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Beach by the Bay
After-School Enrichment Program
Winter/Spring Semester 2012
Registration: Tuesday, January 17th to Friday, January 27th
(First Come, First Served!)
Classes Held: Monday, February 6th through Monday, May 21st
(No classes on School Holidays or on Piedmont Relays Day)
The After-School Enrichment (ASE) program at Financial Assistance Scholarships
Beach by the Bay offers fun classes that build • Financial assistance scholarships are
kids’ confidence and encourage their creativity available for families in need. Please
and self-expression. Our teachers are contact Beach Principal Dan Bonnin for
professionals with in-depth experience teaching more information.
children. Sponsored by the Beach Parent • Procedure: Scholarship recipients cannot
Organization (BPO), this program is separate register on-line. Please submit a
from Schoolmates and regular daily classes. completed registration form to the ASE
Due to our bussing schedule, we only will offer box in the Beach by the Bay School office
classes on Mondays, following the early (or mail to the address above), indicating
dismissal time. Classes will end in time for on the form that you are requesting a
students to take the 3:10 bus to Piedmont. scholarship. Your request will be
submitted to Principal Bonnin for
Online Registration! determination. If the class you requested
• Register for ASE classes on-line at is not yet full, a space will be held for
www.sportability.com/bpo. It’s fast, easy and your child pending a decision on your
green, and lets you know immediately whether scholarship request.
your child got into the class you selected. All • Donations to the ASE scholarship fund
prices are the same regardless of how you are welcome and greatly appreciated! You
register. can donate on-line during registration or
• While BPO strongly prefers that everyone by submitting a check payable to “BPO.”
register on-line, if you are unable (because, Please indicate that your check is for the
for example, you have no internet access or no “ASE scholarship fund.”
credit card), you can still register off-line.
Just complete a registration form and submit Enrollment and Confirmation
it along with a check made payable to “BPO” • Students will be enrolled on a first-come,
for all tuition and materials fees. Completed first-served basis. All the more reason to
forms and checks must be received by BPO register early and on-line!
before registration ends. Please drop them in • Classes with enrollment below the
the ASE box in the Beach by the Bay School specified minimum may be cancelled. You
Office, or mail them to Beach Elementary will be notified if your child’s class is
School, Attn. ASE, 1275 61st Street, cancelled.
Emeryville, CA 94608.
• Registration begins Tuesday, January 17th
and ends Friday, January 27th.
Cancellation/Refund Policy be placed on the school bus to Piedmont.
• To cancel a registration, request a refund or You must also notify Pear Michaels, our
transfer classes, you must contact Valerie onsite supervisor, either by phone, at
Villanueva at valerievillanueva@yahoo.com or 510/517-2974, or in person.
415/279-3475. You cannot cancel a
registration, request a refund or transfer Snacks
classes through our on-line registration • Snacks are not provided in ASE classes
provider. except for the Chefs Around the World
• All cancellations must be received at least 2 classes. If your child needs a snack during
school days before the first day of class. the time of their ASE class, please pack it.
After this time no refunds will be given.
• All requests for refunds are subject to a 10% Absences
processing fee except requests for refund • If for any reason your child was at school
made because BPO cancelled a class. If BPO but will not attend his/her ASE class,
cancels a class, enrolled students will receive please notify Pear Michaels at 510/517-
a full refund. 2974.
• If your child was absent from school or
Class Information left school sick, you do not need to inform
• Each class meets every Monday from the school office or Pear Michaels that
February 6th through May 21st. your child also will miss ASE.
• No classes will be held 2/20, 4/9, 4/30 due
to school holidays and the 2012 Piedmont Questions?
Relays. Contact Valerie Villanueva at 415/279-3475
• Cancelled sessions will be made up on Monday, or valerievillanueva@yahoo.com. Please do
June 4th. not contact the Beach School Office with
• All classes will be held from 1:50 – 3:00 pm, questions about ASE.
to reflect the early school dismissal time and
to allow students to ride the 3:10 school bus
back to Piedmont.
• Students will be released to their designated
school bus following class. Note: If you choose
to pick up your child, you must be present
before the school bus departs or your child will
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CLASS OFFERINGS
Adventures PLEASE NOTE: This class is exciting and
can seem realistic. If your child is easily
Chefs Around the World
frightened it might not be a good fit.
