Washington DC's Family Guide

Sep. 12th - Dec. 7th

Join us Mondays and/ or Wednesdays from 9:00am-12:00pm.
Absolute Beginners! For little ones who are just getting started.
Recommended for kids aged 3-5
Minimum Skills:
NONE
Pre-Kindergarten Playtime will get your child familiar with letter names and basic sounds, numbers up to 10, names and basic characteristic of shapes, names of colors and more. They will develop social skills as they get to play and make friends.

This class meets at our Bowie-Laurel location at 9811 Mallard Drive, Suite 111, Laurel, MD 20708. Right next to the 197 &295 interchange.

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Sep. 13th - Dec. 8th

Join us Tuesdays and/or Thursdays from 9:00am-12:00pm.\r\n\r\nRecommended for kids aged 5-8\r\n\r\nFor students who are ready to build on their basic skills. \r\n\r\nMinimum Skills: \r\n* Can decode 3-letter words \r\n* Can write 3-letter words and use creative spelling to sound out longer, more complex words \r\n* Can add and subtract to 10\r\n\r\nThis series of in-person classes will include: English Mechanics, Social Studies, Art, Science, Math, Creative Writing and more. All of the classes use games, small group work, movement, and/or hands-on activities. Teacher team will be lead by Meredith Kaunitz with instruction by a variety of teachers according to area of expertise.\r\n\r\nThere may come a time when public policy or public health recommendations cause us to move to all virtual but we will continue to offer in-person, drop-off as much as possible. Our brick-and-mortar space boasts several features that will protect us from all contagion, including COVID-19, such as windows that open allowing air exchange, sinks in every rooms for hand washing on our way in and out, medical grade air purifiers, and medical grade sanitizing cleaners.\r\n\r\nThis class meets at our Bowie-Laurel location at 9811 Mallard Drive, Suite 111, Laurel, MD 20708. Right next to the 197 &295 interchange.

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Sep. 13th - Dec. 6th

Recommended for kids aged 4-6

Minimum Required Skills
No experience needed!

Students will learn basic Spanish skills such as colors, numbers, letters and more.

This class meets on Zoom.

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Sep. 13th - Dec. 6th

Recommended for kids aged 5-8

Minimum Required Skills
- Can introduce themselves and others
- Can count from 1-20
- Can ask and answer basic yes-no questions

Students will learn how to ask and answer information seeking questions, to count higher, to use numbers in various ways, etc.

This class meets on Zoom.

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Sep. 14th - Dec. 7th

Price for 12 classes: $220
Wednesdays, 2:30-4:00 pm
recommended age range: Teens


Learn art skills from drawing to painting to sculpture!

This class meets at our Bowie-Laurel location at 9811 Mallard Drive, Suite 111, Laurel, MD 20708. Right next to the 197 &295 interchange.

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Sep. 14th - Dec. 7th

Price for 12 classes: $144
Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00 pm
recommended age range: 10-18


Create your own game using Unreal Engine. This class will help you come up with an idea, plan your assets, and plan your game's objective and levels. Then you will learn how to create assets, and you may learn techniques for coding. How far you get depends a lot on how complicated your game idea is, how many assets you need to create and how quickly you finish making them. * Must have laptop capable of connecting to WiFi that your student can bring to class.

This class meets at our Bowie-Laurel location at 9811 Mallard Drive, Suite 111, Laurel, MD 20708. Right next to the 197 &295 interchange.

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Sep. 14th - Dec. 7th

Price for 12 classes: $144
Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00 pm
recommended age range: 8-18


YouTube Academy will help your budding YouTuber set up their channel, create the required graphic art, come up with ideas and schedules for content, figure out how to create, edit and upload content, how to market themselves to their ideal audience and how to maintain their channel. We will walk through the basic steps of how to create, use, and navigate your way through YouTube and your channel. We will go in more depth about your content, display, and how to put the "You" in "Youtube!"

This class meets at our Bowie-Laurel location at 9811 Mallard Drive, Suite 111, Laurel, MD 20708. Right next to the 197 &295 interchange.

**All students will need to have a parent signed waiver that allows us to create a YouTube channel for them if they don't already have one or that allows us to create and upload content to their existing channel.

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Sep. 14th - Dec. 7th

Recommended for kids aged 6-10

Even older kids love stories- just not baby stories!
Popular stories, fun facts, making art, show and tell and more fun and interactive activities will keep your child engaged, and creating!

Perfect for just after lunch to digest before they go back outside to run around!

Taught by Teresa Sedano

This class meets on Zoom.

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Sep. 26th - Dec. 5th

Recommended for kids aged 4-7

Let's make some music together! We will learn about pitch, rhythm & rests. We will sing songs and dance to them. We will move in different patterns of sound and rests. We will play different instruments to various rhythms. We will sing together and dance to music of different time signatures. We will experience different styles of music and maybe even do some visual art reaction to each song.

This class meets at our Bowie-Laurel location at 9811 Mallard Drive, Suite 111, Laurel, MD 20708

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Sep. 26th - Dec. 5th

Recommended for kids aged 8-12

This class has been loved by over 750 students!

Minimum Required Skills
None
Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material may include introducing oneself, asking about personal information, numbers up to 9,999 and asking about prices. Students will learn to read and write in Romaji and Hiragana.
Notes
If your student is slow at writing, it would be really helpful to teach them how to take and retrieve a screenshot in order to be able to take notes into a breakout room to do activities.

This class meets online.

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