KJMS After-School Updates

KJMS After School

In this Issue

  • Appian Board Games League
  • LNM Guitar Lessons
  • VEX Robotics Club
  • Advanced Academic Club Parent Volunteer Form
  • KJMS After-School Clubs-by-Day
  • KJMS After-School Google Calendar

Appian Board Games League

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The Appian Board Games League is a free after-school program designed to help students in grades 7 and 8 develop important critical-thinking and social skills while engaged in a fun and challenging activity.

Meetings will take place from 2:30-3:30 on Wednesdays for 6 meetings:

10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23 - students will learn to play Splendor and will perfect their strategy

10/30, 11/6 - students will compete in a club tournament to determine top players

11/9 - Top players will compete against other FCPS Middle School students in a Splendor Tournament at KJMS - There will be food and cash prizes!!

 

Signup for Appian Board Games League: Splendor! 


LNM Guitar Lessons

Guitar

KJMS After-School is partnering with Learn Now Music to offer high quality Guitar Instruction for FREE!  

Musicians will participate in musical instruction and theory for beginners as well as musical games, special extension curriculum based activities, musical listening excerpts, related projects and more! 

Rental Instruments paid for by KJMS After-School!

Learn Now Music Guitar Lessons will take place on Wednesdays from 2:30-4:00pm for 8 meetings.

Meeting Dates:

November 13, 20 

December 4, 11, 18

January 8, 15, 22

 

Learn Now Music Guitar Lessons - signup goes live on Wednesday, October 2nd at 3pm


VEX Robotics

Build and code Vex robotics creations with your friends! 

Compete against your classmates in robotics challenges

VEX Robotics will meet on Thursdays beginning October 10th.

VEX Robotics - signup goes live on Wednesday, October 2nd at 3pm


Advanced Academic Club Parent Volunteer Form

KJMS After-School is seeking parent volunteers to help with our Academic Competition Clubs.  We are in need of both 7th and 8th grade parents to work with the following clubs:

Math Counts (Mondays, 2:30-4:30)

Science Olympiad (Thursdays, 2:30-4:30)

Quiz Bowl (Fridays, 2:30-3:30)

Interested? Please complete the KJMS Academic Competition Club Parent Volunteer Form and one of our sponsors will reach out to you.

Thank You.


KJMS After-School Clubs-by-Day

KJMS After-School Clubs by Day

 

Take a look at the KJMS Fall/Winter Clubs-by-Day Calendar

Click on the links for descriptions and signup information.  This document will be updated as more clubs are added.


KJMS After-School Google Calendar

KJMS AFter-School Google Calendar

 

The KJMS After-School Google Calendar is a live calendar of after-school program dates for the Fall/Winter.  View club schedules, cancellation dates and upcoming programming.


Stay in Touch with Us

Parents who speak Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Urdu, or Vietnamese can call a telephone information line for general information about FCPS and to receive support if they are having difficulty communicating with their children's schools due to a language barrier.