Guides, arts professionals from wider Milwaukee, and parent volunteers support extracurricular activities because these help students explore career interests, develop new talents and skills, and make friends.

Students strengthen our Riley Dual Language Montessori School pride by participating in extracurricular activities from soccer to song and dance. Contact our parent coordinator or your child’s guide to learn more about our extracurriculars. In a typical academic year, we offer a variety of after-school programs on a rotating basis.

The list below provides a look at our most frequently offered clubs each year.

America SCORES Milwaukee

Unlike typical sports programs, the SCORES after-school program focuses on developing well-rounded youth. Sixteen boys and 16 girls from every SCORES school, including Riley:

• Receive 90 minutes of after-school programming five days per week for 20 weeks throughout the school year.
• Participate in two writing workshops and three soccer sessions weekly, each led by specially trained teachers who we refer to as soccer and writing “coaches.”
• Experience other challenging and engaging activities and learning experiences, with a focus on mastering new skills during their time in the program.

Art Club

This program emphasizes cultural representation and artistic expression for first- through sixth-grade students during weekly sessions.

Bembé Drum & Dance

Third and fourth graders celebrate our school’s Afro-Latino heritage, make music, and learn about enslaved Africans who created the wooden-cask bomba drum on the plantations of Puerto Rico in the 17th century. After-school lessons lead to school performances and even a star turn at Milwaukee Public School’s annual Cantos de las Américas event.

Cantos de las Américas

This annual celebration honors the varied cultures that are represented by the students of Milwaukee Public Schools. Historically, the event has featured students performing songs and dances from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and the Hmong, Laotian, and Native American cultures.

Chess Club

Students learn the strategies, moves, and motivation behind chess, one of the most enduring games on the planet. Grades one through six can learn and compete in weekend tournaments in the school and district-wide.

First Stage

Students will develop skills in musical theater, scene study, improvisation, and much more, while simultaneously building life skills, such as confidence, focus, and teamwork. Six-week sessions are offered for K5 and first-grade students and second through sixth-grade students.

Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast brings its session-based entrepreneurship program to our school. District-wide, Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast provides friendship, adventure, give back opportunities, leadership, new skills, and fun for Girl Scouts in grades K5-12.

Kids from Wisconsin

The “Music In Me” program uses interactive tools from all performing arts angles to empower third- through sixth-grade students to learn about and learn to love music, while meeting Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Music Standards. The grand finale is a musical showcase.

Lectores Sin Rumbo

Reinforcing and promoting the importance of reading to students, this club offers reading activities that expand a child’s knowledge base: creative book selections, phonics, writing, and much more.

Music with Mrs. Nora

This educational program trains a child’s musical ear by introducing them to the work of classical musicians like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart.

Ometotchtli

Lower elementary children learn basic Mexican folkloric dance, enriching our school’s multicultural pride and sense of social responsibility.

Siembra Raices

In Siembra Raices, or ‘Siembra’ for short, we plant our roots as we garden, hike through Baran Park, and learn Milwaukee history — while digging deep into the Latin American musical tradition, son jarocho. As they explore this Afro-Indigenous culture’s celebration of nature, art, and music, students will learn traditional son jarocho song and dance, very basic jarana-playing skills (eight-string instrument), and how to write and perform four-to-six line son jarocho poems or “versos.”

Soccer Club

Soccer is a global sport and a powerful tool for teaching teamwork, discipline, and physical fitness. Students in grades one through six learn these values and develop soccer skills and strategy in this weekly club.

Spanish in Nature

Students are immersed in Milwaukee nature and Spanish language as they explore our green and growing redeveloped schoolyard and nearby Baran Park.

STEM Club

Students explore STEM concepts and careers — science, technology, engineering, and math — as they prepare experiments and exhibits for Riley Dual Language Montessori School’s STEM Fair. Several students will advance to the district-wide STEM fair in late spring.

Tutoring Club

Teachers and paraprofessionals tutor children in a variety of subjects, as needed, from K5 on up.

Milwaukee Urban Stables

Students interact with horses through hands on activities that develop a child’s sense of empathy, patience, body awareness and self-control while they learn and practice effective communication and team work skills, as well. Mutually beneficial for students and animals alike, this after-school club is located less than a mile from school.