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Monday December 23, 2024
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM	Tree Decorating Contest - Tree Decorating Contest Tree Decorating ContestJoin us for the first ever tree decorating contest here at Plainfield Recreation. We will provide all with a 18 inch tree to decorate here in our lobby. Participants must provide their own decorations and lights. We will keep the trees up till January 2nd then participants may come and pick up the items the used to decorate. Please leave the trees. This is a FREE event but registering helps ensure we have enough trees for everyone to decorate.  Decorating may begin on December 2nd.The lobby will be open 8:30am-8:00pm Monday-Friday for the community to walk around and check out all the wonderful trees and place their votes for their favorite. The top 3 will be announced on December 20th and receive prizes!
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Holiday Camp 12/23-12/31 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Monday 12/23 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Tuesday December 24, 2024
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM	Tree Decorating Contest - Tree Decorating Contest Tree Decorating ContestJoin us for the first ever tree decorating contest here at Plainfield Recreation. We will provide all with a 18 inch tree to decorate here in our lobby. Participants must provide their own decorations and lights. We will keep the trees up till January 2nd then participants may come and pick up the items the used to decorate. Please leave the trees. This is a FREE event but registering helps ensure we have enough trees for everyone to decorate.  Decorating may begin on December 2nd.The lobby will be open 8:30am-8:00pm Monday-Friday for the community to walk around and check out all the wonderful trees and place their votes for their favorite. The top 3 will be announced on December 20th and receive prizes!
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Wednesday December 25, 2024
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Thursday December 26, 2024
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Veterans' Coffee House
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM	Tree Decorating Contest - Tree Decorating Contest Tree Decorating ContestJoin us for the first ever tree decorating contest here at Plainfield Recreation. We will provide all with a 18 inch tree to decorate here in our lobby. Participants must provide their own decorations and lights. We will keep the trees up till January 2nd then participants may come and pick up the items the used to decorate. Please leave the trees. This is a FREE event but registering helps ensure we have enough trees for everyone to decorate.  Decorating may begin on December 2nd.The lobby will be open 8:30am-8:00pm Monday-Friday for the community to walk around and check out all the wonderful trees and place their votes for their favorite. The top 3 will be announced on December 20th and receive prizes!
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Holiday Camp 12/23-12/31 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Thursday 12/26 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Friday December 27, 2024
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM	Tree Decorating Contest - Tree Decorating Contest Tree Decorating ContestJoin us for the first ever tree decorating contest here at Plainfield Recreation. We will provide all with a 18 inch tree to decorate here in our lobby. Participants must provide their own decorations and lights. We will keep the trees up till January 2nd then participants may come and pick up the items the used to decorate. Please leave the trees. This is a FREE event but registering helps ensure we have enough trees for everyone to decorate.  Decorating may begin on December 2nd.The lobby will be open 8:30am-8:00pm Monday-Friday for the community to walk around and check out all the wonderful trees and place their votes for their favorite. The top 3 will be announced on December 20th and receive prizes!
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Friday 12/27 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Holiday Camp 12/23-12/31 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Fun Fridays - 12/27 New Years Eve Party $5 Fun Friday is a night of fun and exciting activities with old friends and new friends. We offer S.T.E.M., S.T.E.A.M, games, activities, and special guests. These are drop off events for children in grades K-6th! Fall Fun Fridays September-December11/8- S.t.e.m. Kit Exploration 11/22- Board Game Mania 12/6-Tree Lighting at Lion's Park (Free) Winter 2025 12/27-New Years Eve Pre Party 1/10-National House Plant Day (decorate some pots and plant house plant seeds that will grow indoors during the winter) 1/24- Free Bingo at Shepard Hill Elementary School 2/7- Winter Beach Party (sand art, snacks, 2/21- Paint by yarn 3/7- S.T.E.M engineering, let's build something great
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Fun Fridays - 2025 Winter Bundle $5 Fun Friday is a night of fun and exciting activities with old friends and new friends. We offer S.T.E.M., S.T.E.A.M, games, activities, and special guests. These are drop off events for children in grades K-6th! Fall Fun Fridays September-December11/8- S.t.e.m. Kit Exploration 11/22- Board Game Mania 12/6-Tree Lighting at Lion's Park (Free) Winter 2025 12/27-New Years Eve Pre Party 1/10-National House Plant Day (decorate some pots and plant house plant seeds that will grow indoors during the winter) 1/24- Free Bingo at Shepard Hill Elementary School 2/7- Winter Beach Party (sand art, snacks, 2/21- Paint by yarn 3/7- S.T.E.M engineering, let's build something great

