Los Gatos-Saratoga | Fall 2020 | Community Education and Recreation

Public Speaking 8-12 yrs. Movies & Sport Theme ONLINE. Students enhance speaking skills with peers in a comfortable, comical and nurturing environment. Activities include interviews, jokes, quotes, tongue twisters and practicing movie monologues from Disney and other classics. Students learn the basics how to prepare and structure an effective speech and tips how to articulate that information clearly. NO CLASS: 10/13 Instructor: Ilene Marks Location: At Your Computer Tues. 4:45PM – 5:45PM 9 mtgs. 9/8 – 11/10 $210 Japanese Course for 8th Graders 12-14 yrs. ONLINE. Yokoso! Welcome! Japanese 1 is a course for 8th grade students with little to no experience with Japanese language. Students will be introduced to the basics of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Japanese and will learn to comprehend and speak at the novice level about a variety of topics. Instructor: Yukiko Hara Location: At Your Computer T/TH 4:00PM – 5:00PM 20 mtgs. 9/1 – 11/10 $200 Cool Careers Island 7-12 yrs. ONLINE. Challenge Island’s all new Cool Careers Island will give you a taste of some of the world’s most exciting jobs from veterinarian to marine biologist to professional basketball player! Start engineering your future today with this STEAMtastic Challenge Island adventure! Instructor: Challenge Island Staff Location: At Your Computer Wed. 3:00PM-4:00PM 8 mtgs. 8/26 – 10/14 $250 TECHNOLOGY / MEDIA ARTS Beginning Programming with 8-17 yrs. Sheroes Tech Students will learn to write, debug & execute simple to moderately complex programs in Python, using programming constructs such as assignment, conditionals, iterations, functions & classes. Students are required to bring their own laptops to class &/or have access to a computer for completing assignments. Instructor: Sheroes Tech Staff Location: Joan Pisani Community Center – Recreation Portable Tue. 5:00PM – 6:30PM 15 mtgs. 9/8 – 12/15 $350 Innovation ACADEMICS Math Olympiad 9-14 yrs. Students will receive premier instruction, explore real contest challenges, and may compete as a Math Olympiad team member. We’ll explore a variety of creative problem solving strategies and techniques to solve challenging, non-routine Math Olympiad problems with ease and efficiency. Materials fee: $25. Instructor: Madhurani Marathe Location: Los Gatos Youth Recreaton Center – Room C 4-6 GRADE Wed. 5:30PM – 6:40PM 9 mtgs. 9/16 – 11/11 $255 6-8 GRADE Wed. 6:45PM – 7:55PM 9 mtgs. 9/16 – 11/11 $255 Location: Joan Pisani Community Center – Recreation Portable 6-8 GRADE Mon. 6:30PM – 7:40PM 9 mtgs. 9/14 – 11/16 $255 Chess Wizards 5-12 yrs. Chess Wizards teaches children many important life concepts, such as learning the ability to win graciously and accept defeat with dignity and sportsmanship. Students will be divided into groups according to their chess experience. At the end of this session, each student will have had the chance to participate in a mini-chess tournament. NO CLASS: 11/26. Instructor: Chess Wizards Location: Joan Pisani Community Center – Recreation Portable Thu. 3:15PM – 4:15PM 14 mtgs. 9/10 – 12/17 $360 LANGUAGE ARTS How to Write A Children’s 8-12 yrs. Picture Book Come explore and discover the structure of the children’s picture book, development of characters, setting, story problems, and resolutions with a final product, rough and ready draft of a children’s picture book. Sprinkled throughout the course will be generous portions of theater, improvisation and other group games. NO CLASS: 11/23. Instructor: Jennifer Castro Location: Los Gatos Youth Recreaton Center – Room C Mon. 3:30PM – 5:00PM 10 mtgs. 9/28 – 12/7 $259 For Registration Information, see page 2 Los Gatos-Saratoga Recreation | Fall 2020 15 YOUTH