Deerfield Park District After School Enrichments South Park - Winter 2019

Register online at register.deerfieldparks.org Registration opens Monday, November 26 at 9 am All Classes meet at South Park School. All students should meet in the multipurpose room for attendance. Please contact Mark Woolums at 847-572-2623 with any questions. WEEK AT A GLANCE

Class Instructor Grade Art with Mari Mari Krasney K-5 Thunderbolts Flag Football Fit 4 Kids 1-4 Amazing Minds Amazing Minds K-2 Sticky Fingers Cooking Sticky Fingers Cooking K-5 Monday

Class Instructor Grade Triple Play Hot Shot Sports K-3 Cartooning and More Susie Mason K-5 Cooking Taste Buds Kitchen 2-5 Little Footlighters Sarah Hall Theatre Company K-3

Yoga Movement Junkies K-5 Tuesday

Class Instructor Grade Fit 4 Kids Fit 4 Kids K-3 Amazing Art Sunshine Crafts K-5 Guitar Sasha Brusin K-5 Spanish Fun Fluency 3-5 (Early) TechStars: Minecraft Mods & Sploder Computer Explorers 1-4 Wednesday Wednesday Cheerleading Soul 2 Soul Dance 3-5

Class Instructor Grade Lacrosse 5 Star Sports 1-4 TechStars: Game Design & Animation Computer Explorers 1-4 in 2D & 3D (Late) RubixFix Mr. Matthews 1-5

Wednesday Wednesday Spanish Fun Fluency 3-5

Class Instructor Grade Ceramics Richard Cohen K-5 Karate Focus Martial Arts K-5 Homework Club Mrs. Keidan 2-5 Sticky Fingers Cooking Sticky Fingers Cooking K-5 Pegasus FC Soccer Clinic Pegasus FC Soccer K-3 Thursday

Class Instructor Grade Artopia Tiffany Shaf Plat K-5 Chess Chess Scholars K-5 Lil Dribblers Basketball Hot Shot Sports K-3 Friday Monday 1/14 - 3/18 | Time: 3:35 - 4:35 pm 7 Classes | No class 1/21, 2/18, 3/4

Art with Mari thunderbolts Amazing Activity # 251610-01 Flag Football Minds K-5 Grade | Fee: $120 Students will create multi-media Activity # 251610-02 Activity # 251610-03 projects, introducing them to a 1-4 Grade | Fee: $188 K-2 Grade | Fee: $157 variety of media including pencil, Thunderbolts: Join us this fall for Explore interesting topics and learn to watercolor, and acrylic. Students will another fun season of flag football use tools that help you solve problems also learn to observe their with Coach Steve and crew. We have such as calculators, magnifying surroundings, visualize a product, a blast learning all about football in a glasses, microscopes, tape measures and conceptualize an outcome while safe environment. We team up with and geology kits. Engage in science drawing and painting. New projects our buddies to play against kids from experiments where you dissect owl will be offered each session! the other 3 Deerfield schools on pellets, wear prism glasses, and make Friday evenings. This year we are raisins bounce. Top it all off with ex- teaming up with USA football so citing topic related take home prizes. every new participant will receive an Come and exercise your brain with us NFL Flag football jersey! after school. All new lessons each session.

Sticky Fingers cooking Activity # 251610-04 K-5 Grade | Fee: $188 Let your child release their inner chef as they prepare and eat healthy global inspired recipes! Our Chefs reinforce kitchen skills associated with our weekly recipes and each area of cooking terminology, foods and fun nutrition facts. Full recipes will be created each class with our master chef instructors. Sticky Fingers Cooking is 100% nut free. We CAN and WILL accommodate ANY and ALL food allergies. tuesday 1/15 - 3/19 | Time: 3:35 - 4:35 pm 9 Classes | No Class 2/19 Triple Play Cartooning and More Activity # 251610-05 Activity # 251610-06 K-3 Grade | Fee: $136 K-5 Grade | Fee: $153 This class features three sports: football, soccer and Have you always wanted to learn how to draw your favorite dodgeball. Participants develop skills associated animated characters? We will draw two–three characters each with each sport and have opportunities to use these class following step-by-step instructions while mastering drawing skills in game situations. Emphasis is placed on skill fundamentals as they apply to both animation and realistic figure development, teamwork and sportsmanship. drawing. Students will explore different drawing styles and media including pencil, colored pencil, watercolor pencil, charcoal and pastel. New projects will be done each session!

Cooking with taste Little Footlighters Activity # 251610-08 buds kitchen K-3 Grade | Fee: $175 Activity # 251610-07 Little Footlighters helps develop creativity and 2-5 Grade | Fee: $292 confidence both onstage and off! Through a From decadent desserts to nutritious meals, this class will vocal and physical warm-up, improvisation, theater set you up to be a future top chef. With exciting games, and storybook theater, students learn the semester themes including Mystery Basket, Around the basic tools for acting and performance. This class World, Cooking Science, SuperFoodie and more, your creates a safe and nurturing environment where budding chefs will challenge their senses with blind taste students are free to explore and discover the magic tests, exciting kitchen games and culinary experiments as of theater while working individually and as an we create our recipes from scratch each week. ensemble. Yoga Activity # 251610-09 K-5 Grade | Fee: $162 Come to Yoga to relax your bodies and brains after school! You will learn beginning yoga practices, breathing techniques, and many poses that you can bring home with you to share! You may bring your own yoga mat or we can provide one. wednesday 1/16 - 3/20 | 2:35 - 3:35 pm 10 Classes Amazing Art Activity # 251610-11 K-5 Grade | Fee: $237 fit 4 kids Amazing Art combines all your favorite art projects and mixed media in this unique class. Activity # 251610-10 Kids will make Tie Dye shirts (art smocks for the K-3 Grade | Fee: $194 session), experience pottery painting, create fired Fit 4 Kids™: The original kid’s fitness program. We get kids mov- ceramic arts, paint a canvas acrylic painting, do ing and show them that fitness can be fun! Forget push-ups and recycled art projects and more. Lessons will sit-ups; we play fun games like noodle tag, mousetrap, gladiator include concepts and techniques kids can use for and much more. Balls, hula hoops, jump ropes, parachutes and a lifetime and the experience of creating more will help guide us through our activities. This program will awesome projects will result in great self-esteem not only give kids a great workout, but will also let them have and a sense of accomplishment. All new lessons fun while learning something at the same time. for every session. Guitar Spanish Activity # 251610-13 Activity # 251610-12 3-5 Grade | Fee: $208 K-5 Grade | Fee: $150 Join Fun Fluency on an after school adventure of learning a new Welcome back to another great language—the way your brain was meant to learn it! Students learn session of guitar with Sasha Brusin. Spanish naturally through immersion, movement, games, songs, rhythm, Learn new, popular songs in this fun reading and acting out/listening to stories. Our storytelling-based method and instructional class that stresses focuses on long-term retention, not just memorization. Students will fun and teaching the fundamentals of quickly see how fun and easy it is to understand, read, and write in guitar. Students must bring their own Spanish while being immersed in language, play, and laughter. Class fee guitar. includes workbook and useful online resources to continue studies outside of class. TECHSTARS: MINECRAFT MODS AND SPLODER Cheerleading Activity # 251610-14 Activity # 251610-15 1-4 Grade | Fee: $252 3-5 Grade | Fee: $186 Explore the world of mods! Minecraft, one of the most popular video games Experience this class with the teachers at in history, offers an amazing world of endless possibilities. Let your Soul 2 Sole Dance. Learn the skills imagination transform your Minecraft experience into a unique world YOU needed to be part of a school create! This class is for intermediate and advanced students with cheerleading team. Class will focus on the basic Minecraft knowledge. Working in pairs, students will discover how to lines of the body and working with other expand their worlds’ abilities using popular game-enhancing mods. dancers. Kicks, leaps, turns, tricks, as well Students will have a ton of FUN using their creativity and strategy to develop as focus on flexibility make this class a a multi-level computer game with Sploder! must! wednesday 1/16 - 3/20 | 3:40 - 4:40 pm 10 Classes Lacrosse Activity # 251610-16 1-4 Grade | Fee: $179 Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the world. New players will be taught basic rules and skills of the game, such as cradling, passing, catching, shooting, and ground balls. Taught by 5 Star Sports academy coaches who love and have played the sport for years! TECHSTARS: GAME DESIGN & ANIMATION IN 2D & 3D Activity # 251610-17 1-4 