MAP Family Learning Center Malden MA

Are you a Forestdale School parent who is looking for an afterschool programs? This year, we have chartered a bus to pick up kids. We have limited spots, so please send us a direct message with your interest.

Are you looking for a fan class for this fall? We have a teen and pre-teen art class (ages 9-17) coming up soon. Did you know that you can register for the first class as a trial for free? Spots are limited, so sign up soon!

Details and registration: https://online.mapflc.com/product/teen-art-class/

Big thanks to our MYSEP summer interns, who assisted with our five-weeks of summer workshops at MAP. These girls worked hard and learned a lot -- we couldn't have asked for a better bunch.

MAP instructor Chie Yasuda is being featured this month at The Galleryat57. Please go to the gallery this month and check out all the great things this community-oriented gallery has to offer.

And, if you purchase something of Chie's, a percentage of the sale will go to helping MAP fund our financial assistance program for local residents. Beautiful art, local businesses, and a great cause -- it's a win-win-win! 😀

LIMELight presents CONNECTIONS OF WONDER
Inspiring and Connecting People to Each Other and the World
Artwork by Chie Yasuda

August 8 thru September 25, 2024
The Gallery@57

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Our summer workshops are over, and now we turn our focus to afterschool. If you're interested in afterschool at MAP, please don't miss you're opportunity to register! All you need is a $100 deposit to lock in your spot.

What do we do at MAP afterschool? There are sometimes exceptions, but for the most part: Mondays are music; Tuesdays are art; Wednesday are STEM; Thursdays are computer programming; and Friday is another STEM activity. The kids get plenty of time to snack, do homework, and play inside or outside every day, but they also do these activities. All of these activities are chosen because they are typically not well served during the school day, yet proven to help kids learn more and achieve. We structure everything based on this basic premise.

Register here to grab your spot today:

MAP Afterschool Classes Spring and Fall - MAP Family Learning Center Online Looking for quality in-person afterschool classes for your kids? MAP is offering hour and two-hour options plus pickup from Beebe school.

We just published some notes from the summer so far, as well as a reminder to sign up ASAP for afterschool in the fall: https://online.mapflc.com/2024/08/04/some-notable-summer-highlights-as-we-think-about-the-upcoming-fall-and-spring/

The kids had some pretty amazing experiences this summer!

Right now, we're in the midst of our summer workshops. But what did we do before the summer began? MAP teachers spent two full weeks creating lesson plans, which helped our teachers with their own professional development and growth as well as helping us build new, fun lessons for use throughout the year.

We also met for a half-day the week before our summer workshops began to do a hands-on training with both teachers and interns. Darryl Bullock came and led training in working with and engaging youth. Teaching artist Rafael Moreno led everyone in a Music Blocks activity, so that the teachers and interns were familiar with how the visual programming language works before the start of the summer.

And before all of this, we spent three weeks cleaning and reorganizing our space and storage, so that our space is a great learning environment for everyone.

At MAP, we put a lot of thought and effort into the learning experience. We do this because we want everyone who comes here to learn and grow.

These are real photos from our teacher and intern training day. Special thanks to for providing Mayor's Helpers interns.

We have been receiving questions about whether or not registration is open for our afterschool program this fall. Yes it is!

Please visit https://online.mapflc.com/product/map-afterschool-classes-spring-and-fall/ for more information and registration.

MAP Afterschool Classes Spring and Fall - MAP Family Learning Center Online Looking for quality in-person afterschool classes for your kids? MAP is offering hour and two-hour options plus pickup from Beebe school.

At MAP, we do music, art, and programming. Sometimes the art inspires the programming, sometimes the programming inspires the music, and so on.

Today, our music instructor Anabel Gil Diaz led a lesson on the music of Egypt, the theme of this week's summer workshop. This inspired this programming project, created in Music Blocks. It's challenging, yet fun, to create something new, mixing media, and learning about different cultures. We learned a lot and hope you enjoy!

Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/TrBABNB88aA

This is just some of the things we did this week's MAP summer workshop: Create interactive instruments of India on the computers, design and create our own shirts, learn an Indian raga (song), play the tanpura, and play with "aperiodic monotiles". This was all part of this week's India theme.

Next week's theme is Egypt. Believe it or not, we still have openings for next week (week of July 22)!! If you'd like your kiddos to join us, have fun and experience many new and wonderful things, please register ASAP. Registration is here: https://online.mapflc.com/product/summer-workshops/ If you have any questions, please reach out.

