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| Meet the Orchestra |
| Grades: K - 2 | Julia Crenshaw | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| Cuddle up with your favorite lap blanket and fall in love with fun orchestral music that tells stories: Peter and the Wolf, Ferdinand and the Bull, The Flight of the Bumblebee, Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals, etc. Then try your hand at becoming one of the characters in some of our favorite stories.
Learn about instrument families and the instruments in them, listen to music featuring different instruments, and enjoy checking out real-live instruments our volunteers bring in to show us. Make and play some musical instruments of your own.
After the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra announces the dates for its free school time concerts we can choose a date for an optional field trip to see the real orchestra (open to ages)!
Note: Please send a lap-blanket (smaller than twin, small enough for your child to fold independently) with your child the first week that we can keep in the closet all semester. If you do not have a spare blanket or have questions please email me, as I have several extra blankets and I can provide them a dedicated blanket for the semester.
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| Drawn...Then Write |
| Grades: K - 3 | Karen Anna Smith | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| Twenty-three topics allow for children to accompany their drawings with either just completing sentences, writing sentences and writing paragraphs. Children will draw familiar things; a duck, pickup truck, fish, dragon, child and other simple drawings are given with step by step pictoral instructions.
Please bring crayons to color the pictures. |
| Fun with The Berenstain Bears |
| Grades: 1 - 3 | Becky Giebel | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| Come on over to the big tree house in Bear Country! We will be reading books and watching videos about the Berenstain Bear family as well as learning some important life lessons and making crafts and snacks! |
| Principles of Chess |
| Grades: 2 - 12 | Larry Heimann
and Mark Heimann | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| This class is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of chess play. Students learn how pieces move, the best way to open a chess game, how to execute basic mating patterns, practice thinking several moves ahead, and much more. Students begin by going through a set of exercises that have proven to be effective in teaching these basic skills. |
| Insectorium |
| Grades: 3 - 5 | Jennifer Lutz | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| Find them, feed them, can you keep them? We\ |
| The Great Wheel |
| Grades: 4 - 8 | Sharon Limback | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| Improve your vocabulary and increase your geography knowledge as we follow young Conn Kilroy from a small Irish village across the Atlantic to live with his uncle Patrick and help build the greatest wheel in all the world. Each week I will read a chapter or two from Robert Lawsons lively tale and we will discover 82 new words, adages and idioms as well as trace this immigrants journey from the Emerald Isle to the amazing 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair.
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| Math Club |
| Grades: 4 - 8 | Barb Beideman
and Barb Beideman | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| Math Club will be a fun and challenging class in which we will study topics generally outside the basic math curriculum. We will be using materials from the Math Counts club program, which will include various word problems, games, and other math related activities. We will strive to create an inviting, relaxed, and encouraging environment. There will not be required homework, but students may be given extra problems to work on if they so desire. We will be studying a different topic each week and they will all be different from previous classes. Children should feel free to join us this semester even if they have not taken this class before.
Please bring a calculator, and a pencil to class each week.
The materials fee is $1.00
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| Quilting |
| Grades: 5 - 12 | Cheryl DeGraaf | Friday 9:00am to 9:55am |
| We will be building on our skills from last semester and making a quilt
thats a little bigger and a little more complex. The 60 x 60 quilt
will take more time so I am offering the class for 2 class periods. If
you will work on the quilt at home each week, you only need to sign up
for one of the classes. If you do not have access to a sewing machine,
do not think you will work on it at home, or expect to need a little more
help, please sign up for both periods. You do not need experience
quilting to take this class. If you can sew a straight line, you can
quilt! No materials fee, but you will need to purchase about 4 yards of
fabric, thread and safety pins.
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| Crafty Kids |
| Grade: K and younger | Elizabeth Tillotson | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| Preschoolers will develop fine motor skills while making crafts and socializing. They\ |
| Hand-y Crafts |
| Grades: K - 3 | Lisa Allen | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| We'll be creating fun crafts each week using our hands for templates. Lots of cutting and gluing! Please bring to class: pencil, scissors, glue stick, markers/crayons. Also, please wear clothes you don't mind getting paint, markers or stamps on. Preschooler's accompanied by parent (for 1-on-1 help with cutting/gluing) are welcome. Cost for class is $5. |
| Snail Mail - Letter Writing |
| Grades: 1 - 4 | Tina Swanson | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| We will look at communicating by mail, changes as a result of modern technology, and a little history of the United States Postal Service. Students will learn how to properly compose friendly letters and address envelopes. Throughout the semester, students will send and receive letters.
