First Program Spring 2023 Class Descriptions

Class Time: 3:05-4:45 PM | Grade: 2 (14 students per class, Max 28 students)

Instructors: Cherdona Chin and Jerald Times

This class is for 2nd grade Chess students and continuing students. Learn king and pawn endings, checkmate patterns, tactics, middle game strategies, pawn structures, deeper explorations of the basic openings.

Class Time: 3:15-4:30 PM | Grades: 2-3 (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!

Class Time: 3:00-4:15 PM | Grade: K (Max 10 students)

Instructor: Mark Gordon and Divya Prajapati

Note: For new Inventors’ students- this class is the same as the same as the Fall and Winter terms Come learn the basic fundamentals of STEAM! Enjoy engaging hands-on projects. Learn the history and functionality of inventions that we use today in the modern world. Discover how everyday objects came to be! Skills involve electrical engineering, physical engineering, physics, and much more! Returning students can enroll in Little Dalton Explorers on Fridays.

Class Time: 3:00-4:15 PM | Grades: K-1 (Max 10 students)

Instructors: Jeanette Sanchez and Soléana L. Rodriguez *Max 50% Tuition Assistance available for qualifying families Let’s sell lemonade! Young students become “lemonade entrepreneurs” and learn how to make yummy lemonade and earn money selling it! From designing marketing flyers to estimating profits to experimenting with recipes, campers have fun all week while developing business savvy. As an optional showcase event, families are invited to attend the launch of students’ lemonade stand on the last session of the term!