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Our next round of clubs begin in May. The dates are May 2, 9, 16, 23.
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
Baking club
This month the honeybees will be doing baking club! The children will work together to make a variety of baked goods throughout the month of may! They will practice measuring, turn taking and other kitchen skills and most importantly get to enjoy some delicious treats!
Week 1: chocolate chip cookies
Week 2: banana muffins
Week 3: lavender shortbread
Week 4: confetti cake
Jewelry Club
Day 1
- We will watch a video showing how to tie a knot with a pipe cleaner on one of the tablets. Most of the Honeybees don’t know how to tie knots yet, so for every successful knot tied during the club, I’ll offer them a sticker. For students that know how to tie knots, I’ll give them a sticker for helping someone else tie a knot.
- We will practice tying knots with pipe cleaners by making bracelets and crowns.
- We’ll learn to make paper beads by rolling strips of craft paper on a straw.
- There will be time to make jewelry independently with beads from the supply closet.
Day 2
- We will watch the knot-tying video again, this time practicing with string and trying to make double knots.
- We will use polymer clay to make our own beads and charms.
- Students will practice safely poking holes in their clay beads with a toothpick.
- There will be time to make jewelry independently with string, pipe cleaners, and beads from the closet.
Day 3
- We will continue making beads out of polymer clay.
- We’ll use the clay beads made last week to make necklaces and bracelets.
- We’ll use sharpies to draw on Shrinky-Dink plastic. I’ll cut it out and hole punch their drawings to make charms.
- We’ll make sea shell charms by gluing shells to beads
Day 4
- We’ll start the club by shrinking our shrinky-dinks in the oven.
- There will be independent time for making jewelry from the beads and charms we have made, as well as the supplies in the closet.
- We’ll collect and label jewelry that students want to show in the art show.
- The students will pose for pictures with their jewelry and have a short fashion show.
Crickets
TASKMASTER CLUB! – with Abby and Julia
What is Taskmaster?
Taskmaster is a British comedy television show where five comedians compete in a series of wacky and hilarious challenges designed by their “Taskmaster.” Tasks can range from the seemingly simple (a game of Hide and Seek), to the absolutely absurd (paint a horse while riding a horse). Tasks are then judged and assigned points by the Taskmaster, often based on creativity, ingenuity, and wit.
What is Taskmaster?
Each week, both Crickets and Dragonflies will team up and be given surprise tasks to complete, assigned by their Taskmasters (Abby and Julia). This club will call for students to channel their inner athletes, artists, and intellectuals, with tasks that range from physical challenges (i.e. transporting water from one bucket to another) all the way to the creative and sometimes strange (i.e. rubber ducky art competitions). Each week, students will come up against new and fantastical challenges, using their creativity, ingenuity, and teamwork to find the best and/or silliest ways to succeed.
Taskmaster is a British comedy television show where five comedians compete in a series of wacky and hilarious challenges designed by their “Taskmaster.” Tasks can range from the seemingly simple (a game of Hide and Seek), to the absolutely absurd (paint a horse while riding a horse). Tasks are then judged and assigned points by the Taskmaster, often based on creativity, ingenuity, and wit.
Week One: May 2
We will introduce the students to the show Taskmaster through watching clips and easier level tasks, allowing students to get familiar with their teammates and the club itself.
Week Two: May 9
We will get into larger and more outrageous tasks that will put the Crickets and Dragonflies to the test, challenging the ways in which they think and communicate with their classmates.
Week 3: May 16
This week, we will turn the tables. This week, students will have the opportunity to design their own tasks, for their peers AND the Taskmasters (Abby and Julia) to attempt.
Week 4: May 23
We will conclude Taskmaster Club by completing the fun and exciting tasks created by our RED students!
