Our new Super Summer 2012 schedule will be published and available here on March 16th. We are planning lots of learning and fun but never duplicate themes from the previous year. Plan to join us for another Super Summer! Here's what happened last year...
SUPER SUMMER
2011
Exciting classes, workshops, and trips for preschool through 10th grade students!
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Elementary/Jr. High 1st-10th grade 745 S. Extension Mesa, AZ 85210
Suzanne Woodford, Director 480-962-1432
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Preschool/Kindergarten 2 1/2 -6 year olds 1130 S. San Jose Mesa, AZ 85202
Michael Woodford, Director 480-969-3781
Super Summer 2011
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General Information………………........………….…..………………..….…3
Preschool/Kindergarten Programs….....………..……….…….4-5
Primary Workshops..........................................6-7
Intermediate Workshops (4th-7th grade)….....……….…..8-9
Upper Division Workshops (7th-10th grade)……......….10-11
California Trip (7th-10th grade)……………………..……...……… 12
Registration Information………………………………..….......…...13
Welcome to our 32nd year of outstanding summer enrichment programs! Join us for a week, or for a whole summer of learning and fun. Our classes are academically based, but offer a change of pace from the school year. Each program is designed to intellectually challenge and socially enrich your child, and is taught by the experienced teachers of our regular Montessori classes. Enrollment is limited and many classes fill quickly. We are looking forward to having you join us for a summer of fantastic memories!
General Information:
Registration: You must register for all classes, as enrollment is limited and on a first come first serve basis. Return the form from the back of this brochure to enroll your student. Some classes fill early so do not be disappointed-enroll as soon as possible as we do not overfill classes. You are accepting financial responsibility for all classes selected and any required fees are non-refundable. If you are unsure of your schedule, please contact the school to be placed on a waiting list for possible available openings.
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Student Information Form: A new emergency information form must be completed for each student prior to beginning any summer class. These are available in the school office now or you may come a few minutes early on the first day of class to complete necessary paperwork.
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Tuition: Tuition is due prior to the start of the first class session each week. There is a 10% discount available on tuitions for a second or third sibling concurrently enrolled. (Sorry, no discount on trips.) Tuitions paid after the start of Monday’s class must include a $5 late fee.
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Late Fees: The San Jose campus closes promptly at 6 PM and the Extension campus closes promptly at 5:45 PM. There is a $1 per minute late fee charged for students picked up after closing time to partially compensate the teachers. There is a $25 fee for returned checks and a $5 late fee assessed for tuition paid after the start of class. Tuitions paid more than 7 days late will incur a $25 per week late fee. Thank you for your cooperation in keeping our tuitions reasonable by being timely with tuition.
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Extended Day: It is required that summer students be signed in and out each day. For the safety of all, please do not drop students in the parking lot. During the summer months, we do not have a staff member in the parking lot as our students arrive at a variety of times. SORRY, THERE IS NO HOURLY RATE FOR EXTENDED DAY AVAILABLE DURING THE SUMMER. Students arriving before 8:45 or picked up after 3:15 will be charged the weekly extended day rate.
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Lunches: Students bring a lunch from home. It is recommended that parents use a “Blue Ice” or similar product, as we do not have space to put lunch boxes in the refrigerator. However, sandwiches in baggies or Tupperware labeled with the child’s name can be accommodated. Teachers will also heat lunch items in a microwave for students.
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Which Class? Students who will be entering first grade in the fall and have completed kindergarten with sound foundations in reading, writing, math, and social and emotional skills may join the primary program for 1st-4th grade students at the Extension campus. Students who have not mastered these skills should register for the kindergarten program at the San Jose campus. Students who will enter the 4th grade in the fall may attend any of the primary sessions or may elect to attend the summer intermediate workshops for 4th-7th grade students. Students entering 7th grade may attend the intermediate classes or a variety of workshops designed for older students described in the upper division section for 7th-10th grade. The overlap allows for individualized placement based on individual student maturity. Please see Suzanne if you are unsure of the proper placement for your child.
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Location: Preschool and Kindergarten classes for 2 ½-6 year olds meet at 1130 S. San Jose. Primary, Intermediate, and Upper Division classes for 1st-10th grade meet at 745 S. Extension.
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Preschool/Kindergarten
Workshops for 2 ½-6 year olds
$95 weekly 9:00-11:30 M-F
$130 weekly 9:00-3:00 M-F
$155 weekly 6:30-6:00 M-F
Extended day programs include the workshop activities plus academic reinforcement and enrichment activities. Students may enroll for one week of a two-week session on a space available basis. These programs will be held at the San Jose campus.
