Explore FTCNS's Enrichment Classes for Kids

Families Together offers a menu of enrichment classes for current FTCNS students, alumni (ages 5-6), and the broader community. Topics will include: Science (STEM), Visual Arts, Nature, and Performing Arts. Three terms of varying lengths – Fall, Winter, Spring – will be offered. Classes will be taught by current FTCNS staff and outside content experts. For more information, contact Kate Brenner at Families Together Cooperative Nursery School at businessmanager@ftcns.org.

Spring 2025 – Morning

Sprouts Nature Play

Fridays, 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. for 10 weeks from March 14 to May 23

Open to 2024-2025 enrolled FTCNS students, ages 3 (by 9/1/24) to 5. Sprouts students need to be confident in using the bathroom independently.

We will be celebrating Spring with outdoor adventures in our Friday morning nature play class with teachers Jill Victorine and Kirsten Ruckdeschel. Outdoor nature play benefits children in so many important ways. Children exercise their bodies, breathe fresh air, engage in fun social interactions, explore nature and science, and learn to care for our environment.

Activities include joyous open-ended play in the great outdoors as well as nature projects such as caring for our community garden, journaling and sketching, creating and acting out stories, and taking sensory walks. And plan on lots of messy play as we bake mud pies and other pretend concoctions. Class will begin most days across the street at the Senn Park playground. Some classes will take place at other green spaces around the neighborhood.

Fee: $500 per session ($50 per class). For families with a 2023 Adjusted Gross Income of less than $45,000, a limited number of 50% financial aid waivers are available.

Spring 2025 – Afternoon

Puzzles & Patterns

Thursdays, 3:30 to 5 p.m. for 6 weeks from April 10 to May 15

Open to current and alumni FTCNS students as well as the broader community, ages 4 to 6.

Puzzles, board games, and geometric art projects engage mathematical thinking and promote creative problem-solving. Teachers Kirsten Ruckdeschel and Carey Farrell will lead a variety of fun and challenging activities and projects.

Fee: $180 ($30 per class). For families with a 2023 Adjusted Gross Income of less than $45,000, a limited number of 50% financial aid waivers are available.