After School Activities and Programs in Houston
- After School Activities (ASA) are a variety of enrichment classes offered through The Fay School’s partnership with Fay Faculty and local teaching professionals. The cost of these classes varies; ranging from $300 - $600 per semester, depending on the subject matter and the number of sessions offered per semester. Classes are offered once a week for an hour.
- AUGUST 29, 2022: FIRST DAY OF FALL 2022 AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
- DECEMBER 8, 2022: LAST DAY OF FALL 2022 AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Registration for these programs is available to currently enrolled students. Registration opens on July 6, 2022, and is held online through the Extended Day Registration Module which can be accessed through My Portal or directly through our Extended Day Registration Module.
Kindergarten – Fifth Grade students gather at 3:15pm for a snack time prior to the start of After School Activities. If your child has dietary restrictions, please provide your own snack.
- A $25 registration fee will be waived between July 6, 2022 and August 5, 2022.
- After August 5, 2022, a $25 registration fee will be applied to Fall registrations.
- After School Activities do not operate during school holidays.
- Primary ASA carpool will take place at 3:30pm the Fondren Porch.
- Please do not arrive early, as our 3:15 main dismissal carpool must be complete before you may get in line at the Fondren Porch.
- K-5 ASA carpool will take place at 4:30pm the Elementary Benches.
If you wish to change your ASA schedule for the Fall 2022, please contact the Extended Day office.
One or more After School Activity registrations can be canceled for a full refund less a single $50 fee (each time one or more registrations are dropped) through September 9, 2022. After this date, all registration fees for After School Activities are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Primary Fall 2022 ASA Offerings
The Junior Athletes program is designed to allow students to experience a wide range of activities. Sports based lessons (soccer, basketball, baseball, flag football, tennis, etc.) along with fun fitness activities (dodgeball, obstacle courses, bowling, scooter boards, relay races, etc.) will be introduced throughout each semester. Students will practice cooperation, sportsmanship, and teamwork. It is important that students experience success while learning. We will work to instill into each student the skills and confidence needed to succeed!
Primary Junior Athletes classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials Needed: none
Yoga for kids is all about stillness AND movement. In this class, children are able to develop flexibility, focus, and coordination for a happy, healthy, and balanced life. The students have a blast playing games, learning breathing techniques, dancing, practicing mini-meditations, and creating their own yoga adventures! We often integrate yoga poses through meaningful story-telling that teaches concepts such as kindness, how to be present, believing in yourself, and the importance of gratitude. Kids’ yoga helps to increase confidence, build focus, improve emotional regulation, and release energy.
Primary Yoga classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. *Yoga mats provided, but you may bring and store your own on campus
Improve your child’s literacy skills through Imaginations at Work! During this class, children are given the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities and learning experiences to build and improve vocabulary, phonological skills, word recognition, narrative skills, letter knowledge, and storytelling. This is a learning experience that not only improves literacy skills but builds self-confidence while empowering children to use their own creativity to stimulate their imaginations!
About the Instructor: Joan Katrib has designed our Imaginations at Work classes. She served as a Primary I Assistant Teacher at The Fay School for many years and has mentored with The Rice Literacy Project for over twenty years. Mrs. Katrib loves teaching because she enjoys inspiring children to use their imaginations while learning in a fun and meaningful way. Through creating and acting in stories, children retain the information learned during the class. She loves to share stories with children and listen to their own stories from their imaginations at work.
Primary Imaginations at Work classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $455 per child
Materials Needed: None
Come serve it up with TGA Premier Youth Tennis! TGA has partnered with the United States Tennis Association to create a fun and innovative tennis program for your child. TGA’s five-level elementary school curriculum includes games, drills, and physical fitness activities. Every TGA class focuses on academic concepts developed by educational experts along with the rules and etiquette of tennis. TGA brings all the equipment, training materials, and a 10:1 student-to-instructor ratio to allow for plenty of individual attention. Our goal is to develop our students’ tennis skills and give children the building blocks for future achievement on the tennis court and in life.
*Please register for this class only one day of the week. Two-day per week registrations will be adjusted.
Primary Tennis classes are offered on Tuesday and Friday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Tuesday Cost: $442 per child
Friday Cost: $408 per child
Materials Needed: None *Rackets are provided
Young Picassos provides an enriching experience for all our students intellectually and emotionally through using artistic expression to build self-esteem and awareness. Our curriculum developed by an art therapist ensures that children are given the best opportunities possible to thrive and grow through artistic expression and education. Our goal is not based on the art product, but rather the process that contributes to healthy child development.
In this course, students will be introduced to multi-media art techniques, specially designed for the attention span and motor coordination of primary students. Students will develop the ability to recognize and combine shapes and use individual creativity to make independent choices in art design. Special emphasis placed on healthy emotional expression, confidence building, and artistic freedom. Students will explore art activities that add to their ability to process their thoughts and feelings in healthy ways.
Primary Young Picassos classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $494 per child
Materials Needed: None
Are your children asking to help cook or bake in the kitchen? Then Creative Chefs is perfect for your child! Every chef will learn skills such as kitchen hygiene, kitchen safety, and utensil skills. Throughout the semester, chefs will create appetizers, main entrees, side dishes, salads, and desserts, as well as explore different cultures by creating foods from various parts of the world. Each week, our recipes will alternate between sweet and savory. *Soccer Shots classes will begin on September 9th, one week after other After School Activities.
*Please register for this class only one day of the week. Two-day per week registrations will be adjusted.
Primary Creative Chefs classes are offered on Monday and Wednesday.
Class Time: 2:30–3:30pm
Monday Cost: $310 per child
Wednesday Cost: $442 per child
Materials needed: none
Your child will dance with delight all semester! Students are taught fundamental Ballet and Jazz skills in this class. For class, students need to have a leotard (any color), pink leather ballet shoes for girls/black leather ballet shoes for boys, and tights (optional). Students must be registered in the Spring semester to participate in the recital at the end of the year.
Ballet & Jazz classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 2:30–3:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials needed:
- Leotard (Girls)/ Bike Shorts & T-shirt (Boys)
- Leather ballet shoes (All)
- Tights (optional)
Master Bruce and Olympia Tae Kwon Do is back! Master Bruce is an 8th degree Black Belt who has been practicing Tae Kwon Do for over forty years. He has over thirty years of experience teaching children and adults and has produced over 2,000 black belt students. Master Bruce opened Olympia Tae Kwon Do in 1988 and has taught at private schools throughout the Houston area for almost twenty years. Master Bruce uses Tae Kwon Do to help students improve concentration, confidence, and focus while also emphasizing the importance of positivity and respect. Master Bruce teaches Tae Kwon Do techniques through a variety of drills to help improve students’ balance, attention span, and more. Classes are a combination of learning basic self-defense moves (blocks, kicks, and punches) as well as games and drills to improve coordination and focus. Each registered student will receive a Tae Kwon Do uniform.
Primary Tae Kwon Do classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials Needed: Bring provided Tae Kwon Do Uniform on class days. Uniform is built into the cost of the class.
You will learn engineering key concepts and fundamentals building with LEGO elements from the creative tool kit. Students will be challenged to use pieces to create a structure or setting using LEGO elements. Students will engage with hands-on experience including fun and challenging activities. Students will learn to identify build pieces and their function required to build structures and or settings. This program offers STEM-STEAM curriculum as well diversity, self-esteem, social competency, collaboration and more. Concepts and Core values are taught to prepare students for life challenges.
Primary Imagineers in Gear classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $490 per child
Materials needed: none
At Brown’s Gymnastics, our goal is to make healthy, happy, and confident kids. We specialize in great instruction from a highly trained staff, thinking of ourselves as teachers, not just coaches. It is not enough to just show a child a trick; we help them to understand it and then guide them through the experiences of failure and success. We recognize that not every student is the same. That is where our almost 30 years of experience comes in. We use time-proven methods to get the best results possible, all while having tons of fun!
Primary Gymnastics classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $462 per child
Materials Needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. *students will NOT change clothes for this activity.
Soccer Shots is an engaging children’s soccer program with a focus on character development. Our caring team positively impacts children’s lives both on and off the field through best-in-class coaching, communication, and curriculum. Our coaches are the best-trained in the business. Our expert-approved curriculum is age-appropriate and aligns with childhood education standards. In addition, we provide an exceptional customer experience and ongoing communication with parents.
Primary Soccer Shots classes are offered on Friday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $330 per child
Materials Needed: None
*Soccer Shots classes will begin on September 9th, one week after other After School Activities.
Students will learn the fundamentals of nature and the history of science in this class. Students will explore the beginning steps of the scientific method and put those to use through hands-on projects that develop their critical thinking and deductive reasoning. As they utilize the scientific method, they will be creating models of various significant scientific inventions to test their hypotheses.
Primary Investigative Science Lab classes are offered on Friday.
Class Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Cost: $384 per child
Materials Needed: None
Kindergarten Fall 2022 ASA Offerings
The Junior Athletes program is designed to allow students to experience a wide range of activities. Sports based lessons (soccer, basketball, baseball, flag football, tennis, etc.) along with fun fitness activities (dodgeball, obstacle courses, bowling, scooter boards, relay races, etc.) will be introduced throughout each semester. Students will practice cooperation, sportsmanship, and teamwork. It is important that students experience success while learning. We will work to instill into each student the skills and confidence needed to succeed!
Kindergarten - Second Grade Junior Athletes classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials needed: None
Yoga for kids is all about stillness AND movement. In this class, children are able to develop flexibility, focus and coordination for a happy, healthy, and balanced life. The students have a blast playing games, learning breathing techniques, dancing, practicing mini-meditations, and creating their own yoga adventures! We often integrate yoga poses through meaningful story-telling that teach concepts such as kindness, how to be present, believing in yourself, and the importance of gratitude. Kids’ yoga helps to increase confidence, build focus, improve emotional regulation, and release energy.
