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ACTIVITY CENTER child is $167 for week 1 and $208 per week modes of human flight from hot air balloons Staff will oversee children during any period for weeks 2, 3 & 4. STAFF to rockets and helicopters to airplanes. Build when they do not have another scheduled Grades 1-7: 2:45-7pm. and fly various models to demonstrate and course. Activities include crafts, board games experience flight. JIM DIEGNAN and reading. STAFF AIR-POWERED VEHICLES Grades 3-6: Period 3. Grades 1-6: Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Learn about physics in this hands-on course. Session 2 only. You will build an air-powered car using paper, ADVENTURERS: WILD WORLD straws, foam circles, wire and other materials. ANIMALS IN ART Role-play as a famous adventurer racing You will build a levitating machine that will lift If you love animals and enjoy art, then this through mysterious fantasy realms. Use from the table with the power of air. You will is the class for you! We will explore the history, geography and mythology to outwit also create air-powered fidget spinners from interesting and colorful world of animals mystical opponents, solve puzzles, avoid traps paper and other unique air-powered creations through projects that may include sculpture, and gain the power to save the universe. from your imagination. Students will test their painting, printmaking, collage and mobiles. RICHARD PALMGREN models and present their creations to the MICHELE REISMAN Grades 6-9: Periods 1, 5. class. ELIZAVETA LIMANOVA Grades 3-6: Period 1. Grades 5-8: Period 1. ADVERTISING & GRAPHIC DESIGN ANIME Delve into the world of design and create an ALL ABOUT CLAY In this class you will study and analyze the original restaurant concept. You will develop Create and design with wet clay, paint fired Japanese art form known as Anime. You will advertising and marketing ideas including pieces and add creative touches like beads even get to watch episodes of anime and theme, menu, logo and uniforms. to projects including wind chimes and peace snippets of movies of the same genre. Come 973.378.7620 MICHELE REISMAN signs. Other projects may include fossils, join and learn about different cultures and Grades 6-9: Period 5. turtles, fish bowl with sea life, clay masks and how you can connect to them! butterfly bowls. Dress to make a mess. AUSTIN JACKSON

AFTER-CARE CLAY ART 4 KIDS, JOAN TAMASCO Grades 4-8: Periods 1, 2, 3. somadultschool.org After-Care offers a safe, supervised Grades 1-6: Period 1. environment for children entering grades 1-7. Grades 3-6: Period 5. ART AS SCIENCE, SCIENCE AS ART After-Care is available from the end of Period Creating accurate descriptions is one of a 5 until 7pm onsite at SOMS. Activities include ALL TYPES OF FLIGHT scientist’s most important skills. Whether arts and crafts, games, sports skills and more. Learn the fundamentals of human flight from through sketching, writing, sculpting or Drinks and snacks will be provided. Cost per the beginning of time until now. Explore even taking digital images, science depends C on using our five senses to create models Duncan as he sleeps? Did you ever want to CLUB ENTREPRENEUR H I L

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interact with fossils, rocks and minerals, use characters through acting? If so, this is the entrepreneur? If so, then join us for two weeks E microscopes and prepared slides, take a class for you! We will be acting scenes from of money-making fun, a chance to meet new N’ S nature walk, all while creating an artist’s and/ Shakespeare’s plays (focusing on Hamlet and friends and learn new business concepts and SUMMER PROGRAM 2020 or writer’s portfolio that you will get to keep. Macbeth), using costumes and scripts. skills. JOHN GREGORY All skill levels welcome! NICOLE CHIRLO We will be filming the acting as well! Grades 6-9: Period 1. Grades 2-6: Periods 4-5. KATE MAZZETTI-SHAMBURG One-Week Sessions: Weeks 1 & 3 Grades 4-8: Periods 1-2. CODING (June 29-July 2 & July 13-17). Grades 1-3: Period 3. Do you like playing video games? Coding Session 2 only. is all about learning the basic concepts of ART OF BEAUTIFUL WRITING object-oriented programming, using