Super Summer

General Information………………………….…..………………..….…3

Preschool/Kindergarten Programs…………..……….…….4-6

Welcome to our 29th year of outstanding summer enrichment programs! Join us for a week or 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 are 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!

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.

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.

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 or supply fees.) Tuitions paid after the start of Monday’s class must include a $5 late fee.

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.

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.

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.

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 1^st-4^th 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 4^th grade in the fall may attend any of the primary sessions or may elect to attend the summer intermediate workshops for 4^th-7^th grade students. Students entering 7^th grade may attend the intermediate classes or a variety of workshops designed for older students described in the upper division section for 7^th-10^th 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.

Location: Preschool and Kindergarten classes for 2 ½-6 year olds meet at 1130 S. San Jose. Primary, Intermediate, and Upper Division classes for 1^st-10^th grade meet at 745 S. Extension.

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.

Wow! It’s a super summer and the fun starts now! 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”. Come to the summer kick-off! ( no class on May 26: Memorial Day)

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!

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.

Children are natural artists and research shows the importance of creative expression in the early years. In this class, students will be introduced to works of the masters such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Rembrandt, and Monet. Your child will even be able to identify works by these painters! But even better, we will create art in the style of these artists as we learn techniques of painting, pastel, charcoal, pointillism, impressionism, and abstraction. Families will be invited to a gallery showing at the end of the workshop! (No class on July 4^th: Independence Day)

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!

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.

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!

Plus Montessori academics, swimming, sports, computers, math, animals, reading club, art, video games, movies, drama, cultural studies, science, cooking, and socialization!!! 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.

Learn about our best friends! Teach our school dogs a new trick! Make your own Garfield comic. Learn about the different breeds of cats and dogs. Grow catnip for our school cat, Zoey. Receive your own plush dog as part of this class and build a dog house and enter your ‘pet’ in our dog show. This class is doggone fun! ( no class on May 26: Memorial Day)

June 9-13, June 16-20 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!

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! (No class on July 4^th: Independence Day)

The world is a rainbow of color! Learn how science and art mix in this amazing workshop. How is color seen by our brains and what happens to light to make colors? Learn to mix colors using primary and secondary colors of the color wheel. Do experiments to see how heat is absorbed or reflected by different colors. Using objects from nature create original art projects such as sand candles, leaf etchings, and fruit prints. Color your world!

Who is incredible? You are! Discover the super hero in you as we make individual superhero capes, create our own comic strips, learn how animated movies are made, see a super hero movie while eating flavored popcorn, visit the dress-up center and act out our own superhero skit, and create an original character for a story board. You are amazing!

Take a vacation to Italy! Make a map shaped like a boot, create a pasta picture, make noodles from scratch, bake your own pizza, build a leaning tower of Pisa, star in our opera, grow some basil. We’ll read the story of Strega Nona and her overflowing spaghetti pot and then cook up a pasta lunch to enjoy in class. We’ll even learn to speak some Italian!

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!

May 26-30, June 2-6 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, see films about famous mythological beasts, create a classical style marble sculpture, and build a model of the Parthenon. Learn to draw Medusa and guard your Achilles as we investigate the gods, goddesses and mythology of this interesting era. Hope to see you in ancient Greece and Rome! ( no class on May 26: Memorial Day)

It may be hot outside but we have lots of chilly fun in our workshop! Travel to the far north to learn about our 50^th 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???

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! (No class on July 4^th)

Learn all about cats from lions, the king of beasts, to house cats like our school cat, Zoey! Make cat pillows, create clay cat magnets, and learn to care for pet cats. Discover cougars, mountain lions, cheetahs, and tigers and learn what they have in common with smaller cats. Why are some of these big cats endangered? Learn to play tiger hunt and cat and mouse. This class is purr-fect!

Learn amazing fish facts in this workshop! Make a Japanese fish kite, create a fishing game to play with your friends, and carve a soap fish! We’ll cook up a “fish fry” for lunch and make homemade tarter sauce. Students will play games to learn why fish swim in schools and investigate peculiar animals of the deep. We’ll create fish prints and learn about ocean ecology. This class is really fishy!

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!

Check out page 14 for details about the California Trip for mature students entering 6^th grade and up! Sign up soon-this fills fast!

May 26-30, June 2-6 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. ( no class on May 26: Memorial Day)

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!

Spend Monday and Tuesday in class learning nature skills. We’ll carve walking sticks, learn orienteering techniques, and use star charts to read the night sky. On Wednesday and Thursday, 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 week’s adventure.

No more microwave lunches for you! We’re learning to cook gourmet meals from scratch. Make your own pasta, bake French pastries, pickle some pickles, roll an enchilada, and munch on tasty snacks you cook yourself! We’ll go on a field trip to meet a real chef and get some behind the scenes secrets!

We’ll learn to mix colors, draw using perspective, use the rule of thirds, and master cross-hatching and design concepts as we create art based on cultures from around the world. Lots of hands-on learning! (No class on July 4^th: Independence Day)

Develop thinking skills and problem solving abilities as you create a mythical creature and go on adventures to solve the quest. You may encounter dragons, find treasures, discover the ogre, or rescue the forgotten one. Join us for imaginative fun!

Try something new this summer! Each day features different activities! Have you ever tried fencing? Use foils and Olympic style equipment. En guarde! Be a rock star! Better than Guitar Hero-we’ll use real instruments to be our own band. Field trips, games, and surprises! Join us for something out of the ordinary!

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!

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 23 Leave school at 7 AM. A stop in Blythe for lunch before arrival in Hollywood! Look for your favorite movie star handprints in front of Graumans Chinese Theater on the walk of stars. We’ll tour Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum of the weird, strange and unbelievable! Our dinner restaurant tonight is the fun Hard Rock Café! We head to our hotel for a dip in the hot tub before a sound night’s sleep!

Saturday, May 24 Surf’s up! And we celebrate with a day at Venice Beach! We’ll build sand castles, fly kites, ride the waves, visit the street vendors, and check out the live entertainment. Tonight, we enjoy Santa Monica Pier for dinner and then a ride on the roller coaster or carousel before heading back to our hotel.

Sunday, May 25 Universal Studios is our destination today! Learn how movies are made in our behind the scenes tour and then be in the movies as we ride some amazing rides. Discover Jurrasic Park, try out the new Simpsons Ride, be scared by The Mummy, experience the heat of Backdraft and much more! A full day, we stay until closing!

Monday, May 26 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 9^h.

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. School will be closed May 26h for Memorial Day and July 4^th for Independence Day. 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!

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