Fall 2020 Enrichment On-Campus Camps & Virtual Classes
registration now Open!

Scholarship Applications Now open!

We will be accepting scholarship applications through September 21, 2020

On-Campus Camps
Session 1: September 28 - October 29 (5 weeks)
Session 2: November 9 - December 17 (5 weeks)
No Camp on Veteran's Day or the full week of Thanksgiving
Meets twice weekly (M/W or Tu/Th) for two hours
Camp starts 10 minutes after "Hybrid Group B" (varies by school)
Cohorts of 10-14 kids

Virtual Enrichment Classes
September 28 - December 18 (11 weeks)
No classes on Veteran's Day or the full week of Thanksgiving
Classes at 3pm and 4pm (One 50 minute class per week)
Class size of 10-30 kids

Click on the arrow next to your school to see current class fliers and more

Aside from the FUN, innovative classes offered,
did you know quality After School Programs:

Give children activity choices, engage them in enrichment activities, and support socialization and team learning
Pay academic dividends during the school day, whether or not the class is classified as “academic,” because programs feature reading, language comprehension and analytic thought.
Provide opportunities for group projects which enhance children’s learning, as do music, art, theatre, and computer activities, as well as
reading for pleasure and writing for an audience.
Let students connect with teachers in a lower teacher-child ratio setting. Such meaningful interactions are associated with more positive interactions, less negativity, and more flexible
and age-appropriate activities.

Allow students (most markedly boys) greater flexibility to make choices in their class activities, which research connects to better social skills with classroom peers.
Can decrease TV viewing behavior in children!! Researchers found that children watch far more television at home after school than they do at after-school programs. In numerous studies, time viewing television has been associated with lower reading achievement and more frequent behavior problems among children.

LAEF’s After School Programs…where Los Al students have fun and parents have peace of mind! Have questions about programs? E-mail our Program Director at: programdirector@laef4kids.org

FALL 2020 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

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FALL 2020 Class Descriptions

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This 5-week session will include learning songs, dancing, and scenes from some of our favorite movie musicals such as The Greatest Showman, Trolls, Hamilton, and all of the Disney big screens! This class is perfect for kids who love music, dancing, and acting and want to get better at it! We will start each day with fun warm-up games and team-building exercises, and then move on to our one-of-a-kind curriculum that includes self-esteem activities with Performing Arts Education! We work together in a safe, outdoor environment to practice skills that encourage self-confidence and team building. This class is for students at all talent and experience levels.

This class uses a fun, story based curriculum to get children excited! Our lessons are tailored to the skill level of the students; all chess levels are welcome! In each class, children will get a lesson followed by chess playing time! Chess is used to teach many life skills including sportsmanship, patience, strategic thinking, planning ahead, and working toward a goal. Social distancing chess will be in full effect. Students will each be taking 3 steps back from the board. Students will be active playing chess by continuing to move throughout the game in this manner. Chess boards and pieces will be sanitized between games. Hand sanitizing and hand washing will be done throughout the camp. Face coverings will be used while playing the game. The origami portion of this class is a fun and exciting class where children will learn the Japanese art of origami along with a different aspect of Japanese culture each week! Every student will receive an origami instruction sheet on what was covered. They will take home projects after some of the classes. Students will make an assortment of origami projects including some of the following; origami hearts, origami cups, samurai helmets, and several animals such as dogs, cats, cranes and more!

Chef Ollie will teach children about California food history, agriculture, cooking and safe food preparation, explore local, seasonal produce, how to grow and use fresh herbs, plating techniques, and how to blend and use spices and seasoning. Multicultural foods, songs, food history and literature will be incorporated into the curriculum. All classes are peanut-free, however some ingredients may have been processed in the same facility that processes nuts. Chef Ollie is happy to make any reasonable accommodations and modifications to ensure your child has an inclusive and fun experience. Food will be served individually and will not be shared among students.

The focus in this class is to give the students a chance to experience the challenging martial art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. This is a grappling style martial art where children will learn to use takedowns and positional control to protect themselves from potential bullies. Our goals in this class are for students to learn techniques that can help keep them safe, get/stay in shape while building coordination and strength, gain better focus and, most importantly, to have fun. Classes will be divided into conditioning/general warm up, skill and techniques specific movement drills, technical instruction and practice, and conceptual mat chats. Students will be assigned a training dummy to work techniques on in order to maintain social distancing and comply with guidelines. See you on the mats!

