Rye Country Day School After-School Clubs Spring 2019 After-School Clubs are back! Clubs provide a wonderful opportunity to get to know teachers in a different way, to learn something new, and to have fun with friends after school. The spring session of After-School Clubs will begin Monday, March 25 and will end Friday May 17. The weeks of May 20 and May 27 will then serve as a makeup week for missed clubs due to inclement weather, teacher illness, conference days, or holidays. Clubs will meet from 3:15-4:15 p.m. With the exception of Mr. Tofano s Strategy Games club that meets from 3:45-5:00. Children will be provided a snack from dismissal time until 3:15 in the LS Dining Room. The cost of snack is included in the overall price of clubs, and you do not need to send any additional money for a snack or drink. There is no bus transportation at 4:15; therefore all students should be picked up at 4:15 in the Lower School pick-up circle. After 4:00 p.m. calls regarding changes of dismissal should be made to Melissa Liebowitz via email @ Melissa_Liebowitz@ryecountryday.org.
Please do not send payments by check, as club fees will be charged to your school account. Acceptance is automatic upon registration, which will take place online from Monday February 25 at 7:00 p.m. through Friday, March 1 at 3:00 p.m. PLEASE NOTE THAT NO REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED ONCE THE DATABASE CLOSES. The link for registration is included in the e-notes from today. The fee is $200.00 per club. In addition, there may be a supplies fee (up to $20) depending upon the nature of the club. This fee will also be charged to your school account. If you have any questions, please contact: Melissa Liebowitz, Lower School Music Teacher Email: Melissa_Liebowitz@RyeCountryDay.org Below are the weeks that After-School Clubs will run this spring: March 25 April 1 April 8 April 15 (No club Friday April 19) April 22 April 29 May 6 May 13 Makeups by week: May 20 May 27
Monday: Minecraft Strategies with Mr. Turner Grades 1-4 We will utilize collaborative strategies to build a sustainable world using the Minecraft program. There will be opportunities to explore architectural and engineering concepts while applying logic driven circuitry via Redstone to create simple machines. Let's get together to mine & craft. Read it, Paint it with Ms. Kassay Grades K-2 Do you love to paint? We do! In Read It...Paint It, we will listen to a new story each week and paint a picture based on the story. We will use watercolors, tempura paint, cray-pas, make collages and much more! Kitchen Clay and More! with Ms. Keown Grades 1-4 We will make 8 different modeling clays from things you can find in your kitchen! Plus homemade paint and more! How about making play-dough or silly putty galore! Or what about making magic clay that is solid one minute and oozes the next! Have you ever thought of making clean mud? We will! Each class you will make and take home your clay or paint and a recipe to make more. Movie Making with Mr. Landry Grades 3-4
Have you ever wanted to make short films, but just haven t had the chance? Maybe you are already experienced. In this club we will look into what goes into making movies. What makes a compelling story? What kind of effects can we use? How do I make a documentary about an important topic? All of that and more! Yarn Works with Señorita Rebate Grades 1 5 Do you like to create things with yarn and string? This is the place for you! Knitting, crocheting, sewing, making pompoms, cords, and more Outdoor Fun with Ms. English Grades K-2 It s finally springtime! Let s enjoy the weather with some fun outdoor games. We ll try different ways to play games you might already know and learn a ton of new ones you can play on your own or with friends. Tuesday: Sew Happy Sewing Fox Project Grades 3-6 We are proud to introduce Sew Happy's newest project, "Llama Drama" inspired by the art and culture of South America and hand painted in watercolors. Students will begin by practicing stitches on a round mug rug, then they will have fun sewing, stuffing and decorating a llama stuffie and blanket. The final part of this project is a llama/cactus keychain with interchangeable accessories where the students will enjoy dressing their felt friends with sunglasses, bows, hats and scarves.
