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Tuesday May 27, 2025
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM    Chess Club, Shining Knights - Spring Session - Tuesdays
Learn how to play chess from a Shining Knights chess coach!  Our coaches are professional instructors and have taught thousands of children to play chess.   Class time is evenly split between lesson and play.  Lessons range from learning the rules to advanced tournament strategies. Play time is structured to pair each student against an opponent of similar skill. All chess supplies provided.
 
Friday June 20, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM    Fine Art, Kids Look Listen Create - Fine Art
Kids Look Listen Create teaches classical music and fine art appreciation programs with stories, games, movement, and crafts. Their mission is to expose young children to classical music and fine art through active engagement, stimulate imagination and encourage unlimited interpretations of works of art and classical music, promote childhood creativity and play by offering creative movement and open-ended crafts, and encourage ecological values by using natural and recyclable materials during the crafts.Fine Art, Winter SessionIn this program, kids will be introduced to famous artists and their art through stories and games. Children will be familiarized with the art of Goya, Klimt, Van Gough, Monet, Cassatt, and Picasso.  Also, each class will have an open-ended craft inspired by works of art, stories, and presented materials.Fine Art, Spring SessionIn this program, kids will be introduced to famous artists and their art through stories and games. They will discuss paintings and architecture. Among other things, we will notice colors and shapes and discuss some of the techniques and ideas artists used. Children will be familiarized with works by Renoir, Rousseau, Gaudi, Klee, and Picasso. Each class will end with an open-ended craft inspired by works of art, stories, and presented materialsFine Art, Summer SessionIn this program, kids will be introduced to famous artists and their art through stories and games.We will discuss paintings and environmental art. Among other things, we will identify portraits and landscapes, ponder how various works of art make us feel, and what we consider art. Children will be familiarized with the art of  Arcimboldo, Monet, Gauguin, Matisse, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude.  Each class will end with an open-ended craft inspired by works of art, stories, and presented materials.
 
Monday June 23, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM    Chess, Shining Knights, Summer Camp - Session 1 - AM Only
Spend a week playing and learning about chess from the Shining Knights chess coaches!    Our coaches are highly-rated professional chess instructors who have taught tens of thousands of children to play.  Many have won state and national championships. Campers are assigned to groups by skill level, and classes are tailored to appeal to total beginners through experienced and highly-rated tournament players.   Each camper receives a T-shirt and a tournament-style chess set.  Activities include learning openings, tactics and endgames, studying master games, playing games against fellow students and analyzing the students' games.   Campers will take short breaks for snacks and fresh air every hour and full-day campers have lunch and recess from Noon – 12:30pm.  
 
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM    Chess, Shining Knights, Summer Camp - Session 1 - Full Day
Spend a week playing and learning about chess from the Shining Knights chess coaches!    Our coaches are highly-rated professional chess instructors who have taught tens of thousands of children to play.  Many have won state and national championships. Campers are assigned to groups by skill level, and classes are tailored to appeal to total beginners through experienced and highly-rated tournament players.   Each camper receives a T-shirt and a tournament-style chess set.  Activities include learning openings, tactics and endgames, studying master games, playing games against fellow students and analyzing the students' games.   Campers will take short breaks for snacks and fresh air every hour and full-day campers have lunch and recess from Noon – 12:30pm.  
 
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM    Chess, Shining Knights, Summer Camp - Session 1 - PM Only
Spend a week playing and learning about chess from the Shining Knights chess coaches!    Our coaches are highly-rated professional chess instructors who have taught tens of thousands of children to play.  Many have won state and national championships. Campers are assigned to groups by skill level, and classes are tailored to appeal to total beginners through experienced and highly-rated tournament players.   Each camper receives a T-shirt and a tournament-style chess set.  Activities include learning openings, tactics and endgames, studying master games, playing games against fellow students and analyzing the students' games.   Campers will take short breaks for snacks and fresh air every hour and full-day campers have lunch and recess from Noon – 12:30pm.  
 
Tuesday June 24, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM    Chess, Shining Knights, Summer Camp - Session 1 - AM Only
Spend a week playing and learning about chess from the Shining Knights chess coaches!    Our coaches are highly-rated professional chess instructors who have taught tens of thousands of children to play.  Many have won state and national championships. Campers are assigned to groups by skill level, and classes are tailored to appeal to total beginners through experienced and highly-rated tournament players.   Each camper receives a T-shirt and a tournament-style chess set.  Activities include learning openings, tactics and endgames, studying master games, playing games against fellow students and analyzing the students' games.   Campers will take short breaks for snacks and fresh air every hour and full-day campers have lunch and recess from Noon – 12:30pm.  
 
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM    Chess, Shining Knights, Summer Camp - Session 1 - Full Day
Spend a week playing and learning about chess from the Shining Knights chess coaches!    Our coaches are highly-rated professional chess instructors who have taught tens of thousands of children to play.  Many have won state and national championships. Campers are assigned to groups by skill level, and classes are tailored to appeal to total beginners through experienced and highly-rated tournament players.   Each camper receives a T-shirt and a tournament-style chess set.  Activities include learning openings, tactics and endgames, studying master games, playing games against fellow students and analyzing the students' games.   Campers will take short breaks for snacks and fresh air every hour and full-day campers have lunch and recess from Noon – 12:30pm.  
 
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM    Chess, Shining Knights, Summer Camp - Session 1 - PM Only
Spend a week playing and learning about chess from the Shining Knights chess coaches!    Our coaches are highly-rated professional chess instructors who have taught tens of thousands of children to play.  Many have won state and national championships. Campers are assigned to groups by skill level, and classes are tailored to appeal to total beginners through experienced and highly-rated tournament players.   Each camper receives a T-shirt and a tournament-style chess set.  Activities include learning openings, tactics and endgames, studying master games, playing games against fellow students and analyzing the students' games.   Campers will take short breaks for snacks and fresh air every hour and full-day campers have lunch and recess from Noon – 12:30pm.