This Strategic Kids’ LEGO® class will get students’ motors running! Through this course students will build models designed to introduce them to core concepts essential to science, technology, engineering, and math. Children will also utilize LEGO® Power Functions to illustrate fundamental principles of simple machines and mechanisms. This class uses a fun, story based curriculum to get children excited about chess! Our lessons are tailored to the skill level of the students; all chess levels are welcome! Social distancing chess will be in full effect. Students will each be taking 3 steps back from the board. Students will be active playing chess by continuing to move throughout the game in this manner. Chess boards and pieces will be sanitized between games. Hand sanitizing and hand washing will be done throughout the camp. Face coverings will be used while playing the game. We use chess to teach many life skills including sportsmanship, patience, strategic thinking, planning ahead, and working toward a goal.

Through this LEGO course students will build models designed to introduce them to core concepts essential to science, technology, engineering, and math. Children will also utilize LEGO® Power Functions to illustrate fundamental principles of simple machines and mechanisms. In the Origami portion of the class, every student will receive an origami instruction sheet on what was covered that day. They will take home projects after every class! Students will make origami hearts, origami cups, samurai helmets, and several animals such as dogs, cats, cranes and more! They will start with easy creations and get more and more complex.

This FREE class is being funded and taught by the Orange County Health Care Agency. The class is designed for 3rd-5th grade students. This fun and interactive program allows students to unravel the meanings behind alcohol and tobacco advertisements and media messages to delay or prevent the onset of use. Students will also learn how to be responsible with social media. The program is aimed to engage the students so that they will learn skills and techniques that advertisers use. Then they will utilize those techniques to create their own positive and healthy advertisements.

Join in the fun with chess, LEGO, origami and more! Our mission is teaching life skills through games! We make chess fun by using exciting story-based lessons to bring the game to life! Social distancing chess will be in full effect. Students will each be taking 3 steps back from the board. Students will be active playing chess by continuing to move throughout the game in this manner. Chess boards and pieces will be sanitized between games. Hand sanitizing and hand washing will be done throughout the camp. Face coverings will be used while playing the game. Chess is used to teach many life skills including sportsmanship, patience, strategic thinking, planning ahead, and working toward a goal. Students will be working with LEGO® while learning a wide variety of engineering topics. Through origami, learn the art folding paper, Japanese culture, and explore the uses of origami through challenges and games.

This class offers children an introduction to the Chinese language and culture through games and interaction. The children will study basic words: greetings, food, animals and counting. They will try their skills at calligraphy and making their own first strokes of Chinese characters. Each lesson will have dedicated time for learning about culture and time for fun, including learning rhymes and songs.

Known as “The Art of 8 Limbs”, this fascinating art comes all the way from Thailand. In this NON-CONTACT class students will learn to strike using hands, legs, knees, and elbows in order to stay in shape and build strength, endurance, coordination, focus, and confidence. Along the way they will also learn about some of the cultural elements that lead to the arts development. Students will train utilizing shields, focus mitts, heavy bags, and solo work in order to maintain social distance and comply with guidelines.

In the basketball portion of our camp, we will teach your child the skills they need for both on and off the court to be a better athlete. Students will learn the fundamentals of passing, shooting, dribbling and rebounding. In the baseball portion of the class, students will learn the fundamentals of fielding, catching, throwing, hitting, and base running in a fun, positive environment. Athletes learn new baseball skills along with vital life lessons such as respect, teamwork and responsibility. Equipment will be sanitized between group uses and full defense/contact will be avoided.

Come with us to explore “The Magic of Mary Poppins…a Marvelous Musical Theater Experience”! Drama and musical theater skills will be taught with no masks, so you can use your wonderful facial expressions and speak and sing clearly with excitement… as it’s on Zoom! CLICK and you are there! Whee!!! Everyone will be involved in the musical scenes, scripts, characters, songs, movement, and more. We are very excited to welcome you to this 2020 fall LAEF Musical Theater class. You will be given a notebook with the scripts, songs, and musical theater information to keep and use at home and during the class! Come join the fun!! Cheers for the ARTS!!

Mrs. Coralie Prince…”Retired” Music Teacher at Hopkinson and Lee.

Mrs. Donna Artukovic…”Retired” Drama Teacher at McAuliffe.

Skatedogs is a hands-on skateboarding after school program for all levels. Whether you are just learning, or ready to move on to advanced tricks this program is right for you. This popular sport is a fun and exciting way for students to get a great workout while building coordination and self-confidence. The blacktop will be turned into a temporary skatepark to give students an ideal opportunity to skate like the pros. Fill your afternoon with ramps and rails as you continue to improve your skating ability each week. Requirements: A “trick” skateboard, knee pads, elbow pads, a helmet and a signed Skatedogs waiver. Visit SkateDogs.com to view their online skateboard customizer and to learn more about what type of skateboard to bring. You can purchase safety gear and/or a skateboard and they can bring on the first day of class by selecting “local pick up”. Absolutely no gear can be loaned out.

