We have been asked by a number of parents about our summer programs - We are currently working on a curriculum for these camps. As of now, it looks like camps will come in groups of two weeks. While it will not be required to attend both camps, it is recommended.
One camp will take place soon after school lets out to review what may have been missed, and one shortly before school starts up again to prepare for the coming year! Not all of the dates are set yet, so if you have any special requests, let us know and we'll try to cater to your desires!
So far, this is what we have planned, however, they are subject to change, in fact you can be assured that they will change as we make them better than ever!:
Read On! - K-5 - Aspiring kindergartners will enjoy these two camps run by one of our certified Kindergarten teachers - one camp will take place soon after school lets out, and the other shortly before it starts back up. Designed to help develop fluency and comprehension, your child will open books with confidence.
Read On! - 1st graders - Two camps focused on rising 1st graders. Students will learn the joys of oral reading using expressive and animated voices, as well as learn methods to increase comprehension! One camp will take place shortly after school lets out for the summer, and the other right before school picks back up so students will have a jump on the new year!
Write Right - 1st and 2nd graders - Students will learn the joy of writing. They will learn how to properly express their ideas in clear and crisp sentences.
Read'ville - Developed for the rising 2nd grader in mind! Students entering 2nd grade not only need to begin polishing their oral reading skills, but also they need to develop some pretty serious comprehension, inference, and active reading skills.
Sum more fun! - 1st and 2nd graders - Students need foundations. All of math is built upon certain foundational skills. During this course students will hone their addition and subtraction skills.
Making The Grade - 3rd & 4th graders - A camp designed to help 3rd and 4th graders work through proper sentence structure, story ideas and designs, and develop better math skills.
Dividing Times - 3rd - 5th - (subject to be combined with Fearless Fractions) - A math camp designed to make multiplication and division second nature for students - we will be going over tips and tricks and learn how to solve many seemingly complex math problems in our heads!
Fearless Fractions - 3rd - 5th grade - (subject to be combined with Dividing Times) - We have seen a number of students who had difficulty with fractions this year - This camp aims to take the fear and confusion out of fractions: converting, reducing, cross multiplying, writing in mixed number, improper or decimal form. Reasons for terror go on and on, however in this camp we'll learn how to conquer them all!
Wordy Problems - 4th - 6th grade - (subject to be combined with Rates and Ratios) - We all remember encountering at least one word problem that we swore had a typo because there was no WAY they really expected us to figure out what time Train A left the station, or how old Rita's best friend's cousin was! This camp is designed to help students develop strategies and skills to tackle seemingly impossible word problems.
Ratios n' Rates - 4th - 6th grade - This camp designed for middle-schoolers will deal with determining rates of change - (important for algebra work later) and ratios such as figuring out how tall a tree is if its shadow is 20 feet long and your shadow is 6 feet long (important for geometry work later).
Middle School Prep - a camp run by our own Philip Pruitt - Designed to take some of the unknown and fear out of entering Middle School.