- RED Clubs allow teachers to delve deeper into projects. They will have the same group of students from 3-4pm on the same day each week.
Honeybees
NATURE CRAFTS CLUBThe children in this club will get the chance to embrace and appreciate the natural world by working nature into fun art projects. Each week, we will work on a project that will include a natural element from outside.
Week 1:
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Collecting dandelions, leaves, and other natural materials
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Pressing dandelions
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Making clay prints of natural materials
Week 2:
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Painting clay prints from week 1
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Making bookmarks incorporating the pressed dandelions
Week 3
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Painting and prepping natural materials for mobiles
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Making prints with natural materials and paint
Week 4:
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Putting together mobiles
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Making “nature’s eye” craft with sticks and yarn
Bug Club
The Honeybees will celebrate the spring season by exploring how cool insects are! I’ll combine my love for nature with the excitement I’ve noticed among the Honeybees surrounding insects. When we’re on the small playground, the students are captivated when they find a worm or butterfly and this club will expand their budding curiosity for insects. By the end of this club, Honeybees will be able to identify the bugs we notice outside and understand their importance for the environment. In turn, teaching them empathy and compassion for all living things around us. Over the course of this club we’ll switch between doing crafts and experiments.
Week 1: What is an insect?
– Each Club day we’ll spend 10-15 minutes interacting with actual insects that I’ll bring in. They’ll observe them with magnifying glasses in a terrarium.
– Activity: Ladybug Life cycle Craft
Week 2: Where do insects live?
– Each Club day we’ll spend 10-15 minutes interacting with actual insects that I’ll bring in. They’ll observe them with magnifying glasses in a terrarium.
– Activity: Create your own terrarium. Using recycled materials we’ll go outdoors to fill our bug homes with everything an insect would need to survive.Week 3: Butterflies!
– Each Club day we’ll spend 10-15 minutes interacting with actual insects that I’ll bring in. They’ll observe them with magnifying glasses in a terrarium.
– Activity: Coffee filter Butterfly Craft
Week 4: Honeybees!
– Each Club day we’ll spend 10-15 minutes interacting with actual insects that I’ll bring in. They’ll observe them with magnifying glasses in a terrarium.
– Activity: Honey taste test and “cooking” honey themed snacks
BUILDING CLUBWeek 1:Marble RunQ: What tools can we use to make things?Each student or pair of students with get a large piece of cardboard to make a vertical marble run. We’ll use recycled materials, tape, and scissors.Week 2:Planes and ParachutesQ: What makes things fly?We’ll use recycled materials to make objects and toss them off one of the playground structures to see how well they fly or float. We’ll talk about surface area and aerodynamics and apply what we learn to our designs.Week 3:BoatsQ: What makes things float on water?We’ll use recycled materials to make objects that float and test our objects in a water tub. We’ll talk about what materials and shapes float and why.Week 4:Free BuildQ: What am I interested in making?We’ll follow our interests to make whatever we’d like with recycled materials! It will be an exploration.Crickets
Nature ClubThis May, Crickets will explore and appreciate the natural world that is right in our own
neighborhood! We will engage in activities that will allow us to get outside, put our
hands in the dirt, and create works of art using the natural objects we find. Below is a
more in-depth overview of what projects we will be working on during each club
meeting.Thursday May 8th : Miniature Herb Garden
We will be planting a miniature herb garden that will include basil, chives, and oregano.
Each week, we will check our garden’s growth and will hopefully be able to harvest
some at the end of the month. If time allows, we will go for a nature walk around the
school, collecting clovers, dandelions and leaves to press for a future activity.Thursday May 15th : Natural Dye Workshop
After checking our herb garden and flower/plant pressings, we will participate in a
natural dye workshop! We will be dyeing scrunchies and bandanas in avocado(pink)
and turmeric(yellow) dyes. While our fabric rests in their dye baths, we will take another
short nature walk foraging for more clovers and dandelions to press.Thursday May 22nd :
We will begin this club meeting with checking our herb garden and taking out our
collected plants from their press. We will then create bookmarks and sun catchers using
our foraged plants along with some extra pressed flowers provided by Abby.
Thursday May 29 th : Pasta Party!