Kindergarten - Third Grade Yoga classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. *Yoga mats provided, but you may bring and store your own on campus.
Soccer Shots is an engaging children’s soccer program with a focus on character development. Our caring team positively impacts children’s lives both on and off the field through best-in-class coaching, communication, and curriculum. Our coaches are the best-trained in the business. Our expert-approved curriculum is age-appropriate and aligns with childhood education standards. In addition, we provide an exceptional customer experience and ongoing communication with parents.
*Soccer Shots classes will begin on September 6th, one week after other After School Activities.
Kindergarten - Second Grade Soccer Shots classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $384 per child
Materials needed: None
You will learn engineering key concepts and fundamentals building with LEGO elements from the creative tool kit. Students will be challenged to use pieces to create a structure or setting using LEGO elements. Students will engage with hands-on experience including fun and challenging activities. Students will learn to identify build pieces and their function required to build structures and or settings. This program offers STEM-STEAM curriculum as well diversity, self-esteem, social competency, collaboration and more. Concepts and Core values are taught to prepare students for life challenges.
Kindergarten Imagineers in Gear classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $455 per child
Materials Needed: None
Improve your child’s literacy skills through Imaginations at Work! During this class, children are given the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities and learning experiences to build and improve vocabulary, phonological skills, word recognition, narrative skills, letter knowledge, and storytelling. This is a learning experience that not only improves literacy skills but builds self-confidence while empowering children to use their own creativity to stimulate their imaginations!
About the Instructor: Joan Katrib has designed our Imaginations at Work classes. She served as a Primary I Assistant Teacher at The Fay School for many years and has mentored with The Rice Literacy Project for over twenty years. Mrs. Katrib loves teaching because she enjoys inspiring children to use their imaginations while learning in a fun and meaningful way. Through creating and acting in stories, children retain the information learned during the class. She loves to share stories with children and listen to their own stories from their imaginations at work.
Kindergarten - Second Grade Imaginations at Work classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $455 per child
Materials needed: none
Master Bruce and Olympia Tae Kwon Do is back! Master Bruce is an 8th degree Black Belt who has been practicing Tae Kwon Do for over forty years. He has over thirty years of experience teaching children and adults and has produced over 2,000 black belt students. Master Bruce opened Olympia Tae Kwon Do in 1988 and has taught at private schools throughout the Houston area for almost twenty years. Master Bruce uses Tae Kwon Do to help students improve concentration, confidence, and focus while also emphasizing the importance of positivity and respect. Master Bruce teaches Tae Kwon Do techniques through a variety of drills to help improve students’ balance, attention span, and more. Classes are a combination of learning basic self-defense moves (blocks, kicks, and punches) as well as games and drills to improve coordination and focus. Each registered student will receive a Tae Kwon Do uniform.
Kindergarten - Third Grade Tae Kwon Do classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials needed: Bring provided Tae Kwon Do uniform on class days. Uniform is built into the cost of the class.
Come serve it up with TGA Premier Youth Tennis! TGA has partnered with the United States Tennis Association to create a fun and innovative tennis program for your child. TGA’s five-level elementary school curriculum includes games, drills, and physical fitness activities. Every TGA class focuses on academic concepts developed by educational experts along with the rules and etiquette of tennis. TGA brings all the equipment, training materials, and a 10:1 student-to-instructor ratio to allow for plenty of individual attention. Our goal is to develop our students’ tennis skills and give children the building blocks for future achievement on the tennis court and in life.
Kindergarten - Fifth Grade Tennis classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $476 per child
Materials needed: none *rackets are provided
At Brown’s Gymnastics, our goal is to make healthy, happy, and confident kids. We specialize in great instruction from a highly trained staff, thinking of ourselves as teachers, not just coaches. It is not enough to just show a child a trick; we help them to understand it and then guide them through the experiences of failure and success. We recognize that not every student is the same. That is where our almost 30 years of experience comes in. We use time-proven methods to get the best results possible, all while having tons of fun!
Kindergarten- Fifth Grade Gymnastics classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $462 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. Students will not change clothes for this activity.
Are your children asking to help cook or bake in the kitchen? Then Creative Chefs is perfect for your child! Every chef will learn skills such as kitchen hygiene, kitchen safety, and utensil skills. Throughout the semester, chefs will create appetizers, main entrees, side dishes, salads, and desserts, as well as explore different cultures by creating foods from various parts of the world. Each week, our recipes will alternate between sweet and savory.