NOTE: 1st graders need to be ready for writing |
| Adventures in Team Building |
| Grades: 1 - 3 | BethAnn Young | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| This class will center around team building exercises, children will have fun while they learn to work together. At a minimum, students should know the alphabet and be able to sound out everyday words. Cost is $5. |
| Positional Understanding in Chess |
| Grades: 2 - 12 | Larry Heimann
and Larry Heimann | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| Are you ever at a loss for what to do when there are no immediate tactics in sight? If so, you need to learn the basics of positional play. The strong player seems to optimally place his pieces with ease where they coordinate well and control key lines and squares. This class is designed to help you gain this same positional sense and vision. |
| Answers in Genesis Part 3 |
| Grades: 3 - 12 | Rachel Seely | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| As a continuation of the last year’s courses, we will complete the 3rd book in the Answers for Kids curriculum. We will work through the 7 lessons in the Questions book tackling such questions as “What about the dinosaurs?”, “Are there really aliens?”, “Was there an Ice Age?”, and “What about “apemen?” Some topics will take more than one class, and if we have extra time, we’ll tackle other questions the kids have from a biblical perspective. This is a lecture-based class with an expectation for lots of great discussion. The age range is set lower to allow those who are really interested to join in. However, please be aware that there will not be many hands-on activities. Students should bring a folder to store the 7 full-color, multi-page handouts they will receive each class. If they save them, it’ll be like having their own book to review what we learn in class. While it is beneficial if your student attended last year's classes, it is not a pre-requisite. Newcomers are welcome. There is no class fee. |
| Explorers |
| Grades: 3 - 4 | lisa aten | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| In this class we will learn about all the explorers such as Columbus and Magellan. This class is $5.00 per child. Please have child be prepared for class with a pencil, colored pencils, scissors, and glue stick |
| Create-A-Comedy - Writing a Humerous Story |
| Grades: 4 - 8 | Karen Anna Smith | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| We will be learning about how to write a humorous story and how to edit.
Create-a-Comedy guides students in analyzing and creating humor. It covers the elements of comedy and types of humor and then leads students step by step through the process of writing a situation comedy. It ends with story starters, story enders, and other suggestions for humorous writings. |
| Quilting |
| Grades: 5 - 12 | Cheryl DeGraaf | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| We will be building on our skills from last semester and making a quilt
thats a little bigger and a little more complex. The 60 x 60 quilt
will take more time so I am offering the class for 2 class periods. If
you will work on the quilt at home each week, you only need to sign up
for one of the classes. If you do not have access to a sewing machine,
do not think you will work on it at home, or expect to need a little more
help, please sign up for both periods. You do not need experience
quilting to take this class. If you can sew a straight line, you can
quilt! No materials fee, but you will need to purchase about 4 yards of
fabric, thread and safety pins.
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| Math is Great |
| Grades: 5 - 8 | Leanne Zilka | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| I am going to cover many different areas of math in this class. Some areas will be fractions, conversion from us to metric, geometry, pre-algebra and percent. I hope to make this class fun with some hands-on activities. There will also be an opportunity for the students that have specific problems with math to ask and be shown how to solve them. |
| Advanced Crochet |
| Grades: 5 - 12 | Rebekah Barna | Friday 10:00am to 10:55am |
| This class is for any of the girls who have been in my advanced crochet classes. Adults are welcomed to sit in too! We'll pick our own BIG pattern to work on this semester and learn some new stitches! Be sure to bring all of your supplies (Hooks, scissors, yarn and a folder for your patterns!) |
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| Stories Songs and Poetry to Teach Reading and Writ |
| Grades: K - 2 | Julia Crenshaw | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| I am sooooo excited about this class full of language exposure for kids who are just about to start reading (already know most of their letters, can sound words out sometimes) or who are beginning readers (early 1st grade or 2nd graders who are just starting to click with reading).
