After School Enrichment Classes

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Hands-On Classes.

The Whole Child Learning Company provides a wide variety of hands-on classes to keep kids engaged with their friends while learning valuable skills.

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Design Your Own Class.

We can make a custom curriculum for any class size, age group, and skill level. Our classes are designed for kids aged 3-12 and can be run as one-time workshops, year-long programs, or anything in between!

Parent Testimonial: "Isaac LOVES the class. He looks forward to it all week and can't wait to go to school on Fridays. He's always asking: 'is it Friday yet? Do I have Lego class today?”

Future Doctors, Coders and Science Detectives

 

Future Md

Students perform different hands-on experiments and labs every week to learn about all the important systems of the body, including the circulatory, digestive, nervous, muscular, and immune systems.

Students will learn how to take their partner’s pulse, read case studies to diagnose different illnesses, examine X-Rays, and learn other important STEAM skills while practicing teamwork and critical reasoning.

 

Future Veterinarian

Students that want to be a Veterinarian when they grow up or just have a passion for taking care of animals will LOVE this hands-on STEAM class. Students perform check-ups, mock exams, study (fake) urine, and stool samples, learn how to diagnose different illnesses, and even receive an adoption certificate on the last day of class!

 

Kid Code Computer Programming

This innovative class uses a kid-friendly, simplified version of Javascript to teach kids real coding skills. Kids can work at their level to create working apps with as few as 2 lines of code, to more complicated apps with 60+ lines of code to the ultimate challenge of creating your own app!

Students can download their apps onto their personal devices to keep working on them at home and show them off to their family and friends. Kid Coders work through app booklets based on different themes each session and take them home on the last day. We can conduct class in a computer lab or bring our own computers.

 

Science Detectives

Students follow along with the popular book series ‘Doyle and Fossey, Science Detectives.’ Students read a chapter and help the detectives solve the case using STEAM skills, critical thinking, and teamwork. They get hands-on with messy chemical reactions and learn while doing it!

Each week the students work together to perform experiments or complete challenges. They follow the clues and use deductive reasoning to figure out what’s impossible, what’s unlikely, and what actually happened!

Labs include dusting for fingerprints, harnessing the power of static electricity, figuring out the science behind color-changing slime, and more!

 

Future Engineers Lego Classes

Our wide variety of Lego Engineering classes offers projects designed to challenge and teach Engineers anywhere from the age of 2 to 12. Using our 'think, build, review' process, students work together to solve problems by designing amazing solutions that teach key steam concepts through fun and powerful machines.

 

Lego Duplo: Early Engineers (Ages 3-7)

This hands-on Lego class is designed to introduce younger kids to basic science and engineering concepts. Younger students will build fun and simple models like a seesaw, rolling vehicle, spinning top, raft, and many more. By playing with and manipulating the models, they experience pulleys, levers, gears, and wheels and axles, while exploring energy, buoyancy, and balance.

Lego Simple Machines (Ages 5-8)

This class gives students a fundamental understanding of simple machines, structures, and mechanisms using the lego technic pieces. Students will investigate the principles of simple machines, mechanisms, and structures; experiment with balanced and unbalanced forces and friction; measure distance, time, speed, and weight, and much more.

Lego Technic Motorized Machines (Ages 7-12)

This more advanced class gives students who have experience with lego technic pieces a challenge to build more advanced motorized projects like cranes, gear racers, motorized spin-top launchers, and robots. Students expand their knowledge of simple machines and work in teams to make larger, more complex projects.

 

Lego Pneumatic: Air-Powered Machines (Ages 7-12)

Students will explore power systems and components, sequence and control, pressure, prototyping, kinetic and potential energy. Engineers will build amazing air-powered projects like robotic hands, moving forklifts, and even a stamping press.

Lego Wedo Robotics (Ages 7-12)

Designed for the elementary learner, LEGO WeDo Robotics introduces young students to robotics and programming in this fun, engaging, hands-on class. Projects include animals, soccer players, and more! Students will build LEGO models featuring working motors and sensors and program their computer models using icon-based software.

Lego Renewable Energy (Ages 7-12)

Students will explore renewable energy sources, investigate energy supply, transfer, accumulation, conversions, and consumption, and use measurements and data analysis to describe and explain outcomes through hands-on activities and exciting, real-life LEGO models.

Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds.

 

Yo-Yo Yoga

Our yo-yo yoga mindfulness classes use exercise, games, music, art, puppets, and stories to engage children physically and mentally while making yoga come to life! Our weekly curriculum focuses on key components like self-reflection, self-control, self-respect, self-esteem, confidence, positive values, and respect for others. Benefits include:

  • Develops strong, flexible, and healthy bodies
    Increases concentration, focus, and attention span

  • Cultivates a peaceful, relaxed state of mind

  • Encourages creative expression and imagination

  • Teaches self-reflection and self-control

  • Literacy and language development

  • Builds self-esteem and confidence

  • Promotes social-emotional learning and mindfulness

Little Amigos Español Classes

Welcome To The Wonderful World Of Little Amigos, Where Learning Spanish Is Child’S Play. Give Children The Gift Of Language At The Time In Life When Their Brains Are Wired For Language Acquisition. Every Piece Of Research In The Field Points To The Benefits Of Starting A Second Language As Early As Three Years Of Age. Classes Are Lead By Qualified, Experienced Instructors Who Engage Children Through Songs, Games, Art, Music, And More. Children Love Learning With Pepe, The Little Amigos Monkey Puppet!

Arte En Español Classes

This Amazing Multicultural Class Will Expose Children To Spanish And Teach/review Vocabulary, Including; Colors, Numbers, Shapes, And Some Basic Commands. Class Curriculum Includes; Songs, Games, Stories And Of Course, Amazing Art Projects. A Combination Of English And Spanish Will Be Used During Class. Fabulous Culture Study Art Projects Will Be Completed Including Projects Inspired By Mexican Talavera Tile Painting, Mexican Papel Picado, Mexican Huichol Beadwork, Bolivian Masks, Guatemalan Animal Art, And More. Below, Students Are Working Hard On Their Own Piñatas!

Book a Class!

We have over 30 classes that are hands-on, fun, educational, and will be the favorite part of your kids' school day. Click below to see the full list and how to get our programs in your school.