Enrichment opportunities

Art

Create, experiment, and bring big ideas to life through painting, drawing, and sculpting in a joyful studio atmosphere. Develop fine motor skills, artistic techniques, and self-expression while building confidence, creativity, and pride in every original masterpiece.

Baking Buddies

Measure, mix, and decorate tasty creations while learning essential kitchen skills in a warm, encouraging setting. Strengthen teamwork, focus, and confidence as recipes come to life through hands-on practice, creative treats, and the joy of sharing something homemade.

Coding

Create exciting digital projects through playful challenges, patterns, and step-by-step problem-solving. Children build logical thinking, creativity, persistence, attention to detail, and digital confidence while learning how clear instructions and smart choices can bring imaginative ideas to life.

Community service

Students make a positive impact through campus initiatives, community service projects, and civic engagement activities connected to real local issues. These experiences help them build leadership, empathy, communication, and problem-solving skills while learning how their voices and actions can support meaningful change.

Farm & Wilderness

Explore, create, and grow through child-led outdoor adventures inspired by the Forest School approach. Build independence, confidence, and resilience while practicing nature skills, making crafts, caring for the environment and discovering the joy of learning beyond the classroom.

Family events

Families come together through regular on-campus events that strengthen connection, celebrate learning, and support wellbeing. From Wellness Fridays and farm-to-table tastings to cooking lessons, wellness walks, community celebrations, and school showcases, these shared experiences help build a warm, engaged, and connected school community.

Horticulture

Dig, plant, and nurture a thriving garden while discovering how seeds, soil, insects, weather, and seasons work together. Hands-on experiences grow patience, responsibility, observation, teamwork, healthy curiosity, and respect for nature, with every new sprout bringing excitement and pride.

Library

Explore colorful stories, fascinating facts, and imaginative worlds while building vocabulary, comprehension, and a lifelong love of reading. Fun discussions, thoughtful questions, and creative discoveries strengthen focus, curiosity, communication, and confidence in sharing ideas with others.

Music

Discover rhythm, melody, and self-expression through singing, movement, instruments, and playful musical games. Each session develops careful listening, memory, coordination, creativity, and confidence while inspiring joyful collaboration, performance skills, and a lasting appreciation for music.

Our Little Scientists

Experiment, observe, and ask big questions through colorful reactions, surprising discoveries, and hands-on investigations. Strengthen curiosity, prediction, critical thinking, and problem-solving while learning to test ideas, describe results, and celebrate every exciting scientific breakthrough.

Parent Community Alliance

The CDS Parent Community Alliance brings engaged parents together to strengthen the life of the school and enrich the student experience. By building connections, supporting community initiatives, and creating meaningful opportunities for families to get involved, the PCA helps foster a warm, vibrant, and connected school community.

Physical Education

Move, play, and grow through lively games, team challenges, and skill-building activities. Children strengthen coordination, balance, agility, stamina, and overall fitness while learning cooperation, fair play, resilience, healthy habits, positive sportsmanship, and the joy of staying active together.

Peer mentorship

Students build confidence and leadership skills by supporting peers and mentoring younger students. Through these meaningful connections, they strengthen communication, empathy, and responsibility while helping create a caring and connected school community.

Soccer

Kick, pass, and score through energetic drills, friendly matches, and playful team challenges. Strengthen balance, coordination, agility, and stamina while developing communication, sportsmanship, resilience, and confidence in a welcoming setting where every goal sparks celebration.

Spanish Enhanced

Expand language skills through lively conversations, stories, songs, and cultural adventures. Build richer vocabulary, clearer pronunciation, listening comprehension, and speaking confidence while using Spanish in playful, meaningful situations that make every new expression exciting.

Sign Language & Japanese

Connect through gestures, sounds, songs, stories, and playful cultural discoveries while exploring two exciting ways to communicate. Children strengthen memory, listening, coordination, empathy, curiosity, and confidence as they learn new signs, words, and traditions in a welcoming, inclusive setting.

Spanish

Speak, sing, and play with a new language through stories, games, music, and everyday expressions. Engaging activities build vocabulary, listening, pronunciation, memory, cultural awareness, and confidence, making communication feel natural, memorable, welcoming, and full of joyful discovery.

STEAM

Investigate big questions through hands-on experiments, building challenges, art, and imaginative discovery. Young learners strengthen curiosity, teamwork, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving while testing ideas, learning from mistakes, and celebrating clever solutions.

Tiny Taste Makers

Whisk, chop, and assemble colorful dishes while discovering new ingredients, flavors, and textures. Build independence, creativity, fine motor control, healthy food awareness, and confidence through simple recipes, shared teamwork, and the delicious pride of making something from scratch.

The Burrow

Through The Burrow, students take ownership of their environment by caring for gardens, restoring habitats, building learning spaces, and monitoring wildlife. Working together on meaningful projects strengthens leadership, responsibility, teamwork, and problem-solving while inspiring pride and respect for the natural world.

Yoga

Stretch, balance, and breathe through playful poses, calming exercises, and imaginative movement. Children develop flexibility, coordination, body awareness, focus, confidence, and emotional regulation while discovering simple tools to manage big feelings, feel centered, and get ready to learn.