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Due to some early dismissals and inclment weather school cancellations, below is the list of the last day of Enrich Annapolis Winter classes. Spring classes begin the week on April 6th. The new catalogue will be posted online on March 22nd.
Chess – Ended
Fun with Artists: 3/12, 3/26
Mad Science: 3/22, 3/29
Irish Dance: Performance at morning meeting at St. Anne’s School on Friday, March 12th at 8:30 am. Classes 3/25 and 4/1
Yoga for Children: 3/23
Magic with Jack Julius: 3/11
Nothing But Games with John Fishback: 3/26, 4/9
Traditional Craftsmanship with John Fishback: 3/22, 3/29
Worst Case Scenario with John Fishback: 3/10
Fast, Fit and FUN!: 3/10
Music lessons are paid in advance in groups of eight lessons. Lessons are tabulated as they occur and any missed lessons due to school cancellations will not affect payment, but rather extend the period it takes to complete the eight lessons.
Spring Enrich Annapolis Classes begin April 6!
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The St. Anne’s School Chess Team returned victorious last weekend from Northeast Middle School, bringing back three individual trophies and two team trophies. Under the sound of heavy gunfire (from a nearby shooting range) in this Soviet Era school, the team persevered, pulling out win after win, round after round. They all made short work of their opponents for the first three rounds (that is everyone except Erik, who took his sweet time dismantling his opponents), and the Under-500 team pulled ahead. But the day took its toll, and by the fourth round everyone was struggling to keep it together. Both teams fell behind with little hope of placing. They needed to have a big comeback if they wanted to get anywhere near those trophies.
After a few last-minute words from their coaches, the team came back with a very strong last round to give the Under-500 team 14 points and the Under-900 team 11 points This was just enough to get third place for the Under-500 team and fourth place for the Under-900 team. Not only did we do well as a team, but many team members had outstanding days individually. Two of the unrated players, Tyler and Andrei, astounded all by going 4-1 and placing third and fourth in the division. In addition, one of the more experienced players, Ben, also went 4-1 and many of the other team members went 3-2. Everyone had an excellent tournament and perhaps, with a little more practice, next time we’ll take first.
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Enrich Annapolis is proud to offer music lessons to children and adults in our community during the summer months on campus. Current students may schedule summer lessons directly with their music teacher. Due to the flexible nature of the summer, payment is due at each lesson. Rates are $30 per half hour and $60 per hour. Please contact your current Enrich Annapolis music teachers for their availability over the summer or contact Susan Judge before June 1st to schedule your first summer lesson at 410-263-8650 or sjudge@st.annesschool.org. Bios and resumes of our highly qualified instructors are gladly sent upon request. Thank you for your continued support of Enrich Annapolis community programs!

The Best of John Fishback!
Look for the NEW Fall 2009 Enrich Annapolis catalogue due out in August! It’s filled with NEW AND EXCITING classes for all ages in languages, arts, sciences, sports and music! New classes include cooking, home fix-it and easy car repair, wine tasting, Spanish for toddlers and MUCH MUCH MORE!
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Papa Johns celebrate our safe return today at 4:15!
The tournement was VERY intense and proved difficult for us in the last two rounds. In our 7pm Saturday night round, we finshed 0-5 (ouch), but we had kids playing until almost 10pm! Evan pulled out a half point the night before from an 8th grader rated twice as high as him. I was so proud of him never giving up even though the guy had him in checkmate MANY times- he finished with 1.5 points. Our Sunday rounds proved a little better, placing our team 28th in the nation. Liam finshed 49th in the nation in his bracket with 5 wins and only 2 losses! Ben and Erik finshed with 3 wins and 4 losses and James finshed with 1/2 point.
It’s hard to understand how difficult each of the half point and full points are to get – there are kids from ALL OVER the country – and look out for those kids from NYC! Phew – they practice ALOT in the Big Apple, and if you were matched against a New Yorker – forgheetaboutit!

Horsing around between matches . . .

Ben-Jammin'

The Mad Hatter

Uncle Erik

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Limes
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Vincent, Evan and Christain Scheidt enjoying the 80 degree sunshine!

- The queen of hats . . . Coach Christine borrows James’ undercover strategy
Lids aside – We are doing GREAT! Ben is now rated 8th in the NATION – what? That’s crazy! We had a semi-successful round – some wins, some losses – MANY LESSONS LEARNED! After this afternoon’s 2 pm round, we met at the pool – a crystal oasis after being inside a convention center for two days!

Vincent as lifegaurd and chess coach - he yelled phrases like, "Stop having fun" and "No sitting on the side of the pool!" - the scary thing is, everyone listened!
We’re getting ready to prepare for the 7pm round. Coaches warming up the kids and we’re having parents-time in the adjoining room. Our party includes olives, brie and NO STRATEGY! It has been an amazing experience for our boys (and us) thus far! More later after our next round – we miss you, Joshua and Stefan!

Warming up, setting clocks and getting GAME ON!

Siblings art show . . . Piece by Anna Saderholm

Ben Elstener - 10th in the ENTIRE COUNTRY!!!! (for now
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Elvis is NOT dead - he is in Nashville playing SIMULS with kids . . .I KNEW he was still out there . . .
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Who is that Chess Hoodlum?Hello everyone this is Tait, guest blogging for Susan. I got here last night at 11PM. My plane flight had a very airsick young lady on it, what a blast! The kids have all finished the first of three rounds today, and they are holding up well. The team has 8 points. Ben Elstner is undefeated, Liam and Erik are both 2 and 1. This hotel is beautiful, and everything is right here. There is a lot of downtime at chess tournaments and Nationals is the worst. Todays rounds are at 9AM, 2PM and 7PM. The biggest challenge is keeping the boys motivated throughout a 15 hour day during which they have to play 6 hours of hardcore chess. We began the day with an elevator ride to the lobby during which we yelled everytime the doors opened, this garnered us some strange looks, but it amused us.Downtime at Nationals









