Descriptions

• 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!
   
• Tennis: Tennis for tots! Learn the basics of tennis while also improving physical strength, flexibility, balance, and fine motor-skills!
   
• 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.
   
• Art Club: A chance for students to experiment with different types of art, to learn, grow and find their inner creativity!
   
• 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.
   
• Playdough Lab: Love the idea of playdough but not the mess in your home? Sign up your kids for this sensory and learning experience for our youngest students. Kids will learn using playdough in a fun way, with a different activity every week. Playdough is excellent for children's creativity, muscle strength, and fine motor skills.

• Yoga: Where we let the children have fun and learn practical skills, too! During our kids yoga classes, they will learn a quick history of yoga, practice fun yoga poses and flows, and play fun yoga games and activities. Class will also include breath work and mindfulness activities. Our kids yoga classes are designed to help strengthen, stretch, and relax the mind after a long day. Classes are fast-paced to help keep children on task. Our kids will discover the many wonderful benefits to yoga, including improvements in flexibility, strength, balance, immunity, energy and focus. 
   
• Hula Hooping and Circus Stars: Each week, the preschoolers will learn how to waist hoop and play fun hula hoop inspired games. Kiddos will also dive into circus arts, like beginner juggling, to help work on their hand eye coordination and stilt walking on cups, to improve balance. You'll be so impressed, you'll think they joined the circus!
   
• Soccer: Learn the basic skills of soccer in a fun and energetic environment!

Descriptions

• Art Club (Mondays or Wednesdays): 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.
  
  
   

• Mad About Hula Hoops: Join Mad About Hula Hoops each week for exciting hula hoop inspired games and waist hooping mastery. Students will learn hula hoop tricks and engage in partner moves. Kids will also learn a simple and fun routine that they will showcase on the final day of class. In our classes, we believe fitness should be fun and that little ones should play everyday! Those enrolled in our classes will have the opportunity to perform our semester routine for the University of Northern Colorado on 11/4, in a football halftime show.

• Select a Sport: Students run, jump, play, throw, catch, hit and have fun! An opportunity for students to practise and learn new motor skills through a variety of different sports and activities.

• Story telling and Book writing club: Unlock your child’s imagination with our Storytelling and Bookwriting Club! In this interactive program, students will take an active role in creating their own book. They’ll shape the story, build characters, and embark on exciting adventures. This hands-on approach not only fosters creativity but also helps develop essential skills such as teamwork, fine motor skills, and understanding concepts like geography, math, and reading—all in a fun and engaging way.

• 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.

• Children's Lit & Crafts: This club will bring the children closer to literature through the reading aloud of international famous children authors books. We will dig into the book, the characters, the setting and the author's main idea by representing those aspects with crafts ( puppets, illustrations, building, acting).

• 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.

• Soccer (Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday): Learn the basic skills of soccer in a fun and energetic environment!
   
• 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. 
   
• PALS Chess (K3-G8): 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!

• Crafts Club: The Craft club activities are a fun way to give the students a sense of achievement and allow them to be proud of their work. They are going to develop the ability to work with different materials and tools every week, in a safe environment to discover that it’s okay to make mistakes and that getting things ‘wrong’ can lead you down a whole amazing path. The theme for the Trimester 2 is Crafts Around the world!
   
• Tennis: Learn the basics of tennis while also improving physical strength, reflexes, balance, coordination, and fine motor-skills!
   
• 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.

Descriptions

•  Mad About Hula Hoops: Join Mad About Hula Hoops each week for exciting hula hoop inspired games and waist hooping mastery. Students will learn hula hoop tricks and engage in partner moves. Kids will also learn a simple and fun routine that they will showcase on the final day of class. In our classes, we believe fitness should be fun and that little ones should play everyday! Those enrolled in our classes will have the opportunity to perform our semester routine for the University of Northern Colorado on 11/4, in a football halftime show.
   
• Let's Play! Theatre/Improv: In this fun introduction to the world of theater, students get the chance to explore their creative sides through fun and adventurous theater games. Theater can be a wonderful tool to help children break out of their shells and become more confident in other areas of their life. Through silly play-making and challenging improv exercises, imaginations are expanded and horizons are broadened. This active class will also 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! Perfect team building class!
   
• Soccer: Learn the basic skills of soccer in a fun and energetic environment!
   
• Computer Keyboard Skills: In this club we will learn how to touch-type and improve existing typing skills. We will work on how to touch-type the alphabetic, numeric, and symbol keys; create, save, and edit word processing documents; and successfully take notes when researching or creating a project. With these skills, your child will become faster and more confident at the keyboard.
   
