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A Summer to Remember (Grades PreK-1)
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A Summer to Remember (Grades PreK-1)

Free

with Margina Grow

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am, runs for 1 week

Does your child like to explore the great outdoors and travel through time? Through a plethora of fun and engaging activities, your child will travel back to dinosaur days, swim with ocean animals, fly with bugs and butterflies, and swing with jungle animals!

Art Smarts (Grades: 1-3)
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Art Smarts (Grades: 1-3)

Free

with Kate Fairservce

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am

Join us as we link children’s literature to art. Your child’s imagination will grow as we read fascinating stories and make artwork that connects us and engages us creatively all while cultivating a love of reading!

Instructors: Ms. Toomey & Ms. Fairservice

Bringing the outdoors in! Creating Art with Nature (Grades: 3-5)
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Bringing the outdoors in! Creating Art with Nature (Grades: 3-5)

Free

with Amanda Tolson

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am

Does your child love art and the outdoors? In this class, students will take daily outdoor adventure walks to collect natural materials that will inspire or be used in original artworks! The children will rotate between morning and afternoon workshops that are 2D and 3D in nature. Think: fairy houses, nature prints, painting outdoors - all while having fun with peers!

Instructors: Ms. Tolson & Ms. Shelton-Eide

Broadway in Goochland - Let's Write a Musical Together (Grades: 4-6)
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Broadway in Goochland - Let's Write a Musical Together (Grades: 4-6)

Free

with Kim Watts

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am

Musical theater is a combination of four essential elements: songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. During this all-day class, we will work together to create a story, using songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance to bring the story to life. The end result will be learning the steps in creating a musical and having lots of fun creating every character, every scene, every line, and every song.

This course is open to current 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. 

Instructors: Ms. Watts 

Cooking with STEM (Grades: 2-3)

Free

with Cheryl Johnston

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am

Have you wondered why bread and cakes grow bigger in the oven? Can you cook using the sun as the heat source? Sign up for this creative intercession and you will get opportunities to make your own butter, bake your own bread, create ice cream, and learn the science behind food.

*This course has an anticipated field trip. Details will be provided closer to the start of June Intersessions.

Instructor: Ms. Johnston

Full Course

Cooking with STEM (Grades: PreK-1)

Free

with Bethany Gordon

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am

Have you wondered why bread and cakes grow bigger in the oven? Can you cook using the sun as the heat source? Sign up for this creative intercession and you will get opportunities to make your own butter, bake your own bread, create ice cream, and learn the science behind food.

*This course has an anticipated field trip. Details will be provided closer to the start of June Intersessions.

Instructors: Ms. Gordon, Ms. Cocke, & Ms. Cosby

Full Course
Knit Your Bit GCPS (Grades: K-5)
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Knit Your Bit GCPS (Grades: K-5)

Free

with Sarah Delong

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am
1 additional session

Beginners welcome!

Have you ever wanted to make your own hat?  Students in kindergarten -5th grades are invited to join the GCPS Knitting Brigade and learn how to loom knit their own hat!  Please join us for a week of fun learning about different types of yarn, the animals that provide yarn, and use yarn to knit your own hat!  

Instructor: Ms. Delong

*This course has an anticipated field trip. Details will be provided closer to the start of June Intersessions.

Learning with Lego Robotics (Grades: 3-5)

Free

with Zoe Parrish

Calendar Next session starts Jun 20, 2023 at 8 am

This session is for current 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders interested in learning more about robotics and computer programming. Students will build Lego robots, and program them to complete obstacles. We will explore the basics of computer programming through unplugged and hands-on challenges. Participants in this session will also tinker with other popular robots used in our schools. Students will build habits of learning, confidence, and teamwork throughout our week together.

Instructors: Ms. Parrish and Ms. Haley

*This course has an anticipated field trip. Details will be provided closer to the start of June Intersessions.

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