4th and 5th grade Program choices
World of Drumming
Music is important all over the world. World of Drumming takes music from around the world and transforms lives and builds community while having fun and and playing drums. Students will work on developing focus, listening, teamwork, and respect. We will especially focus on drumming from Latin America and Africa. Art Adventure Time! In this fast paced hands-on studio class, students will explore various art making processes and learn about the masters that used them. Fun with painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture -- including CLAY! Engage your imagination and creativity and enhance your artistic problem solving skills, all while having a great Adventure along the way! Materials fee of $10.00. MineCraft Missions Spend your time mining and crafting all in the comfort of a classroom with Minecraft! Learn the real-life history of the famous computer and video game Minecraft. Discover how to combine materials to make new items and replicate well-known structures to scale! Find out the truth behind the virtual materials and how accurate Minecraft really is! Whether you already love playing Minecraft or are just beginning your experience, this class will enrich your journey! CSI Goes Elementary Become a crime scene investigator. You will be called to the scene of the crime to collect evidence to convict the suspects. Classify footprints and fingerprints, use ink chromatography, analyze hand writing, and examine mysterious fibers to solve the crime! Solve mini-mysteries as you participate in this hands-on learning experience as a crime scene investigator. Mission: BreakoutEDU The clock is ticking! you only have an hour before your time expires! Learners will work together, relying on each other's strengths, creativity, and teamwork to successfully breakout! After experiencing several breakout missions, learners will have the opportunity to create their own mission! Through the creative process, they will experience technology, graphic design, word puzzles and games, creative writing, coding, and much more! Finally, we will put our missions to the test! Are you ready to breakout! Code, Make, and Create Are you or do you want to become a maker who creates and codes? Do you like to tinker, design, build and create with your hands? Learn how you can use crazy materials to design, code, make, and create new inventions and projects. Combine coding using Scratch, art, sciences, and engineering to create your own projects that come to life using the innovation kit, Makey Makey, circuits, LED lights, and more! This class will bring out the coder and maker in you! Materials fee of $10.00 Duct Tape to the Rescue! Imagine you are on a deserted island and the only material you have is duct tape! Whey you join this class you will learn why duct tape was invented and how it can be used in ways you never expected! If you enjoy building and inventing things out of extraordinary materials, this class is for you! Materials fee of $10.00. |
Challenger!
Everybody loves a challenge, but are you ready to test your skills at daily challenges that will twist your mind, bend your brain, and make you think anywhere but inside the box. Work on individual and group challenges to be the best at the Parachuting Egg, the PomPom Catapult, and the Roarin" Rocket! Bring your creative craniums to be the "Best Challenger"! Write, Right Now! Is your imagination running wild with a story (or two or three) to tell? Let it soar in this writer's workshop. Your creativity will flourish as it breathes life into characters, twists out plots, and develops stunning settings in your writing. Expect to have plenty of time to write, develop, and share your ideas to create compelling stores which every author will receive a personalized copy of when we celebrate our accomplishments. Materials fee of $10.00. Phenomenal Physics! NEW! Do you like building things or learning about cool science stuff? Do you wonder why and ask about how everything works? Come build balloon cars, planes, and catapults! You will do wacky, wild, and dizzy experiments to discover what makes them so much fun. Explore the science of how things around you work while learning and using the methods real scientists use. Materials fee $10.00. Fun with Chemistry Work your way through the scientific method with some truly incredible (and sometimes slimy!) results involving heat, cold, color, and a little magic. Discover through experimentation the many properties of matter using common elements and compounds. You will have FUN with chemistry! STOMP -- Junk Rhythm! Are you a kid that always has a beat in your feet (or hands)? Do you find yourself tapping your pencil in class, patting your desk and always in motion? Come join us in STOMP -- Junk Rhythm and make as much noise. . . we mean, music, as you can! STOMP combines rhythm, movement, sound, and more to create an exhilarating experience for performers and audiences! We will be using buckets, barrels, pots, pans and other "junk" to create fun instruments and perform creative sets at the end of Discover Camp. Comic Camp! Swashbuckling adventure, mystery, fantasy, autobiography - if you can dream of a story, you can tell it as a graphic novel. Unlock your powers of verbal and visual storytelling to make your own graphic novel. Materials fee of $10.00. Passport to the Wonders of the World Come explore the seven Wonders of the World - the magnificent structures, the dramatic histories, the local cultures, and more! Join us for hands-on activities, taste-testing cuisines, and creative adventures! Have you ever wondered how long it would take to walk the length of the Great Wall of China? Or what mysteries lie in the carved out tombs and temples of Petra? Join to find out! Materials fee of $10.00. |