In this class we will learn to notice, remember, and love words. We will read fantastic books with lots of repetition, work with the words in them in a pocket chart, and before long we will be able to read the texts ourselves. We will sing fun songs and work with the words in them to discover rhyme and the rhythm of language. We will read silly poems and alter them to write poetry of our very own. And above all, we will enjoy the literature we work with.
The approach for this class is called language exposure, and it will be a fantastic supplement to your home phonics program. We will reinforce and notice phonics but will not present phonics lessons here, as every child will be at a different spot with their phonics knowledge.
Each child will make a collection of the texts we work with so he can read them to you at home and show off his stuff.
This is a class I have been wanting to teach for years, and the timing is finally right! The content for the class comes from the book Stories, Songs, and Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing by Robert and Marlene McCracken.
Cost: $4 |
| Learn and Play |
| Grade: K and younger | Vera Pagano
and Elizabeth Tillotson | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| This class is intended for pre-schoolers ages 3 and up and will provide a playful introduction to numbers, shapes, and colors by using various toys like Duplos/Legos, Playmobil, wooden blocks, Schleich figures and Thomas trains. |
| Lets Find Out |
| Grades: K - 2 | Cheryl Prouty
and Elaine Schmelzer | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| This class is based on a book series called Just Ask by Chris Arvetis. Various topics will be covered including weather, seasons, earth science, and others. Throughout the semester activities, crafts, and some experiments will be presented to go along with the topic of the day.
$4 fee
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| Animated Hero Classics |
| Grades: 1 - 4 | BethAnn Young | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| Come watch videos about great people such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Galileo and more. Learn about what they did that helped change out world. Activity pages to go along with each person will be given to the kids to work on. |
| American Girl Josefina |
| Grades: 2 - 6 | Katie Reed
and Julie David | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| Using the American Girl Josefina books, we will study the American Southwest Frontier in the year 1824. Our class will include discussion of the six books, period related crafts, and a play to be performed at end of the semester. We will be discussing the 1st book during the 1st class. |
| LEGO Lab |
| Grades: 3 - 6 | Jennifer Lutz | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| Explore problem solving, express your creativity, become an architect and more, all using the most fun tools ever - LEGOS! A new problem will be presented each week and the students will build, show, and compare their projects. Students must bring their own set of LEGOS. |
| Dance With Me |
| Grades: 4 - 8 | carrie hungerman | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| We will be studying some of the history of dance and the various types of dance and movement. This is both an active and study time class including dance steps, stretching and dance exercises. Our main focus will be on liturgical dance and expression. Learning to give back our vessels to God in movement, dance and exercise to keep our selves healthy in body, mind and spirit! No experience necessary, only be willing to participate! Please wear comfortable clothes to move in and have a water bottle. $2 per student for materials used in class. |
| Basic Spanish |
| Grades: 4 - 8 | Denise Tabacchi | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| Hola! Como estas? Come and join us in this class where students will learn the proper pronunciation and use of basic vocabulary and everyday phrases. We will learn the parts of the body, colors, kitchen items, food, numbers, and useful sentences. This course will emphasize repetition. We will play "Como se dice" (How do you say...) and this will be a very participative class. Students will be expected to practice outside of class which will allow thinking, reading and speaking of this beautiful language with ease. We will have fun learning together. Cost $3 (cash only please-no checks) |
| From Terror to Triumph |
| Grades: 7 - 12 | Amy Barna | Friday 11:30am to 12:25pm |
| Prepare for a thrilling journey through the greatest triumphs over the most brutal terrors that have faced Western Civilization. This DVD series unveils the strategies, heroes and miracles that have defeated the seemingly unstoppable forces of evil through the ages. Dr. Marshall Foster is the president of World History Institute, and narrates the DVD series. A study guide will also be given/discussed. Check out the website: www.WorldHistoryInstitute.org |
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| Signing Time |
| Grades: K - 4 | Lisa Allen | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| Each week we'll learn signs taught to us from our friends, Alex & Leah through their Signing Time video series. We will review signs learned from the previous week and practice the new ones together. These wonderful videos were intended for ages 1-8 but are enjoyed by all! Kids aged preschool and under are welcome with a parent accompanying them.
