Swanton Crossroads & Explorers 

MONDAYS

-DESTINATION IMAGINATION: Solve awesome STEAM challenges, make new friends, learn new skills, develop your creative side, plan, build and present your own solution! We are looking for a committed group of kids to take to the Destination Imagination Competition in March. Practices will take place every Monday (as long as Crossroads is running) until that competition. You will automatically be enrolled in this program on Mondays in future sessions. Please make sure this is a program you will stick to throughout the year.

-FALL CRAFTING: We will be doing all kinds of fall crafts this session from pumpkin prints and bubble wrap trees to doing some simple embroidery.

-OPEN GYM: This is that chance to come to the gym and do what you want! Floor hockey, soccer, kickball? You choose!

-SLIMY STEM: Not just your everyday slime! We will be making potato slime, a giant batch of oobleck and other fun slimes.

TUESDAYS

-COOKING & NUTRITION: How about a little time in the kitchen after school? We will be preparing some tasty recipes while also learning a bit about nutrition.

-GROSSOLOGY: There is some pretty “gross” science going on in our bodies and in this class we are going to learn about some of it! Snot, blisters, wounds and earwax!

-OPEN ART: Join Whitney for an afternoon of getting creative with various art materials to create your own unique art.

WEDNESDAYS 

-COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: Caring for our school, our outdoor classroom are the focus of this class along with a goal of some service learning projects like organizing a coat swap, working to have some “kindness cabinets” put up in our town and to organize the communication to get them loaded and keep them supplied.

-GAME SHUFFLE: What better way to spend a day than playing a familiar board game with a friend or maybe trying out a new game.

-LIBRARY PERLER BEAD CLUB: Let’s head over to the library where they will host us for one of our favorite activities, Perler Beads!

THURSDAYS

-CLAY CREATIONS: Each week you will enjoy creating something new out of a different type of clay. 

-DANCE CLASS WITH TRIA: Dance class with Tria! How many of our kids have the moves? Tria will help you perfect them.

-LEGO CHALLENGE: Who doesn’t love LEGO? This is a great time to spend together with friends as you take on the Lego challenge of the day and enjoy some free time with Lego bricks after that.

MONDAYS

-FUN AND GAMES: Take some time and challenge a friend to a board game, a card game or other fun activity after school.

-TAEKWONDO: Join Master Shedrick from Shedrick’s Martial Arts and learn the Korean martial art involving both physical and mental training.

TUESDAYS

-MATH ART AND GAMES: Time for some creative math with Lego, making glow in the dark geometric shapes, and playing games to make math fun!

-NATURE ART & MINDFULNESS: Did you know we have a beautiful outdoor classroom here at school? We will be spending time outdoors exploring and getting creative.

WEDNESDAYS

-BRACELETS AND BEADS: What a great way to spend an afternoon… sitting with friends making bracelets. We have beads, rubber bands and embroidery floss for you to get creative with.

-LEGO CHALLENGE: This is a great time to spend together with friends as you take on the Lego challenge of the day and enjoy some free time with Lego bricks after that.

THURSDAYS

-WONDER & WORDS: ART AND LITERACY: Get together, listen to a story and connect it with an art project.

-SENSORY CREATIONS: In this class you will get creative with your different senses making jams, toys, soaps and more.