Monday December 30, 2024
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM	Tree Decorating Contest - Tree Decorating Contest Tree Decorating ContestJoin us for the first ever tree decorating contest here at Plainfield Recreation. We will provide all with a 18 inch tree to decorate here in our lobby. Participants must provide their own decorations and lights. We will keep the trees up till January 2nd then participants may come and pick up the items the used to decorate. Please leave the trees. This is a FREE event but registering helps ensure we have enough trees for everyone to decorate.  Decorating may begin on December 2nd.The lobby will be open 8:30am-8:00pm Monday-Friday for the community to walk around and check out all the wonderful trees and place their votes for their favorite. The top 3 will be announced on December 20th and receive prizes!
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Holiday Camp 12/23-12/31 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Monday 12/30 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Let's Get Moving! - Let's get moving 11/25-12/30 Are you looking to improve balance, flexibility, muscular strength, range of motion & have some fun at the same time?This class will get you moving using a mix of yoga, fitness & dance all done on a chair or using the chair for support while standing. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging.  If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.Instructed by Mary Sylvestri No class on the following datesNovember 11thDecember 23rdJanuary 20thFebruary 17th
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Tuesday December 31, 2024
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM	Tree Decorating Contest - Tree Decorating Contest Tree Decorating ContestJoin us for the first ever tree decorating contest here at Plainfield Recreation. We will provide all with a 18 inch tree to decorate here in our lobby. Participants must provide their own decorations and lights. We will keep the trees up till January 2nd then participants may come and pick up the items the used to decorate. Please leave the trees. This is a FREE event but registering helps ensure we have enough trees for everyone to decorate.  Decorating may begin on December 2nd.The lobby will be open 8:30am-8:00pm Monday-Friday for the community to walk around and check out all the wonderful trees and place their votes for their favorite. The top 3 will be announced on December 20th and receive prizes!
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Holiday Camp 12/23-12/31 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Break Camp 12/23-12/31 - Tuesday 12/31 The kids get a break but unfortunately the adults need to work. Let us help you out then. Join us in our Recreation Building from 9am-4pm December 23rd-31st for kids currently in grades K-6th to come and play while you work.    Our summer staff are on break too and can not wait to get to hang out with everyone each day. We have so much planned for all the kids to do like S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M activities, art, gym, movies,games, and so much more!  If the weather is nice we will go out and play so please bring coats, hats and gloves each day. If there is snow please bring snow pants/suits and boots. We are not able to provide breakfast or lunch. Please eat breakfast before you arrive or bring with you along with a bagged lunch and water bottle each day. We will provide one fun snack each day.There are not any scholarships, care for kids, or sibling discounts available for this program. Registration opens November 4th for residents and November 18th non residentsRegistration closes Friday December 20th at 4:00pm Daily Themes ( activities being added daily)Monday December 23rd Elf WorkshopCreate fun gifts to give to family and friends, movie of the day buddy the Elf Musical, Thursday December 26th Box DayTurn boxes into our own box troll outfits, movie of the day Box Trolls, Friday December 27th Zoo DayGo on a safari to find animals on our discovery trail, movie of the day ZootopiaMonday December 30th Lego DayLego build off, movie of the day Lego Movie,Tuesday December 31st New Years Eve PartyCreate party supplies for the new year ( cup piñatas, noise makers) Movie of the day
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	bingo
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Wednesday January 1, 2025
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	pitch
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Thursday January 2, 2025
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Veterans' Coffee House
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM	Tree Decorating Contest - Tree Decorating Contest Tree Decorating ContestJoin us for the first ever tree decorating contest here at Plainfield Recreation. We will provide all with a 18 inch tree to decorate here in our lobby. Participants must provide their own decorations and lights. We will keep the trees up till January 2nd then participants may come and pick up the items the used to decorate. Please leave the trees. This is a FREE event but registering helps ensure we have enough trees for everyone to decorate.  Decorating may begin on December 2nd.The lobby will be open 8:30am-8:00pm Monday-Friday for the community to walk around and check out all the wonderful trees and place their votes for their favorite. The top 3 will be announced on December 20th and receive prizes!
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Chair Yoga - Chair Yoga 1/2-1/30 What is chair yoga? Chair yoga is a gentle practice in which postures are performed while seated and/or with the aid of a chair. Please continue to join Mary in these weekly classes in hopes that the grant will pick up the classes again in the future.This program is no longer funded from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging.  If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.Instructed by Mary Sylvestri Our website is currently having complications with registration for this class. Please contact the Recreation Office or pay before you attend class. Sorry for the inconvenience Due to weather, chair yoga is cancelled Thursday December 5th.No classes on the following datesDecember 19thDecember 26th
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Friday January 3, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.