• Karate (G3-G8): In karate we have to wear a uniform, a karate gi in Japanese. It has an extra cost of 35$ to pay it to the teacher when the classes start. 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.
   
• 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.
   
• Percussion Ensemble(G3-G8): Students will have the opportunity to make music with their peers using a wide variety of percussion instruments. Anyone can play a percussion instrument just by striking it, which allows students to start making music right away. These instruments include but are not limited to, Boomwhackers, Xylophone, Snare Drum, Drum Set and more! All experience levels are welcome!
   
• Yoga, Mindfulness and Art: Welcome to Yoga and Art! Through games, books, breathing techniques, and fun poses, your children will learn how to focus, calm, and center themselves. They will make art that is inspired by their yoga and mindfulness practice. Come get your zen on!
   
• Speech and Debate Club: An introduction to debate and public speaking.
   
• Solar Star Challenge (G4-G8): Develop TinkerCAD, 3D printing, programming, and STEAM skills while learning about renewable energy. Create Solar Star 3D models, superheroes, and campaigns for ISDenver to Go Solar! Have fun developing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) leadership skills and learn how to make a positive impact with the Solar Star Challenge! Activities the students will be participating in: Students develop STEAM skills with TinkerCAD design, 3D printing, Tynker coding, solar model building, and creating campaigns for ISDenver to Go Solar!
   
• 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.
   

• 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!
  
   
• Volleyball Club: A developmental volleyball club for 3rd - 5th graders to prepare them for the Middle School volleyball team.
   
• Basketball Club: Learn the basic skills of basketball in a fun and energetic environment, and prepare for the Middle School basketball team.

Descriptions

• Photography:  Learn how to take world class photos from an international music photographer! Students will learn beginner, intermediate, and even advanced techniques using the cameras they have. Ever wanted to use your phone to make your friends look like they're flying? I'll teach ya how!
  
   
• Percussion Ensemble: In the Middle School Percussion Ensemble, students will have the opportunity to make music with their peers using a wide variety of percussion instruments. Anyone can play a percussion instrument just by striking it, which allows students to start making music right away. These instruments include but are not limited to, Xylophone, Snare Drum, Drum Set and more! All experience levels are welcome!
   
• Karate (G3-G8):  In karate we have to wear a uniform, a karate gi in Japanese. It has an extra cost of 35$ to pay it to the teacher when the classes start. 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!
   
• Solar Star Challenge: Develop TinkerCAD, 3D printing, programming, and STEAM skills while learning about renewable energy. Create Solar Star 3D models, superheroes, and campaigns for ISDenver to Go Solar! Have fun developing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) leadership skills and learn how to make a positive impact with the Solar Star Challenge! Activities the students will be participating in: Students develop STEAM skills with TinkerCAD design, 3D printing, Tynker coding, solar model building, and creating campaigns for ISDenver to Go Solar!
   
• PALS Chess (K3 - G8): 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!

Descriptions

• Guitar Mini Group Session with Natalie Sylva-Brown (G3-G8): The curriculum is designed to develop every phase of fundamental musicianship for guitar. In this club, we will explore the basics of guitar while nurturing the joy of music making in a fun and creative way. Max capacity for this group is 5 to keep numbers low.
   
• Keyboard Mini group session with Natalie Sylva-Brown (G3 - G8):The curriculum is designed to develop every phase of fundamental musicianship through piano, including music reading in grand staff, rhythm, creativity, and learning songs. In this club, we will explore the basics of piano while nurturing the joy of music making in a fun and creative way. Max capacity for this group is 5 to keep numbers low.
   
• Private Vocal Lessons with Janet Yenter (G3-G8):Custom designed for each singer, beginner to advanced, students can explore various genres including vocal jazz, musical theater, opera, and Italian and German art songs, focused on finding their unique voices. Janet received her Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance at Miami University and has since performed with the Juilliard Choral Union in New York City on stage at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and most recently performed with Ars Nova Singers in Boulder.
   
• Adam Hall Mini-Group Guitar session (G3 - G8):  This is just a Trimester 2 commitment. Guitar Ensemble (G3-G8) is designed for beginners. The curriculum is designed to develop every phase of fundamental musicianship for guitar. In this club, we will explore the basics of guitar while nurturing the joy of music making in a fun and creative way. Max capacity for this group is 5 to keep numbers low.
   
• Carmen Guerrero Mini-Group Keyboard Session (G3 - G8): Keyboard Ensemble (G3-G8) is designed for beginners. The curriculum is designed to develop every phase of fundamental musicianship through piano, including music reading in grand staff, rhythm, creativity, and learning songs. In this club, we will explore the basics of piano while nurturing the joy of music making in a fun and creative way. Max capacity for this group is 5 to keep numbers low.

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).