Kindergarten Creative Chefs classes are offered on Friday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $408 per child
Materials Needed: None
3-2-1…Swish! Join us for Fast Break Basketball where we’ll “cross-over” between GAME PLAY and skills stations. The games within the game are where we will expose players to HOOPS skills like dribbling, passing, shooting, rebounding, and defense. Test your abilities having fun scrimmaging or playing games like Dribble Scribble, King of the Court, Hot Shot Shooting, Knock Out, and MORE! Be ready to take that last second shot, make that extra pass, and block that go ahead basket while learning the fundamentals of Basketball and the concepts of teamwork.
Kindergarten - Second Grade Basketball classes are offered on Friday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $360 per child
Materials needed: None
First- Second Grade Fall 2022 ASA Offerings
The Junior Athletes program is designed to allow students to experience a wide range of activities. Sports-based lessons (soccer, basketball, baseball, flag football, tennis, etc.) along with fun fitness activities (dodgeball, obstacle courses, bowling, scooter boards, relay races, etc.) will be introduced throughout each semester. Students will practice cooperation, sportsmanship, and teamwork. It is important that students experience success while learning. We will work to instill into each student the skills and confidence needed to succeed!
Kindergarten - Second Grade Junior Athletes classes are offered on Monday.
Class time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials needed: None
The elegant sport of fencing, popular in Europe, is now gaining popularity in the United States and in the Houston area. Many Americans are discovering the benefits of fencing! These include helping young people gain admission and scholarships to prestigious universities as well as providing a life-long sport in which physique and age are not limited.
First - Fifth Grade Fencing classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $340 per child
Materials needed: None
Yoga for kids is all about stillness AND movement. In this class, children are able to develop flexibility, focus and coordination for a happy, healthy, and balanced life. The students have a blast playing games, learning breathing techniques, dancing, practicing mini-meditations, and creating their own yoga adventures! We often integrate yoga poses through meaningful story-telling that teach concepts such as kindness, how to be present, believing in yourself, and the importance of gratitude. Kids’ yoga helps to increase confidence, build focus, improve emotional regulation, and release energy.
Kindergarten - Fourth Grade Yoga classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. Yoga mats provided but you may bring and store your own on campus.
Soccer Shots is an engaging children’s soccer program with a focus on character development. Our caring team positively impacts children’s lives both on and off the field through best-in-class coaching, communication, and curriculum. Our coaches are the best-trained in the business. Our expert-approved curriculum is age-appropriate and aligns with childhood education standards. In addition, we provide an exceptional customer experience and ongoing communication with parents.
Kindergarten - Second Grade Soccer Shots classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $384 per child
Materials needed: None
*Soccer Shots classes will begin on September 6th, one week after other After School Activities.
This ceramics course, taught by Glassel Junior School, places emphasis on individual creativity and the development of design skills as students receive instruction in hand-building, clay sculpture techniques and the use of special tools and glazes to create finished pieces. About Glassel Junior School: The Glassell Junior School is an art school for young people, devoted to nurturing creativity and dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the arts and an awareness of the world. Classes and workshops for children ages 4 through 18 are offered year-round. The Glassell School is known as the “teaching wing” of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
First - Fifth Grade Ceramics classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $481 per child
Materials needed: None
Improve your child’s literacy skills through Imaginations at Work! During this class, children are given the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities and learning experiences to build and improve vocabulary, phonological skills, word recognition, narrative skills, letter knowledge, and storytelling. This is a learning experience that not only improves literacy skills but builds self-confidence while empowering children to use their own creativity to stimulate their imaginations!
About the Instructor: Joan Katrib has designed our Imaginations at Work classes. She served as a Primary I Assistant Teacher at The Fay School for many years and has mentored with The Rice Literacy Project for over twenty years. Mrs. Katrib loves teaching because she enjoys inspiring children to use their imaginations while learning in a fun and meaningful way. Through creating and acting in stories, children retain the information learned during the class. She loves to share stories with children and listen to their own stories from their imaginations at work.
Kindergarten - Second Grade Imaginations at Work classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $455 per child
Materials needed: None
Master Bruce and Olympia Tae Kwon Do is back! Master Bruce is an 8th degree Black Belt who has been practicing Tae Kwon Do for over forty years. He has over thirty years of experience teaching children and adults and has produced over 2,000 black belt students. Master Bruce opened Olympia Tae Kwon Do in 1988 and has taught at private schools throughout the Houston area for almost twenty years. Master Bruce uses Tae Kwon Do to help students improve concentration, confidence, and focus while also emphasizing the importance of positivity and respect. Master Bruce teaches Tae Kwon Do techniques through a variety of drills to help improve students’ balance, attention span, and more. Classes are a combination of learning basic self-defense moves (blocks, kicks, and punches) as well as games and drills to improve coordination and focus. Each registered student will receive a Tae Kwon Do uniform.
Kindergarten - Third Grade Tae Kwon Do classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials needed: Bring provided Tae Kwon Do uniform on class days. Uniform is built into the cost of the class.
Join Ms Baker of Ready to Grow Gardens for an hour of fun Garden Club activities in the Fay garden!
Each month we will do a deep dive into a new topic related to fall gardening in the Houston area. Topics range from how to start your own fall container garden for bountiful fall harvest in September, to discovering more about the amazing Monarch butterfly migration that comes right through our area in October, to seed saving and harvesting crops from your container garden in November. We can’t wait to extend our learning and adventure in the garden with more time after school!
Stephanie Baker is Texas Master Gardener and the owner of Ready to Grow Gardens, a company she started in 2002. RTGG currently partners with 35 schools for their school gardening program, Garden Day, as well as for garden management and consulting. For more info about Ready to Grow Gardens check out our website : www.readytogrowgardens.com.
Second - Fifth Garden Club classes are offered on Thursday. (Please note this is NOT available to First Graders.)
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials needed: None
*This class has scheduled off dates for 10/20/22 and 11/17/22. Prices reflect these off dates.
Come serve it up with TGA Premier Youth Tennis! TGA has partnered with the United States Tennis Association to create a fun and innovative tennis program for your child. TGA’s five-level elementary school curriculum includes games, drills, and physical fitness activities. Every TGA class focuses on academic concepts developed by educational experts along with the rules and etiquette of tennis. TGA brings all the equipment, training materials, and a 10:1 student-to-instructor ratio to allow for plenty of individual attention. Our goal is to develop our students’ tennis skills and give children the building blocks for future achievement on the tennis court and in life.
Kindergarten - Fifth Grade Tennis classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $476 per child
Materials needed: None; *rackets are provided.
Are your children asking to help cook or bake in the kitchen? Then Creative Chefs is perfect for your child! Every chef will learn skills such as kitchen hygiene, kitchen safety, and utensil skills. Throughout the semester, chefs will create appetizers, main entrees, side dishes, salads, and desserts, as well as explore different cultures by creating foods from various parts of the world. Each week, our recipes will alternate between sweet and savory.
First - Second Grade Creative Chefs classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $476 per child
Materials needed: None
At Brown’s Gymnastics, our goal is to make healthy, happy, and confident kids. We specialize in great instruction from a highly trained staff, thinking of ourselves as teachers, not just coaches. It is not enough to just show a child a trick; we help them to understand it and then guide them through the experiences of failure and success. We recognize that not every student is the same. That is where our almost 30 years of experience comes in. We use time-proven methods to get the best results possible, all while having tons of fun!
Kindergarten - Fifth Grade Gymnastics classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $462 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. Students will not need to change clothes for this activity.
You have gotten a little crazy and possibly even finished our apprenticeship. Are ready to stair-step your way to the top? If so, this is the first class for you to consider. Now you can collaborate with your teammates to prepare an Infrared Wireless robot for a variety of activity-based challenges. Students will explore the use of motors, gears, pulleys, and IR technology while building Lego Robot inventions. Each build will be followed by a thrilling challenge that illustrates the need for “simplicity” and the pitfalls of “complexity”. Students will be provided with a creative tool kit to design their bots!
First - Third Grade Robotics classes are offered on Friday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $444 per child
Materials needed: None
3-2-1…Swish! Join us for Fast Break Basketball where we’ll “cross-over” between GAME PLAY and skills stations. The games within the game are where we will expose players to HOOPS skills like dribbling, passing, shooting, rebounding, and defense. Test your abilities having fun scrimmaging or playing games like Dribble Scribble, King of the Court, Hot Shot Shooting, Knock Out, and MORE! Be ready to take that last second shot, make that extra pass, and block that go ahead basket while learning the fundamentals of Basketball and the concepts of teamwork.
Kindergarten - Second Grade Basketball classes are offered on Friday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $360 per child
Materials needed: None
Third Grade Fall 2022 ASA Offerings
The elegant sport of fencing, popular in Europe, is now gaining popularity in the United States and in the Houston area. Many Americans are discovering the benefits of fencing! These include helping young people gain admission and scholarships to prestigious universities as well as providing a life-long sport in which physique and age are not limitations.
First - Fifth Grade Fencing classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $340 per child
Materials needed: None
Are your children asking to help cook or bake in the kitchen? Then Creative Chefs is perfect for your child! Every chef will learn skills such as kitchen hygiene, kitchen safety, and utensil skills. Throughout the semester, chefs will create appetizers, main entrees, side dishes, salads, and desserts, as well as explore different cultures by creating foods from various parts of the world. Each week, our recipes will alternate between sweet and savory.
Third - Fifth Grade Creative Chefs classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $340 per child
Materials needed: None
Yoga for kids is all about stillness AND movement! We practice breathing techniques and meditate, but we also stretch, strengthen, balance, and wiggle. In this class, the students have a blast putting together different sequences, playing games, dancing, and creating their own yoga adventures! We also discuss valuable mindfulness topics and complete fun crafts to reinforce these ideas. Topics include: how to handle worries, being present, practicing gratitude, the power of positive thinking, showing love and kindness to others, and appreciating your uniqueness. Kids’ yoga helps to increase positive moods, build concentration, develop self-awareness, and manage stress.
Kindergarten - Fourth Grade Yoga classes are offered on Monday.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. *Yoga mats provided but you may bring and store your own on campus.
The ceramics course, taught by Glassell Junior School, places emphasis o individual creativity and the development of design skills as students receive instruction in hand-building, clay sculpture techniques, and the use of special tools and glazes to create finished pieces. About Glassell Junior School: The Glassell Junior School is an art school for young people, devoted to nurturing creativity and dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the arts and an awareness of the world. Classes and workshops for children ages 4 through 18 are offered year-round. The Glassell School is known as the "teaching wing" of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Third - Fifth Grade Ceramics classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $481 per child
Materials needed: None
The Knight School is the chess party for the well-rounded kids of America, and brand-new beginners through advanced tactical geniuses are welcome! Unlike your typical chess program, our primary focuses are good sportsmanship and fun. That being the case, our students continue to win state championships year after year with our proven, nation-wide curriculum. Join The Knight School chess party and give your child the gift of undeniable academic confidence, amazing chess friends, a self-identity as a smart kid, and a weekly dose of childhood joy that is the highlight of their week!
Third - Fifth Grade Chess classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $481 per child
Materials needed: None
Students will use code to control a robot in Minecraft Education Edition®. Through simple programming, they'll apply complex computer science concepts to automate the boring parts of Minecraft® such as farming, digging and more. Students will use concepts like loops and functions to code crazy things like spawning hundreds of chickens from the sky! They will have a blast sharing their work and playing in a world together with their fellow classmates.
Third - Fifth Grade Code Ninja classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $637 per child *Prices are commensurate with Code Ninjas On-Site classes
Materials needed: None
Master Bruce and Olympia Tae Kwon Do is back! Master Bruce is an 8th degree Black Belt who has been practicing Tae Kwon Do for over forty years. He has over thirty years of experience teaching children and adults and has produced over 2,000 black belt students. Master Bruce opened Olympia Tae Kwon Do in 1988 and has taught at private schools throughout the Houston area for almost twenty years. Master Bruce uses Tae Kwon Do to help students improve concentration, confidence, and focus while also emphasizing the importance of positivity and respect. Master Bruce teaches Tae Kwon Do techniques through a variety of drills to help improve students’ balance, attention span, and more. Classes are a combination of learning basic self-defense moves (blocks, kicks, and punches) as well as games and drills to improve coordination and focus. Each registered student will receive a Tae Kwon Do uniform.
Kindergarten - Third Grade Tae Kwon Do classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials needed: Bring provided Tae Kwon Do uniform on class days. Uniforms are built into the cost of the class.
At Brown’s Gymnastics, our goal is to make healthy, happy, and confident kids. We specialize in great instruction from a highly trained staff, thinking of ourselves as teachers, not just coaches. It is not enough to just show a child a trick; we help them to understand it and then guide them through the experiences of failure and success. We recognize that not every student is the same. That is where our almost 30 years of experience comes in. We use time-proven methods to get the best results possible, all while having tons of fun!
K-5 Gymnastics classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $462 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. Students will not change clothes for activity.
Come serve it up with TGA Premier Youth Tennis! TGA has partnered with the United States Tennis Association to create a fun and innovative tennis program for your child. TGA’s five-level elementary school curriculum includes games, drills, and physical fitness activities. Every TGA class focuses on academic concepts developed by educational experts along with the rules and etiquette of tennis. TGA brings all the equipment, training materials, and a 10:1 student-to-instructor ratio to allow for plenty of individual attention. Our goal is to develop our students’ tennis skills and give children the building blocks for future achievement on the tennis court and in life.
Kindergarten - Fifth Grade Tennis classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $476 per child
Materials needed: None; *Rackets are provided.
Join Ms Baker of Ready to Grow Gardens for an hour of fun Garden Club activities in the Fay garden!
Each month we will do a deep dive into a new topic related to fall gardening in the Houston area. Topics range from how to start your own fall container garden for bountiful fall harvest in September, to discovering more about the amazing Monarch butterfly migration that comes right through our area in October, to seed saving and harvesting crops from your container garden in November. We can’t wait to extend our learning and adventure in the garden with more time after school!
Stephanie Baker is Texas Master Gardener and the owner of Ready to Grow Gardens, a company she started in 2002. RTGG currently partners with 35 schools for their school gardening program, Garden Day, as well as for garden management and consulting. For more info about Ready to Grow Gardens check out our website : www.readytogrowgardens.com.
Second - Fifth Garden Club classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials needed: None
*This class has scheduled off dates for 10/20/22 and 11/17/22. Prices reflect these off dates.