Saturday January 4, 2025
7:15 AM - 8:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 5 & 6 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 4 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Parent & Tot (Sat) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Instructional Basketball - Kindergarten This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 3 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 2 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Instructional Basketball - 1st Grade This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 1 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-school Level 1(Sat) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-school Level 2 & 3 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Instructional Basketball - 2nd Grade This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm

Monday January 6, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Light Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Let's Get Moving! - Let's get moving 1/2-2/24 Are you looking to improve balance, flexibility, muscular strength, range of motion & have some fun at the same time?This class will get you moving using a mix of yoga, fitness & dance all done on a chair or using the chair for support while standing. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging.  If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.Instructed by Mary Sylvestri No class on the following datesNovember 11thDecember 23rdJanuary 20thFebruary 17th
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/06-1/09 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/13-1/16 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MW Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM	Board Game Bonanza - Session 1 Board Game Bonanza is a fun social interaction group for youth in grades K-5. In this program we will teach and play at least 2 board games a week all while pairing them up with new and old friends. The bases of this program is to give them more social interaction, teach problem solving, learn good sportsmanship, activities not involving electronics, teamwork, and enjoy a fun game. Youth will be provided with a brain break and snack before moving on to another game each class. Fun take home activities and prizes as well too from time to time.Session 1-Checkers & Connect 4-Clue & Charades-Operation & Heads Up-Go Fish & Uno & Memory MatchSession 2-Apples to Apples & Bingo-Guess Who & Chutes and Ladders & Candy Land-Trouble & Sorry- Greedy Granny & One Trick Pony Registration opens December 9th for residents and December 23rd for non residents.All programs must have a minimum of 5 participants in order for the program to run.
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM	Board Game Bonanza - Session 1 & 2 Board Game Bonanza is a fun social interaction group for youth in grades K-5. In this program we will teach and play at least 2 board games a week all while pairing them up with new and old friends. The bases of this program is to give them more social interaction, teach problem solving, learn good sportsmanship, activities not involving electronics, teamwork, and enjoy a fun game. Youth will be provided with a brain break and snack before moving on to another game each class. Fun take home activities and prizes as well too from time to time.Session 1-Checkers & Connect 4-Clue & Charades-Operation & Heads Up-Go Fish & Uno & Memory MatchSession 2-Apples to Apples & Bingo-Guess Who & Chutes and Ladders & Candy Land-Trouble & Sorry- Greedy Granny & One Trick Pony Registration opens December 9th for residents and December 23rd for non residents.All programs must have a minimum of 5 participants in order for the program to run.

Tuesday January 7, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-School Levels 1-3 (Tues) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	bingo
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/06-1/09 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/13-1/16 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM	Comic Book Artist - Comic Book Artist Comic Book Artist    Comic books, graphic novels, and manga are widely enjoyed by many and for various reasons. They capture imagination, creative artwork, exciting story plots, and a sense of adventure. Youth in grades 3rd-8th will create their very own comic book, graphic novel, or manga book of their choice. Each week in this program they will develop characters, a plot, setting for their story, create the art work and layout for an end product to share with their friends and family to enjoy reading. We will provide all materials needed and a step by step instruction each week to help them succeed! Registration opens December 9th for residents and December 23rd for non residents.All programs must have a minimum of 5 participants in order for the program to run.

Wednesday January 8, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	pitch
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Linda's Craft Corner.....and More! - Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong NO CLASSES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 25TH, THURSDAY DECEMBER 26TH, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1ST, AND THURSDAY JANUARY 2ND.  HAVE A BLESSED HOLIDAY SEASON! SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR! Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Jan. 8th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Pre-Designed, Thurs. Jan. 9th:  I have another great design to share with you, created by my pal Linda.  A sample can be seen at the table outside of the Craft Room.  This is a unique piece you will want to give to a very special person! Trivia With Friends, Wed. Jan. 15th:  Come exercise your brain and sharpen your memory by taking part in this fun group.  This activity is always engaging and entertaining, as everyone in attendance offers stories and interesting facts pertaining to the trivia questions.  You will have a great time, while also learning some interesting new things!  Pinecone Birdfeeders, Thurs. Jan. 16th:  This has become a staple class for the month of January for the last several years.  Fun and easy, come and stuff some pinecones with peanut butter then cover them with birdseed.  String a few together, then hang in a tree for your feathered friends to enjoy!  Your pinecones can be refilled as needed.  Origami Peace Dove, Wed. Jan. 22nd:  This will be a moderately difficult model to make, but well worth the effort.  I have an excellent video to demonstrate the folding, but you will have to challenge yourself a bit.  Come and make just one or a whole bevy of them!  Inspirational Note Cards, Thurs. Jan. 23rd:  Fun, creative, and thought-provoking, these easy to make note cards can be used in a number of ways.  Keep them where you’ll see them every day, give to a friend, use as a bookmark, or tuck one or more into a greeting card.  We’ll create our own unique paper and choose from the many sayings I have compiled. This introspective activity is also a great way to put a fresh start on the New Year!   Chalkboard Wheel of Fortune, Wed. Jan. 29th:  This class will be a modification of the popular TV game show “Wheel of Fortune.”  Come and join me for this entertaining guessing contest; we always have loads of fun in this class!  Learning Through Documentaries, Thurs. Jan. 30th:  This month’s documentary, put out by Nova, is entitled “Secrets in Your Data.”  The description of this 1-hour program is as follows:  “Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is going, who’s selling it, and how you – and a new kind of web – could put control back in your hands.”   The program will be followed by a period of interactive conversation.  Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Feb. 5th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Open Forum, Thurs. Feb. 6th:  This will be an open-forum class where I will bring out an assortment of stamps, different colored inks, paper punches, colored pencils and markers, and other goodies for you to work with.  We always have a great time in the card making classes, as everyone shares their knowledge and ideas!
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	monitor my health
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/06-1/09 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/13-1/16 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MW Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss

Thursday January 9, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Veterans' Coffee House
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Parent & Tot (Thurs) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Linda's Craft Corner.....and More! - Card Making, Pre- Designed NO CLASSES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 25TH, THURSDAY DECEMBER 26TH, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1ST, AND THURSDAY JANUARY 2ND.  HAVE A BLESSED HOLIDAY SEASON! SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR! Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Jan. 8th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Pre-Designed, Thurs. Jan. 9th:  I have another great design to share with you, created by my pal Linda.  A sample can be seen at the table outside of the Craft Room.  This is a unique piece you will want to give to a very special person! Trivia With Friends, Wed. Jan. 15th:  Come exercise your brain and sharpen your memory by taking part in this fun group.  This activity is always engaging and entertaining, as everyone in attendance offers stories and interesting facts pertaining to the trivia questions.  You will have a great time, while also learning some interesting new things!  Pinecone Birdfeeders, Thurs. Jan. 16th:  This has become a staple class for the month of January for the last several years.  Fun and easy, come and stuff some pinecones with peanut butter then cover them with birdseed.  String a few together, then hang in a tree for your feathered friends to enjoy!  Your pinecones can be refilled as needed.  Origami Peace Dove, Wed. Jan. 22nd:  This will be a moderately difficult model to make, but well worth the effort.  I have an excellent video to demonstrate the folding, but you will have to challenge yourself a bit.  Come and make just one or a whole bevy of them!  Inspirational Note Cards, Thurs. Jan. 23rd:  Fun, creative, and thought-provoking, these easy to make note cards can be used in a number of ways.  Keep them where you’ll see them every day, give to a friend, use as a bookmark, or tuck one or more into a greeting card.  We’ll create our own unique paper and choose from the many sayings I have compiled. This introspective activity is also a great way to put a fresh start on the New Year!   Chalkboard Wheel of Fortune, Wed. Jan. 29th:  This class will be a modification of the popular TV game show “Wheel of Fortune.”  Come and join me for this entertaining guessing contest; we always have loads of fun in this class!  Learning Through Documentaries, Thurs. Jan. 30th:  This month’s documentary, put out by Nova, is entitled “Secrets in Your Data.”  The description of this 1-hour program is as follows:  “Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is going, who’s selling it, and how you – and a new kind of web – could put control back in your hands.”   The program will be followed by a period of interactive conversation.  Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Feb. 5th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Open Forum, Thurs. Feb. 6th:  This will be an open-forum class where I will bring out an assortment of stamps, different colored inks, paper punches, colored pencils and markers, and other goodies for you to work with.  We always have a great time in the card making classes, as everyone shares their knowledge and ideas!
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Chair Yoga - Chair Yoga 1/2-1/30 What is chair yoga? Chair yoga is a gentle practice in which postures are performed while seated and/or with the aid of a chair. Please continue to join Mary in these weekly classes in hopes that the grant will pick up the classes again in the future.This program is no longer funded from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging.  If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.Instructed by Mary Sylvestri Our website is currently having complications with registration for this class. Please contact the Recreation Office or pay before you attend class. Sorry for the inconvenience Due to weather, chair yoga is cancelled Thursday December 5th.No classes on the following datesDecember 19thDecember 26th
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/06-1/09 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/13-1/16 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Friday January 10, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Light Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Fun Fridays - 01/10 House Plants $5 Fun Friday is a night of fun and exciting activities with old friends and new friends. We offer S.T.E.M., S.T.E.A.M, games, activities, and special guests. These are drop off events for children in grades K-6th! Fall Fun Fridays September-December11/8- S.t.e.m. Kit Exploration 11/22- Board Game Mania 12/6-Tree Lighting at Lion's Park (Free) Winter 2025 12/27-New Years Eve Pre Party 1/10-National House Plant Day (decorate some pots and plant house plant seeds that will grow indoors during the winter) 1/24- Free Bingo at Shepard Hill Elementary School 2/7- Winter Beach Party (sand art, snacks, 2/21- Paint by yarn 3/7- S.T.E.M engineering, let's build something great
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Fun Fridays - 2025 Winter Bundle $5 Fun Friday is a night of fun and exciting activities with old friends and new friends. We offer S.T.E.M., S.T.E.A.M, games, activities, and special guests. These are drop off events for children in grades K-6th! Fall Fun Fridays September-December11/8- S.t.e.m. Kit Exploration 11/22- Board Game Mania 12/6-Tree Lighting at Lion's Park (Free) Winter 2025 12/27-New Years Eve Pre Party 1/10-National House Plant Day (decorate some pots and plant house plant seeds that will grow indoors during the winter) 1/24- Free Bingo at Shepard Hill Elementary School 2/7- Winter Beach Party (sand art, snacks, 2/21- Paint by yarn 3/7- S.T.E.M engineering, let's build something great