MUSIC CLUB
Week 1:
- making DIY instruments
- we will make maracas and paper plate tambourines
- exploring basics of rhythm with our homemade instruments
- watching some videos about how various instruments are made
Week 2:
- Crickets form a traveling band
- we will take a page from Naomi’s book and go around to all the groups performing a few songs
- I will accompany them on guitar while they play their DIY instruments
- we will learn a bit about live music and the logistics of touring
Week 3:
- writing name raps
- we will learn about rhymes and rhyming sequences
- we will brainstorm about ourselves and what we like, and create rhyming raps about ourselves
- students will have the option to perform their raps if they want
Week 4:
- song lyric art
- I will print out various song lyrics. Students will pick a song that resonates with them and choose a few specific lines that really send the message home
- they will turn those song lines into an illustrated poem
- we will talk about lyrics and the meanings behind songs
Photography Club
Photographers will work together in small groups to navigate weekly challenges/ themes. Pictures will be taken using R.E.D.’s iPads. At the conclusion of the club, members will be able to select their favorite picture, which will be kept in a frame that they design!
Week one- Alphabet scavenger hunt (groups take a picture of something representing each letter of the alphabet)
Week two- Action shots (groups work together to capture fun pictures outside)
Week three- Nature pics (we take a trip to Fisher Hill Park)
Week four- Picture frame designs (members make their own frames)
Dragonflies
TASKMASTER CLUB! – with Abby and Julia
What is Taskmaster?
Taskmaster is a British comedy television show where five comedians compete in a series of wacky and hilarious challenges designed by their “Taskmaster.” Tasks can range from the seemingly simple (a game of Hide and Seek), to the absolutely absurd (paint a horse while riding a horse). Tasks are then judged and assigned points by the Taskmaster, often based on creativity, ingenuity, and wit.
What is Taskmaster?
Each week, both Crickets and Dragonflies will team up and be given surprise tasks to complete, assigned by their Taskmasters (Abby and Julia). This club will call for students to channel their inner athletes, artists, and intellectuals, with tasks that range from physical challenges (i.e. transporting water from one bucket to another) all the way to the creative and sometimes strange (i.e. rubber ducky art competitions). Each week, students will come up against new and fantastical challenges, using their creativity, ingenuity, and teamwork to find the best and/or silliest ways to succeed.
Taskmaster is a British comedy television show where five comedians compete in a series of wacky and hilarious challenges designed by their “Taskmaster.” Tasks can range from the seemingly simple (a game of Hide and Seek), to the absolutely absurd (paint a horse while riding a horse). Tasks are then judged and assigned points by the Taskmaster, often based on creativity, ingenuity, and wit.
Week One: May 2
We will introduce the students to the show Taskmaster through watching clips and easier level tasks, allowing students to get familiar with their teammates and the club itself.
Week Two: May 9
We will get into larger and more outrageous tasks that will put the Crickets and Dragonflies to the test, challenging the ways in which they think and communicate with their classmates.
Week 3: May 16
This week, we will turn the tables. This week, students will have the opportunity to design their own tasks, for their peers AND the Taskmasters (Abby and Julia) to attempt.
Week 4: May 23
We will conclude Taskmaster Club by completing the fun and exciting tasks created by our RED students!
Dragonfly Book Club
Week 1: See the Bellagio fountain show
(Play with giant bubbles, straws, soapy water outside)Week 2: Visit a national park
(Nature walk! Ask questions, interact with our senses, plant identification with Seek app)Week 3: Entertainment! See a magic show.
(Practice/share tricks! Learn juggling, yo-yos, magic tricks, dancing)Week 4: Try your hand at the Poker tables.
(We’ll play Texas Hold ‘em, with a talk about gambling)Backup activity: Visit a Vegas buffet!
(Prepare and enjoy healthy snacks together)Techno-Art Club
The Dragonflies will work together to disassemble a microwave, strip down all of its components, learn about them and then use the parts to create sculptures.
Week 1: Debrief and defrost
During the first week of our club we will begin to take apart a microwave. We will use the iPad to research the different pieces we find to learn what they are, what they do and how they work with the other attaching components.
Week 2: Let’s get cookin’!
In the second week we will continue to strip away parts and learn about their functions until we are left with nothing more than a pile of microwave bones! We will then begin to divide them evenly for the following week’s challenge…
Week 3: Beautiful disaster
This week we will take our pile of microwave scraps, add a few art materials and begin to create something beautiful. We will work together to reuse our old parts and craft unique and creative art sculptures.
Week 4: Ding! Fully cooked creations
In the final week of our microwave club we will finish completing our techno-art sculptures and have a re-cap session about all of the parts we discovered, what we learned about microwaves and how we decided to re-use parts to build our masterpieces.