We have a teen and pre-teen art class (ages 9-17) coming up soon. Did you know that you can register for the first class as a trial for free? Spots are limited, so sign up soon!

Details and registration: https://online.mapflc.com/product/teen-art-class/

Teen art class - MAP Family Learning Center Online Is your teen interested in doing art? We have an art class starting July 13. Each class is two hours on Saturday mornings.

Interested in enriching afterschool and/or summer programs for your kids, but in need of financial assistance?

Registering for assistance is easy. Just go to either of these two pages and complete the short application:
* Application for afterschool (up to 50% of tuition for eligible families): https://malden.mapflc.com/application-for-financial-assistance/
* Application for summer (up to 75% of tuition for eligible families): https://malden.mapflc.com/financial-assistance-for-summer-2024/

Spots are limited, so register today!

One of our students left his lesson today with a new steel string acoustic guitar!

The guitar was given to us as a donation. It is in great condition and just needed some new strings, which instructor Devin Ulibarri helped put on after the lesson.

We're happy that we could do this for our long-time students. Keep rockin', and have a great summer!

We still have a few spots available for our summer workshops. Don't miss your chance to enroll your kiddos in a memorable, enriching, and fun summer program. Register today!

For more information: https://online.mapflc.com/product/summer-workshops/

We still have a few weeks for some of the spots for our workshops this summer. Schedule your kiddos today for a memorable summer experience!

Go here for more information and to register: https://online.mapflc.com/product/summer-workshops/

We're so thankful to Beacon Communities LLC for their generous donation of laptops that we're using in the classroom. These were donated to the nonprofit Sugar Labs and will be used by our students here at MAP and in coding workshops for learning programming. Enjoy some photos of the laptops, both in use and being tended to, and, again, big thanks for the donation!!!

For those looking for things for your kids to do this summer, we do have a few weeks with at least one opening for our full-day summer workshops. Please see https://online.mapflc.com/product/summer-workshops/ for full information.

The weeks that are still open are: July 8 (three spots), July 15, July 22, and August 5 (three spots). Lock in your spot with a $100 deposit. Our kids are going to have a lot of fun this summer, so we wanted to make sure you weren't missing out. Cheers! 🥰

Summer Workshops - MAP Family Learning Center Online Involve your kids in project-based learning this summer. Each week students will collaborate to create something together.

✂️ What was your great learning moment? 24 seconds · Clipped by Sugar Labs · Original video "Walter Bender at the OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012" by Olpc SanFrancisco

Featuring our very own art instructor! 😀

Art Cards by Chie Yasuda only available at The Gallery@57.

Check out this playlist we created as an addendum to Malden PorchFest 2024: https://malden.mapflc.com/2024/05/25/addendum-to-malden-porchfest-2024-more-student-performances/

We did this to help showcase all the great work our students have been doing, as well as a way to help students who were not able to attend the live event, either because of scheduling conflicts or because they are taking private lessons with us remotely (yes, we continue to offer private lessons online). Keep the good vibes going and consider dropping a word or two of praise into the comment box at the bottom of the page. Cheers!

Addendum to Malden PorchFest 2024: More student performances - MAP Family Learning Center | Malden, MA Watch recordings of our students prepare and perform for Malden PorchFest. Students who are taking lessons remotely sent in videos.

Our very own students made an incredible video about their projects they made with Music Blocks visual programming language!!! Check out the video and read a bit about how the video came to be in this new article on the Music Blocks website: https://musicblocks.net/2024/05/24/new-video-students-of-mapflc-present-their-projects/ Bravo, everyone!

We've received grants from MCC to help out with various programs and projects (e.g. Music Blocks videos, drum and rhythm workshops for youth​). A bigger budget means more good things from local artists and musicians. Tell your representative to support this.

Time is running out! Urge your state Senator to co-sponsor Budget Amendment #171 - filed by Senator Paul Mark - which seeks to increase Mass Cultural Council’s FY25 budget to $26.75M.

https://massculturalcouncil.org/blog/25-5m-for-arts-culture-in-senate-ways-means-budget/

After months of waiting, we're finally live with our "Learn Music+Code with Music Blocks" YouTube video, presented by our very own students!!!

Don't miss a beat! Check it out now: https://youtu.be/actLKGJVa_Q

Big thanks to the students, videographer Luke Canniff of Red Shade Studio, Rubén Rodríguez of Trisquel, Mass Cultural Council (), and Sugar Labs (Sugar Labs). Great job everyone!

Something worth checking out!

Share this post widely! Malden's own Frank Stella's work in the Malden Library galleries.