Oh the places you’ll go, if you use your imagination and allow your creative juices to flow. What do you get when you combine Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math? You get creators, thinkers, doers, problem solvers, inventors, and innovators! Participate in fun, hands on activities, engineer and test awesome structures, let’s learn to code, and use science to grow crystals. STEAM opens up a whole new world of endless creative possibilities. STEAM Rocks! And you know what else rocks? You do!

FALL 2020 TEACHER BIOS

Melisa Baluyot has a passion for teaching and motivating young people to discover their own passions, while striving to accomplish their goals. This fall will be her 15th year of teaching. As a Titan alum, she has a Bachelor of Science degree in Child and Adolescent Development and a Multiple Subject Teaching credential from California State University, Fullerton. Melisa has worked with a diverse group of students during her years of teaching, ranging from grades TK through 12th grade. She also has numerous years of experience teaching STEM with the Tiger Woods Foundation, through their enrichment and afterschool programs. As an educator, Melisa is driven by one philosophy; Inspire young people to believe in themselves and empower them to create positive change in the world. Melisa and LAEF are both excited to have her on board.

Laura graduated from CSULB with her Bachelor’s degree in American Sign Language Linguistics and Interpreting. She currently works as an ASL-English interpreter at El Camino College in Torrance. She has lived in Los Alamitos since middle school, and her two younger siblings are currently students in the district. Laura’s younger brother, Andrew, has Autism and has inspired her to work and volunteer with people of all types of abilities, and he is the reason she is so passionate about her work. Laura is a graduate of Los Alamitos High School.

Kathy Brubacher is fully bilingual in English and Japanese having been formally educated in both the US and Japan during her formative years and through graduate school. Her interest in education—the development of the mind and heart—was sparked as a young adult by her mentor and with support of her parents. As a certified teacher in Japan and professional mom, she has taught various age groups in multiple settings including private schools, private tutoring, and homeschooling. Kathy encourages her students to aim high and pursue excellence in whatever they do. She believes passion typically comes after mastery of a subject opening doors to opportunities for the future and present. She is looking forward to teaching Japanese this fall!

Jerry is the founder of Red Zone Threat Management and travels nationally and internationally teaching seminars to members of the DEA, Local Law Enforcement, and civilians on the topic of personal protection. He is the author of the book “Red Zone Prime: A Foundation for Personal Protection”. In addition he is a passionate instructor of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts which he teaches at the facility he has owned and operated for the last 14 years, Centerline Martial Arts and Fitness. Jerry runs kids classes daily in mixed martial arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as well as the kids BJJ competition team. He has one child who is a Weaver student as well as one who left Weaver and attends Oak. Jerry firmly believes that every child has the right to enjoy their school days without fear of being bullied and is committed to helping them develop the necessary tools and attitude to help them on their journey.

Ollie graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Comparative Literature, English, Italian and Spanish. Ollie is a fully credentialed and highly qualified classroom teacher. She earned her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Cal State Long Beach, and an Ed Specialist Credential from the Orange County Department of Education with English Language Learner and Autism Authorization. Ollie earned her director’s credential from UCLA and has run an enrichment program and preschool as both a non-profit and a small business. She has 16 years of teaching experience and integrates inquiry-based and hands-on learning into her cooking classes. She cooked in Spain and Rome while completing her undergraduate work; and traveled extensively throughout Italy, Costa Rica, Mexico, Hawaii and Europe. Ollie brings her traveling experiences to the kitchen with simple, rustic dishes using local and sustainable ingredients. While living in Berkeley, Ollie was inspired by Alice Waters’ cooking, edible garden, and farm-to-school programs. She currently works as a private chef and teaches organic cooking and biodynamic gardening classes. Her family’s roots are from Ischia, a small island off of Naples, which is reflected in her Italo-California fusion cooking and passion for gardening. In her spare time she enjoys cooking with her family, creating cheese plates, caring for a baby California desert tortoise and Zucca the puppy (Italian for squash). Ollie is excited about teaching for LAEF again this fall.

Students will learn to code while building their own video games. Students will gain problem solving, critical thinking, and STEM skills in a fun, safe, and inspiring environment. Technology is advancing at an incredible rate, and we’re just getting started. Every kid deserves the chance to unlock their innate, unlimited capacity to learn. Whether or not they pursue coding as a career, Code Ninjas wants to provide students with skills that will help them pursue their dreams.

