After-School Clubs
Fall after school clubs are now closed! Check back soon for Spring club details!
Art and Craft Workshops with Amy Wood Art:
Amy Wood is a professionally trained artist and educator who has been teaching youth art classes for over 15 years. She is a local artist and mother of 3 and is excited to be bringing her dynamic and engaging craft workshops to Sugarloaf Elementary School this school year! Amy will be hosting 8 workshops throughout the fall season at SUES.
Creative Craft Workshops are fun, multi-sensory experiences where students will learn a new skill and leave with a finished product of their own. With the holidays right around the corner, all of these crafts are also wonderful holiday gifts for students to make as gifts for friends and family!
Registration for this club is now closed!
Fun Start Workshop:
Food is part of what makes life wonderful, and it can hold a special magic for young people. After all, who doesn't love food? It's fun to make, hands-on, delicious, and … educational? That's right! From taking measurements to combining ingredients, from following procedures to experimenting, there is a lot of science that goes into food. Explore science topics such as physical state changes, geology, numerical estimation, ratios … and enjoy your delicious treat at the end! Fun Start After School Program offers Food Science STEM Activities for Kids in the classroom. We make ice cream, dirt cups, moon cakes, fruit kebobs, milkshakes, smoothies, homemade slushies, bubble tea, and salads, all with some embedded science or math lessons.
It will be $20 per workshop, materials included. This workshop is offered on 10/5, 10/19, and 11/2
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLUB IS NOW CLOSED!
Sloan School of Music Ukele Program
Goal: Be able to tune ukulele and play songs with common chords (C, F, Am, and G) and strumming patterns
11/2 - Intro to the ukulele, one-finger chords, basic rhythms
● Presentation that goes over parts of the ukulele, fun facts, interactive questions, etc.
● How to read a chord chart
● Learn C and Am chords
● Basic rhythms - quarter notes, half note, whole note, and eighth notes
○ Strum each rhythm with the chords we learned chords
● Work on switching between C and Am chords
11/9 - Tuning the ukulele, two/three-finger chords, strumming and combining rhythms
● Review parts of the ukulele, treat it as a trivia game with prizes (stickers)
● How to tune the ukulele
● Review chords from last week, C and Am
● Learn F and G chords
● Review basic rhythms and combine them in strumming
● Work on switching between chords
11/16 - Combining all we learned to play songs
● Tune our ukuleles
● Review all our chords and rhythms, treat it as a trivia game with prizes (stickers)
● Review switching between chords
● Learn two songs
○ Thunder by Imagine Dragons - uses C, F, and Am
○ Riptide by Vancejoy - uses C, F, Am and G
Registration for this club is now closed!
Urbana Chess Club is excited to offer Chess Classes at Sugarloaf Elementary School!
Urbana Chess has been giving semi-private lessons to kids aged 4-16 for the last three years in the Villages of Urbana. We are a US Chess affiliate and believe that the best way to teach Chess is by individual interactions as chess is not only a game of strategy and skills, but of the psychology of two players sitting opposite each other. If you are interested in exposing your kids to a wonderful world of kings, queens, knights, rooks and bishops, you can sign up for discounted price for the classes we are offering at Sugarloaf Elementary School!
Dates: Oct 6th, Nov 3rd, Nov 10th and Nov 17th.
Price: $75 per kid (How to pay – TBD)
Duration of class: One hr. (4-5 PM)
What to Bring: Tell us if you are bringing your own Chess set (pieces and board)
Please sign up using this link. Last day to sign up is Sept 30, 2023 (on a first come, first serve basis)
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLUB IS NOW CLOSED!
Solving a Rubik’s cube seems to be a daunting task, sometimes even for adults. But the secret is that anyone can learn to solve the Rubik’s cube by following a series of repeated steps also called as algorithms. Kids as young as 5 years old can learn to easily solve it by attending this Rubik’s cube workshop. Attending this workshop helps improving critical thinking, problem solving & spatial awareness.
Ages: 5 to 10 years (Kindergarten to grade 5)
When: 3:55 pm to 4:40 pm; four 45 min sessions each on 10/5, 10/19, 10/23 and 10/30
Cost: $74.15 ($70 registration fee plus $4.15 payment processing fee) for four sessions and includes a 3X3 Rubik’s cube
Location: Sugarloaf Elementary school (3400 Stone Barn Drive, Frederick MD 21704)
This workshop teaches kids 5 years and above how to solve the 3X3 cube using the beginner’s method. The method solves the cube layer by layer starting from the bottom layer. There will be four 40-minute sessions broken down as below:
Session 1 – Introduction on Thu, Oct 5th
o Introduction to 3X3 Rubik’s cube.
o Notations of 3X3 Rubik’s cube.
o Learning right algorithm.
o Learning left algorithm.
o Learning to solve Daisy intuitively.
o Solving white cross.
Session 2 – Bottom Layer on Thu, Oct 19th
o Quick re-cap of session 1 and right algorithm.
o Recap to solve Daisy intuitively.
o Recap to solve white cross.
o Learning to solve bottom layer (white).
Session 3 – Middle Layer on Mon, Oct 23rd
o Quick re-cap of session 2 and left algorithm.
o Learning to rotate cube.
o Learning to solve middle layer.
Session 4 – Top Layer on Mon, Oct 30th
o Quick re-cap of session 3
o Learning to solve yellow cross.
o Learning to solve top layer corners.
o Learning to solve yellow side.
o Learning to complete bottom layer.
REFUND POLICY
Our refund policy encourages early decisions, this helps other kids to have a chance to sign up as the workshop has very limited spots. All requests for refunds must be made at least 10 business days prior to the start of first session. A 6% administrative fee will be charged per refund transaction. There are no refunds for missed sessions.
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLUB IS NOW CLOSED!
The Details:
All clubs are individually run. All registration and payment will go directly to the workshop sponsors.
All workshop sponsors have completed the FCPS Volunteer Training for the 2023-2024 school year.
Families are responsible for emailing the school (sugarloaf.es@fcps.org) and their childs teacher with a change of dismissal email on the day their student is attending an after school workshop.
Students will be dismissed from their classrooms at 3:55 to go directly to their club locations. Locations will be announced prior to the workshop start date.
Each workshop may have different ending times, so please pay close attention to what time your student needs to be picked up.
All students will be dismissed from the main doors. Please meet your student outside the front doors at the end of their club so they can be released to you from the club sponsor. Parents will not be allowed inside the building.