Child Care
Minneapolis Kids
Minneapolis Kids is offered through the Community Education Department of Minneapolis Public Schools and provides year-round, fee based school-age care for families and youth enrolled in High Five through 6th grade. Care is available from 6:30 am - 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday with Before and After-School and full-day care on Non-School Days and the summer. Explore the Minneapolis Kids website for specific details and enrollment.
Rec Plus
Recreation Plus (Rec Plus) provides school-age childcare for children in grades K-6, ages 5-12 at neighborhood recreation centers. Activities includes STEM, arts and crafts, walking trips, theme activities, sports and more. Program components have been modified to meet CDC and MDH COVID guidelines and requirements, including mask requirements for staff and children.
Languages
Spanish Lessons at Burroughs
Burroughs Community Schools partners with University Language Center to offer tuition-based small-group Spanish instruction via Zoom between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30 during the 2020-2021 academic year as well as summer sessions. Please go to www.univlanguage.com for more information or call Susan at 952-224-5600.
French Lessons at Burroughs
There are also French Lessons for English-speaking students on Tuesdays (3:45 to 5:00) from Tuesday, October 24th to Tuesday, May 8th. This is offered in partnership with Alliance Française.
Registrations are still being accepted for this program! Complete and return the registration form to apply to the program or contact Alix Lewis-Sadrant at education@afmsp.org, 612-332-0436, for more information.
Enrichment
Lego League
In late summer, FIRST LEGO League releases a Challenge, which is based on a real-world scientific topic. Each Challenge has three parts: the Robot Game, the Project, and the FLL Core Values. Teams of up to ten children, with at least one adult coach, participate in the Challenge by programming an autonomous robot to score points on a themed playing field (Robot Game), developing a solution to a problem they have identified (Project), all guided by the FLL Core Values. Teams may then attend an official tournament, hosted by our FIRST LEGO League Partners. Past Challenges have been based on topics such as nanotechnology, climate, quality of life for the handicapped population, and transportation. By designing our Challenges around such topics, participants are exposed to potential career paths within a chosen Challenge topic, in addition to solidifying the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) principles that naturally come from participating in the program. Team members also learn valuable life and employment skills which will benefit them no matter which career path they choose.
For more information contact the Lego League Coordinator at burroughs.legos@gmail.com
Chess Club
Each year on Fridays from November to March, students can sign up to meet after school to play chess, learn chess moves, and have fun. Typically, signup is open in late autumn for the winter season. This is a fun interactive hour for students to learn chess for the first time, or master new chess moves.
Active Solutions
Active Solutions provides Fall, Winter and Spring after school classes and full day camps that include: sports, fitness, dance, art and recreation. Active Solutions also provides Summer week long day camps at Burroughs Community School. All after school classes and day camps are taught by Burroughs: Physical Education Teachers, Art Education Teacher, parents and community members.
Activities include and are not limited to: Physical Education- team sports, fun gym games/activities and recreational activities- bicycling, canoeing, kayaking, ice fishing, regular fishing, scootering, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, sledding, ice skating, ice hockey and broom ball, Art Education- painting, drawing and pottery, Dance, Zumba Fitness for students and adults, Yoga, Girls Running Program and Boys Running Program.
For more information, visit www.activesolutionsforkids.com, email activesolutions@mac.com or call 952-212-7290.