Saturday January 11, 2025
7:15 AM - 8:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 5 & 6 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 4 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Parent & Tot (Sat) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Instructional Basketball - Kindergarten This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 3 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 2 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Instructional Basketball - 1st Grade This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 1 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-school Level 1(Sat) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-school Level 2 & 3 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Instructional Basketball - 2nd Grade This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm

Sunday January 12, 2025
7:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Lion's Pancake Breakfast

Monday January 13, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Light Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Let's Get Moving! - Let's get moving 1/2-2/24 Are you looking to improve balance, flexibility, muscular strength, range of motion & have some fun at the same time?This class will get you moving using a mix of yoga, fitness & dance all done on a chair or using the chair for support while standing. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging.  If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.Instructed by Mary Sylvestri No class on the following datesNovember 11thDecember 23rdJanuary 20thFebruary 17th
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MW Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM	Board Game Bonanza - Session 1 Board Game Bonanza is a fun social interaction group for youth in grades K-5. In this program we will teach and play at least 2 board games a week all while pairing them up with new and old friends. The bases of this program is to give them more social interaction, teach problem solving, learn good sportsmanship, activities not involving electronics, teamwork, and enjoy a fun game. Youth will be provided with a brain break and snack before moving on to another game each class. Fun take home activities and prizes as well too from time to time.Session 1-Checkers & Connect 4-Clue & Charades-Operation & Heads Up-Go Fish & Uno & Memory MatchSession 2-Apples to Apples & Bingo-Guess Who & Chutes and Ladders & Candy Land-Trouble & Sorry- Greedy Granny & One Trick Pony Registration opens December 9th for residents and December 23rd for non residents.All programs must have a minimum of 5 participants in order for the program to run.
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM	Board Game Bonanza - Session 1 & 2 Board Game Bonanza is a fun social interaction group for youth in grades K-5. In this program we will teach and play at least 2 board games a week all while pairing them up with new and old friends. The bases of this program is to give them more social interaction, teach problem solving, learn good sportsmanship, activities not involving electronics, teamwork, and enjoy a fun game. Youth will be provided with a brain break and snack before moving on to another game each class. Fun take home activities and prizes as well too from time to time.Session 1-Checkers & Connect 4-Clue & Charades-Operation & Heads Up-Go Fish & Uno & Memory MatchSession 2-Apples to Apples & Bingo-Guess Who & Chutes and Ladders & Candy Land-Trouble & Sorry- Greedy Granny & One Trick Pony Registration opens December 9th for residents and December 23rd for non residents.All programs must have a minimum of 5 participants in order for the program to run.

Tuesday January 14, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-School Levels 1-3 (Tues) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	bingo
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM	Comic Book Artist - Comic Book Artist Comic Book Artist    Comic books, graphic novels, and manga are widely enjoyed by many and for various reasons. They capture imagination, creative artwork, exciting story plots, and a sense of adventure. Youth in grades 3rd-8th will create their very own comic book, graphic novel, or manga book of their choice. Each week in this program they will develop characters, a plot, setting for their story, create the art work and layout for an end product to share with their friends and family to enjoy reading. We will provide all materials needed and a step by step instruction each week to help them succeed! Registration opens December 9th for residents and December 23rd for non residents.All programs must have a minimum of 5 participants in order for the program to run.