Grade | Fee: $252 In this coding adventure, aspiring game designers create fun animated stories and games while learning essential programming concepts using Scratch, a drag-and-drop platform developed by MIT. Use Sprites and Blocks and set a foundation of computational thinking—an essential skill in today’s tech-driven world—by using bright visuals and engaging design. Learn to design animation for a 3D interactive game, movie or story! Working with a partner in an interactive interface, students will drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program. The instructions correspond to “real life” programming languages, such as Java, C++, and C. Get a head start on a coding career! Students use an innovative block-based programming environment to create their own 3D simple games and animations. Nemo, Dory and flying dragons will keep students engaged and having fun as they learn. RubixFix Spanish Activity # 251610-18 Activity # 251610-19 1-5 Grade | Fee: $179 3-5 Grade | Fee: $208 The RubixFix course consists of (one to one) tutoring Join Fun Fluency on an afterschool adventure of learning and teaching of the cube from the instructor as well as a new language—the way your brain was meant to learn help from peers. Students will receive a RubixFix t-shirt it! Students learn Spanish naturally through immersion, and a new 3x3 cube. Students will start with learning movement, games, songs, rhythm, reading and acting out/ the traditional 3x3 cube. Individual progress will be listening to stories. Our storytelling-based method focuses tracked and charted. Students will have exciting op- on long-term retention, not just memorization. Students will portunities to strengthen their progress through games quickly see how fun and easy it is to understand, read, Lacrosse and challenges during the hour long session. Students and write in Spanish while being immersed in language, Registration # 351610-23 who have learned the 3x3 will easily learn the 2x2 cube play, and laughter. Class fee includes workbook and useful 1-4 Grade | Fee: $127 and then be challenged by the 4x4 cube. online resources to continue studies outside of class. Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the world. New play- ers will be taught basic rules and skills of the game, such as cra- dling, passing, catching, shooting, and ground balls. Taught by coaches who love and have played the sport for years! Thursday 1/17 - 3/21 | Time: 3:35 - 4:35 pm 10 Classes Ceramics Activity # 251610-20 Karate K-5 Grade | Fee: $191 Activity # 251610-21 Learn basic techniques of K-5 Grade | Fee: $179 hand-building. Create decorative Build coordination, agility, strength and poise; release tension and get in touch items while learning different with your body. Karate helps foster a strong, positive self-image. The mental techniques of glazing, decorative aspect builds confidence, control and discipline while developing muscle tone, and using surface treatments. Small cardiovascular fitness and skills. Advanced students improve techniques and classes allow for individual attention. learn valuable self-defense skills. Work on your own projects at your own pace. Homework Club Activity # 251610-22 2-5 Grade | Fee: $175 Get a jump on homework before you get home! Mrs. Keidan will give you support on homework, and help develop study skills for tests. Students will have the opportunity to use math manipulatives, access XtraMath or Pearson Success Net, as well as one on one support. Students will receive individualized attention and receive help with their homework and specific skills based on their grade level in school. Sticky Fingers Cooking Pegasus FC Soccer Activity # 251610-23 K-5 Grade | Fee: $266 Clinic Let your child release their inner chef as they prepare and Activity # 251610-24 eat healthy global inspired recipes! Our Chefs reinforce kitchen skills associated with our weekly recipes and each K-3 Grade | Fee: $179 area of cooking terminology, foods and fun nutrition facts. Pegasus FC Soccer Clinic is a fun, energetic soccer Full recipes will be created each class with our master chef program run by professional coaches from Pegasus FC instructors. Sticky Fingers Cooking is 100% nut free. We CAN Soccer. Age appropriate curriculum will allow all players and WILL accommodate ANY and ALL food allergies. to have fun developing their soccer skills. The fundamental techniques of dribbling, passing, shooting and defending will be taught during skill-based activities and small sided scrimmages. Friday 1/18 - 3/22 | Time: 3:35 - 4:35 pm 9 Classes | No class 2/15

