Descriptions

• Tennis (Mondays or Tuesdays): Tennis for tots! Learn the basics of tennis while also improving physical strength, flexibility, balance, and fine motor-skills!
   
• Let's Play (Theater/Drama): In this fun introduction to the world of theater, students get the chance to explore their creative sides through fun and adventurous theater games. This active class will teach the basics of the theater world such as stage directions, memorization skills, and improve confidence in public speaking. Everyone gets up, plays, and participates!
   

• Art Club: A chance for students to experiment with different types of art, to learn, grow and find their inner creativity!
   
• Mini Gymnastics: This class will focus on beginner tumbling skills, such as balance, flexibility, rolls, backbends, handstands, and cartwheels. Gymnastics is great for enhancing physical development, and for creating healthy habit of physical fitness throughout a child's lifetime.
   
• Select a Sport: Students run, jump, play, throw, catch, hit and have fun! An opportunity for students to practice and learn new motor skills through a variety of different sports and activities.
   

• LEGO (Wednesdays or Thursdays): Playing with legos helps kids develop their hand muscles as well as improving hand/eye coordination. Building things with legos helps to stimulate creativity and opens your child’s imagination while improving focus.
   
• Ballet (Wednesdays or Thursdays): Ballet is a unique synthesis of artistry and technique, of self expression and discipline. It's challenging, great fun, and is the basis for all dances. This class stresses age-appropriate skill development, creative expression, and music appreciation.
   
• Soccer: Learn the basic skills of soccer in a fun and energetic environment!

Descriptions

• Select a Sport: Students will learn new motor skills and have the opportunity to try new sporting activities each week.
   
• Mad about Hula Hoops: Looking for a fun way to keep your kids active? Do they enjoy spectacular performances like Cirque Du Soleil or The Greatest Showman? Then Mad About Hoops is perfect for your child. Each week the kids will learn cool hoop tricks, hoop dance moves and partner moves! This class will improve balance and coordination while burning up to 400 calories per hour. Not only does hula hooping create healthy bodies, but it's a great way of building self confidence through creative movement! You'll be so impressed with your hooper stars at the end of the semester, you'll think they joined the circus!
   
• Crochet: Kids will learn the basics of crocheting. Crocheting helps with hand/eye coordination while stimulating your child’s imagination, it’s a calming stress reliever, and a hand made article can help reinforce your child’s appreciation of creating something on their own.
   
• Mini-Gymnastics: Tumbling-Fitness, Flexibility, & Fun: This class will focus on beginner tumbling skills, such as balance, flexibility, rolls, backbends, handstands, and cartwheels. Gymnastics is great for enhancing physical development, and for creating healthy habit of physical fitness throughout a child's lifetime.
   

• Global Dance, Bella Diva: Have your children learn the art of expression through the world of Bollywood dance, where East meets West. Classical Indian dance fused with more modern western forms of dance like jazz, hip hop, and salsa. 
   
• Yoga and Mindfulness: Welcome to Yoga for Kids! Through games, coloring, books, breathing techniques, and fun poses, your children will learn how to focus, calm, and center themselves. Come get your zen on!
   
• Skateboarding (Square State Skate): Square State Skate provides skateboard education and guidance for children of all ages, allowing your youngsters’ skills, passion and personality to grow in a safe, fun environment. We are fully committed to the entire skateboard community and are open to ALL children, regardless of age, race, gender or skill level. We teach skills necessary for skateboarding – balance, confidence, determination, and problem solving skills – and then help transfer those skills off the board as well as on.
   
• Board Games: Take a blast into the past! Do you like taking a RISK? Build hotels and own all the train stations in MONOPOLY? Hit a +4 card in UNO? So this club is for you, but no worries nobody will be stuck in JUMANJI.
   
• Art Club: Do you love to make art? Then join the Art Club where you can spend time being an artist every week. Let your imagination soar while you explore your favorite ideas and art materials, develop art making skills as you learn new techniques, and create connections with others while being a part of an art community within our school.
   