May 31-June 3, June 6-10 MEDIEVAL TIMES
Knights, shields, damsels, dragons, swords, helmets, crowns, and castles all come to life in this exciting session devoted to life in medieval times. Students will make their own castles, play squire games, create medieval hats for imaginative dress up, play Capture the Dragon’s Gold, and even cook a peasant’s feast (everyone will eat with their hands!). Join us for a trip to merry ole England in the days of chivalry!
June 13-17,June 20-24 NATURE SCIENCE
Science is all around us! Children naturally love to explore nature as we learn techniques of observation and facts about plants and animals through hands-on activities. Insect exploration, window gardening, a recycling project to help develop respect for our planet, creation of leaf prints, making bird feeders, and solar sunprints will all be included. Students will use the “scientific method” to count, sort, and analyze our findings. Teaching children to be careful observers of the world around them builds academic abilities for future school success and instills a love of learning.
June 27-July 1, July 5-8 TROPICAL LUAU!
Aloha! Learn about islands, make a grass skirt to wear, bake pineapple upside down cake, dance the hula, hear Hawaiian music, do the limbo, build a sand castle, and create your own fish reef. Every student receives his or her own plush hula teddy bear to keep! We’ll create clothes and suitcases for our bears and take them on a trip to a tropical paradise! (No class on July 4th: Independence Day)
July 11-15, July 18-22 MUSIC AND DRAMA SHOWCASE
Everyone loves to be a star! Students will learn improvisation games and develop skits as they act out familiar stories. Costumes and make-up create our characters. We’ll also learn the basics of music as we explore instruments and make some of our own to include in our rhythm band. Students will combine songs they have learned and skits they have rehearsed into a final performance for our parents complete with class made refreshments! You won’t want to miss it!
July 25-29, August 1-5 CONCOCTIONS
Mix it up! Edible concoctions include Movie Glass Candy and Pickle Potions. Craft concoctions feature Dryer Lint Clay, Gooey Gunk, and Magic Muck. There are garden concoctions with Greenhouse in a Bag and Bean Mosaics and science concoctions with Crystal Farms and Invisible Ink. Artistic concoctions create Filter Flowers and Sandpaper Transfer Pictures. Lots more educational investigations with hands-on mixtures!
August 8-12, August 15-19 CHEF’S SCHOOL
Everyone loves to cook! Students will develop math, reading, and writing skills as they use recipes and cook delicious and wholesome treats. We’ll read classic literature such as Blueberries for Sal and make blueberry muffins. After reading Stone Soup, we’ll simmer a delicious pot of homemade soup to enjoy with our classmates. We’ll learn to measure, sift, blend, and frappe! We’ll even make some treats to bring home and share with our families.
August 22-26 HOT, HOT, HOT
Make fruit popsicles, balloon hats, and edible clay! Create ooblick that is part solid and part liquid! Star in your own commercial and watch yourself on TV! Build your own pizza and play “Pin the Silly Nose on Michael”. Celebrate the end of summer with zany, summer fun!
Primary Workshops
For 1st-4th grade students
$140 weekly 9:00-3:00
$175 weekly extended day 6:30-5:45
Each week includes Montessori academics, sports, computers, math, animals, reading club, art, video games, movies, drama, cultural studies, science, cooking, and socialization plus our outstanding workshop theme!!! Students may enroll for one week of a multi-week course on a space available basis. No partial week enrollment is available to maintain curriculum continuity. Students entering first grade participate in a “First Grade Readiness” curriculum designed to give them a step up in the fall through phonics, reading, and math activities in addition to their workshop programs.
May 31-June 3, June 6-10 PETS ON PARADE
Learn about animal behaviors and to care for pets through hands-on centers featuring real cats, dogs, turtles, lizards, goats, chickens, chinchillas, tarantulas, parrots, fish, scorpions, rats, and more! Adopt your own stuffed dog or cat to keep and create pet toys, grow catnip, and make puppy chow. Create pet habitats and receive your own pet snail to keep!
June 13-17,June 20-24 SWAMP THINGS
Part land and part water, swamp environments are home to amazing plants and animals. Learn about dragonflies, frogs, snakes, sphagnum moss, the Okefenokee Swamp, opossums, mink, otters, crocodiles, and more. Create your own swamp environment in a jar, sew a stuffed snake, make damselfly suncatchers, and enjoy a swamp juice smoothy! Wade into this fascinating workshop!
June 27-July 1, July 5-8 COLONIAL TIMES
Dip candles, make soap, create a sampler, bake cornbread, and enjoy recreating early America. We’ll celebrate the 4th of July with watermelon, fireworks, and the signing of our own Declaration of Independence. Make a log cabin, churn butter, and bake bread. History comes to life through centers and hands-on activities. (No class on July 4th: Independence Day)
July 11-15, July 18-22 WHO WANTS TO BE A PIRATE?!