Artopia Chess Activity # 251610-25 Activity # 251610-26 K-5 Grade | Fee: $188 If you love arts and crafts projects K-5 Grade | Fee: $142 this class is for you. Each week we Chess Scholars is designed for both beginners and experienced young do a different fun craft such as sand players. All participants will learn cool new strategies at the appropriate art, mosaics, clay, modge podge, level from a renowned Chess Scholars coach. Each class will consist of a femo clay, and more. fun interactive teaching period and guided practice time.

lil dribblerS basketball Activity # 251610-27 K-3 Grade | Fee: $136 Children are introduced to the game of basketball in a safe, fun and exciting environment. Our curriculum uses age appropriate activities and games specifically designed to increase balance, body awareness, motor skills and hand eye coordination. All equipment provided by the staff of Hot Shot Sports! Registration Information www.deerfieldparks.org

Online Registration Services for Residents Requesting Inclusion Services » You may register online for most activities. with Disabilities » When registering for a Deerfield Park Web registration is quick and convenient. You Deerfield Park District is a partner with District program for the first time: can view real time availability and save time! Northern Suburban Special Recreation »» Mark the accommodation Section of Association (NSSRA). Formed in 1970, NSSRA the registration form to indicate that the First time registering online? is an extension of ten park districts, two cities participant will require assistance from Please follow the “Register Online” links at and one village in the northern suburbs of NSSRA. deerfieldparks.org to get started. Chicago and provides and facilitates year- »» Once your registration form is submitted, round recreation programs and services for the Deerfield Park District will contact you Who is eligible? children, teens and adults with disabilities. to discuss the type of Inclusion support Any household with a valid email address is NSSRA offers recreation, sport, cultural, social, needed for the participant. eligible to register online. For Deerfield Park and leisure programs and events available »» The Deerfield Park District will provide District residents to receive resident rates, throughout the year, creating new experiences, NSSRA with an Inclusion request that proof of residence (see information at right) is opportunities for skill development, leisure contains both program and participant required. time, and perhaps most importantly, friendship. information. NSSRA has been creating an environment »» You will be contacted by NSSRA to discuss What programs are available? of belonging through play since 1970, and the needs of the participant and get input The majority of park district programs are has the distinction of being the first Special on the type of support required. Recreation Association in the country. available online, with a few exceptions. These »» NSSRA will work with the Deerfield Park are usually programs that require tryouts, We believe that everyone should have the District to put the necessary Inclusion prerequisites, or prior instructor approval. chance to try something new. This means you accommodations in place for participation have the opportunity to participate in any one in the desired program(s). Will I know right away if I get in? of NSSRA’s nearly 600 annual programs, or Communication between you, NSSRA, Yes. Online registration works in real time, so, that you have the opportunity to participate and Deerfield Park District staff continues as soon as you complete the payment process in one of the Deerfield Park District programs throughout the Inclusion process. and get a confirmation email your enrollment with the assistance of an NSSRA Inclusion is confirmed. If a class is full, you may join the companion. For more information regarding Deerfield wait list online. Park District Inclusion services contact: Linda Anderson, Director of Recreation Program Cancellation Deerfield Park District 847-572-2615 • [email protected] Please register early! At some point, we have Inclusion Services Meggan Davies, Recreation Manager for to determine if enrollment is sufficient to hold a Deerfield Park District program Inclusion Inclusion class. If enough participants are not registered, services are available to residents with NSSRA 847-509-9400 x6828 • mdavies@ classes may be canceled. Those waiting until special needs at no additional cost to the nssra.org the last minute or for the first day of class may family. Inclusion services may include, For more information about Northern find it’s too late. when necessary, staff training, program Suburban Special Recreation Association modifications/adaptations, modified equipment (NSSRA) go to www.nssra.org. Registration Forms and program observations.

