you - no "green thumb" required!

Girls on the Run is a 2-day per week commitment (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:45-4:15). Students are taught life skills through fun, engaging lessons that celebrate the joy of movement. The 20-lesson curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large. At each season's conclusion, the girls and their running buddies complete a 5k running event in December. Over the course of the program, girls will develop and improve competence, feel confidence in who they are, develop strength of character, respond to others and oneself with care and compassion, create positive connections with peers and adults, and make a meaningful contribution to community and society. VERY IMPORTANT: All families will need to register on the Girls on the Run Website , gotrnyc.org/register. GOTR charges $350 for each participant - this amount is included in your afterschool bill. DO NOT PAY Girls on the Run directly. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, you must let us know as soon as possible. If not, we will assume that you can pay the full $350 program fee. We will notify you when the GOTR registration is open. The official GOTR program will end in December after the 5K. All girls registered for GOTR on Tuesdays & Thursdays can remain in afterschool for the remaining weeks of the semester at no additional cost.

Structured and unstructured time to play a variety of sports and games - both physical and non-physical (cards, board games, brain games.). The focus will be on team sports and games that foster cooperation, competition, following rules, being a team player and a good sport. For little ones, this is a great opportunity to learn and develop social skills.

School Age Child Care licenses require that PreK students be grouped separately from older students. They may be grouped only with K students with a staff to child ratio of 1:8 with a group size less than 12. PreK play activities will include arts & crafts, playground time, legos, sports and more.

Explore the medium of textiles, combining craft and STEM, and learn to sew! A skilled instructor will guide students through selecting and preparing fabric, designing and sequencing projects, and assembling them using hand sewing techniques and sewing machines. Students will exercise their creativity, skills, and problem solving while creating their own functional and wearable pieces

Structured and unstructured time to play a variety of sports and games - both physical and non-physical (cards, board games, brain games.). The focus will be on team sports and games that foster cooperation, competition, following rules, being a team player and a good sport.

This semester we will continue our fall studies including making leaf field guides, bird models and woodland animal dioramas. we will continue with a geology study making rock boxes and beginning our own rock collection with special rocks.