Orono Community Education

Indoor Lessons at the Orono Ice Arena The Orono Community Education ice skating program includes preschool level skating skills, basic figure skating, hockey skills, and semi private lessons. Highly Qualified USFSA trained coaching staff. Program Director, Mary Tichy is a USFSA double gold medalist (figures and freestyle) with over 20 years of skating experience and 14 years of coaching experience. Skill Level Descriptions Snowplow Sam classes recommended for ages 3 1/2 - 5 (Snowplow Sam students MUST be 3 1/2 to start a class.) Skaters will be divided into appropriate skill levels on first day. Snowplow Sam - Beginner: Learn to stand, fall and move across ice Snowplow Sam - Intermediate/Advanced: Learn striding, gliding and edging Each lesson includes 30 minutes of instruction and 30 minutes of free practice time either prior to or after your lesson. What you should know before your skating lessons! Children should dress warmly (jackets, hats,mittens, etc.) because the arena is cold. Beginning skaters MUST wear helmets. Wear either leather hockey or figure skates, but please no double bladed skates. Parents are not allowed on the ice without skates. If you are wearing skates you may join your child in the practice area, but not in the lesson area.

What rules supreme in your child’s world? Art projects that glitter or glow-in-the-dark? No need for your child to choose when you sign them up for this art class! We will work with a variety of art supplies including clay, glow-in-the-dark paint, and of course, lots and lots of glitter! Students will create snow globes that glow-in-the-dark, butterflies that shimmer and glimmer, an Eiffel Tower with stars that twinkle, and so much more. Glitter and glow…here we go!

Spend your day off from school on the farm at Skyrock! Learn all about horses, how to groom and care for a horse and common horse vocabulary! After we’ve met the horses, we’ll spend time with the chickens and collect the daily farm eggs. Then we’ll take a guided nature hike of the entire farm, weather permitting. There will also be time to hang out in the clubhouse, play games, make new friends and much more. Join us for a day of adventure on the farm! Bring a bag lunch, water and a nut-free snack.