In our last club meeting, we will harvest what we can from our herb garden. With our
fresh herbs and some store-bought ingredients, we will make a fresh pesto and serve it
with spaghetti, enjoying our meal al fresco in the courtyard!Thursday May 29th : Pasta Party!
In our last club meeting, we will harvest what we can from our herb garden. With our
fresh herbs and some store-bought ingredients, we will make a fresh pesto and serve it
with spaghetti, enjoying our meal al fresco in the courtyard!TAG CLUB
In my 8 years at R.E.D., one activity has separated itself from the pack: tag.
This timeless game brings kids together regardless of their age, background, interests, friend group, etc. There are many different variations and it’s requested by the Crickets daily.
In this club we’ll play two different versions of tag with time set aside for rules explanation and water breaks. We’ll also mix up the locations in which we play to keep it fresh. Each block will be roughly structured as follows:
*5 mins rules
*20 mins game one
*5 mins water break
*5 mins rules
*20 mins game two
Week One: Spider Tag, Pokemon Tag
Week Two: Band-Aid Tag, Scarecrow Soccer Tag
Week Three: Zombie Tag, Pizza Tag
Week Four: Marco Polo, Kids’ Choice!
Beth’s Extreme Board Club Continues!
Bigger board games! More strategy! Build on the skills we’ve built this year for a deep dive into tabletop games. Or, build your own!Week One: One Night Werewolf. Like Coup, but bigger!Week Two: Blackjack. Counting to 21 has never been so hard!Week Three: Avalon FULL VERSION with all the bad guys! Finally learn what Oberoth does!Week Four: Bonus game from Beth’s personal collection! Will you get to play Beth’s favorite board game EVER?Drawing and Painting ClubWeek 1- sketch book makingWeek 2-still life and pen and inkWeek 3- pastelWeek 4- canvas paintingDragonflies
DRAGONFLY DESIGN CLUBWorking in small groups, the kids will have their choice to design and build one of the following:– Amusement Park
– Shopping Mall
– Sports Arena/Park
– Skyscraper/Plaza
We will be using various materials like cardboard, pipe cleaners, tooth picks, cotton balls, tin foil and more. Each item will have a specific cost assigned to it and the teams will have to manage a budget to purchase the materials needed to bring their design to life.
Week 1:
During the first week of our design club, the Dragonflies will split into small groups, choose what structure they would like to create and begin drawing sketches of their plans. They will work together to combine their plans and create a team blueprint for their build.
Week 2:
In the second week of design club, teams will have to budget their Dragon dollars wisely as they buy all of the materials for their builds. Each team will be given a specific amount of money, a list of materials and their costs. Teams will review their plans, strategize how they will prioritize the available materials and budget their funds to successfully gather all of the items they need.
Weeks 3 & 4:
During the final two weeks of the Dragonfly design club our teams will be using the various materials they purchased from the Dragonfly depot to construct their projects.
During this time the Dragonflies will work on their communication skills, teamwork, time management and working within a budget, while also displaying their creativity and having some fun!
Hydraulic Robot Club!In this club, the Dragonflies will build and experiment with some amazing hydraulic powered robots sets. We will learn to communicate and patiently work together to follow the complex build instructions. All along the way learning how moveable robots function. Once built we will test their operating abilities and find out exactly how hydraulic bots work using water!- Weeks 1 and 2 will be focused entirely on putting the over 300 pieces of the robots together.
- Week 3 will be about learning how hydraulic systems work and to control them. Hopefully perfecting our technique during the process.
- Our final week will be a Robot Boxing Battle Royale! The teams will compete to see which robot will reign supreme!
DRAWING CLUB
Each week kids will be given a different drawing game or prompt to complete.
The first week we will play Pass the Drawing where kids will begin a drawing and pass it around the group where each person will add to the drawing.
The second week kids will play Back to Back Drawing where they will partner up and sit back to back with one another. One of them will pick an object to describe and the other will draw based on the description they are given.
The third week we will put drawing prompts in a bowl and pick randomly. We will follow these prompts and create a drawing based off of them.
The fourth week the group will work together and play a game of Pictionary. We will also take a look at the drawings we have completed during our club.
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