Extracurriculars

Cardboard Arcade is a tuition-based after school program for 2nd grade students. Students build engineering skills as they design, test, redesign, retest and create a working arcade-type game made of cardboard.

Choir

The Krueger 4th & 5th graders have the opportunity to join the Cavalier Choir. Choir
is the art of ensemble singing, harmonizing, showmanship and performance.

This extra-curricular activity will rehearse once a week, 

Monday mornings @ 7:10 a.m. during the Fall semester. 

The Cavalier Choir will perform for Veteran’s Day.
First rehearsal will be Monday, September 16, 2024 @ 7:10 a.m. in the music room.
Veterans Day Performance Dates:
School Wide Assembly ~ Monday, Nov. 11, 2024 @ 8:30 a.m. in the Krueger Cafeteria
PTA Veterans Day Performance ~ Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 @ 6 p.m. in the Krueger Cafeteria
Attire: Red / White / Blue Clothing and Accessories

Flight Club is a tuition-based after school program for K-1st students. Students build engineering skills as they design, test and modify four tools that interact with air: kites, parachutes, paper airplanes and simple rockets.

Lego Robotics is a tuition free program for 5th grade students where students respond to a challenge by building and programming robots, demonstrating teamwork skills and completing and presenting a research project proposing a solution to a real-world problem. Student teams compete at Qualifier competitions to hopefully advance to the Regional Championship.

Orchestra

All interested Krueger 5th graders may enroll in the Northside ISD Elementary
String Program. Orchestra is a yearlong commitment and is taught twice a week
before and after school during the Fall and Spring Semesters. Learning to play a
string instrument can be a wonderful experience and will help improve your child’s
individual study habits, reading and listening skills, self-confidence, creative
thinking skills and fine motor skills. Sign-up forms are on the music room door.
All String Lessons are free. Students must provide their own instrument and instruction book.
The Cavalier Orchestra performs numerous concerts at Krueger and at Jefferson Middle School
through-out the school year.

Important Orchestra Dates:

Parent Orientation: Jefferson Middle School, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 @ 6 p.m.
Orchestra Classes: Twice a week on Wednesday and Thursday.
Class #1 meets on W/Th from 7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m.
Class #2 meets on W/Th from 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Have you heard of our wonderful new club called Project ACORN? It's a tuition-based after school program for 4th and 5th grade students.

Our club focuses on:

• Learning about native plants and how they can benefit our campus
• Studying plants and creating our very own Krueger vegetable garden
• Learning about the Monarch butterflies and how we can help them thrive by working in a pollinator garden
• Discovering how to be science leaders on our campus and how we can help other students

Recorder

The Krueger 5 th graders have the opportunity to join the Krueger Recorder Ensemble which
rehearses on Fridays @ 7:10 a.m. in the music room. The Recorder Ensemble is open to all fifth
graders that have mastered the brown and black belts in music class. This ensemble will give
interested soprano recorder instrumentalists a chance to play more challenging music in four-part
harmony. Interested advanced players may be offered an opportunity to play the Alto recorder as
well. The Recorder Ensemble will perform several concerts during the year.

Recorder Performance Dates:

Rehearsals begin – Friday, Sept. 20, 2024 @ 7:10 a.m. in the music room.
Literacy Night – Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 @ 5:30 p.m. – in the Krueger Rotunda.
The recorder ensemble will be playing holiday music for this event.

Solar Cars is a tuition-based after-school science enrichment program offered to 4th and 5th grade students.  Students will build engineering skills as they work in teams to design and build a working solar car model. Students will apply science, knowledge, creativity, and grit to work this exciting engineering task. 

The teams then compete at the annual NISD Solar Car Race Day. The race consists of teams from elementary campuses in NISD. The race is an all-day fun filled event. 

Solar Cars Club meets once a week beginning late January/early February and ending with race day in April.

STEAM Team is a tuition-based after school club designed to encourage third grade students to use their creativity to design during several engineering challenges over the course of 8-10, hour long sessions. The challenge is to create Rube Goldberg machines, which are fun, yet complicated, humorous machines that perform a simple task.

Young Astronauts is a tuition-based program for 4th and 5th grade students. Students engage in hands-on space related STEM curriculum. Students participate in a Stargazing event in late February where they rotate through various stations including gazing through a high-powered telescope.