DINNER CLUB

W 2:45-5:30 (cooking from 3-5) with Noah (AGES 6-18)

4/27/22 - 6/8/22 (7 sessions)

Participants will sharpen their culinary skills, by planning menus as a group and cooking dinner for themselves and their families each Wednesday afternoon this Spring. Our final meal will be served to parents at the Sunview Luncheonette - a decommissioned but fully functional diner in Greenpoint.

We will learn how to prepare new ingredients, and widen our palate. Since it takes more effort to learn how to cook delicious vegetarian food, we will be learning to make wonderful vegetarian food, and endeavoring to be able to adjust our fare to include the community within the class.

Cost includes all ingredients and participants will bring home an entrée or substantial appetizer/salad/dessert each session. The class is led by Noah Mayers, a teacher, professional dishwasher, and amatuer chef, who has been teaching cooking with children for 14 years.

Meets at Brooklyn Apple Academy. 545 5th Ave (2nd Floor). Our fully equipped kitchen has low counters specifically designed for young chefs.

HQ PODS

M 9:00-2:45 with Noah (AGES 7-11) (WAITLIST ONLY)

TH 9:00-2:45 with Amy (AGES 7-11) (WAITLIST ONLY)

TU/FR 9:00-2:45 with Gerardo and Amy (AGES 4-11)

M/TH 9:00-2:45 with Gerardo (AGES 4-6)

These pods are based at our HQ at 545 5th ave. Activities can include, but are not limited to, woodshop exploration, cooking, games, pirate radio, art, science, and fashion.

HQ Pods (ages 7-11) will be limited to 6 kids and will be age mixed to the best of our ability.

HQ pods for ages 4-6 are called Crab Apple Pods. Crab Apples is our tiny program for our smallest apples. Crab Apples have their own dedicated staff member and the Art Room is their base throughout the day. Crab Apples are given more structure and suggested projects and activities than older Apples. Crab Apples are free to learn with and collaborate with older 7-11 year old students. They often choose to do so. These pods are limited to 4 kids.

Please note that HQ groups will spend time outside, everyday, even in less than desirable weather.

FIELD TRIP CREW

W 9:00-2:45 with Amy and Karen (AGES 6-11)

Field trips are an essential part of the way we learn at Brooklyn Apple. We've found an overwhelming bounty of experts, artists, craftspeople, professionals, and pigeon fanciers to share their experience and expertise with us. The city is an amazing resource and teacher. We primarily use public transportation on our journeys. Students at Brooklyn Apple learn to travel safely and without complaint.

Meets at Harmony Playground

FLYING SQUADS

TU/TH 9:00-1:00 with Alex (AGES 12-16) (WAITLIST ONLY)

M 9:30-2:30 with Karen (AGES 7-11) (WAITLIST ONLY)

Flying Squads are an outdoor group that travels around NYC exploring the city together, without a predetermined destination. In our forth year, there are now nine Flying Squads spanning from New York to Quebec to Portland. For more information on Flying Squads, visit: https://www.flyingsquads.org/

Flying Squads provide young people with time to practice making their own decisions in a nurturing community of human connections through which they can develop relationships and work on self-confidence with genuine feedback from peers and society.

Unlike school field trips, the Flying Squad does not have a predetermined destination but instead practices the crucial skills of deciding together where to go and how to spend their time. Each day starts in a public space, documenting and reflecting on previous time together in a communal journal. The group then sets out into the world to explore common interests as a collective, experimenting on how to build community and deciding how to voice group concerns on the social justice issue of being youth in a city built for adults.

Even in the most caring of school and homeschooling coop spaces, a definitive line is drawn on where children learn and what space and materials are and are not for them. By intentionally not using a learning space or having predetermined tools and materials, Flying Squad participants learn the important value of abolishing these distinctions as the young people involved interact with the world outside on a regular basis, carving out a space for themselves in their city. And as they do so, they learn perhaps one of life’s most important lessons: how to find self-identity while caring for and developing a community with others.

Flying Squads meet at Grand Army Plaza Library (Ages 12-16) or Sunset Park (Ages 7-11)

MEDIA GROUP FOR TEENS / PRE-TEENS

W 9:00-2:45 with Alex (AGES 12-16) (WAITLIST ONLY)

For the first time, Brooklyn Apple Academy HQ is dedicating a day to focus specifically on the interests of teen and pre-teen homeschoolers / unschoolers!

The Media Program looks to offer a wide variety of opportunities based on the interests of the young people involved. The group will create the schedule together, as well as select the types of media we focus on at any given time.

This program is by application: https://forms.gle/9WHppWn2xFr7uKeb9

Meets at Brooklyn Apple HQ

ATHLETICS

TU 9:00-12:00 with Noah (AGES 7-11)

This group is for folks that want to play sports, (soccer, basketball, kickball, handball, skateboarding) run around, and have fun. We'll practice good sportsmanship, social/communication skills, and deepening our skills. On rainy days, we will meet at St. Mary's playground at Smith Street (because it is covered by the subway tracks). On snowy days we will go sledding.

Meets at J. J. Byrne Park

NYC ECOLOGY COLLECTIVE

TH 10:00-3:00 with Karen (AGES 7+)

Calling young collaborators to research the ecology of NYC. Bird watchers, foragers, mushroom pickers, bug enthusiasts, subway and urban infrastructure lovers, local history buffs, map makers - everyone is invited to share their passions as we learn with and from each other. 

The collective will investigate questions about the place in which we live and the life-forms among us, using science and arts-based ways of discovery.

Meets at Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library