Online Enrichment Opportunities

Online, In-Person or Do-at-Home Opportunities

Community Education has been working hard to create a variety of online, in-person and/or hybrid classes, swimming lessons and sports/recreation camps. To view our latest offerings, please visit our registration site at sowashco.ce.eleyo.com or sign-up here to receive our weekly email of 'What's Happening in Community Education.'

Update for Summer 2020

We are offering some in-person opportunities this summer with changes. You can look here for more information on our new protocols and here for classes and camps occurring this summer online and in-person.

• Outdoor youth sports camps begin June 8
• Indoor youth sports camps begin June 22
• Indoor youth enrichment classes begin the week of July 6
• Swimming Lessons and other aquatics offerings begin the week of July 6

Free Opportunities

Junior Achievement is now providing free online resources for teachers and parents to keep our children engaged, inspired, and educationally challenged.

Monica J. Sutton is an early childhood educator with over 18 years experience. She offers children's lessons, children's programming, and talks about child behavior. If your household is looking for a racial mirror in the classroom for your child, or you just want to supplement what you've been doing in our ECFE program, she is a great resource!

STEM

Discovery Education - Offers a variety of topics including: Health & Wellness, Careers & College Readiness, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Tech & Manufacturing, Sports, Financial Literacy/Economics, Literacy, Community Engagement, Argumentation with Evidence, Collecting & Analyzing Data, & Agriculture.

Boeing Future U - Explore aerospace technology with virtual field trips and interactive videos.

Manufacturing - Explore STEM careers by meeting professionals and exploring facilities.

JPL- Videos about Earth, our Solar Systems, Stars & Galaxies, and Technology

Access Mars - Explore the real surface of Mars as recorded by NASA's Curiosity rover.

Star Atlas - Explore over 60,000 stars, locate planets

Volcanoes - U.S. Geological Survey interactive map

Nature Works Everywhere - The Nature Conservancy offers 11 virtual field trips.

The Great Lakes - This virtual field trip from Great Lakes Now has three components: coastal wetlands, algae, and lake sturgeon.

Music / Reading

New York Philharmonic - Games and concerts from the New York Philharmonic

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Music Hall - Virtual tour

The Metropolitan Opera - Watch live opera

Birthplaces of Music - Boise State created this virtual field trip to four music locations: Vienna, Austria; New Orleans, LA; Cleveland, OH; and Bristol, Tennessee--Virginia.

The Seattle Symphony is offering free, online broadcasts of their concerts.

Amazon's Audible, launched a free listening experience for children who are isolated and away from school and friends. The collection includes audio in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

Under normal circumstances,Hesta Prynn can usually be found DJing for fashion brands and celebrity shindigs—but these days she's stuck at home with her 6-year-old. To save us all from weeks of Kidzbop or Baby Shark, she's releasing family-friendly playlists every few days on Spotify. Have an older kid who dreams of becoming a DJ? Prynn is also giving virtual DJ lessons via herInstagram stories. Get Hesta Prynn's newest playlist on Spotify

Dance

If your child has always wanted to take ballet class with a famous ballerina, now is their chance.Tiler Peck, principal dancer at New York City Ballet, is teaching daily ballet classes every day at 1 pm EST via Instagram Live. Throw on a pair of ballet slippers and join in as she takes dancers through basic stretching and ballet positions. She even throws in some pointe work at the end for more advanced dancers. Join Tiler Peck on Instagram

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