St. Cloud Area School District 742 Community Education

NEW! Your child can dive into the fascinating world of wildlife art with our "Wildlife Wonders" class! This class is perfect for budding artists who love animals and want to learn how to capture their unique beauty and characteristics on paper. We'll explore a variety of techniques including drawing, painting, and mixed media to create realistic and expressive depictions of different animals. Enter door 1 at Clearview and Oak Hill, enter door 5 at Westwood.

This program is for middle school students to learn about competitive swimming at their home school (South at Tech, North/Kennedy at Apollo). Participants will learn about all four competitive strokes, starts, turns, underwaters, and racing strategies. All participants MUST be able to safely swim in deep water without any assistance. This is NOT a learn to swim program. Equipment needed includes a cap (or hair tie for longer hair), towel, goggles, and a swimsuit (one piece for females, no basketball shorts for males). Transportation from the middle schools to the high school on the Activity Bus will be provided. There is no transportation home from practice. Participants will swim in a meet on the final day of the session, Thursday, 3/27, at Apollo High School. Door 11 at Apollo. Door 2 at Tech. **Participants do not need to have competitive swimming experience, or be able to do all four strokes. However, I understand that in order for my child to participate, they must be able to swim safely and independently in the pool without assistance as we will NOT have in water instructors** Needs or Questions: Contact Activities Coordinators Jasmin Estrada (South side) or Pat Ridpath (North side).

Skills taught include safety topics, water adjustments, kicking and floating with support, front and back paddle, breath control and completely submerging. Parents do not need to get into the water with their child. Class limit: 4. Lessons at Tech: Enter Door 2