Abrakadoodle: This popular art program helps kids stretch their creative ...
Adventures from "The Daring Book for Girls" Making friendship bracelets, hiking,
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Online registration opens on April 19th http://www.kentgardenspta.com/programs/summer-camp-2012/ Payment options with Paypal by credit card or by direct debit from your checking account
Five one-week camps Week I: July 1-5 (off July 4th) Week 2: July 8-12 Week 3: July 15-19 Week 4: July 22-26 Week 5: July 29-August 2
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. A NEW CAMP FORMAT THAT PROMISES A FUN EXPERIENCE! Campers will attend their registered class for two hours followed by a free activity hour. During the activity hour the campers will enjoy drama, computers, art, crafts, tie-dye, frappe café, and many more. Activities may vary from week to week. For more information email:
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Class Title and Description (listed in alphabetical order) Abrakadoodle: This popular art program helps kids stretch their creative muscles and exercise their right brains in actionoriented classes filled with color, texture, shape and fun! Our art lessons are carefully crafted to promote uniqueness and imaginative thinking as kids create their own unique masterpieces through painting, drawing, cutting, molding and exploring creative materials. Each lesson introduces a new technique and artist's style. Maximum: 15 students Vendor: Abrakadoodle Cost: $170 Rising K- rising 7th A Cool and Creative Adventure with Words: Join us for an adventure with words! Campers will begin each day with an author study followed by a creative writing session and/or activity. Campers will write about books, create their own stories, and turn words into poetry. They will create dynamic characters for their story and illustrate them using 2-liter soda bottles and will turn empty shoe boxes into eye-catching 3-D scenes. Finish the camp with an official author party, performance, and exhibition of your work. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Jacque Womack Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising 1st-3rd Adventures from "The Daring Book for Girls" Making friendship bracelets, hiking, and learning how to be a spy are only some of the fun experiences you'll have in this class. "The Daring Book for Girls" is full of fun ideas that we'll share and learn together. Each girl will get her own Chinese jump rope and we’ll learn various jumping chants and techniques. Take this class if you dare! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Lani Richards Cost: week 1 $120 + $5 Rising 2nd-7th Adventures from "The Dangerous Book for Boys" If you've ever wanted to learn how to make the greatest paper airplane in the world, then this is the class for you. We will also learn about and play stickball, explore the world of dinosaurs, skip stones and make water bombs at Pimmit Run, and learn about some famous battles, followed by a game of "Risk." Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Lani Richards Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising 2nd-7th boys
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Arts and Crafts from Around the World: Get ready to expand your horizons and understand the world around us by discovering art and literature from other countries. Campers will be exposed to art and literature from various countries and will create daily their own piece of art representative of the target culture. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Eva Townsend Cost: $120 + supply fee $10 Rising 4th-7th A Summer in French: Practice makes perfection. From numbers and colors to parts of the body, you will enjoy learning, practicing, and exploring the beautiful French language. With visuals, music, interactive games and various hands-on activities, and craft projects you will learn or polish some French. This camp is great for campers joining the French Immersion classes as well as for those students who want to be exposed to the language spoken in our school. Even if you know a little bit of French this class will provide you with plenty of opportunities to use the language. We will have a last day celebrations with crêpes. Keep up the French over the summer! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Sylvie Kostrzewski Cost: $150 + supply fee $10 Rising K-3rd Bike Riding and Rodeo Challenges: Students will be able to ride their bikes to school in the Fall. What a great exercise! Come and learn how to ride your bike safely around the neighborhood and to school. Safety procedures, basic maintenance, learning how to ride around obstacles, and much more. Student must bring their own bike and helmet. They could leave their bikes in a secure classroom overnight for the duration of the class. Teacher: week 1 rising 1-3- Bob Timke/week 2 rising 4th-7th- Bryan Pashong Maximum: 15 students Cost: week 1- $120 weeks 2- $150 Bridge Building: Are you up for the challenge of building a bridge? The bridge building competitions will give you the opportunity to understand what it is to be an engineer. Throughout this process, you will be actively involved in constructing and applying mathematical ideas, understanding the reasoning of bridge constructions, learning to work as a team, and expanding problem-solving skills. The scores will be based on strength, aesthetics, and construction of the bridge. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Ellen Suh Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising 4th-7th Broadway Bound: Do you like to sing? Do you like to dance? Is Broadway calling your name? If so, please join us for this musical theatre adventure. Take your energy to the stage as we learn to sing and dance to familiar Broadway showtunes. Have fun as we learn a few acting games and use our body to portray different characters. Even after 4 sessions we will present a short performance at the end of the week. Get ready to move!! Be sure to wear shoes you can dance in!! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Joanne Wertz Cost: $120 + supply fee $5 Rising K-3 Challenge What?!: Interactive challenges each day of the week will drive students to become creative problem solvers. Have you ever wanted to build and test a model rocket or build a contraption that would keep an egg from breaking if dropped from a second floor window? How many math books could be supported by a bridge of only marshmallows and toothpicks? Or a contraption made from only duct tape? If you have the burning desire to answer any of these questions, it is time for you to get creative and start building! Design it, build it, test it! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Bryan Pashong Cost: $150 + supply fee $15 Rising 4th-7th Cheerleading: Cheer One-on-One's experienced Cheerleading staff provides a fun and positive introduction to the sport of Cheerleading! Children will work on cheer dance motions, jumps, posture, flexibility and conditioning. Friends and family are invited to attend the session-ending Pep Rally, where kids will showcase their new-found talent. Maximum: 15 students Vendor: One-on-One Cost: $170 Rising 1st-4th Early Drop off- Come and start enjoying your summer camp experience early in the morning. Campers will interact with camp counselors in the gym and will have the opportunity to participate in various activities such as computer games, board games, art projects, a book nook, among others. Activities may vary each week. Come anytime between 8:15-9:00 a.m. Cost: Week 1- $30 Week 2-5 $35 Explode the Code: This camp will teach systematic phonics instruction. You will learn the relationship between letters (graphemes) of written language and the individual sounds (phonemes) of spoken language and how to use these relationships to read and write words. Practice phonemic relationships of letter-sound associations, letter-sound correspondences, sound-symbol correspondence and sound-spelling. Phonics instruction will help you learn to Explode the Code of letters, sounds, and words. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Nasreen Shaikh Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising 1st-2nd Flag Football: This One on One flag football class is designed to improve individual and team skills. Fundamentals of all positions on offense, defense and special teams will be taught. Participants will become more confident in their abilities while learning the concepts of teamwork and sportsmanship. Participants will play weekly games. This is a non-contact class for boys and girls! Maximum: 20 students Vendor: One on One Cost: $170 Rising 4th-7th Golden Boot Soccer: Designed for players who are interested in developing their individual skills and technical ability. It gives players an opportunity to refine existing skills and to learn new ones. Scrimmages and small side games give players an opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned in a creative setting. Maximum: 15 students Vendor: Golden Boot Cost: $170 Rising K-7th Harry Potter Book Club: Do you want to taste "butterbeer"? During this week, we will explore the magical world of Harry Potter. The students will sort into Hogwarts houses and participate in interactive and creative activities connected to the best selling series. Join us for an enchanted experience! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Christina Lupacchino Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising 4th-7th
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House of Hoops Basketball: Bend your knees and shoot with your wrist! This camp is all about basketball skills to raise your fitness while learning the basics and techniques to become a better player. Experienced coaches will help you improve skills through practice for enjoyment, social interaction and personal challenge. Students will be taught the rules and fundamentals of the game. In addition, they will get the opportunity to demonstrate those learned fundamentals in scrimmages, and skill competitions. They will learn about the history of the game and key players of the past and present. There will be prizes, fun, and so much more. No previous experience is required. Maximum: 20 students Vendor: Hoop Life Cost: week 1 $140 weeks 2-5 $170 Rising K-7th IPad 101 and Beyond: The possibilities are limitless when it comes to modern day technology. In this class students will be able to explore a variety of iPad apps that vary by grade level. This will include a combination of academic, media based, and of course gaming apps. Challenge your math skills one day and create your own cartoon or mini movie the next! (iPads will be provided, already loaded with necessary apps.) Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Bryan Pashong Cost: $150 Rising 4th -7th In the Kitchen with an IPad: Let your young chef help prepare meals at home. Each day, the children will learn to prepare a different recipe such as homemade pancakes, homemade spaghetti sauce, mashed potatoes, cake batter fudge, Éclair cake, and snickers salad. Student will learn how to research the best recipe to prepare based on one main ingredient and will start their collection of recipes using the IPad app My Recipe Book. They will also learn about kitchen safety, hygiene, nutrition and helpful hints to make cooking easier. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Eva Townsend Cost: week 1 $120, weeks 2-5 $150 + supply fee $20 Rising 4th-7th Jewelry Making: Campers will learn how to design, string, and finish a variety of jewelry pieces using quality beads and clasps. Take home your finished necklace, bracelet, and dangly earrings, each demonstrating your mastery of different beading techniques. Campers will learn how to visualize, measure, and design an appealing piece of jewelry using bead knotting, stringing, and clasp finishing techniques. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Jacqueline Kocotas Cost: $150 + supply fee $20 Rising 4th-7th Karate: Isshinryu Karate is a fun-filled skill-building camp. No previous training is required! Allow your children to grow both mentally and physically while having a blast this summer where physical fitness, personal safety, focus/discipline, confidence, self-esteem, self defense, and self control is part of everyday fun! Free summer camp T-Shirt and Free Martial Art uniform is provided to the students. Additional activities includes: Basic self-defense skills, traditional karate forms known as Kata, tumbling skill/agility, variety of Martial Arts activities & exciting/fun games, outdoor play/games, Leadership Training, Board breaking, and Performance & Awards!!! Kids would Love our Summer Program! Maximum: 15 students Vendor: Mami Gebereegziabher Cost: week 1 $140 weeks 2-5 $170 Rising K-7th Kindergarten Prep: All aboard for Kindergarten fun! Come and learn about various aspects of the Kindergarten experience. The children will become acquainted with classroom routines and the layout of Kent Gardens School. They will explore such daily activates as the calendar and recording the weather and will be introduced to reading and following a daily schedule. The various themes will be springboards for Language Arts activities and Math activities, where appropriate. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Brenda Taylor Cost: week 1 $120 weeks 2-5 $150 + supply fee $5 Rising K Learn To Type: Sharpen your 21st century skills of using a computer by improving your use of the keyboard and your typing speed. Enjoy an interactive computer-based program to become a faster typist for school work or zapping aliens for fun. Our class will be using laptops. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Mary Vargas Cost: $150 Rising K-3rd Lunch Bunch- Come and join your camp friends for lunch 12:15-1:00 p.m. Campers must bring their lunch and drink. Campers will interact with camp counselors in the gym and will have the opportunity to participate in various activities such as computer games, board games, art projects, a book nook, among others. Activities may vary each week. Cost: Week 1- $30 Week 2-5 $35 Weird Science: Put on your goggles and get ready to do some crazy, hands-on experiments! This summer, you can use your imagination and make amazing discoveries when you become a real scientist. Use scientific tools to make predictions, follow the steps of an experiment and analyze the results. Amaze your friends by making sticky slime, goopy play dough and fizzy potions. Learn tricks like how to fit a hardboiled egg into a bottle and many more. Take home your experiments and the recipes to make them again! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Christina Lupacchino Cost: $150 + supply fee $10 Rising K-3rd Music Theater Club: Step into the spot light and come shine on stage! If you’ve been “bit by the acting bug”, come join us for an exciting adventure in theater. Campers will develop skills in singing, dancing, and acting. Camp will end with a production of excerpts from Annie. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Jessie Hibbard Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising 4th-7th Musical Theatre Workshop- Do you like to sing and dance? Have you always dreamed of being on stage? Then please join us for this musical theatre adventure. We will learn choreography to a few different Broadway show tunes as well as work on different characterizations using our body and voice. Be sure to wear shoes you can move in!! Be a star in our short final performance at the end of the week. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Joanne Wertz Cost: $120 + supply fee $5 Rising 4th-7th
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Music Video Production: Do you love music? Would you love to be a music engineer? Come and learn music technology basic skills for today’s music world. Campers will use Mixcraft Acoustica to create, record, act, and film their own music. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Darrow White Cost: $120 + supply fee $5 Rising 4th-7th Outdoor Fun and Fitness: There are so many fun ways to play outside and keep your body healthy. We'll be making an obstacle course, learning new games, hiking in the Kent Gardens Park, and creating a fitness circuit. We'll also learn how to stay hydrated when it's hot outside and why it's important. So come have fun and be fit! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Lani Richards Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising K-3rd Pencil Heads/Creative Writer: You have a story to tell and an amazing imagination to tell that story. Discover the fun that can come from writing when you let your imagination tell your story! Ms. Suh and Ms. Lupacchino want to help you write it. Campers will gain an understanding of how story elements improve your story while developing literacy abilities and encouraging creative-thinking. Learn how to make little books, shape books, and how to decorate a book to tell a story. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: week 1- Ellen Suh/ week 4- Christina Lupacchino Cost: week 1 $120, weeks 2-5 $150 + supply fee $5 Rising 4rth-7th Photo "Safari": Learn the basics of photography composition while taking photos of other campers and of the great outdoors. The children will learn photography techniques for taking better pictures and have an opportunity to practice their skills. Weather permitting, this class will spend most time taking pictures outdoors. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Mark Brock Cost: $150 + supply fee $10 Rising 4th-7th Quilt a Bag and Something Else: Children will learn the basics of quilting by hand and using a sewing machine. By the end of the week the students will complete one small project such as a bag, a table runner, a quilted bedroom door sign, among other choices. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Mary Vargas Cost: $150 + supply fee $10 Rising 4th-7th Robotics!. Come learn how to program a robot! New and experienced programmers are welcome – there is always something fun to create and something new to learn! Students will use the computer program Lego Robotics Mindstorm. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Mary Vargas Cost: $150 Rising 4th-7th SeaPerch: Ever wonder how the Titanic and other underwater objects are explored? In this class students will explore the engineering aspect of underwater robotics by planning, building, and testing a miniature underwater rover. As students work in teams they will construct the rover mainframe, fan propellers, and water-tight motors. Lastly they will solder the circuit board, connect the wiring, and prepare for testing! This class is great for students who seek a hands-on connection to the real-life world of engineering! Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Bryan Pashong Cost: $150 + supply fee $10 Rising 4th-7th Sports: Play and Know your Stats: Is Alex Ovechkin the best hockey player? Is Derek Jeter the best hitter in baseball? In order to have an opinion like these, you need to be able to back up your claim with numbers. Join us to learn about sports statistics and how to interpret them. You will conduct your research and then try to persuade the class about who you think is "the best" in sports. You will learn the rules of many sports and how to play properly to prevent injuries. Campers will play many sports including handball, ultimate frisbee, flag football, volleyball, kickball, and one sport of class choice. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Matthew Panek Cost: $120 Rising 4th-7th Tincatin sing and play: Do you love to sing and play games? We will sing old and new songs, songs from other countries, play with rhythm, sing to games, and much more. This class will have you singing every minute! We will explore a few musical instruments and learn how to play the music we hear. Come to sing, dance, and play with instruments. Teacher: Week 1: Darrow White Cost: $120 + supply fee $5 Rising K-3rd Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Week 4: Lani Richards Cost: $150 + supply fee $5 Rising K-3rd What's Cooking: Come and learn to navigate your way through the kitchen with Ms. Clark. We will mix, measure, and cook our way to exciting and delicious dishes. Let’s roll up our sleeves and prepare quick and easy recipes that everyone will enjoy. Student will learn how to research the best recipe to prepare based on one main ingredient and will start their collection of recipes using the IPadapp My Recipe Book. They will also learn about kitchen safety, hygiene, and nutrition. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Nikki Clark Cost: $150 + supply fee $20 Rising 4th-7th Yoga and Art in French: To achieve the perfect balance in life one needs to be in tune with one’s true self. Yoga and art are two of the mediums which help achieve that synchrony. What could be better than to learn the same in a language which is close to your heart? Campers will learn fun, exciting, and highly beneficial yogic postures in French and dabble with colors to reinforce the math concepts of symmetry and geometric forms in an artistic way. This will enable them to keep in touch with French through art and yoga. Maximum: 15 students Teacher: Geeta Myers Cost: $120 + supply fee $5 Rising K- 3rd Zumba AND Yoga: No way, zumba AND yoga in one class? Come and have a super fun week with two of the most exciting ways of exercising your mind and body. Our zumba is a high energy, contagiously exciting dance workout specifically designed for young children with kid friendly music, movements, and routines. Yoga works on emotional and physical traits by going through poses while being immersed in a calm, centered environment. Poses help children develop concentration, muscle, and coordination by participating in yoga movements, stories, songs, drawings, and games. This class helps children boost metabolism and increase focus, coordination, and self-confidence. Provided by certified kids instructors. Maximum: 15 students Vendor: Excel into Action Cost: $170 Rising K-4th
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