Computer Game Design
Hip-Hop/Dance Maimome Attia, a graduate of USC film school,
Magical, Mythical Creatures & Places tells stories using a variety of methods and
Martial Arts with Studio Naga media. He works as an ADVENTURE "teacher"
Sewing & Knitting at the Head Royce, Prospect Sierra and
Windrush after-school programs and leads
Interactive Mystery Tours at The Dicken’s Fair
(seasonal). He also makes low-budget,
independent, short films and works as a
Adventures
cinematographer and writer on documentary
Grades: 2-5
films.
Day: Monday (1:50 - 3:00 pm)
Tuition: $ 250 (13 sessions)
Materials Fee: $5
Minimum enrollment: 8 students Chefs Around the World
Maximum enrollment: 16 students Grades: 1-4
Classroom: Blue room Day: Monday (1:50 – 3:00 pm)
Tuition: $ 250 (13 sessions)
You’re pursuing an enemy of the government. Materials Fee: $45
You’re traveling through space….or perhaps Minimum enrollment: 8 students
through time. You’re discovering a secret Maximum enrollment: 10 students
hidden for centuries. You’re unlocking another Classroom: Kitchen
dimension. You’re embarking on a one-of-a-kind,
thrilling experience that will challenge your Join Sprouts Cooking Club for a culinary
imagination, an experience known only
trip around the world! This semester, you
as…..Adventures.
will prepare cuisines from Italy, Greece,
Mexico, China, Morocco, Turkey and beyond.
Adventures are interactive mysteries
Through our hands-on cooking classes,
brought to life through storytelling, acting,
students will build their confidence in the
music, themed environments, special
effects and guided searches for clues. kitchen by making healthy, simple and
Participants will work with Maimone, noted seasonal recipes that they can prepare
again at home. Ravioli, tortellini,
Adventurologist, and with one another to
solve episodic cases. Each adventure Mediterranean wraps, classic desserts, and
concludes with the triumphant discovery of healthy, Italian pizza are all on the menu.
a prize or solution to a problem. A fusion of At the end of each class, every child will
enjoy the recipe they made, and, if you’re
entertainment and education, this popular
lucky, have some to take home to share!
activity encourages children to use
imagination to solve problems and inspires Sprouts instructors are professionally
trained chefs who are thrilled to share
them to create their own stories. New
their passion for cooking with kids! All skill
adventures take place each semester.
levels are welcome.
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Sprouts Cooking Club, founded by Karen Rogers, Julien, our course instructor, began his teaching
is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to career with VisionTech in 2007. Throughout his
teaching children of all economic backgrounds four years with VisionTech, he has taught
about healthy, sustainable foods by cooking, various levels of game design and robotics
hands-on, with local and seasonal ingredients. courses in after school enrichment classes and
Sponsored by Whole Foods, Straus Creamery, summer camps. In addition to teaching, Julien
and Organic Valley. leads training workshops for new teachers and
is part of VisionTech’s Professional Curriculum
Development Committee.
Computer Game Design
Grades: 3-5
Day: Monday (1:50 - 3:00 pm) Hip-Hop/Dance
Tuition: $320 (13 sessions) Grades: 1-4
Minimum enrollment: 8 students Day: Monday (1:50– 3:00 pm)
Maximum enrollment: 14 students Tuition: $ 250 (13 sessions)
Classroom: Staff room Minimum enrollment: 8 students
Maximum enrollment: 14 students
VisionTech invites you to experience the Classroom: Multi-purpose room – P5
user friendly Multimedia Fusion 2. Learn to
design and create realistic looking video The focus of this class will be Hip-Hop, the
games with everything from health meters ever-popular street dance that, in addition
to multiple lives. Learn to add levels, health to being great fun, gives students an
counters and understand how the game approach to learning choreography through
design process really works. Students will rhythm. Students will also explore
work individually on laptops provided by the movement styles of dance including Ballet,
class. VisionTech encourages students to Modern and Jazz. Each unit uncovers the
create challenging and exciting nonviolent history and culture of the dance form while
games. At the end of the semester, allowing students to explore their creativity
students can bring a USB flash drive to while enhancing physical, emotional and
bring their games home. A link also will be social skills. Ballet is the fundamental
available to download games from home. technique to many dance forms, focusing on
Returning, or more experienced, students musicality and coordination. Modern dance
will learn advanced skills. offers a more relaxed free style of dance
where students are allowed to express
VisionTech is a local Bay Area company that themselves through athletic movement.
strives to provide innovative and stimulating And finally, Jazz teaches dancers to find
technology education. It provides summer isolations within their bodies while creating
computer camps, after school enrichment and
shapes and lines that are big, bold and fun!
