Phantom Lake Elementary

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Project Learn reinforces the skills and knowledge young people learn throughout the school day.  Project Learn includes POWER HOUR, a comprehensive homework assistance program.  Each day, programs are offered in 5 core areas:  Education, Sports Fitness & Recreation, The Arts, Health and Life Skills and Character and Leadership Development. 

Youth of the Month
 Our Youth of the Month for May is Brooklynn! Brooklynn is an eager participant in many of our programs. Her positive energy is a gift to those around her. She works hard to finish her homework and help those around her. Congratulations Brooklynn!

May Showcase
 Last month we continued our program with the Pacific Science Center at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center. This will culminates in a canoe trip through the Slough in June.

We received 10 new laptops last month made possible by a donation from Boeing!

Announcements
Summer Camp registration for Main Club, Bennett Elementary and South Bellevue are now open. Please visit our summer camp page for more information about or to register for these summer programs. If you have additional questions, please see Christina. We hope to see you at one of our sites this summer!

All Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs will be closed on May 31st in observance of Memorial Day.

The last day of Project Learn for the school year is June 11! Please note that this is one week prior to the end of school. We close to ensure a proper clean up and to train and ready staff and sites for our summer camp programs. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

First day of summer camp for all locations is June 21!

Programs offered at Phantom Lake
 We are still accepting members for both elementary and middle school project learn programs! Click here for the Middle School Flyer.

There is still space in both elementary and middle school Project Learn programs!

  • Goals for Graduation, preparing our members to make good goal setting habits
  • Drama Matters is our drama program, which is a favorite among many members.
  • Triple Play is our healthy mind, body and soul program, combining exercise with healthy eating and healthy competition.
  • Club Zoom is our weekly science program; one experiment they will focus on this month is the mystery of the microwave!
  • Our Digital Arts program teaches our members how to create art using computer programs.  This culminates in a festival each year.
  • Skill Tech is used to increase our members’ efficiency in using our basic computer programs, such as the Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Fit Club is our weekly fitness program where members can compete against themselves to better their times and numbers for a variety of fitness activities such as sit-ups and push-ups.
  • Cooking Club is a favorite as well where weekly they get to learn how to make a dish and of course eat it too!
  • Fine Arts is a year long program which teaches our members how to work with different mediums of art such as watercolor and pastel.
  • SMART Moves is our healthy decision making program designed for our members grades K-3.
  • Youth for Unity is a program designed to help members appreciate and understand our society's diversity, recognize unfairness and take personal leadership in confronting bias.

We also offer special programs for our older members.

  • SMART Girls is a program designed for our older girls to learn how to make healthy decisions in tough situations as well as to promote self esteem.  Girls are also encouraged to find activities that they are passionate about.  This program also covers changes that are special to girls in mind and body and how to appropriately deal with these changes.
  • Good Guys is the boys’ counterpart to SMART Girls.  It also covers how to make healthy decisions in tough situations as well as covering self esteem, role models and body changes.
  • Torch club is our leadership program.  Some things in the past they have done include raising money to adopt an animal at the Woodland Park Zoo, wrote letters to teachers and worked to “Be Green.”

Special Programs This Month
 This month is Asian/ Pacific Islander Month. We will be having special programs this month that focus on teaching our members about these cultures.

We will be continuing our Outdoor Education Program with the Pacific Science Center this month. We will be taking weekly field trips to Mercer Slough where our participants will engage in hiking, learning about the slough and will culminate in a canoe trip in the slough.

Phantom Lake Staff
Site Director-  Christina Kerstetter-Fischer
Justin Woods - Program Assistant
Emily Barnett - Program Assistant

Program Hours: immediately afterschool - 6pm, daily
To reach our staff directly:  425-456-5624