shapes Learn the art of beautiful handwriting. We will CARTOONING and methods. Each student will learn how to learn calligraphy, scroll work and more. You Build your skills from the ground up and learn create simple animation projects. will be able to design your own invitations by the fundamentals of drawing to develop your SABINA ELLIS hand! LINDA ABELLA own cartoon characters, comics strips and Grades 5-8: Periods 1, 2. Grades 3-8: Periods 4, 5. comic books. Work alone or make new friends as you partner with other students to create COOKING BOARD GAME BOOTCAMP as many comics as possible. Whether you are Each day we’ll gather ingredients and prepare Learn to design and build your own interested in competition or drawing on your delicious goodies. Learn how to make perfect boardgames and tabletop games. First we own, this is the course for you. Learn at your smoothies and shakes, yummy snacks and will focus on looking at (and playing) iconic own pace as this introductory course is for all sandwiches and delectable desserts. tabletop games and examining the different skill levels. PAUL MARIGLIANO GIULIA CATALANO unique mechanisms they employ. Then you Grades 4-9: Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Grades 3-8: Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. will start creating your own games including card and tabletop games, role-playing (think CHESS: ADVANCED COOL ROCKETS & THE SCIENCE D&D) and maybe even a video game or Learn chess basics: piece movement, draw, OF FLIGHT two. You will also learn strategies to market stalemate, castling, checkmate, capture, In this fun-filled one-week camp, students games, learn about supply and demand, how promotion, center control, notation, openings, will explore the science of flight and related to create clear and concise instructions and tactics and more. Advanced students should topics such as gravity, lift, thrust, drag and air how pricing works. JAMES COKORINOS know all above and their class will include a pressure. They will participate in experiments Grades 5-8: Periods 1, 2. tournament. MICHAEL PATRUCKER involving magnets, gyroscopes, air currents, Grades 3-9: Period 3. light and water atomizers. There will also be BOOK COVER ILLUSTRATION demonstrations with electricity, temperature Each class you will be given a new book title CHESS: BEGINNER and heat transfer. Scientific principals behind with the description/summary of the book for Learn chess basics: piece movement, draw, each experiment will be discussed and which you will create a cover illustration using stalemate, castling, checkmate, capture, explained in detail. Finally, each camper will a variety of materials. The chosen book and promotion, center control, notation, openings, learn how to build their own model rocket and its cover will not be shown until the end of tactics and more. Advanced students should launch it at the end of the week. Returning class, so as not to influence your illustrations. know all above and their class will include a students will build new rockets. The focus Some books you may know and others you tournament. MICHAEL PATRUCKER of both sessions will be on water pressure, may not and they will be everything from Grades 3-9: Periods 1, 2. sound and surface tension. BRAD TURNER picture books to chapter books and even Grades 1-6: Periods 1-3. graphic novels. It’s a chance to explore your CLAY & PAPER FLOWER JEWELRY One-Week Sessions: Weeks 1 & 3 vision and interpretation of what a book cover Students will make small flowers from (June 29-July 2 & July 13-17). should look like including the title, colors, air-dry clay and rice paper and use them to characters, settings, composition and overall make jewelry, wreaths and things from their CRAZY ABOUT MARVEL & DC design. It’s sure to be fun for young illustration imagination. Students will also learn to make Explore current superhero comics and movies and design enthusiasts. AMANDA BURNS- polymer clay beads using various techniques while developing critical thinking and reading ELHASSOUNI and incorporate them into their jewelry. skills. This is a high-success medium for kids Grades 3-6: Period 4. ELIZAVETA LIMANOVA who have low interest in conventional reading.

