Silver Stars Gymnastics is celebrating Columbus Day with 2 for 1 pricing!
Monday October 11, 2010
12pm-1pm
2 for 1 ($7 for 2 kids) Bring a Friend!
Ages 7 & under
We are bringing out the train for this open gym!
This is a one time limited offer.
This offer does not transfer to other open gym days/times.
This offer expires Monday October 11, 2010 at 1pm.

School Year Open Gym Hours

MONDAY-FRIDAY 12PM-1PM

5 years old & under: $7 per child per visit
Buy a pass: 12 visits for $60 *Open Gym – Adult must stay with child at all times.

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Here’s my previously-published review of Open Gym at Silver Stars:

During the spring, summer and fall months of the year, my children and I are Montgomery County park and playground groupies. We obsess over the best slides, ratio of bucket swings to babies, best trails for animal sightings, which trains are running, whether to bring the Razor or the Big Wheel. With ice currently covering most of our favorite haunts, we are feeling like Deadheads that just lost Jerry.

Thank goodness for open gyms. The means for kids to run, crawl, jump and go bat-guano crazy on a frigid day is a blessing and a necessity. One of the best places in Silver Spring to let them loose is Silver Stars Gymnastics’ Open Gym. Open Monday – Friday for one hour, 12 – 1pm, this magical place supplies limitless options for kids to get their cuckoos out.

The gym is specially designed for children of toddler through age 7. It is simultaneously adventuresome and safe. Adults are required to participate and monitor their children, so taking turns on equipment is nicely facilitated by both Silver Stars staff and caregivers. For the older kids there are trampolines, lowered balance beams, a moonbounce with slide, Tarzan swings, scaled-down parallel and uneven bars. For the toddlers there is a room full of smaller versions of those activities, climbing structures and foam shapes to inspire creativity. The size of the facility is equal to two basketball courts.

We have enjoyed attending open gym at Silver Stars as a family for the last four years. To date, we have never had a negative experience. Whether our children were viewing the action from a sling, crawling on all fours or perfecting their split leaps, every visit has been a treat.

Cost is $7 per child, or a 12 visit pass is $60. Thankfully the staff keeps your pass on file for you, and you can use your credits to host friends for rambunctious playdates. Silver Stars closes its open gym in June in order to offer summer camps, so act now to enjoy all this indoor playground has to offer.

Silver Stars also offers classes for kids aged 18 months to 7+ years.  You can try out a class without commitment for two weeks after the session start date. Trial classes cost $25 per visit and you must pre-schedule your trial class by calling 301-589-0938. Space in the class you audit is not guaranteed without payment for the entire session.

I hope to see you at Silver Stars some afternoon soon. I’ll be the blonde mom practicing her Nadia-made-for-TV-movie floor routine while her kids wait in line for the trampoline.

Silver Stars Gymnastics and Fitness Club, Inc.
2701 Pittman Drive
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 Map
Phone: 301-589-0938
Fax: 301-589-1717
www.gosilverstars.com
ssgoffice@aol.com

After a month of limbo, Great Kids Village’s Silver Spring location is re-opening tomorrow, Sunday June 13th in a brand new space: the former Mayorga Coffee shop at 8040 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring/NW DC border.

Great Kids Village is kicking off their first day in the new digs with a kids concert by Melissa Green!  Melissa Green is a great children’s musician who parents enjoy too.  In fact, she’s so cool, she will be featured on the next Putamayo Kids CD, Rock & Roll Playground.

Doors open at 11:30am for play, the concert starts at 12:30pm, and they’re staying open until 6 pm.  All your kids favorite play stations, craft areas, the kid coaster, the mini grocery store, mini-golf course and everything else will be back and running for imagination learning and fun.

Moving to the former Mayorga space also means that Great Kids Village Silver Spring will soon be opening a Healthy Cafe on the premises for your snacking and lunching convenience.

So go check out the new site, groove along to Melissa Green and have a great Sunday back at Great Kids Village.  They’ve missed you and are sooooo happy to be back.

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Open Play Hours

**closed 4th of July**

This will be quick because I got plowed!  I so needed it.  Insert immature humor.

METRO

On Tuesday, Metro system will open at 5 a.m. with limited service and may close early

OPEN GYMS

FunFit is open today for MOMS MORNING OUT until 12:30pm

Great Kids Village Silver Spring - 10am-4:30pm

Interactions Learn and Play in Kensington – Opening at 10am

Be With Me The Children’s Playseum in Bethesda is open at 9:30am.

The Family Room on Capitol Hill is open at 9am.

MUSEUMS & HISTORY

National Geographic Museum -  The museum will be open Tues. Call 202-857-7588 to confirm in case of early closure.

Mount Vernon – Open all day, but the evening music program is canceled due to impending snow.

The Newseum is open today from 9am-5pm

Be With Me The Playseum Pass Winners are Harley, Kathy, Sarah S., AnnMarie and Ashanthi K.  I have some of your emails, but not all – please email me if you are listed!

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7

Be With Me The Children’s Playseum in Bethesda is open NOW and serving free hot chocolate, coffee and tea from Starbucks!  They have just started having Sunday open play, but opened several hours early today to give the families without power a place to play!  Leave a comment here before midnight tonight February 7 to receive one of FIVE free admission passes, courtesy of Be With Me’s owner. With schools very likely closed some days this week, you’ll need it!

Great Kids Village Silver Spring is opening at 11:30am this morning and will stay open as long as people keep showing up (note:  regular hours are usually ’til 6pm, but they may close early if people stay away due to snow or Super Bowl.)

The Family Room on Capitol Hill is open 12-6pm.

The Newseum is open today from 9am-5pm as usual.  The staff all spent the night at the museum on Friday night so they could be open yesterday too.

We Love DC has a list of open restaurants in The District.

Know of a place that’s open for families today?  Mention it in the comments, help your fellow parents and be entered to win a free pass to Be With Me in Bethesda!

Schools are closed today, and you can only do the “let’s watch Sesame Street in our jammies” thing for so long.  And after exactly 20 minutes of snow play (not including the 30 minutes to get outfitted in the snow gear), the kids are soaking wet and cold.

So here are some indoor play options that are open today to help you kill the snow day – call a friend and get to playing!

FunFit – Open gym in Rockville is starting at 11:30am-2pm.

Interactions Learn and Play in Kensington – Open gym from 12pm noon – 5:30pm.

Great Kids Village in Silver Spring and Columbia – Both the new Silver Spring and former-Playwise Kids Columbia locations, 10am-5:30pm

The Little Gym Silver Spring – Opens at 11am, regular classes as scheduled.  Call 301-681-7005 to take a free trial class. 11:30am Funny Bugs for 3-4 years, 4:30pm Funny Bugs/Giggle Worms for 3-5 years, 5:45pm Beasts/Super Beasts 19 mos-3 years, 6:30pm Giggle Worms/Good Friends 4-6 years.  Again, call first to make sure they have room for your child and to reserve your space for one free class.

Silver Stars in Silver Spring and Bowie – Both the Silver Spring and Bowie locations have Open Gym today from 12-1pm.  In Silver Spring the age range is 7 and UNDER, in Bowie it’s 12 and UNDER.  Bowie also has Open Gym from 2-3pm today.