Dancing From the Inside Out
Grades: K-3rd
Join Lori Vasquez for a fun virtual dance/movement experience where students will learn how movement affects the bones and muscles. Together the group will explore the 206 bones in the body and how they shape the muscles used every day. This online experience is a great way to promote physical activity and explore the way the body moves.
Live Interactive Login Days: Tuesday-Friday
Time: 10am-11am (CST)
Areas of Study: Dance movement & anatomy
Supplemental Materials: Printouts
Supplies Needed: Comfortable clothes that students can move in, cleared floor to be able to move, scarf or piece of lightweight fabric
Price: $60
Musical Theatre Workshop
Grades: 3rd-6th
Join Michelle Haas for a fun virtual Musical Theatre Workshop that offers drama, dance, and performance skills for young actors. Students will learn choreography, vocals, and movement techniques from popular musical theatre songs. By the end of the last session, students will have a full performance they can share with friends and family.
Live Interactive Login Days: Tuesday-Friday
Time: 1pm-2pm (CST)
Areas of Study: Dance & Performance
Supplemental Materials: Link for music
Supplies Needed: Comfortable clothes that students can move in, cleared floor to be able to move
Price: $60
Whimsical Weaving
Grades: 3rd-6th
Join Monica Barrera in this virtual art experience that revolves around weaving. During the first lesson students will learn painting techniques in both watercolor and tempera paint to prepare for paper weaving and a mixed media art piece. In the following lessons, students will learn the basics of weaving and gain skills in a variety of different yarn weaving techniques. By the end, each student will have multiple finished art pieces as well as the tools and knowledge to make more weaving projects throughout the summer!
Live Interactive Login Days: Tuesday-Friday
Time: 2pm-3pm (CST)
Areas of Study: Weaving (fiber arts), painting (tempera & watercolor), math (lots of measuring!)
Supplemental Materials: Printouts
Supplies Needed: Wooden ruler, scissors, pencil, white heavy duty paper plate, tape, glue ( 1 bottle of Elmer’s white glue), 6×8 piece of cardboard, paint brushes, table cloth or newspaper (to cover work surface), weaving needle (Michaels), Assortment of yarn (Amazon), 9×12″ watercolor paper pad (Michaels), Tempera Paint (This neon assortment is very fun! Michaels), Watercolors (Michaels)
Price: $60
Hands-On Science
Grades: 3rd-6th
Explore science concept with Teresa Williams in the kitchen with simple materials. Students will receive coaching during the interactive sessions and then be provided with instructions to duplicate the experiments (with adult supervision) again. The group will make color changing shakers, elephant toothpaste, grow crystals, and write and decode secret invisible messages.
Live Interactive Login Days: Tuesday-Thursday
Time: 10am-11am (CST)
Areas of Study: Physical properties of matter, density, crystallization, use and care of triple-beam balance, scientific process, math measurement skills
Supplemental Materials: Prerecorded readings & printouts
Supplies Needed: Solid open workspace, safety glasses (available at Walmart or Hardware store), old t-shirt to work in, red lamp oil (can be found ate Walmart, Michaels, or on Amazon), various household items (plastic jar, 2 empty water bottles, empty canister with pop top such as a film canister, tray to work on and contain mess, measuring cups and spoons, food coloring, cooking oil, bolt or metal screw, plastic bead or button, un-popped raw corn kernel, baking soda, dish soap, white crayon, lemon juice, yeast, hydrogen peroxide, pipe cleaners)
Price: $55
Musicianship Camp
Grades: 3rd-6th
Join SGT Artistic Director, Kerra Simmons, for a virtual camp filled with singing technique, basics of music notation, theory, and music games. During this challenging time, the best cure is music and art creation. Through this online experience, campers will learn solfege, how to identify key signatures and note names, read basic rhythmic patterns, and enjoy singing. We can’t wait to have you!
Live Interactive Login Days: Tuesday-Friday
Time: 2pm-3pm (CST)
Areas of Study: Music notation, theory, solfege
Supplemental Materials: None
Supplies Needed: Pencil, Staff paper (Amazon)
Price: $60
Home of the Brave Book Club
Grades: 4th-6th
Join Teresa Williams for a virtual book club reading the wonderful book “Home of the Brave.” This is an amazing book about a refugee who experiences life in America as a newcomer. It is full of humor and an exciting plot with unexpected twists. The instructor will provide live readings, project support, science and cultural information, and other discussions to help the book come alive. The author, Katherine Applegate, is gifted at creating word pictures and making her story come alive. You do not want to miss out on this club!
Live Interactive Login Days: Tuesday & Thursday
Time: 1pm-2pm (CST)
Areas of Study: Literature, idioms, science, social studies
Supplemental Materials: Prerecorded readings & printouts
Supplies Needed: “Home of the Brave” by Katherine Applegate* (available at Scholastic.com & Amazon.com)
*Make sure to order the correct copy. The same title exists by a different author.
Price: $50
Coding 101
Grades: 4th-6th
Join Teresa Williams to learn basic computer programming skills using Logo, a computer language designed specifically for kids at USC/Berkley. Logo relies on the student’s love of drawing and art to make learning computer programming skills fun. Students will also be exposed to and discover practical uses for other academic topics such as X/Y coordinates, angles, and polygons. This experience has the extra bonus of being co-taught by an elementary teacher and 30-year veteran programmer and will include interactive lessons with explanations and guided practice in a hands-on lab which can be worked on additionally if desired before the next session. Each participant will be granted access to a website specifically for this course and their access will continue after the course ends so they can expand their learning.
Live Interactive Login Days: Tuesday-Friday
Time: 2:15pm-3:15pm (CST)
Areas of Study: X/Y coordinates, angles, polygons, practical applications for each concept
Supplemental Materials: Printouts
Supplies Needed: None
Price: $60
5-Day Tabletop RPG Adventure: Tales from the Loop ( This class is now FULL)
Grades: 7th-12th
Join Phillip Garrott in a virtual tabletop role playing game. This collaborative storytelling activity involves shared narrative construction and theatrical performance. Tales from the Loop has participants play as students in a strange and fantastic alternative version of the 1980s, going on adventures and solving mysteries together. Think Scooby Doo meets Stranger Things, with a bit of The Goonies and The Breakfast Club mixed in. Don’t miss out on this!
