Hopkins Community Education

Your child is exploring his growing independence. This class will give your child opportunities to practice social skills, cooperative activities, reading, art, sensory experiences, stories, science, and more that will enhance their other preschool experiences. Your child's classroom will have interesting learning stations that will engage them while they develop school readiness skills.Parents have a unique opportunity to develop strong connections with other Hopkins Public Schools parents and learn strategies to support their child’s readiness for elementary school in this class.  Discussion topics include sibling rivalry, overindulgence, your child's temperament, healthy communication, setting limits, and more.At the beginning of each class, children and parents play in a classroom environment designed to promote children’s exploration, curiosity and discovery. Following time together, parents meet in a separate classroom with a licensed parent educator for discussion on topics related to child development, parenting and school readiness. Your child remains in the classroom during this time with a licensed early childhood teacher and engages in activities that support love of learning and preparation for kindergarten.These classes are separating

Bring your imagination to life. Become a master bricklayer and use our special architectural LEGO kits to build your creations. Be an architect as you learn the principles of construction. The main goal of the course is to introduce the concept of 3 dimension and its role in design. Working in teams, students will construct buildings, structures, towers, castles, and more. Students learn principles of construction and use math skills as the experiment with scale and size, staggering vs. stacking and more. In a hands-on class using LEGO materials, we will build houses with removable roofs, castles with turrets, and towers of strength! It just may be impossible to exhaust the creative potential of LEGO bricks. With an active imagination as your guide, there are endless possibilities. Please bring a drink and snack daily.

What do Harry Potter, Moana, Luke Skywalker, Hermione Granger, Hiccup, and Naruto have in common? They are heroes! Through video, stories, and art, increase your knowledge about a hero's journey in storytelling.

What do Harry Potter, Moana, Luke Skywalker, Hermione Granger, Hiccup, and Naruto have in common? They are heroes! Through video, stories, and art, increase your knowledge about a hero's journey in storytelling.

What do Harry Potter, Moana, Luke Skywalker, Hermione Granger, Hiccup, and Naruto have in common? They are heroes! Through video, stories, and art, increase your knowledge about a hero's journey in storytelling.

What is inside my body? Let's explore and have crazy science experiments to learn about organs in our bodies!

Ever wondered how certain commercials and products get chosen? You will create your own product, then make an advertisement for it. Then you will share your invention and ad with the class. You are the ad executive at this camp!

Dance, sing and act using music from Aladdin! Boys and girls of all abilities are welcome. We will explore dancing, creative movement and acting as we work on building characters, improvisation skills and stage presence. Participants will make creations that we will wear for our performance on Thursday! Join us for this fantastic camp filled with variety and FUN! Family and friends are invited to watch for the last 15 minutes on Thursday. Bring a snack and water bottle each day. Ballet or jazz shoes are encouraged.

Alla Prima - All in one day. Join us a create an oil painting work of your own from start to finish all in one class period. Learn about oil paint, mediums, brushes, canvas, and equipment as well as color wheel, value, mixing, composition and more. Bring a sketch pad, pencil, eraser, photos, and/or a few magazine pictures to the first class. Please bring paints and brushes of your choice to class as well. We will plan and learn together the first week and then create a new painting, start to finish, each of the remaining five weeks. A $20 materials fee is payable to the instructor at the first class. This class is for all levels of painters - beginners and those with more experience.