As a student apprentice of robotics, a master builder must conquer the concepts of robotics. Learn the basic mechanical properties of how things work and move through a hands-on learning experience. Students will explore the use of gears, pulleys, wheels and axles, motors and so much more. This class will open new windows, leading to the fun and mechanical world of robotics. You will work in teams to create extraordinary builds. This camp will introduce to why a robot needs power transferred to its wheels from a power source located a distance away; in addition, the direction of the motion needs to be reversed so the robot will go forward instead of backward. Begin your journey in becoming a Master Builder! Students will be provided with a creative tool kit to design their bots!
First - Third Grade Robotics classes are offered on Friday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $444 per child
Materials needed: None
Would you like your child to meet with peers for weekly creativity and conflict resolution exercises? Would you like them to gain necessary experience for character and skill development, while learning to quickly assess situations to find best practice solutions? Would you believe me if I said they can gain all these skills and lessons while playing board games? Then join Mr. Sanchez for Strategic Games Club! Learn life-building skills while playing new and exciting card, board, and tabletop games! Broaden your horizons and expand your imagination while building socio-emotional skills with like-minded peers. Prep your pawns, collect your cards, and distribute your dice, it's time for the Strategic Games Club!
Third - Fifth Grade Strategic Games Club classes are offered on Friday.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $360 per child
Materials needed: None
Students will experiment with video production through a variety of mediums including Claymation, LEGO® Minifigures, paper cutouts, and more! Capturing images frame-by-frame, they will produce videos in a rapid prototyping style. Students will work on various shorts including magic trick illusions, a 3-part story, walking character animations, and more! They will work independently on their videos and collaborate in teams during the entire design process.
Third - Fifth Grade Stop Motion Animation classes are offered on Friday.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $588 per child
Materials needed: None (for all ages); *prices are commensurate with Code Ninjas On-Site Classes.
Fourth-Fifth Grade Fall 2022 ASA Offerings
The elegant sport of fencing, popular in Europe, is now gaining popularity in the United States and in the Houston area. Many Americans are discovering the benefits of fencing! These include helping young people gain admission and scholarships to prestigious universities as well as providing a life-long sport in which physique and age are not limitations.
First - Fifth Grade Fencing classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $340 per child
Materials needed: None
Are your children asking to help cook or bake in the kitchen? Then Creative Chefs is perfect for your child! Every chef will learn skills such as kitchen hygiene, kitchen safety, and utensil skills. Throughout the semester, chefs will create appetizers, main entrees, side dishes, salads, and desserts, as well as explore different cultures by creating foods from various parts of the world. Each week, our recipes will alternate between sweet and savory.
Third - Fifth Grade Creative Chefs classes are offered on Monday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $340 per child
Materials needed: None
Yoga for kids is all about stillness AND movement! We practice breathing techniques and meditate, but we also stretch, strengthen, balance, and wiggle. In this class, the students have a blast putting together different sequences, playing games, dancing, and creating their own yoga adventures! We also discuss valuable mindfulness topics and complete fun crafts to reinforce these ideas. Topics include: how to handle worries, being present, practicing gratitude, the power of positive thinking, showing love and kindness to others, and appreciating your uniqueness. Kids’ yoga helps to increase positive moods, build concentration, develop self-awareness, and manage stress.
Kindergarten - Fourth Grade Yoga classes are offered on Monday. *Not available for Fifth Grade.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $310 per child
Materials needed: None; *yoga mats provided but you may bring and store your own on campus.
This ceramics course, taught by Glassel Junior School, places emphasis on individual creativity and the development of design skills as students receive instruction in hand-building, clay sculpture techniques and the use of special tools and glazes to create finished pieces. About Glassel Junior School: The Glassell Junior School is an art school for young people, devoted to nurturing creativity and dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the arts and an awareness of the world. Classes and workshops for children ages 4 through 18 are offered year-round. The Glassell School is known as the “teaching wing” of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
First - Fifth Grade Ceramics classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $481 per child
Materials needed: None
The Knight School is the chess party for the well-rounded kids of America, and brand-new beginners through advanced tactical geniuses are welcome! Unlike your typical chess program, our primary focuses are good sportsmanship and fun. That being the case, our students continue to win state championships year after year with our proven, nationwide curriculum. Join The Knight School chess party and give your child the gift of undeniable academic confidence, amazing chess friends, a self-identity as a smart kid, and a weekly dose of childhood joy that is the highlight of their week!
Third - Fifth Grade Chess classes are offered on Tuesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $481 per child
Materials needed: None
Students will use code to control a robot in Minecraft Education Edition®. Through simple programming, they'll apply complex computer science concepts to automate the boring parts of Minecraft® such as farming, digging and more. Students will use concepts like loops and functions to code crazy things like spawning hundreds of chickens from the sky! They will have a blast sharing their work and playing in a world together with their fellow classmates.