We will cover:
My First Signs; Playtime Signs; Everyday Signs; Family, Feelings & Fun; ABC Signs; My Favorite Things; Leah's Farm;
The Great Outdoors; The Zoo Train; My Day; My Neighborhood; Time to Eat. |
| Hickory Dickory Math and Science |
| Grades: K - 1 | Karen Richardson | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| Using familiar Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales, we will explore math and science concepts through lots of fun, hands-on activities. |
| Animated Hero Classics |
| Grades: 1 - 4 | candace kremer | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| Come watch videos about great people such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Galileo and more. Learn about what they did that helped change out world. Activity pages to go along with each person will be given to the kids to work on. |
| Learning With Magic Tree House Books |
| Grades: 2 - 4 | Katie Reed
and lynn zamberlan | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| Come explore the world with Magic Tree House books. Each week, students will read one Magic Tree House book prior to class. We will discuss the books and have fun activities with the correlating time period. Each book is readily available through the Carnegie Library system. In preparation, please have the first book prepared by the first week of E-Day. We will email a full schedule, however, the first three books are as follows: Dinosaurs Before Dark (Book 1), The Knight at Dawn (Book 2) and Pirates Past Noon (Book 4). These books can be purchased or borrowed individually or in a cluster entitled, 'Magic Tree House Collection Books 1-8.'
Class fee is $4. Please have your child bring crayons, pencils and glue to each class.
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| Scientific Investigations in Chemistry |
| Grades: 3 - 8 | Julia Crenshaw | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| This class started out as a chemistry overview, but it evolved into more and more complex, multi-day experiments until I realized it wasn’t really an overview course on Chemistry, but rather an in-depth course on how to conduct experiments in a detailed, scientific manner.
Rather than giving a superficial overview of many chemistry topics, this class will explore 5-6 key concepts in detail. Through multi-day experiments and a focus on conducting lab work with attention to accuracy and detail, you will be able to complete very mature research! There will be at least one experiment that will be sent home for you to tend and observe over the course of a week. Because almost all of our experiments will be conducted over multiple days you will need to be able to attend the class almost every week in order to be successful with the experiments.
In this class you will:
Conduct hands-on experiments using safe household chemicals. Design a series experiments to be conducted over multiple days to identify the characteristics of known solids and liquids. Control variables in experiments in order to obtain accurate results. Make careful observation of subtle differences and record what you observed. Put together the pieces of the puzzle (make inferences) to draw conclusions as you identify unknown substances. Work cooperatively in groups of 3 to fulfill all the responsibilities of the lab.
Cost: $5-10 for lab supplies--I will finalize the cost and let you know after I'm able to go through the supplies on hand in the closet to see what we still need. I'm anticipating the cost will be on the low end, but there are several tools we will need, so I'll let you know.
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| Survival Man vs Wild |
| Grades: 4 - 8 | Denise Tabacchi
and Sharon Limback | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| When life hands you the unexpected, its best to be prepared. In this class we will learn to be inventive and work our way through situations where the basics are not readily available.
Learn how to build a fire without a match, purify water to drink safely, find food to eat, make shelter out of the basics, and signal for help.
Practice keeping a cool mind in challenging situations.
Survival skills will be taught and survivor type situations will be presented. Students will be called upon to demonstrate their acquired skills.
There will opportunities to eat some of natures delicacies. Most activities will occur outside and students should dress appropriately. Students should bring a change of clothes and shoes when its wet outside.
There is a $5 fee (cash only please-no checks).
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| Crochet Basics 2 |
| Grades: 5 - 12 | Rebekah Barna
and Deborah Lucas | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| This is a year two class for anyone who took their first year last semester.
Be sure to bring your own supplies (Hooks, scissors, yarn and a folder to keep your patterns stored!) We will be working on a few different patterns this time, so be sure to have a good selection of yarn handy! |
| Read with Me |
| Grades: 5 - 12 | carrie hungerman | Friday 12:30pm to 1:25pm |
| I will be reading aloud a historical fiction or classic novel. I will have a couple different books available for us to choose from the first week. We will read and then have some discussion about the book afterward. Students may bring something quiet to do while listening, for example: needle crafts, art/drawing project or a quiet snack. This is for relaxation and enjoyment of literature but I do expect quiet, attentive students! No fee |
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