Pilar DeNardo was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain and in Perú. After graduating from college, she came to the United States to learn English. Pilar earned an M.A in Bilingual Education as well as multiple teaching credentials. After teaching elementary school for 5 years and becoming a mom, Pilar decided to open her own business and teach her native language to elementary age students.

Melodie graduated from Hope International University in Fullerton with a B.A. in Human Development and has taught in several private elementary schools throughout southern California for over twenty years. Developing her own curriculum and spear-heading an innovative after school program on the east coast, she moved back to CA to pursue her love of hands-on teaching in the classroom. She is currently a projects coordinator at Oakwood Academy in Long Beach.

Free to Be Me Performance Academy provides quality performance training in a positive, enthusiastic, nurturing, and embracing environment. Through our classes our students learn essential life skills such as teamwork, respect, responsibility, care and compassion. We emphasize the importance of character both on and off the stage and work to inspire each student to BE a positive light out in the community. Most importantly we encourage FUN!

Elena graduated from People’s Friendship University of Russia, earned her B.A. degree in World History. Her diploma comes with teaching credentials. Elena spent three years at Tianjin University where she earned certificates in Chinese language proficiency (including a HSK certificate) and she took Master degree courses in economic and trade law in Mandarin. She worked in Russia as a middle school ESL teacher. In China she tutored ESL to groups of students from preschool to middle school age and individually tutored Russian language to Chinese and Korean students. Elena has experience developing individual teaching plans suitable for different ages, skill sets and requirements, creating fun activities to make classes interesting and fun. She strongly believes that anyone can learn a foreign language and enjoy the process. Elena is a proud parent of two students in the Los Alamitos Unified School District. Elena is extremely excited to teach for LAEF!

Ava Hacker is an experienced Spanish teacher who has lived in Ecuador, Mexico and Costa Rica. She has over two decades of experience teaching in dual immersion classrooms, and has a special passion for teaching young children to speak and understand Spanish through the use of games, songs and other enjoyable learning activities. She is eager to get started empowering our Los Alamitos students to communicate in a language that is important to all Americans, and to appreciate and celebrate the cultural achievements and contributions of our friends and neighbors.

Kendra, former Rainbow Wahine Indoor Volleyball player at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Master’s student at CSULB in Kinesiology, has played at the highest level and has been coached by Olympic legends. Kendra led the Rainbow Wahine as captain to the NCAA Championship tournament each year, making it to the Sweet Sixteens. The past five years, she has enjoyed coaching clinics throughout the islands of Hawai’i and coaching club volleyball. Kendra has a Bachelor’s degree in elementary education from University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her mission as a coach is to show her athletes just how FUN the sport of volleyball can be, while also building foundational technique!

Liverpool FC International Academy SoCal provides professional, quality coaches for all after-school programs. Coaches are certified by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), and The Football Association England (FA). All coaches are CDC concussion certified. Currently coaches work in our highly competitive club program coaching teams in the Southern California Developmental Soccer League (SCDSL). They have numerous years of working with children of all age and skill levels and look forward to putting on after-school programs.

Around the world our LFC International Academies provide young players with an opportunity to develop, learning new techniques and skills, all under the guidance of our coaching staff.

We know kids will have fun and enjoy learning how to play ‘The Liverpool Way’.

Katie, a California native, is an accomplished artist and teacher. A recent graduate from California State University, Long Beach, Katie has already led her students to art competitions and had their work shown in the Nixon Public Library. Her art, especially in the classroom, focuses on the collaborative. Katie has a heart for her community that can be seen not only in her work, but also in the way that she interacts with others. She is both detail oriented and creatively flexible, allowing students to explore their ideas while holding them to a high artistic standard. Katie is excited to teach for LAEF again this season!

Coralie Prince’s life has been music from the time she was born! Her father was a singer/songwriter/pianist and producer of shows. Mother, a nurse, performed at home and supported the arts. Coralie began piano when she was a toddler and violin when she was 6. She most recently taught elementary classroom music at Hopkinson and Lee both from 1980 to 2014. She directed grade level shows and produced, directed, accompanied a large musical each year with the 5th grade and/or the 4/5 chorus. She taught piano privately for many years and later, a summer Musical Theater Workshop for grades 3 thru 12. She is so excited to continue working with the students in the LAEF Musical Theater Class.