Climb aboard our sailing ship as we head off in search of treasure! Students will make individual treasure chests and learn to read a map to search for doubloons. We’ll create pirate hats and learn about talking parrots! We’ll read the story of Peter Pan and write our own “I don’t want to grow up” story about why it is great to be a kid! We’ll make clay mugs to fire in the kiln and enjoy drinking apple cider from them during a pirate’s feast! Yo ho ho!
July 25-29, August 1-5 SET SAIL
Learn about boats, ships, and sailing! Build boats in our classroom to float in the playground canals, learn to tie nautical knots, send signals in sailor code, work in teams to build a model boat you can actually sit in, and learn about famous explorers who sailed the seven seas! Build your own ship and go on a swimming field trip to test your craft.
August 8-12, August 15-19 FAIRYTALE THEATER
Everyone loves fairytales! We’ll read some classic stories and write a fairy tale of our own. Then we’ll learn acting techniques to stage our own production! Students will build scenery and create costumes and then rehearse their lines as we prepare for our big show! Parents will be invited to see their child in a starring role!
August 22-26 HOT, HOT, HOT!
Celebrate the last week of summer with silly songs, jokes, skits, and silly food! Wear your clothes inside out, mismatch your socks, and learn the silly chicken dance. Think cool by making zip-lock bag ice cream, brew some sun tea, and make snowflakes in our classroom. There’s lots of silly fun!
Intermediate Workshops
For 4th-7th grade students
$140 weekly 9:00-3:00
$175 weekly extended day 6:30-5:45
Each week includes Montessori academics, sports, computers, math, animals, reading club, art, video games, movies, drama, cultural studies, science, cooking, and socialization plus our outstanding workshop theme!!! Students may enroll for one week of a multi-week course on a space available basis. No partial week enrollment is available to maintain curriculum continuity.
May 31-June 3, June 6-10 POT ‘O GOLD
We’re heading to Ireland! Learn the myths of leprechauns and ogres, kiss the Blarney stone, bake Irish soda bread, design Celtic knot art, dance a jig, build an Irish castle, and learn the geography and history of this green country! We’ll even grow our own lucky shamrocks and grow potato plants as part of this fun-filled workshop!
June 13-17,June 20-24 GAME ON!
Video games, pinball, computer games, strategy games, and old school games like yo-yo’s, jacks, and jump rope! Students will compete in video game challenges, build their own pinball game, learn how computers are programmed to play games, create their own board game, and go on a field trip to a video arcade. Sing karaoke, try your skill at Dance Dance Revolution, and bring your own game system to show ‘n share. Join us for this awesome workshop or your summer will be “game over”!
June 27-July 1, July 5-8 ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
Visit the fascinating world of the ancient Greeks and Romans! Learn about the philosophy, mythology, and Alexander the Great. Make Greek pottery vases to fire in the kiln, come to the toga party, enjoy baking baklava, hear the story of the Trojan horse, compete in our own Olympics and win a medal! Hope to see you in ancient Greece and Rome! (No class on July 4th: Independence Day)
July 11-15, July 18-22 NORTH TO ALASKA!BRRRR!
It may be hot outside but we have lots of chilly fun in our workshop! Travel to the far north to learn about our 50th state and the interesting Native Americans from this region. Carve a totem pole, build an igloo, go ice sledding on our amphitheater, make ice cream, carve a “walrus tusk ivory” sculpture, make a power necklace, enjoy a shave ice snow cone, and compete in sled races. As part of this study, we will go on an ice skating field trip! Hey, look over there! Are those the Northern Lights???
July 25-29, August 1-5 ART FROM MANY HANDS
Develop your artistic abilities while studying the art and folk art of countries around the world. Visit India and create your own Taj Mahal. We’ll cook up some spicy Indian food, too! Tour the Louvre in Paris and paint your own masterpiece! Make adinkra block prints from Africa. We’ll learn to mix colors, draw using perspective, use the rule of thirds, and master cross-hatching and design concepts. Lots of hands-on learning!
August 8-12, August 15-19 SCIENCE MYSTERIES
Build a bridge in a suspension competition with your friends to learn how physics keeps bridges from collapsing. Make ooblek to learn that a solid is sometimes a liquid! Use energy from the sun to bake cookies. Make a painting that floats on water. See how air can explode a plastic bottle. You’ll learn principles of science while having hands-on fun investigating science mysteries!
August 22-26 HOT, HOT, HOT!
Celebrate the last week of summer with silly songs, jokes, skits, and silly food! Wear your clothes inside out, mismatch your socks, and learn the silly chicken dance. Think cool by making zip-lock bag ice cream, brew some sun tea, and make snowflakes in our classroom. There’s lots of silly fun!