Third - Fifth Grade Code Ninjas classes are offered on Wednesday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $637 per child *Prices are commensurate with Code Ninjas On-Site Classes
Materials needed: None
At Brown’s Gymnastics, our goal is to make healthy, happy, and confident kids. We specialize in great instruction from a highly trained staff, thinking of ourselves as teachers, not just coaches. It is not enough to just show a child a trick; we help them to understand it and then guide them through the experiences of failure and success. We recognize that not every student is the same. That is where our almost 30 years of experience come in. We use time-proven methods to get the best results possible, all while having tons of fun!
Kindergarten - Fifth Grade Gymnastics classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $462 per child
Materials needed: Shorts under uniform dresses. *Students do not need to change clothes for activity.
Come serve it up with TGA Premier Youth Tennis! TGA has partnered with the United States Tennis Association to create a fun and innovative tennis program for your child. TGA’s five-level elementary school curriculum includes games, drills, and physical fitness activities. Every TGA class focuses on academic concepts developed by educational experts along with the rules and etiquette of tennis. TGA brings all the equipment, training materials, and a 10:1 student-to-instructor ratio to allow for plenty of individual attention. Our goal is to develop our students’ tennis skills and give children the building blocks for future achievement on the tennis court and in life.
Kindergarten - Fifth Grade Tennis classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $476 per child
Materials needed: None
Join Ms Baker of Ready to Grow Gardens for an hour of fun Garden Club activities in the Fay garden!
Each month we will do a deep dive into a new topic related to fall gardening in the Houston area. Topics range from how to start your own fall container garden for bountiful fall harvest in September, to discovering more about the amazing Monarch butterfly migration that comes right through our area in October, to seed saving and harvesting crops from your container garden in November. We can’t wait to extend our learning and adventure in the garden with more time after school!
Stephanie Baker is Texas Master Gardener and the owner of Ready to Grow Gardens, a company she started in 2002. RTGG currently partners with 35 schools for their school gardening program, Garden Day, as well as for garden management and consulting. For more info about Ready to Grow Gardens check out our website : www.readytogrowgardens.com.
Second - Fifth Garden Club classes are offered on Thursday.
Class Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $468 per child
Materials needed: None
*This class has scheduled off dates for 10/20/22 and 11/17/22. Prices reflect these off dates.
Would you like your child to meet with peers for weekly creativity and conflict resolution exercises? Would you like them to gain necessary experience for character and skill development, while learning to quickly assess situations to find best practice solutions? Would you believe me if I said they can gain all these skills and lessons while playing board games? Then join Mr. Sanchez for Strategic Games Club! Learn life-building skills while playing new and exciting card, board, and tabletop games! Broaden your horizons and expand your imagination while building socio-emotional skills with like-minded peers. Prep your pawns, collect your cards, and distribute your dice, it's time for the Strategic Games Club!
Third - Fifth Grade Strategic Games Club classes are offered on Friday.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $360 per child
Materials needed: None
Students will experiment with video production through a variety of mediums including Claymation, LEGO® Minifigures, paper cutouts, and more! Capturing images frame-by-frame, they will produce videos in a rapid prototyping style. Students will work on various shorts including magic trick illusions, a 3-part story, walking character animations, and more! They will work independently on their videos and collaborate in teams during the entire design process.
Third - Fifth Grade Stop Motion Animation classes are offered on Friday.
Class time: 3:30–4:30pm
Cost: $588 per child
Materials needed: None (for all ages); *prices are commensurate with Code Ninjas On-Site Classes.
The Fay School Piano Studio
Dr. Karina Praxedes Barnett, a native of Natal, Brazil, has been a piano instructor at The Fay School since 2005. She loves teaching the little ones the fun of reading music at the piano. Her teaching approach emphasizes sight-reading skills, basic piano technique, and recital preparation. Dr. Barnett holds a position at Westbury United Methodist Church as Music Associate. Her past experiences include positions as piano faculty at UFRN in Brazil and as staff accompanist at University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. In 2003, she participated in an exchange program sponsored by Rotary International in which she did a series of five recitals throughout England, which originated her album entitled Ciclo Brasileiro. Dr. Barnett earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from UFPB, a Master of Arts from UNICAMP, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance/Collaborative Arts from the University of Houston, where she was a student of Timothy Hester.
Dr. Beatriz Pimentel Montoya was born in Brasília, Brazil, where she received her early musical education. She obtained a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Brasília, a Master of Music from the University of Wyoming, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance, Chamber Music and Collaborative Arts from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where she was a student of Nancy Weems and Timothy Hester. Dr. Montoya is the recipient of various awards in national and international piano competitions, and has performed extensively as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and professional accompanist. Dr. Montoya has held a private piano studio at The Fay School since 2001, where she has helped develop an after-school piano program focused on music reading, technique, and performance skills. Her main goal is to instill the love of music in young children through a fun yet disciplined private lesson program, and to offer this opportunity to children of all levels and abilities.
If you have questions regarding our After School Activities, please contact Rachel Rubin, the Extended Day Coordinator at 713-681-8300 ext. 8915.