• LEGO: Playing with legos helps kids develop their hand muscles as well as improving hand/eye coordination. Building things with legos helps to stimulate creativity and opens your child’s imagination while improving focus.
   
• Tennis: Learn the basics of tennis while also improving physical strength, reflexes, balance, coordination, and fine motor-skills!
   
• Soccer (Wednesday or Friday): Learn the basic skills of soccer in a fun and energetic environment!
   
• Basketball Development Club: Learn the basic skills of basketball in a fun and energetic environment!

• Poms/Cheer: Learn choreography and sequences of Poms and Cheerleading!
   
• PiQ Math: PiQ Math is about believing that children can think deeply, reason effectively, persist at challenging problems and be excited about mathematics.  Kids will play with logic and spatial puzzles designed to help kids strengthen their problem solving skills. Through play, your child will gain confidence in their own ability to persist at and solve challenging problems.  In addition, each child will become smarter and faster with mental math.  Number fluency is the ability to perform mental math effortlessly, flexibly, quickly, and accurately.  Number fluency is the key to confidence and success in math.  Children who love word problems, have strong number fluency and problem solving skills will have the opportunity to practice for and participate in math competitions during the camp time. 
   
• Soccer - Learn the basic skills of soccer in a fun and energetic environment!
   

• Robotics and Coding - Students will learn to code and program while playing interactive games and completing challenges with robots. Coding fosters creative thinking, analytical skills, builds confidence, and establishes grit while having fun interacting and exploring with peers and technology.
   
• Photography -Shoot from the side, shoot up high, shoot down low, take a photo of your toes! In this class students will develop basic photography skills by doing fun, hands-on photography activities such as “story time” and “scavenger hunt.” The class will culminate in a gallery showing some of the best photographs taken. Prerequisites for the class: a device that takes digital pictures (smartphone cameras, point-and-shoot, or DSLR) & a cord to connect to the instructor's computer for editing.
   
• Karate: Shotokan Karate is a weaponless martial art that is founded on the basic techniques of punching, striking, kicking and blocking, yet there is a deeper aspect to serious Karate training which deals with character development. Shotokan Karate is a way for an individual to realize greater potential and expand the limits of that individual's physical and mental capabilities. Shotokan Karate remains firmly rooted in a strong martial arts tradition, emphasizing lifetime training for a healthy mind and body, rather than strictly as a sport.
   
• Running Club: A developmental running club for 3rd - 5th graders to prepare them for the Middle School Cross Country and Track team.
   
• Ultimate Frisbee: Learn the basics of Ultimate Frisbee in preparation for the middle school team.
   
• Little Doctors School: Students will assume the role of a doctor and learn how the body and organs work, how to use medical instruments, administer first aid, and even tie knots like a real surgeon! Section I: Basic anatomy, medical instruments and prepping for surgery. Through role-play and activities, students will learn the key responsibilities of a doctor and explore the heart, lungs, and digestion. Students will use real medical instruments (stethoscope, reflex hammer, and blood pressure cuff) and practice scrubbing, suturing, and tying knots like a real surgeon. Section II: Basic first aid,prescribing medications & exploring key organs. These future doctors will learn about prescriptions, explore the brain and spine, and learn about vital bodily functions through hands-on activities and role-play. Students will build a first aid kit and create models of the brain and spine.
   
• Pickleball: A developmental pickleball club for 3rd - 5th graders to help prepare them for the Middle School tennis team.
   
• Speech and Debate Club: An introduction to debate and public speaking.
   
• PALS Chess: Our lessons help students develop self-esteem, sportsmanship, critical thinking, concentration, logic, imagination, patience, and planning skills through chess. The word “PALS” is not just an acronym for “Play, Achieve, Learn, Succeed” – it also reflects our view of chess as a friendly game that transcends borders, gender and generations by reinforcing the four C’s of 21st century learning: Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Creativity, all of which are emphasized and brought together through the far-reaching benefits of a worthy “Fifth C,” Chess!
   
• Art Club - Do you love to make art? Then join the Art Club where you can spend time being an artist every week. Let your imagination soar while you explore your favorite ideas and art materials, develop art making skills as you learn new techniques, and create connections with others while being a part of an art community within our school.
   
• Skateboarding (Square State Skate): Square State Skate provides skateboard education and guidance for children of all ages, allowing your youngsters’ skills, passion and personality to grow in a safe, fun environment. We are fully committed to the entire skateboard community and are open to ALL children, regardless of age, race, gender or skill level. We teach skills necessary for skateboarding – balance, confidence, determination, and problem solving skills – and then help transfer those skills off the board as well as on.
   
• Kidvironment: In Kidvironment Club, students will learn about ways to get involved with the community around them. They will learn to look at the world around them and find ways to make it even better. 
   
• Volleyball: A developmental volleyball club for 3rd - 5th graders to prepare them for the Middle School tennis team.

• PiQ Math: PiQ Math is about believing that children can think deeply, reason effectively, persist at challenging problems and be excited about mathematics.  Kids will play with logic and spatial puzzles designed to help kids strengthen their problem solving skills. Through play, your child will gain confidence in their own ability to persist at and solve challenging problems.  In addition, each child will become smarter and faster with mental math.  Number fluency is the ability to perform mental math effortlessly, flexibly, quickly, and accurately.  Number fluency is the key to confidence and success in math.  Children who love word problems, have strong number fluency and problem solving skills will have the opportunity to practice for and participate in math competitions during the camp time.
   

• Modern Band Ensemble: In Modern Band Ensemble, students will learn songs of their choosing with the teacher's guidance. Any genre and era is possible and all skill levels are permitted. Students will play by ear as well as read traditional notation. Whether you play guitar, accordion, piano, drums or anything else, please join! If you are a beginner and want to play music, you can join too! Depending on skill level, we will write music as well! 
   
• Karate: Shotokan Karate is a weaponless martial art that is founded on the basic techniques of punching, striking, kicking and blocking, yet there is a deeper aspect to serious Karate training which deals with character development. Shotokan Karate is a way for an individual to realize greater potential and expand the limits of that individual's physical and mental capabilities. Shotokan Karate remains firmly rooted in a strong martial arts tradition, emphasizing lifetime training for a healthy mind and body, rather than strictly as a sport.
   
• Drama Club: Drama Club is designed for students interested in learning more about the aspects of theater. This includes learning stage terminology, working on acting skills (performance), set building, and costumes/makeup design.
   
• Art Studio: Art Studio is a creative space for students to explore using a variety of art materials while creating projects that may include drawing, painting, and mixed media lessons. This is a time and place for artists to come together to share and create together!
   
• Boy's Volleyball: Learn the basic skills of volleyball in a fun and energetic environment!
   
• PALS Chess: Our lessons help students develop self-esteem, sportsmanship, critical thinking, concentration, logic, imagination, patience, and planning skills through chess. The word “PALS” is not just an acronym for “Play, Achieve, Learn, Succeed” – it also reflects our view of chess as a friendly game that transcends borders, gender and generations by reinforcing the four C’s of 21st century learning: Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Creativity, all of which are emphasized and brought together through the far-reaching benefits of a worthy “Fifth C,” Chess!
   
• Skateboarding (Square State Skate): Square State Skate provides skateboard education and guidance for children of all ages, allowing your youngsters’ skills, passion and personality to grow in a safe, fun environment. We are fully committed to the entire skateboard community and are open to ALL children, regardless of age, race, gender or skill level. We teach skills necessary for skateboarding – balance, confidence, determination, and problem solving skills – and then help transfer those skills off the board as well as on.

In Grades 3, 4 and 5, learners can expand their language study in an after-school program, with the option to continue that language of instruction in the Middle Years Programme (Grades 6, 7, and 8).