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.
Classes for Fall 2024
Acorns Nature Play
Fridays – 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. for 10 weeks beginning September 13
Open to 2024-2025 enrolled FTCNS students, ages 3 to 5.
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.
Our fall Acorns class will meet outdoors for ten classes, Friday mornings from 9/13/24 to 11/15/24. 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.
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). No refunds will be issued for missed classes. (For families with a 2023 Adjusted Gross Income of less than $45,000, a limited number of 50% financial aid waivers are available).
Apply online by August 15, 2024 (24-25 FTCNS students, ages 3-5 only). If interest is greater than spots available, a blind lottery will be conducted. Once a spot in Acorns is confirmed, payment in full will be due by August 22, 2024.
Music Engineering
Wednesdays – 3:30 to 5 p.m. for 6 weeks beginning October 2
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. Activities will engage children 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.
Music Engineering is open to current/alumni students as well as children who do not attend FTCNS, ages 4 to 6. Class meets Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Families Together Cooperative Nursery School on October 2, October 9, October 16, October 23, October 30, and November 6, 2024.
Fee: $180 per session ($30 per class). No refunds will be issued for missed classes. (For families with a 2023 Adjusted Gross Income of less than $45,000, a limited number of 50% financial aid waivers are available).
Apply online by September 13, 2024. If interest is greater than spots available, a blind lottery will be conducted. Once a spot in Music Engineering is confirmed, payment in full will be due by September 20, 2024.