Additional registration forms can be Reasons to Request Inclusion Services downloaded online at www.deerfieldparks.org. »» A parent or family member recognizes that Forms are also available at any of our facilities. a participant would benefit from additional support in a Deerfield Park District Waiting Lists program. If you select a class and it’s full, you will be put »» Deerfield Park District staff identifies a on a waiting list. We will notify you of all class need for additional support, for safety and placements, cancellations, and/or changes. programmatic reasons, and communicates this need to the family. Financial Assistance Residents experiencing difficulty paying program fees should contact the Park District. Refunds for Recreation child from the program, event or facility. Photo Permission If a child engages in behavior(s) which may Programs Our staff or designees often take pictures or result in bodily harm to others, an immediate video at programs and events for: brochures A recreation program is defined as a program meeting with the parent may be called. If such and other marketing materials; website; and in which park district personnel teach activities behavior warrants it, immediate suspension or other print, electronic and online publicity. or skills over a period of two or more class expulsion may result. Temporary suspension Most people are delighted to see pictures of meetings. Sports leagues, camps, preschool, from participation due to misconduct will not themselves or their family members in our After School Club, trips, special events, season entitle participant to a refund. passes and one-day classes and workshops publicity. Photographers from print or other An adult shall receive one verbal or written are considered special refund categories. media outlets may also take pictures or video warning. The second incident may result in on occasion. We welcome the coverage and »» A refund may be obtained two (2) business suspension from the program, event or facility. hope you do too; it is frequently how the public days prior to the first day of class/program. If an adult physically strikes a person or object learns what is happening at the Park District. A 10 percent service charge ($5 minimum; or throws an object at another person, or takes We cannot guarantee that a photo taken will $10 maximum) will be deducted from the any other action that may pose a real threat of be used or not be used, nor promise that it will amount paid for the program(s). bodily harm to others, or is verbally abusive to only be used in certain circumstances. If you »» Once a program or class begins, and prior others, s/he may immediately be suspended or prefer your family members’ pictures not be to it ending, you may request a prorated expelled from the program or facility. taken, please notify us in writing. NOTE: If you refund based on the number of classes do see a photo posted to our website, attended and the date the refund request Insurance Facebook page, or other Park District is received. A 10 percent service charge site of you or your family member that ($5 minimum; $10 maximum) will be Deerfield Park District cannot assume you would like removed, just request assessed. responsibility for injuries or accidents occurring at programs, activities, parks and facilities the photo to be taken down by commenting on »» If a class is rescheduled, relocated, or within our jurisdiction. To do so would make the picture or by changed by the park district, a total our program and user fees prohibitive. Certain emailing [email protected]. refund will be made if requested by the activities, facilities and equipment may, when For questions or more information, you may participant. used improperly, cause harm or personal also call our Communications Manager at 847- »» Refunds will be offered if a class is injury. We make every effort to notify you of 945-0650. canceled or closed by the park district. potentially dangerous situations and to provide »» If a participant is dropped from a program rules for the proper use of equipment and at the request and discretion of the district facilities. You can avoid injury by following the staff, a refund will be made, less prorated rules, using good sense and being considerate cost of classes held. of both Park District property and others using »» In lieu of a refund, participants may transfer it. money to other currently offered activities. The amount to be transferred (refunded) Infectious Diseases, Food will be prorated based on the number of Allergies, Medication, Illness classes that have already been held. »» All requests for refunds and/or transfers Infectious Diseases: To prevent the spread of must be in writing and turned in to the communicable diseases, such as strep, pink Registration Office. eye and fifth’s disease, parents should report any diagnosed cases to the Park District office. Program/Participant If exposure to other participants occurred, a Conduct notification is sent home. Food Allergies: Many of our preschool, as well The Deerfield Park District reserves the right as cooking and other classes, will serve food; to suspend, expel or deny participation in therefore, it is imperative that you notify the any program or facility to any person whose full-time Recreation Supervisor of any food behavior materially interferes or disrupts the allergies or dietary restrictions your child may quality of those offerings, the enjoyment of have. them by other participants or the ability of staff Medication: If your child requires medication to conduct or manage the activities or facilities. (inhaler, epi-pen, etc.) during class, medication A child’s parent or guardian will be notified administration forms must be completed. of the first incident; the second incident Please call our registration office (847-945- shall require the presence of a parent at a 0650) for details. meeting with the instructor and a Park District Illness: Please do not attend class nor send administrator/supervisor; a third incident may children who are ill to class. result in the expulsion or suspension of the