GATE classes at local schools and its center in
Danville, CA. VisionTech strives to provide
Leap has provided schools with hands-on,
hands-on, quality technology based instruction in
innovative and creative programs in the visual
a fun, challenging and enriching environment.
and performing arts for the past 32 years. To
Its lessons inspire students to think of “out-of-
learn more about Leap’s programs, please visit
the-box” solutions for today’s technological
www.leap4kids.org.
challenges.
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As a senior artist with Leap, our instructor, environment. The faculty consists of
Kristin Damrow, incorporates a modern, jazz, hip professionals with decades of experience
hop, ballet and African background, inspiring working with children in visual arts and sciences.
children to express themselves through dance. For more information about the Junior Center
She received her B.A from Columbia College in please visit www.juniorcenter.org.
Chicago and strives to find new ways for
students to explore learning through movement.
Kristin also educates young artists at Roco
Dance & Fitness, The Y of Berkeley and Martial Arts with Studio Naga
Carlmont High School and is the artistic Grades: 1-5
director of Venture Dance Project. Day: Monday (1:50 – 3:00 pm)
Tuition: $ 250 (13 sessions)
Minimum enrollment: 10 students
Maximum enrollment: 20 students
Magical, Mythical Creatures & Classroom: Auditorium
Places Martial Arts is…self-defense, cooperation, and
Grades: 1-3 fun!
Day: Monday (1:50 – 3:00 pm)
Tuition: $ 250 (13 sessions) Poekoelan is a martial art from Indonesia
Materials Fee: $32
based on the movements of four animals:
Minimum enrollment: 8 students
the monkey, the crane, the snake and the
Maximum enrollment: 14 students
tiger. The program includes aerobic
Classroom: Art Studio – Room 5
exercise, coordination skills and practical
Your imagination will be the inspiration for self-defense. Poekoelan training promotes
this fun-filled art class. A professional non-violence, self-confidence and respect
artist will introduce you to the world of for others in a safe, FUN and caring
dragons, wizards, castles, magical fairies, environment. Skills developed in Peokoelan
unicorns and much more as you learn how to include coordination, balance, focus and
make your own imaginary creatures come to discipline. Both new and continuing
life on the page. Students also will learn students are welcome.
how to draw and add color to fantasy
landscapes and structures that add depth Studio Naga provides classes at Chabot,
and richness to their magical creations. Montclair, Thornhill, Hillcrest and Joaquin Miller
elementary schools, the Berkeley YMCA, the
Materials will include pencil, colored pencil,
East Bay JCC’s and its own North Oakland
watercolor, oil pastel, pen & ink, chalk
studio. Instructor Judy Sorensen has been
pastel and tempera paint. teaching at East Bay Schools for over ten years.
She brings to her classes a wonderful array of
Junior Center of Art and Science is an stories about the history and philosophy of
independent, nonprofit organization founded in martial arts around the world. To learn more
1954 and dedicated to serving the children of visit www.studionaga.com.
the East Bay through classes, workshops,
exhibits and events. These programs are
designed to encourage children’s active wonder
and creative responses through artistic and
scientific exploration of their natural urban
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Sewing and Knitting
Grades: 1-4
Day: Monday (1:50—3:00 p.m.)
Tuition: $ 250 (13 sessions)
Materials Fee: $30
Minimum enrollment: 8 students
Maximum enrollment: 15 students
Classroom: Library
In this popular class, students will learn
basic sewing techniques and skills, including
various stitches, buttons, sequence and the
use of patterns. They will learn basic
knitting and pearling. Younger students who
may not have the fine motor skills to knit
with needles will learn to finger knit
instead. Returning students will continue to
build on their basic sewing skills as they
work on new projects designed to match
their interests. All participants will make
projects to take home and use!
Pannipa Sieben has been an Instructional
Paraeducator and Special Education
Paraeducator at Beach School for six years.
She has been teaching her popular Sewing class
at Beach for the last three years and for the
APCP summer school program for the last two
years. She especially enjoys sharing her love of
sewing with the kids and seeing their smiles of
satisfaction when they have completed their
projects.
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