Wednesday January 15, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	pitch
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Linda's Craft Corner.....and More! - Trivia With Friends NO CLASSES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 25TH, THURSDAY DECEMBER 26TH, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1ST, AND THURSDAY JANUARY 2ND.  HAVE A BLESSED HOLIDAY SEASON! SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR! Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Jan. 8th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Pre-Designed, Thurs. Jan. 9th:  I have another great design to share with you, created by my pal Linda.  A sample can be seen at the table outside of the Craft Room.  This is a unique piece you will want to give to a very special person! Trivia With Friends, Wed. Jan. 15th:  Come exercise your brain and sharpen your memory by taking part in this fun group.  This activity is always engaging and entertaining, as everyone in attendance offers stories and interesting facts pertaining to the trivia questions.  You will have a great time, while also learning some interesting new things!  Pinecone Birdfeeders, Thurs. Jan. 16th:  This has become a staple class for the month of January for the last several years.  Fun and easy, come and stuff some pinecones with peanut butter then cover them with birdseed.  String a few together, then hang in a tree for your feathered friends to enjoy!  Your pinecones can be refilled as needed.  Origami Peace Dove, Wed. Jan. 22nd:  This will be a moderately difficult model to make, but well worth the effort.  I have an excellent video to demonstrate the folding, but you will have to challenge yourself a bit.  Come and make just one or a whole bevy of them!  Inspirational Note Cards, Thurs. Jan. 23rd:  Fun, creative, and thought-provoking, these easy to make note cards can be used in a number of ways.  Keep them where you’ll see them every day, give to a friend, use as a bookmark, or tuck one or more into a greeting card.  We’ll create our own unique paper and choose from the many sayings I have compiled. This introspective activity is also a great way to put a fresh start on the New Year!   Chalkboard Wheel of Fortune, Wed. Jan. 29th:  This class will be a modification of the popular TV game show “Wheel of Fortune.”  Come and join me for this entertaining guessing contest; we always have loads of fun in this class!  Learning Through Documentaries, Thurs. Jan. 30th:  This month’s documentary, put out by Nova, is entitled “Secrets in Your Data.”  The description of this 1-hour program is as follows:  “Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is going, who’s selling it, and how you – and a new kind of web – could put control back in your hands.”   The program will be followed by a period of interactive conversation.  Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Feb. 5th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Open Forum, Thurs. Feb. 6th:  This will be an open-forum class where I will bring out an assortment of stamps, different colored inks, paper punches, colored pencils and markers, and other goodies for you to work with.  We always have a great time in the card making classes, as everyone shares their knowledge and ideas!
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	monitor my health
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Women's Club
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MW Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss

Thursday January 16, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Veterans' Coffee House
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Parent & Tot (Thurs) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Linda's Craft Corner.....and More! - Pinecone Birdfeeders NO CLASSES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 25TH, THURSDAY DECEMBER 26TH, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1ST, AND THURSDAY JANUARY 2ND.  HAVE A BLESSED HOLIDAY SEASON! SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR! Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Jan. 8th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Pre-Designed, Thurs. Jan. 9th:  I have another great design to share with you, created by my pal Linda.  A sample can be seen at the table outside of the Craft Room.  This is a unique piece you will want to give to a very special person! Trivia With Friends, Wed. Jan. 15th:  Come exercise your brain and sharpen your memory by taking part in this fun group.  This activity is always engaging and entertaining, as everyone in attendance offers stories and interesting facts pertaining to the trivia questions.  You will have a great time, while also learning some interesting new things!  Pinecone Birdfeeders, Thurs. Jan. 16th:  This has become a staple class for the month of January for the last several years.  Fun and easy, come and stuff some pinecones with peanut butter then cover them with birdseed.  String a few together, then hang in a tree for your feathered friends to enjoy!  Your pinecones can be refilled as needed.  Origami Peace Dove, Wed. Jan. 22nd:  This will be a moderately difficult model to make, but well worth the effort.  I have an excellent video to demonstrate the folding, but you will have to challenge yourself a bit.  Come and make just one or a whole bevy of them!  Inspirational Note Cards, Thurs. Jan. 23rd:  Fun, creative, and thought-provoking, these easy to make note cards can be used in a number of ways.  Keep them where you’ll see them every day, give to a friend, use as a bookmark, or tuck one or more into a greeting card.  We’ll create our own unique paper and choose from the many sayings I have compiled. This introspective activity is also a great way to put a fresh start on the New Year!   Chalkboard Wheel of Fortune, Wed. Jan. 29th:  This class will be a modification of the popular TV game show “Wheel of Fortune.”  Come and join me for this entertaining guessing contest; we always have loads of fun in this class!  Learning Through Documentaries, Thurs. Jan. 30th:  This month’s documentary, put out by Nova, is entitled “Secrets in Your Data.”  The description of this 1-hour program is as follows:  “Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is going, who’s selling it, and how you – and a new kind of web – could put control back in your hands.”   The program will be followed by a period of interactive conversation.  Scrabble, Yahtzee, Mahjong, Wed. Feb. 5th:  Players choice.  Bring a friend and have some fun!  Teams will be formed based on the number of participants present.  Card Making, Open Forum, Thurs. Feb. 6th:  This will be an open-forum class where I will bring out an assortment of stamps, different colored inks, paper punches, colored pencils and markers, and other goodies for you to work with.  We always have a great time in the card making classes, as everyone shares their knowledge and ideas!
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Chair Yoga - Chair Yoga 1/2-1/30 What is chair yoga? Chair yoga is a gentle practice in which postures are performed while seated and/or with the aid of a chair. Please continue to join Mary in these weekly classes in hopes that the grant will pick up the classes again in the future.This program is no longer funded from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging.  If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.Instructed by Mary Sylvestri Our website is currently having complications with registration for this class. Please contact the Recreation Office or pay before you attend class. Sorry for the inconvenience Due to weather, chair yoga is cancelled Thursday December 5th.No classes on the following datesDecember 19thDecember 26th
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Friday January 17, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Light Cardio Aerobics MF Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss

Saturday January 18, 2025
7:15 AM - 8:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 5 & 6 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 4 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Parent & Tot (Sat) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Instructional Basketball - Kindergarten This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 3 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 2 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Instructional Basketball - 1st Grade This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Level 1 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-school Level 1(Sat) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-school Level 2 & 3 Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Instructional Basketball - 2nd Grade This is an instructional program that will teach basic and fundamental basketball skills. Children will learn skills through drills and scrimmages. Age-specific basketballs and basketball hoops are used.Now every Friday evening -  beginning January 3 - February 21Plainfield Memorial School Kindergarten 4:30pm - 5:30pm1st Grade 5:45pm - 6:45pm2nd Grade 7:00-8:00pmRegistration opens October 1st for Residents and October 15th for Non ResidentsRegistration closes Friday December 27th at 4:00pm
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Mushero Birthday Party

Monday January 20, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Walk With Ease and Walking Club - Walk with Ease Monday, Wednesday, Friday (winter) The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease Program is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program. While walking is the central activity, Walk With Ease is a multi-component program that also includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. The program includes a guidebook and a walking schedule to get you safely moving toward better health. Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to:  Reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis  Increase balance, strength and walking pace  Build confidence in your ability to be physically active  Improve overall health  Our instructor Dawn Ennis, has several years of experience teaching fitness and nutrition all across Eastern CT. Dawn is a certified personal trainer and nutritional coach through ISSA and is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. We ask for a $15 suggested donation however all participants regardless of contribution are welcome to join! This program is made possible by funding from the Town of Plainfield and the Title III grant program, funded by the Older Americans Act through Senior Resources - Eastern CT Area Agency on Aging. If you have any complaints in regards to service or treatment you are receiving please contact the Recreation Department Director (860) 564-1819 or Selectman’s Office (860) 230-3001 to resolve your complaint. If you feel your complaint is not resolved, you may contact Senior Resources - Eastern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging at (860) 887-3561.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.

