First Program Spring 2023 Class Descriptions

Tuesdays

Tuesdays - Art Workshop

Class Time: 3:00-4:15 PM | Grades: K-1 (Max 8 students)

Instructor: Barbara Hernandez Moreno

Wishing you had more art in your life? Eager to explore and express the world of your own imagination? Choose from clay, paint, collage, and paper construction to create and design individual works. If you can dream it, you can make it!

Tuesdays - Chess

Class Time: 2:50-4:40 PM | Grade: 1 (16 students per class, Max 42 students)

Instructors: Cherdona Chin, Beatriz Marinello, Jerald Times

This class is for new 1st grade Chess students and continuing students. We will emphasize opening principles, learn the center fork trick, the four knights game and other basic openings. You will continue learning pattern recognition and more advanced tactics.

Tuesdays - Dance Expression and Performance

Class Time: 3:00-4:15 PM | Grades: K-1 (Max 8 students)

Instructors: Asia Bonilla, Ariel Rivka Dance (ARD)

Our Dance Expressions class uses dance and movement as means for exploration, self-expression, and as a tool for social-emotional development. Students connect to their bodies, imagination, and community through creative movement activities, games, and dance creation. We will use movements inspired by Modern, Afro, Latin, and Jazz techniques to build dance vocabulary, coordination, and rhythm. The class will culminate in a performance of original choreography and dancing alongside professional dance company, Ariel Rivka Dance.

Our participating students will have the exciting opportunity to perform on stage alongside Ariel Rivka Dance (ARD) in our annual season performance! Students will have the chance to perform learned ARD repertory and student choreography with the dancers. This performance showcases our students’ growth through the trimester, class creativity, self-expression, and built community. This special performance will take place in early June in Manhattan (date and location to come). We are so excited to share the stage with our students and hope that you will join us!

Tuesdays - Dribbl

Class Time: 3:00-4:15 PM | Grades: K-1 (Max 15 students)

Instructor: Dribbl, Maximum 50% Tuition Assistance available for qualifying families

Learn fundamental basketball skills in a positive and supportive environment. Founded by Dalton Athletic Director and Boys Varsity Basketball Coach, Teddy Frischling, the Dribbl program aims to develop and refine court skills such as shooting, passing, footwork, and ball-handling – all with a strong emphasis on sportsmanship.