Lego Stop Motion Animation Grades 1-3 Learn how movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Wallace and Gromit were mad! Stop motion animations are created by taking lots of individual pictures and playing them back at a certain speed (or frame-rate) to create movement. Students will explore stop motion animation by creating stories with LEGOs and can expect to finish this class with several completed animations throughout the course. Intro to Coding with Python Grades 4 5 Create interactive text adventures games, quizzes and more with Python code. Python is an ideal starter language because it is easy to write, easy to read and is used in the real world. Students will start with writing simple projects to develop familiarity with the language and move onto creating interactive text-based games and even drawing with code! Chess Club Grades 2-4 Students will learn how to play the fun and exciting game of chess. Through chess, students learn thinking skills, which are applicable to other disciplines. Each week, students will be divided into small groups based on age and ability for structured lessons on chess
strategy and supervised play. This course is designed as a continuing class, building upon each child's individual knowledge and experience. Wednesday: Model Magic Madness Club with Ms. Caterina and Mr. Landry Grades: K-2 Do you love making projects with Model Magic? If you do this is the perfect club for you! We will explore many types of activities including making puppets, designing beads, pipe cleaner art, animal art, designing fairy villages, animal homes, kooky creatures, and much more. You will learn many exciting ways to sculpt and create projects using Model Magic. You will also be inspired to design your own projects! Video Game Design with Mr. Turner Grades 2-5 Using Scratch & other design tools, we will create various interactive video games. We will explore: coding, game physics, RPG & NPC character development, projectile cloning, and 3D design. We will create our own game controllers via Makey Makey. If you can imagine it, we will try to build it. Yarn Works with Señorita Rebate Grades 1 5 Do you like to create things with yarn and string? This is the place for you! Knitting, crocheting, sewing, making pompoms, cords, and more Clay Club with Ms. Keown Grades 3 6
Come join your friends in the Middle School Ceramic Studio. You can use coils to make the largest pot you can! How about making your own cereal bowl or cup to use for your very own juice! Or maybe you ve always wanted to make a vase to hold a flower or a sculpture you dreamt about then this is the club for you! Science Explorer s Club Fun with Science with Mrs. Simpson Grades K - 4 Do you like science projects like exploding rockets and creating slime? Would you like being a volcanologist and erupting volcanoes? Would you like to create your own crazy experiment? Is Harry Potter your hero? Would you like to make interesting potions? Then, come join Mrs. Simpson on Wednesdays to explore these fun science topics and more. Thursday: Makeshop Workshop with Ms. Sestito Grades 6-8 This club is all about the Makerspace! We will work with various high tech and low tech projects to create unique works of STEAM using the tools, machines, and materials in the makerspace. Paper craft, 3D design and printing, laser etching and cutting, 2D & 3D constructions, motors and electricity, circuits, and more! Balloonology with Ms. Camacho Grades 3-8
If you have ever wondered how they make those cool balloon animals, this is the place for you! Come and join me to start your very own collection of balloon creatures! Yarn Works with Señorita Rebate Grades 1 5 Do you like to create things with yarn and string? This is the place for you! Knitting, crocheting, sewing, making pompoms, cords, and more Arts and Crafts Club with Ms. Catalano Grades K-3 Come and be apart of a creative comfortable atmosphere where you can learn and create crafts that can be worn, useful and decorative. Do you enjoy making slime, painting, drawing or using your imagination? Than this is the club for you! Sumo Bots with Ms. Ciuccio Grades 3-6 Make RCDS history by being a part of our first Sumo Bot team! Learn to build and program Sumo Bots: strong robots capable of pushing other robots out of a ring using Lego Mindstorms EV3 components. With a goal of competing locally in early May, we will utilize the engineering design process as we consider robot structure, weight, gear ratios, and the use of sensors to make our robots push as hard as possible while staying in the ring. Are you up to the challenge? Friday: Drama Club with Mrs. Liebowitz and Ms. Henerey
Grades 2-4 Come take the stage! Join the drama club to not only produce a play, but also to learn about creative movement, perform story enactments, play theater games, go on imaginative journeys...and more! Bring your bravado! Supply Fee: Yes Yarn Works with Señorita Rebate Grades 1 5 Do you like to create things with yarn and string? This is the place for you! Knitting, crocheting, sewing, making pompoms, cords, and more Pom-Pom Craft Club with Ms. Regan and Ms. Liso Grades K-4 Do you love creating unique and adorable crafts? Have you ever used pom-poms in your crafts before? Well in pom-pom craft club you get to do both! You will have the opportunity to design colorful and cute pom-pom creations. We can t wait to meet our pom-pom artists! Makeshop Workshop with Ms. Sestito Grades 3-5 This club is all about the Makerspace! We will work with various high tech and low tech projects to create unique works of STEAM using the tools, machines, and materials in the makerspace. Paper craft, 3D design and printing, laser etching and cutting, 2D & 3D constructions, motors and electricity, circuits, and more! Plein Air Paint, Draw and More! with Ms. Keown Grades 3-5 We will bring the studio outside! Paint draw or collage what
we see in nature or our wildest dreams! After our long cold winter we will create in the sunshine! (As weather permits). The Strategy Games Club with Mr. Tofano Grades 5-7 Come join us and embark on a special mission while navigating through amazing miniature three dimensional scenery based on any of our many special Mr.T Fantasy, Adventure, Historical, or Futuristic themed gaming scenarios. Historical re-enactments, Fantasy/Mythology Quests, or Futuristic space missions are all potential subjects similar to Games Workshop, Heroscape, Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, Warcraft, and TSR historical conflicts. If you like battling monsters, outwitting pirates, escaping hordes of savage creatures, casting spells, or leading your troops, then this is the club for you. New or experienced gamers equally welcome. Chess Club with Mr. Landry Grades 1-4 Are you a chess player? Maybe you have always wanted to play, but haven t had the chance to learn. Well either way this is the club for you! Come spend your Friday afternoons learning and playing one of the world s greatest times with Mr. Landry! Wizarding World of RCDS with Ms. English Grades 2-4 Do you love Harry Potter? Have you ever wanted to meet up with lots of kids who enjoyed it too? Then join the club where you ll be sorted into houses, try our own spells and potions plus make some other crafts inspired by the books.
Whether you re a longtime fan or just getting started with the series, this is the club for you.