Upper Division Workshops
For 7th –10th grade students
$140 weekly 9:00-3:00 M-F
$175 weekly extended day 6:30-5:45 M-F
May 31-June 3, June 6-10 AROUND TOWN
Everyone’s favorite summer workshop! Each day features two educational and fun-filled activities! We’re going skating, bowling, fencing, playing billiards, to the movies, checking out museums, competing in a scavenger hunt at the mall, swimming, and more! Join your friends-we’ll see you around town!
June 13-17,June 20-24 FILMMAKING
Be a moviemaker in this exciting workshop. Students will write a script, develop costumes, learn acting techniques, and go on location to shoot their film using state of the art HD filmmaking equipment. Back in class, they will edit their dailies using computer software, add a musical score, and even create credits. The final DVD will save these memories for families to enjoy for years to come. Come to the red carpet premier to see all our students in their starring roles! This incredible workshop offers students the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of filmmaking!
June 27-July 1, July 5-8 BACK TO NATURE (camping trip)
Learn nature skills including using a compass, tracking, astronomy, knots, and outdoor cooking. We’ll carve walking sticks, learn orienteering techniques, and use star charts to read the night sky. On Wednesday and Thursday, July 6 and 7, we head to the cool north of Arizona for our camping trip. Students will set up camp, play team and leadership games, sing around the campfire, and enjoy outdoor cooking. We conclude our week of fun at school on Friday by making a photomontage of our weeks’ adventures. (No class on July 4th: Independence Day)
July 11-15, July 18-22 FANTASY ROLE PLAYING
Learn to play the classic Dungeons and Dragons game! Develop thinking skills and problem solving abilities as you create a character and go on adventures to solve the quest. You may encounter dragons, find treasures, defeat the ogre, or rescue the forgotten one. Field trip to local D & D lair included. Being a geek is cool again…this is a Dobson Montessori most requested workshop! Join your dungeon master, Trevor, for a summer adventure you will remember forever. This course enhances writing, reading, and language arts skills. Join us for imaginative fun!
California Dreamin’
A 4-day trip experience for mature students entering 5th grade and up!
We’ve worked hard all year and now it’s time to kick off summer with your friends. What better way to show your student how proud you are of their great achievements this past year!
May 27-30
$395
We are proud to offer our California trip! This experience is a fun filled adventure for mature students and is designed to build confidence, team skills, positive self-esteem, communication, and independence. Our summer trip always fills quickly and the real life skills learned last a lifetime. We also build bonds of friendship and memories for years to come. Please contact Suzanne if you have questions or would like more details about this remarkable program. A complete itinerary and gear list will be sent to registered participants early in May.
Friday, May 28 Leave school at 7:30 AM. A stop in Blythe for lunch before arrival at Huntington Beach. There’ll be boogie boarding and our annual sand castle contest! Time for some shopping at the art booths and kite shops on the boardwalk before dinner over the ocean at Ruby’s Diner!
Saturday, May 29 Today we head for Knott’s Berry Farm! Try the parachute drop, Ghostrider roller coaster, or Wild River. Perhaps you’d prefer tamer rides like the bumper cars or Zither? We’ll see the new “Fool’s Gold Stunt Show” and cool off on rides like the Perilous Plunge. Don’t forget to say hi to Snoopy!
Sunday, May 30 A full day at Disneyland today! We’ll see it all and ride our favorites twice. Space Mountain, Indiana Jones, and the Pirates of the Caribbean are waiting for you! We’ll close the park tonight with the fantastic fireworks display!
Monday, May 31 After breakfast, we pack up and head for home with enough great memories to last for years to come! We’ll arrive at school around 5PM.
All transportation, lodging, admissions, activities, and continental breakfasts are included. Students are responsible for four lunches and three dinners. This trip always fills quickly. A $95 non-refundable deposit is required with the remaining $300 due by May 10th.
Registration for Super Summer 2011
Please check the sessions your child will attend. Tuition is due prior to the start of each class. You are agreeing to financial responsibility for all classes indicated. Classes fill so register early. You may register for one week of a multi-week session on a space available basis, but there are no partial week options. Students attending less than a full week or who are absent pay the full week’s tuition, as we cannot take another student in your child’s place. There is a 10% discount for a second sibling concurrently enrolled. You will not receive confirmation of classes but will be notified by phone if the class you selected is full. Please copy this form for your records and call if you have questions. It is our goal to offer the most outstanding summer programs for all our students and we are looking forward to having YOU join us for a great summer!
Student _____________________________________Hm Phone ________________
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Please check the class weeks your child will attend:
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Upper Division | 9-3 | Ex. Day |
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ÿCalifornia Trip
$95 deposit required,
balance due May 10
Please attach a check in the amount of one week’s
tuition to confirm enrollment. This non-refundable
deposit will be applied to your final week of attendance.
Amount attached: $ _________ Check # ________
$175 extended day
Two student discount: $266
extended day: $332.50