Born in Huntington Beach, it wasn’t long until the owner of Skatedogs, Adam Cohen picked up a skateboard. It quickly became his passion and he would skateboard whenever he had free time. At a very young age, he realized that he wanted to turn this passion into a business. So after graduating Edison in High School, he enrolled at SDSU to earn a degree in business. Skatedogs offered their first summer camp in Los Alamitos in 2008 and they now have 4 mobile skateboard parks running skateboarding programs allover SoCal and NorCal. He’s so happy to be able to use skateboarding as a tool to inspire children to find their passion in life, live a healthy lifestyle, and make long lasting friendships.

Skyhawks provides a wide variety of fun, safe and positive programs that emphasize critical lessons in sports and life, such as teamwork, respect and sportsmanship. Our programs are designed to give each child a positive introduction into sports while fostering a lifelong love for an active, healthy lifestyle. Our patient and knowledgeable staff use a variety of skill-building games and activities to give each athlete a complete understanding and overview of the sport.

Andrea PfeferTrombi has been a student of Kenpo Karate for over 30 years and is currently a 5th Degree Black Belt. She has been the International champion six times and has won more than 150 1st place trophies in her tournament career. Ms. Solow owned and operated a karate school in Telluride, Colorado for 15 years. She has instructed several hundred people over the years, having many advanced students, and bringing several people to the rank of black belt. She recently moved back to her home state, California, with her husband and two children who attend school in the Los Al school district. Ms. Trombi is passionate about teaching kids and is excited to be an instructor for the LAEF program!

Mrs. Vida grew up speaking French as her native language. She was raised in the Loire Valley, in France; graduated from College with a language degree, and worked in Paris in an American Company, before moving to the USA in her thirties. She is very familiar with our Los Alamitos School District as she volunteered on PTA Boards for over 20 years. This is Mrs. Vida’s second season working for LAEF after-school and she is so excited to get back at it!

WeBreak Hip-Hop Dance Company was founded in 2011 by Brian Wright. Brian Wright is a natural and gifted instructor in dance and has been teaching dance for the past 12 years. He loves working with children, teens and adults and has been dancing for over 17 years and breakdancing for over 12 years. He, along with a friend, founded and designed the California State University Breakers, a campus club committed to teaching the art form of breaking at Cal State University Long Beach. The CSULB Breakers won the very first intercollegiate breakdance competition at LMU in 2006. Brian also received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from CSULB.

Claudia is a native of El Salvador and moved to the US in 1986. She loves sharing language and culture with students and has been teaching in Orange County since 2008. Claudia earned her Masters in Education from Azusa Pacific University and a B.A. in Education and Child Development from National University. As a language teacher, her goal is for students to be exposed and gain a deeper appreciation of the beautifully diverse multilingual, multicultural, and multiethnic communities we are so blessed to have in California and in our world. This is Claudia’s second year teaching Spanish with LAEF.

Enhancing Educational Excellence

Enhancing Educational Excellence

Fall 2020 Enrichment On-Campus Camps & Virtual Classes
registration now Open!

Scholarship Applications Now open!

We will be accepting scholarship applications through September 21, 2020

Click on the arrow next to your school to see current class fliers and more

After School Enrichment

Aside from the FUN, innovative classes offered,
did you know quality After School Programs:

FALL 2020 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

September 2020

Early Bird Registration Ends

Scholarships Application Deadline

Late Registration Begins

Virtual Class Packet Pick-Up – Session 1

Virtual Classes Begin

On-Campus Camps Session 1 Begins

FALL 2020 Class Descriptions

Click on the arrow next to read class descriptions

FALL 2020 TEACHER BIOS

STREET ADDRESS:

MAILING ADDRESS:

Corporate Partners

Corporate Partners

Enhancing Educational Excellence

Enhancing Educational Excellence

Fall 2020 Enrichment On-Campus Camps & Virtual Classesregistration now Open!

Scholarship Applications Now open!

We will be accepting scholarship applications through September 21, 2020

Click on the arrow next to your school to see current class fliers and more

After School Enrichment

Aside from the FUN, innovative classes offered, did you know quality After School Programs:

FALL 2020 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

September 2020

Early Bird Registration Ends

Scholarships Application Deadline

Late Registration Begins

Virtual Class Packet Pick-Up – Session 1

Virtual Classes Begin

On-Campus Camps Session 1 Begins

FALL 2020 Class Descriptions

Click on the arrow next to read class descriptions

FALL 2020 TEACHER BIOS

STREET ADDRESS:

MAILING ADDRESS:

Corporate Partners

Corporate Partners

Fall 2020 Enrichment On-Campus Camps & Virtual Classes
registration now Open!

Aside from the FUN, innovative classes offered,
did you know quality After School Programs: