Fives Choice Class Season Overview
Choice Classes meet Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for an hour. Full Day Fives select one class from Block A, B and C.
| Session 1: June 29th- July 10th | ||
| Block A: Tumbling Community Garden LEGO City | Block B: Animal Games Backyard Games Young Sculptors World Cup Fever | Block C: Little Red Postal Service Tag, You're It |
| Session 2: July 13th- July 24th | ||
| Block A: Karate Ocean Adventure Paper Pals | Block B: Fairy Homes and Gardens Super Sports Tumbling | Block C: Carnival! Little Red Rocket Ship Movement and Flow |
| Session 3: July 27th- August 7th | ||
| Block A: Light Travels Through Soccer Stars | Block B: Ball Games Circus, Circus Pizza Shop | Block C: Zoology Jumble On Your Mark, Get Set, GO! |
Session 1
Block A: 10:30-11:30
Tumbling (Clara Kim)
In this fun and energetic class, students will work on basic tumbling skills such as rolls, cartwheels, bridges and more. We will practice balancing on the low beam and sticking our landings off the springboard as we move through various obstacle courses we create.
Community Garden (Kyle Anthony)
Let’s grow a garden together! We’ll make towering paper flowers with giant leaves and petals! Create garden inspired paintings with collage, and even have a bug day – making big beautiful butterflies, worms and ants, with different materials like buttons, paper tubes, pipe cleaners, and clothespins. We will also use contact paper and real petals, to make gorgeous pieces that can hang in a window for light to stream through! Come on down to the Community Garden!
LEGO City (Denzel Johnson)
Let’s build, create and play! Have you ever wanted to design your own city out of LEGOS? During LEGO city we will build our own LEGO cities using our expansive collection of LEGOS and our big imaginations. Come ready to build people, cars, and buildings with all the accessories. We will work individually and in groups – let’s see where our creativity and building skills take us!
Session 1
Block B: 1:30-2:30
Backyard Games (Langston Brown)
Get ready to run, jump, and play in Backyard Team Games! Campers will enjoy classic playground favorites along with fun new games and challenges. Each day includes lots of movement, teamwork, and chances to create their own games, too. It’s all about staying active, playing together, and having a great time!
Young Sculptors (Lauren Barriocanal)
Squish, roll, and create! Young Sculptors lets kids explore their imagination using clay and hands-on building fun. As they shape and mold their masterpieces, they’ll build skills and confidence—one creation at a time.
Animal Games (Clara Kim)
In this creative active class, we will learn all about animals! Then we will make props and costume pieces to learn and play animal related games! We will have a great time, playing, using our imaginations, and moving around like the animals we love!
Session 1
Block C: 2:30-3:30
Tag, You’re It! (Anna Goldstein)
Such a simple concept, but so many fun ways to play. Fishy Fishy, Link-Tag, Blob Tag and many more. Sometimes you’ll need to be fast, other times sneaky. Tag is a great introduction to physical play—following rules, practicing teamwork and fair play, and making new friends!
Little Red Postal Service (Nora Woolley)
In Little Red Postal Service campers will create their own camp postal system! We will create letters, postcards and stamps and deliver the mail to camp friends, and anyone else we want! This class will focus on creativity, community, and fun!
Session 2
Block A: 10:30-11:30
Ocean Adventure! (Kyle Anthony)
Campers will work with a range of unexpected materials, like coffee filters, pool noodles, and egg cartons, to create a colorful coral reef and underwater landscape full of ocean creatures. We’ll use paints, oil pastels, and up cycled materials to make a collaborative work of under the sea art, complete with colorful fish, shimmery jellyfish, and textured starfish!
Karate (Vinny Barile)
An introduction to the basic moves and ideas of Karate. Activities will focus on building strength, flexibility, coordination, and spatial awareness through practice, games, and fun!
Paper Pals (Lulu Grant)
In this crafty art class, inspired by paper dolls, campers will create paper people and fashions on a large scale. Kids will design cool outfits, hairstyles, and accessories that can be replaced and changed as they please. At the end of the session campers will have a paper closet filled with various looks, and will put on a fashion show to showcase their stylish work!
Session 2
Block B: 1:30-2:30
Tumbling (Clara Kim)
In this fun and energetic class, students will work on basic tumbling skills such as rolls, cartwheels, bridges and more. We will practice balancing on the low beam and sticking our landings off the springboard as we move through various obstacle courses we create.
Fairy Homes & Gardens (Catalina Cofone Polack)
In this art class, campers will use their imaginations to build fairy homes, castles, and dream gardens using cardboard boxes, paint, and plenty of sparkle. First, each child will design their own special fairy or fantasy home. Then, we’ll team up to build a big, magical neighborhood together—because even fairies love having neighbors! Along the way, we’ll decorate, build, and create with friends. At the end of the week, we’ll show off our magical village to the whole camp. Wands, wings, and wonder welcome!
Super Sports (Langston Brown)
Get ready to run, jump, and play in Super Sports! We’ll start each class with fun skill games to practice things like kicking, throwing, and teamwork, then jump into exciting group games. We’ll play favorites like soccer, basketball, kickball, gaga, and hockey—and maybe even invent some new games together!
Session 2
Block C: 2:30-3:30
Little Red Rocket Ship (CJ Perrine)
3,2,1 Blast off!! In this creative dramatic play class campers will learn all about space, do space related art projects, and play games that take them out of this world and into space travel!
Carnival! (Belan Araujo)
Get ready! It’s Carnival time! Campers will explore how people from all around the world celebrate with music, color, and joy. We will create headpieces and bright banners, then decide how we would like to celebrate and have our very own lively Carnival party!
Movement & Flow (Catalina Cofone Polack)
This is a creative space where campers will explore movement, art, and sensory activities through games and projects. We will practice some yoga, learn breathing exercises, make crafts, and do sensory projects, all in a fun and encouraging environment that centers focus, artistic inspriation, and self-expression. This class blends movement, self-awareness, relaxation, and fun!
Session 3
Block A: 10:30-11:30
Soccer Stars (Anna Goldstein)
In this class, campers will practice various engaging drills and games designed to improve soccer skills – from dribbling and passing to shooting and defending. Along with physical activity, we will emphasize teamwork and good sportsmanship.
Light Travels Through (Kyle Anthony)
Campers will explore how light travels through different materials and construct their own stained glass inspired art, warped abstract pieces, and a collaborative mural using materials like cellophane and acetate. We’ll also explore sketching with light and basic shading techniques.
Block B: 1:30-2:30
Circus, Circus (Catalina Cofone Polack)
Step right up! In this active and creative class, campers will explore various aspects of what it might be like to be in the circus! Everyone will have a chance to do an incredible acrobatic act, invent a magic trick, discover their clown within, try on their ringleader hat, and even take turns training a lion!
Pizza Shop (Andrea Messaoud)
In this dramatic play/craft class we will make, run (and play in!) our very own pizza shop! We will create all the things our pizza shop needs, including cardboard pizza ovens, a cash register, and pizza-themed art projects. We’ll end with a pizza party and a “Grand Opening” event!
Ball Games (Langston Brown)
Throwing, catching, bouncing, passing, hitting, kicking, running, and laughing! Using soccer, kickball, volleyball, baseball, basketball and more as inspiration, we will develop hand-eye coordination and teamwork skills in a positive, encouraging environment.
Session 3
Block C: 2:30-3:30
Zoology Jumble (Kyle Anthony)
The body of a tiger, the tail of a dolphin, the head of an eagle? Campers will design their own mixed-up animals through collage and drawing, then build them on a large scale with movable parts. We’ll also create a shared habitat and bring our creatures to life in motion at the end of the session.
On Your Mark, Get Set, GO! (Anna Goldstein)
This class is all about relay races! From classic relays to wacky originals, campers will collaborate and compete as they run, hop, pass, toss, and balance their way through exciting challenges.