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Germantown Friends school DAYExtende PROGRAMd AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS WINTER 2018 January-March GERMANTOWNFRIENDS.ORG AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS — WINTER 2018 Please enjoy the following descriptions of the enriching play-centered clubs we have planned for the winter term. All after school clubs will begin the week of January 8, and end during the week of March 5 (with the exception of Friday clubs, which will end on March 2). Make-up classes will take place during the week of March 12. Note: Instrumental Ensembles and Environmental Action Club will be on hiatus during the winter term. GERMANTOWNFRIENDS.ORG 2 >> OBVIOUS CHOICE ATHLETICS 1. All-Star Sports with Coach C. two parts. Part I will be an introduction to and Obvious Choice Athletics ASL taught by Karen Leslie-Henry, Director of Community Outreach for our neighbor, Tuesdays, 3:20-4:20 p.m. (no club 2/20) Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (PSD). Grades 1-5 | $215 Karen will start by teaching the ASL alphabet The All-Star Sports Club with Coach C. and numbers. She will introduce students to and Obvious Choice Athletics offers young basic vocabulary as well as fun activities like athletes the opportunity to play and improve “Silent Snack” and “Silent Games” including their skills in a wide range of sports, including bingo and Uno. In addition, participants will soccer, floor hockey, Ultimate Frisbee, and be introduced to Keith Wann’s video oeuvre dodgeball. In addition to in-depth instruction, as well as the Sign2Me songbook. During the participants hone such important individual spring term, part two of the club will involve skills as eye-hand coordination, strategic a joint program with Lower School students thinking, and sportsmanship all while from PSD. Each week, club participants will having loads of fun playing games under undertake a fun activity together such as the direction of GFS’s zaniest and most cooking, crafts, or games. charismatic after-school coach! 3. The Animal 2. American Sign •NEW• Kingdom’s Superheroes •NEW• Language Thursdays, 3:20-4:20 p.m. Thursdays, 3:20-4:20 p.m. Preschool-Grade 1 | $235 Grades 1-4 | $195 Come learn all about the amazing American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the “superpowers” of your favorite animals! GFS Upper School’s most popular electives. Did you know there are animals that can Now GFS is introducing a program for Lower soar through the air like Superman or make Schoolers. This new program will include themselves “invisible” by blending into their GERMANTOWNFRIENDS.ORG 3 >> BALLET surroundings like Harry Potter when he wears with our young dancers. his invisibility cloak? Join an expert naturalist The performance of Moana is scheduled for from the Riverbend Environmental Education Tuesday, March 6. Center who will introduce a different animal Please note: Preschool students of any age may enroll. This ambassador each week. Participants will learn class is open to dancers of all genders. Students will need how animals developed their special powers their own ballet attire and slippers. Slippers, a leotard and in order to thrive in the animal kingdom, and tights, or a T-shirt with black leggings are recommended. they will make a special animal superhero Dancers should wear the attire they feel best suits them. of their own using their new knowledge of Dance wear can be purchased through camouflage, migration, and more! discountdance.com or at a local dance store. 4. BALLET: Moana 5. Basketball with Coach C. and Tuesdays, 3:10-3:55 p.m. (no club 2/20) Obvious Choice Athletics Preschool-Grade 1 | $245 Fridays, 3:20-4:20 p.m. (no club 3/9) Following the triumph of their Frozen Grades Kindergarten-5 | $215 performance set in frigid Scandinavia, this Basketball Club participants will hone season the Dance Troupe will voyage to the essential skills such as shooting, passing, ancient Polynesian island of Motunui. Dancers dribbling, and defense. Game concepts will perform a routine set to “How Far I’ll such as identifying opponents’ strengths Go,” one of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s enchanting and weaknesses and understanding basic songs from the soon-to-be classic Moana! defensive strategies will also be incorporated. Instead of a conventional romance, this In addition to developing players’ Disney film focuses on a brave hero’s quest conditioning, flexibility, and speed, Coach C. to fulfill her destiny and to rid her island of a will work with players to build self-confidence terrible curse. and physical endurance, while strengthening their teamwork and sportsmanship skills. GFS is thrilled that professional ballet instructor Fallon Gannon will be back this winter to share her love of music and ballet GERMANTOWNFRIENDS.ORG 4 >> CHESS WITH ROSS COLBY 6. Ceramics and Cooking with knights and bishops, and king safety. As Lynne and Heather always, the focus will be on thinking before touching and on asking ourselves, “What Wednesdays, 3:20-4:20 p.m. is my opponent trying to do?” and “What is Grades 1-5 | $255 going to happen to my piece if I go there?” What could be more fun than a partnership between our beloved Ceramics instructor and The emphasis is not on winning, but on ASPire’s own master chef, Heather McKelvey? having fun while learning one of the world’s oldest and most popular games. For the first time this dynamic duo will team up to offer participants the opportunity to express their creativity through clay 8. Chess with Ross Colby – while honing their culinary skills through Lower School Tournament cooking. Projects may include, for example, Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. (no club 2/20) the creation of a gorgeous bowl and serving Grades 4-5 | $285 spoon and then the preparation something The Lower School Tournament Chess delicious to put in that bowl, perhaps a hearty Club is for experienced chess players who stew, chili, or apple cobbler. already have competed in one or more chess tournaments. Third graders invited by Ross are eligible to 7. Chess with Ross Colby – participate from 11:30 a.m. until noon. Lower School Wednesdays, 7:20-8:05 a.m. 9. Chess with Ross Colby – Grades 1-5 | $225 Middle and Upper School Although the Lower School Chess Club is Wednesdays, 8:05-9 a.m. designed to be the continuation of Chess Grades 6-12 | $255 from last fall, newcomers are welcome to Middle and Upper School Chess Club is join (though they may wish to arrange geared toward students who have had at an individual lesson or two with Ross least a full year of chess instruction. This beforehand). This group will continue their group will continue learning about forks, study of center control, development of GERMANTOWNFRIENDS.ORG 5 >> COMPUTER CODING + LEGO® MINDSTORMS ROBOTICS pins, skewers, discovered attacks, and 11. Cook’s Night Off (formerly removing the defender. Concepts such as Let’s Make Dinner) “zugzwang,” “opposition,” “backwards,” and Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 p.m. (no club 2/20) “isolated” pawns, and “holes” will also be Grades 2-6 | $285 introduced. Recording and playing on the clock are encouraged but are not mandatory. Do you find it difficult to come up with a Ross will delve deeper into opening and delicious meal day after day? The goal of this middlegame traps, plus all basic endgames club is to teach participants how to plan for will be mastered, including: 2-Rook (step and prepare a nutritious meal for the whole ladder) checkmate, Queen/King and Rook/ family to share. Each week, students will King (boxing) checkmates, and king/pawn create dishes that focus on the importance of endgames. fresh, local ingredients as well as the skills associated with cooking a meal from scratch! Students learn and practice kitchen safety 10. Computer Coding and LEGO® and proper knife skills while working together Mindstorms Robotics to each prepare a main dish that serves 4 Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. to 6 people in an oven-ready container with Grades 3-8 | $245 baking instructions. Along with the actual During the winter term, participants in Matt meal, students will bring home the recipe so Zipin’s Wednesday Technology Club will they will have the directions how to continue have the option of focusing on either LEGO® making family dinners even after the club has Mindstorms EV3 Robotics or coding projects ended so eventually every night will be the using Scratch and Python. In other words, cook’s night off! participants will be free to choose the area We will provide vegetarian options upon request at into which they wish to dig more deeply. Of registration. course, newcomers are welcome to join the club as well! ASPire or MSAS coverage from 3:10-3:30 p.m. is included in the cost of this club. GERMANTOWNFRIENDS.ORG 6 >> DESIGN STUDIO 12. Creative Drama for •NEW• 14. Design Studio with Kids – Main Campus Eli and Heather Fridays, 3:10-4 p.m. (no club 3/9) Wednesdays, 3:10 - 4:10 p.m. Preschool and Kindergarten | $215 Grades 3-8 | $255 13. Creative Drama for Kids – Design Studio’s first module will focus on Center City Location model building through the creation of Tuesdays, 4:15-5:05 p.m. (no club 2/20) miniature tree houses. Under the direction Preschool-Grade 4 | $215 of GFS Woodworking teacher, Eli Scearce, students who participated during the fall term During this energetic and fun-focused class, will continue working on their tree houses; students will activate their imaginations as whereas, newcomers will select a branch, they learn the basics of dramatic storytelling. set it upright in a plaster base, and sketch Working on self-expression and teamwork, a design before they get to work creating students will use their bodies, voices, and their masterpiece using a variety of found creativity as they confidently wriggle like materials.