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Two-hour Tiny Tot classes are $7.50 per hour - $15/session. Our classes meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the North Clairemont Recreation Center (4421 Bannock Avenue). Parents can participate in the classes or they can drop off children and run errands, take an exercise class, or just relax for a couple of hours!

The Tiny Tots classes are affiliated with the City of San Diego Parks and Recreation Department and offer a safe, affordable, and fun environment where children can draw, paint, sing, and play.

Tiny Tots Activities...
With our intimate settings at the North Clairemont Recreation Center, children receive much one-on-one attention while creating their artwork and composing their musical masterpieces.

Meanwhile, outdoor fields coupled with the indoor gymnasium provide the perfect space for traditional children's games, floor exercises, introductory sports such as kickball, as well as simple yoga movements.

The same order of activities occurs each day, to give the children a sense of security and knowing what comes next. We begin our activities with fifteen minutes of free play; this encompasses self-directed centers that allow children to choose activities that help them adjust to the classroom.

Once everyone is settled into the Tiny Tots environment, we have a circle time with singing, games, and sharing. During this time, children experiment with percussion and stringed instruments as well as the piano. Music genres range from traditional children's songs, nursery rhymes, and classical music to jazz, bluegrass, folk, and the list continues.

Next, we have creative art time - using a range of art materials such as paints, chalks, clays, pastels, crayons, felt markers, and the like. We also include sequencing craft activities such as handmade musical instruments, puppets, frisbees, puzzles, picture frames, and much more!

Our creative art time transitions into outdoor time (or gymnasium time), which includes exercises, games, and an array of movement activities. Some of our favorite games are balloon racing, circle soccer, exercise dice, parachute play, animal yoga stretches, freeze dancing, giant bubbles, water games (weather permitting), tisket tasket, and of course - hopscotch. :)

Once we are finished up with our outside/gymn activities, we return to our Tiny Tots room and have a snack of healthy foods (fruits, vegetables, wheat crackers, and water). While eating our snack, we talk with the children about our artist and musician (or genre) of the month. We have a short story and this final circle time also includes storytelling, puppetry, singing, and playing our instruments.

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