After School Enrichment - Hidden Valley

After School Hoops® is a weekday afternoon basketball program for aspiring young players. The one–hour instructional sessions combine fundamental skills instruction with organized team competition with the goal of providing an enjoyable and educational after school athletic event. Developing players benefit by improving their individual skills such as passing, dribbling, shooting, rebounding, and defending while, at the same time, learning how to work within the framework of a team. Children of all skill levels are encouraged to join. One of the many merits of After School Hoops® is that it provides school children with an organized after school event at which they can learn, socialize, and most of all, have fun. Parents and teachers often express concern that idle and unsupervised after school hours provide too many negative temptations for their children. Using athletics as the vehicle, After School Hoops® provides children with an opportunity to improve their overall physical fitness, develop sportsmanship and athletic integrity, and gain an understanding of the game of basketball.

Join us for an hour of nonstop fun and creativity! We’ll experiment with colors and create beautiful, amazing pieces to bring home. If your kids love making things with their hands, then they’ll fall in love with these fun crafts we’ll make! We’ll explore mixed media of watercolor, acrylic paint, and pastel, and test out different fusions of shades and tones. We’ll work on canvas, paper and other mediums. Painting, drawing and crafting are all forms of self-expression. Every child will create the same object differently. Crafting involves a lot of engineering and mathematical skills and uses both left & right brain as well as strengthens hand coordination and while improving fine motor skills. All materials included. Instructor: enBRiDGEment|[email protected] | www.enbridgement.com

For our Fall Sewing, we'll make beautiful, warm blankets, soft, holiday scarves, mittens, beanies, socks, stuffed animals and more! Sewing involves both engineering and mathematical skills as kids will learn to make 2D designs, cut and figure out how to place different pieces together prior to sewing them. Learning to sew both clothing & crafts allows your children to broaden their sewing knowledge as well as help improve their fine motor skills. Projects are designed for kids to achieve their very best and be able to succeed as they learn something new each week! Sewing brings out kids’ creativity, problem solving ability, and hand-eye coordination skill! Instructor: enBRiDGEment |[email protected] | www.enbridgement.com.

This class provides a great introduction to physical science and the senses. First, for the flash, we learn about light, making shadow prints and seeing all the colors of rainbows. Then, we play with reflections and lenses. Then we compare animal eyes and learn how much fun it is when our eyes are tricked. For the zap, we explore static electricity and electrical circuits. For the boom, we will investigate sound, by making spinning buzzy bees and Pan pipes and learning how bats echolocate, and how our own ears work. For the bubble, we create a variety of concoctions, including glow in the dark slime. Through discovery–based science learning, your child will explore the natural world with a fun, credentialed science teacher. Class size is capped at ten students to ensure quality instruction. Beth Touchette is a credentialed science teacher with 25 years’ experience and a local mom.

Does your child love football? Do they want to learn more about the game in a fun environment? Or are you interested in your child learning and playing football without all the contact? Then join our coaches as they teach the fundamentals of passing, catching, throwing, offensive and defense strategies, teamwork skills, and sportsmanship!

Dodgeball is a popular team sport that is nothing but pure fun! The objective is to eliminate your opposing team players by hitting them with balls (nerf balls, beach balls, water balloons, glow-in-the-dark balls) and avoiding being hit. Our dodgeball is full of fun as our coach will bring interesting variations to the game and keep your kids on their toes and engaged. Your kids will have an amazing time and not want to stop playing the game with their peers while gaining strength and endurance through physical exercise as well as confidence and social skills from teamwork and camaraderie. Come out and play with us! Instructor: enBRiDGEment |[email protected] | www.enbridgement.com.

Our courses are chock full of games, stories, songs, and so many other hands–on learning experiences. We see play as a natural medium for learning, thus all classes are filled to the brim with play–based learning. Each class is perfectly tailored according to age groups, considering the time of the day as well as their specific needs. Your student will be happy to come to us to play while also even learning some Spanish! While our classes are not full immersion, they are inclusive of all ages and skill levels. Nevertheless, our focus is to safely care for the students while they grow and love to learn a foreign language.