FTCNS's Enrichment Classes

Families Together offers enrichment classes for current FTCNS students, alumni (ages 5-6), and the broader community. Topics for FTCNS’s Enrichment Classes include: Science (STEM), Visual Arts, Nature, and Performing Arts. Current FTCNS staff and outside content experts will teach fall, winter and spring sessions of a changing selection of classes. Due to a change in the local elementary school schedule, all enrichment classes have been shortened to one hour in length.

The cost for our 6 week enrichment classes is $150 but we offer special sliding scale tuition for current and alumni students, see below.


Sliding Fee Scale for Enrichment Classes: Current & Alumni Students
Tuition Level	Discount	Final Cost
Levels 1-3	50% off tuition	$75
Levels 4-6	25% off tuition	$112.50
Levels 7-12	No Discount	$150

For more information, contact Kate Brenner at Families Together Cooperative Nursery School at businessmanager@ftcns.org.

Fall 2025

FTCNS Play Club: A Special Alumni Experience

Tuesdays, 4 to 5 p.m. for 4 weeks from September 9 to October 7 (no Play Club on 9/23)
Open to FTCNS alumni entering Kindergarten in Fall 2025, ages 5 to 6.

FTCNS Play Club is a special short-term experience designed to provide support, connection, and fun for FTCNS alumni entering Kindergarten in the fall. Each Play Club session will offer open-ended classroom play options such as playdough, blocks, and pretending. Club participants will have a chance to connect with FTCNS friends and revisit some of their favorite play activities. Play Club seeks to reassure children that FTCNS friendships and open-ended play are still important, even as they make the transition to Kindergarten.

$60 is the price for the 4 week session of FTCNS Play Club.

Music Engineering: Building and Playing Musical Instruments

Thursdays, 4 to 5 p.m. for 6 weeks from October 16 to November 20
Open to current and alumni FTCNS students as well as the broader community, ages 4 to 6.

What is music? What is sound? How are musical instruments made? These are just a few of the questions we’ll explore in our Music Engineering class. Children will engage in both the art and science of making and playing musical instruments.

We’ll demonstrate instruments and experiment with making percussion sounds and rhythms as well as wind, string, and electronic music. Children will be encouraged to collaborate, compose, and make music together using their own inventions.

NOTE: Children who took Music Engineering in the past are welcome to enroll again – activities will vary every time!

Story Studio: Creative Play Activities

Tuesdays, 4 to 5 p.m. for 6 weeks from October 14 to November 18
Open to current and alumni FTCNS students as well as the broader community, ages 3 1/2 to 6.

Art, movement, puppets, and pretending are just a few of the creative play activities offered in Story Studio. We’ll base our play on folk or fairy tales drawn from a variety of traditions and cultures. Using many different methods and media, children will be invited to represent the story, setting, and characters.