Tuesday January 21, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Water Aerobics - Winter Cardio Aerobics TuTh Cardio-Aerobic: A medium paced class that can be modified for all levels. The pace can increased or slowed down depending on your comfort level. Includes strength and flexibility exercises.Light Cardio Aerobics: Class includes a short warm-up followed by a light cardio segment of standard calisthenics moves in shallow water. The toning portion uses a variety of equipment in both deep and shallow water. Stretching and cool down finish the hour leaving you feeling energized for the day.  Instructors:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings: Kasi KellyWednesday Mornings: TBDMonday & Wednesday Afternoons: Sue BolandTuesday & Thursday Afternoons: Eddie Krauss
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	American Red Cross Swim Lessons - Winter Pre-School Levels 1-3 (Tues) Parent & Tot (age: 6 months-2 years and 11 months): This course is to familiarize children with the water and prepare them to participate in the learn to swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water. Children will have the opportunity to explore floating, blowing bubbles, and rolling from back to front in the water in a safe comfortable manner. Parent or other care giver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class.Preschool Level 1 (age: 3-5): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Blowing bubbles and breath control. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the wall.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 2 (age: 3-5): Builds upon the basic skills acquired in Preschool Level 1. Works on building strength and endurance to achieve more independence while swimming. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Back float and front float, gliding on front and back, rolling from front to back and back to front, and breath control. Introduction to treading water, elementary backstroke arms, and rotary breathing.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, wearing a lifejacket and how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Preschool Level 3 (age: 3-5): Continues to build on the skill previously learned as well as an introduction to strokes and building endurance swimming independently. All skills at this level are mostly independent.Skills Taught: Independent front and back float, swimming on back and front independently and changing direction while swimming. Treading water, elementary backstroke and introduction to front crawl.Safety Topics: Danger of drains, “Look before you leap”, what to do when you get too tired.Level 1-Introduction to Water Skills (age: 6-12): Focuses on being safe around the water and having the children become comfortable and confident while being in the water.Skills Taught: Basic water safety rules. Exhaling underwater and bobbing. Submerging mouth, nose and eyes. Opening eyes underwater to retrieve an object. Floating on front and back. Swimming on front and back while using arm and leg motions. Jumping in and climbing out via the deck. Discuss and demonstrate how to use a lifejacket.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, how to recognize an emergency and call for help.Level 2-Fundamental Aquatics Skills (age: 6-12): Works on building strength and endurance while swimming and introduces students to strokes. Students must be able to submerge fully comfortably.Skills Taught: Strengthening the flutter kick on both back and front. Learning the elementary backstroke arms with the whip kick. Introduction to rotary breathing with front crawl arms. Treading water.Safety Topics: To be safe in and around the water, recognizing lifeguards and practicing sun safety.Level 3-Stroke Development (age: 6-12): Builds on the skills learned in level 2 while introducing new strokes.Skills Taught: Elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, introduction to the sidestroke with the scissor kick. Dolphin kick. Treading water.Safety Topics: “Look before you leap”, perform a simple non-swimming assist and how to recognize, prevent, and respond in cold water emergencies.Level 4-Stroke Improvement (age: 6-14): Develop confidence and endurance learned in level 3 while improving other aquatic skills.Skills Taught: Swimming underwater, feet first surface dive, survival swimming, front crawl and backstroke open turns, and treading water using two different kicks. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and introduction to butterfly. Flutter and dolphin kicks on back.Safety Topics: What to do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation. Recreational water illness-what they are and how to prevent them.Level 5- Stroke Refinement (age: 6-14): Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.Skills Taught: Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely. Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming. Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.Safety Topics: Review above topics, how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.Level 6-Fitness Swimming (age: 6-14): Refines the strokes so that students swim with ease, efficiency, and power.Skills Taught: Endurance swimming in the following strokes: front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Refine open turns and flip turns for all strokes.Adult Swim-Learning the Basics (age 18+): Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming skills. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. There are no skill prerequisites.Goals: Increase comfort level in the water, experience breath control and buoyancy and finally working on moving through the water. Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes (age 18+): Improving proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes. Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around the water. Prerequisites: Must be comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in the water comfortably and perform stokes that can be recognized as the front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.Goals: Improve fundamental aquatic skills, effectiveness and efficiency of swimming strokes and also improve swimming endurance.
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM	bingo
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - All Year Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January 1/21-1/23 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM	P.C.M.S 6th-8th grade After School Program - January Bundle 1/06-1/30 Now introducing a NEW after school program at Plainfield Central Middle School for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Monday-Thursday school days from 2:30pm-6:00pm students will receive homework help, snacks, and take part in varies enrichment games, crafts, activities, and occasional field trips.Students will be bussed from P.C.M.S. to the Recreation Building after the school day is finished, parents/guardians will be responsible for picking up their student on or before 6pm  Monday-Friday. Only authorized adults may sign out and pick up the students from the program each day. If you need to make changes to any forms please reach out to the Recreation office at 860-564-1819.If your student will be participating in one of the P.C.M.S clubs on Tuesday or Thursday, they may still come to Recreation on the late bus till pick up here on or before 6pm. Please indicate on the school's form that they will be taking the late bus to our building.Snacks will be provided each day for all students attending but no dinner.This program will run until the late bus ends. There will be no program on federal holidays and days closed due to weather. Payments OptionsFull Year $180Full Month $20-$251 Week at a Time for $5 No club December 23rd-January 3rdSpecial Preview Event Friendsgiving!!Wednesday November 27thJoin us after school for a preview of what our after school program has to offer. Students will ride bus 2 from the school to the Recreation Building and enjoy a fun afternoon of games, activities, and a sit down Friendsgiving meal at 4pm. Parents are welcome to pick up their student anytime on or before 6pm.
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM	Comic Book Artist - Comic Book Artist Comic Book Artist    Comic books, graphic novels, and manga are widely enjoyed by many and for various reasons. They capture imagination, creative artwork, exciting story plots, and a sense of adventure. Youth in grades 3rd-8th will create their very own comic book, graphic novel, or manga book of their choice. Each week in this program they will develop characters, a plot, setting for their story, create the art work and layout for an end product to share with their friends and family to enjoy reading. We will provide all materials needed and a step by step instruction each week to help them succeed! Registration opens December 9th for residents and December 23rd for non residents.All programs must have a minimum of 5 participants in order for the program to run.