The Dailey Method is opening soon in Vancouver’s west side and ready to help you get into the best shape of your life!  The Dailey Method is a unique combination of ballet barre work, core conditioning, stretching and orthopedic exercises. 

This challenging one-hour class effectively strengthens, tones and lengthens the entire body.  Light weights are utilized to define the upper body while mat aned ballet barre work to target the thighs, seat and abdominals.  After each muscle group is worked, through repetition using a small range of motion, it is alternately stretched to lengthen the muscles.  Through this process, one’s body alignment and posture will be improved.

FRIDAY EXPRESS CLASS SERIES – child care available during this class!

Try a Friday 45-minute Express Class.  Experience The Dailey Method in a condensed format to meet your busy lifestyle.

*Class will be modified to accommodate the absence of the ballet barre.

January 8, 15, 22, 29 | 12:15pm – 1:00pm | Kitsilano Neighbourhood House (Kits House) 2305 – 2325 West 7th Ave, Vancouver, BC

To register, call Jey @ 604-290-3238 or email vancouver@thedaileymethod.com

Winter Break spaces are still available!  If you are in need of care for December 21st – 23rd, please download the Winter Break form from our website (or pick it up at your JKC location) and submit it with your payment to any JKC staff as soon as possible.  We will be closed from December 24th until the schools re-open on January 4th. 

JKC would like to wish everyone a wonderful holiday and an awesome new year!

JKC not only brings together children, families, schools and communities but also staff!  Kate and Beau have announced their engagement and plan to tie the knot this summer.  We are extremely excited for them and hope they plan to stay at JKC forever and send their future children to our program.  Congratulations!

JKC is excited to announce that two of its awesome staff, Jon Chow and Tyler Summers, will be embarking to China for 5 weeks to train Kung Fu amongst other top-rated martial arts students around the world and under the leadership and wisdom of Shaolin monks!  The intensive training will be an experience of a lifetime and we salute our soon-to-be Kung Fu masters on their incredible journey. 

If you’d like to learn more, talk to  Jon and Tyler as they’d be happy to tell you more about this amazing opportunity!

We have decided to awake the undead, “Halloween Howl!”   Bring your families on Friday, October 30th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm to Bayview Community School for a night of ghouls, ghosts and great fun! 

Visit a face painter or a fortune teller and dare to enter the haunted house.  Take a shot on the haunted hockey net as well as many other games to win a ghoulish prize.  Tickets on sale now at Bayview Community School!

Volunteers are more than welcome as we can always use a helping hand!  Please contact Vimi at 604-736-4080 or jerichokidsclub@telus.net if you’re interested in volunteering.

The General Gordon Older Kids program has turned into quite the skateboard camp over the summer of 2009! It all started at the beginning of the summer when a couple of the kids decided to bring in their skateboards. It didn’t take long before several of the other kids caught on and were bringing their own skateboards. Pretty soon, every summer day was another skate Jam at GG!

With the help and guidance of our fearless leader Tyler and the help of his trusty sidekick Rhett (both previous skateboarders), ramps and rails were brought over to GG and it wasn’t long ’til the kids were grinding, sliding and ollieing their way to the pros.

As a treat, Cassandra was able to contact her friend and professional skateboarder, Tony Ferguson, who dropped by one Friday afternoon to show the kids some of his sick moves. The kids were ecstatic to see Tony kick flip, heel flip, ollie varial, slide the rail and ollie over a chair! If that wasn’t enough, Tony also brought in a skateboard deck from his company “Alife” and had an ollie competition to see who could ollie the “highest and cleanest”. To our amazement, Saw Whately, who just started skateboarding at the beginning of July, was able to prove just how much he’s learned and how much effort he’s put into learning the difficult sport by ollieing the highest and winning the skateboard…Great Job Sam!

For more info on Tony Ferguson and what the Vancouver pro is up to these days check him out here.

Come be a part of a world record and join the World’s Biggest Yoga Class!  On Sunday, August 23rd @ 11:00am (doors at 10:00am) at UBC Thunderbird Stadium, in a fundraising effort to help keep kids active, the Vancouver Fitness Guide is sponsoring an event attempting to enter Vancouver into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most people doing yoga in one place at the same time. Included with each $25.00 ticket will be an event beach towel and swag bag filled with event give-aways. Proceeds from the event will be donated to Athletics 4 Kids.

Next week, our Adventurers are heading to Robert’s Creek for an incredible camping excursion at Camp Byng.  Sign your child (if in grade 3 or older) up for three days of awesomeness (July 27th-31st) while spaces are still available!  This is an experience that your child will never forget!  Camp games, nature walks, fun-filled activities and a sunset talent show are some of the many amazing and cool things that your child will be experiencing.  Please take advantage of this opportunity…It only comes once a year!

If you don’t know about our annual camping excursion, here’s a lil’ scoop…
We leave Wednesday, July27th at 9:00am sharp on a yellow school bus to the Horsehoe Bay ferry terminal. We then travel by sea to the lovely Sunshine Coast and take another school bus to our Camp Byng location in Robert’s Creek, BC. Once the kids are settled, we have an orientation, dinner and then a nature walk and camp songs before bedtime. Our Thursday is fun-filled with programmed activities such as “Eagle Eye”, Beading, Tye-Dying, Hiking and our signature evening event….the Talent Show! On Friday, July 31st, we pack up, clean up, eat up and trek along our scenic journey back to JKC by 4:00pm.

Don’t worry….Our awesome staff are there every step of the way. Some staff have been going for over 5 years.

Questions?? Contact us!

Just get there.

We have been very lucky with our forecast of absolute sunshine!  Because of the beautiful and striking weather, please make sure that your child is wearing a hat.  JKC has provided each child with a hat that must remain at the Centre at all times so that the hat is not misplaced, forgotten, etc.  As a back-up, we ask that you pack a hat with your child on a daily basis in the case that your child’s JKC hat has been lost.  If your child is without a hat, JKC is selling supplemental hats for $5 each. 

Hats are mandatory as we we are strong advocates of sun safety and we appreciate family and community support of our sun safety policies.  Thank you for helping us help you!

Friday, June 26th is the last day of school and a Pro-D day for Bayview, General Gordon and Southlands schools.  Bayview JKC will be the only location open on this day.  Thus, all children will be attending Bayview JKC for care.  If your child is/isn’t attending JKC on Friday, please let a staff member know. 

We will be open from 7:30am to 6:00pm for children registered on Fridays.  If your child is not registered for Fridays and needs care, please contact the office to book a space (if available). 

We are going to have a fantastic Friday to end the school year so if you’re not coming to JKC, have a fabulous summer!