Grades 4-9: Period 2. Win free comics and other prizes. 973.378.7620 BUILDING FAIRY HOUSES & OTHER Grades 1-4: Period 5. RICHARD PALMGREN MAGICAL THINGS Grades 6-9: Period 4. Come join us as we build fairy houses and CLAYMATIONS other magical things including elf doors Learn the basics of putting together an CRAZY ABOUT MYTHOLOGY and more! LINDA ABELLA animation using clay. Create storyboard Learn the secrets of the gods and goddesses somadultschool.org Grades 2-4: Period 1. ideas, organize the process, build the figures, from various myths and legends. Create your Grades 3-8: Periods 2, 3. create set designs and learn photography own gods and heroes. Enter the worlds of and computer technology all in one class. Odysseus, Perseus, King Arthur, Hercules and CAMP SHAKESPEARE Perfect for hands-on learners and technology many others. If you’re a fan of Percy Jackson, Did you ever want to travel through Elsinore enthusiasts. KATHY JONES this is the class for you! RICHARD PALMGREN Castle? Did you ever want to watch King Grades 4-7: Periods 1, 4. Grades 6-9: Period 2. C

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Grades 6-9: Period 3. back in time. Find out which dinosaur was the some of the most revered and influential SUMMER PROGRAM 2020 largest, which was the smallest, which had pharaohs and their dynasties and create some CREATE A CARNIVAL EXPERIENCE the most horns, the longest neck and which amazing artwork as you write your own Book Use your creativity to design a fantastic ate the most food. Learn which dinosaurs of the Dead. EYLEEN FAUST functioning arcade game. Unleash your evolved into animals of our own time and Grades 1-4: Period 1. imagination as you design a mini working create awesome art projects in paint, collage Session 2 only. roller coaster while learning the physics and clay as we work our way through our own behind your favorite amusement park rides. awesome Jurassic Park! EYLEEN FAUST EXPLORING ANCIENT EGYPT Plan and organize an exciting carnival Grades 1-4: Period 2. Feel that desert heat as we begin an exciting atmosphere with rides, games, prizes and Session 1 only. adventure exploring the daily life of our activities. The ultimate summer fun will be ancient Egyptian ancestors. Thanks to their running the carnival: collecting tickets, giving DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE creativity and genius at engineering and out prizes and demonstrating your incredible Take a look at our universe the way a building we have many examples of the work imagination. JIM DIEGNAN scientist does. We’ll build a mini telescope they did that still survive to this day. We’ll get Grades 3-6: Periods 4, 5. and learn how it works. We’ll study the sun, to experience life in the time of the pharaohs Session 2 only. constellations, comets and other natural as we make Egyptian jewelry, pyramids, a satellites. Learn about other tools astronomers magnificent pharaoh’s mask to dress up CREATIVE JOURNALING use to study space such as rainbow diffraction with and paint on papyrus scrolls. Create What are you waiting for? Join the craze of glasses and solar eclipse glasses. great Egyptian artwork as we learn about journaling, calligraphy and hand lettering. JIM DIEGNAN hieroglyphics, the Rosetta Stone, pyramids, Perfect your own style of writing while creating Grades 4-7: Period 1. mummification and more on this awesome a one-of-a-kind journal. Our camp will spark Session 2 only. trip back in time. EYLEEN FAUST your creative writing juices and ignite your Grades 1-4: Period 1. inner artist! LITTLE SCHOLARS STAFF DISNEY PRETEND: ACT & SING Session 1 only. Grades 3-6: Periods 4, 5. Have fun pretending to be some of your Session 2 only. favorite Disney characters. Sing, dance and FENCING FOR KIDS bring the movies to life. REGINA BRADSHAW This course teaches fencing using harmless CREATIVE PLACES: INTERIOR Grades 2-7: Periods 4, 5. simulated “foils” and other equipment DESIGN appropriate for children. Learn basic fencing Build a small-scale room and learn interior DOLLHOUSE NATION moves and footwork while having a good time. decorating techniques. Design the furniture, Imagine a world where dolls rule! Where do STAFF paint the walls, pick the fabrics and express they live, work, shop and play? We’ll create Grades 4-6: Periods 4, 5. yourself and your style. MICHELE REISMAN a fabulous dollhouse neighborhood using a Grades 6-9: Period 4. cardboard template, furniture we’ll assemble FIGURE DRAWING ourselves and lots of different designs and Have you ever wanted to draw a realistic CREATIVE TILE ART - MOSAICS embellishments to customize our buildings human figure? Now you can learn all the Mosaics is a beautiful art form that goes and make them uniquely our own. It will be a tricks of figure drawing as you work from back thousands of years. Paint and create barrel of fun as we learn architecture, interior photographs, famous works of art, mirrors your own tiles, add gemstones, shells, mirror and exterior design, curb appeal and civil and more. KATHY JONES fragments, glass tiles and more to personalize engineering in this creative and intriguing Grades 4-7: Period 3. your projects. Learn how to make designs class. EYLEEN FAUST and patterns. Instructors will incorporate Grades 1-6: Periods 4-5. FISTBALL fun facts in history, science and nature as Learn the sport of Fistball — a 5-player they relate to the students’ work. Projects EARLY MORNING DROP-OFF international team sport similar to volleyball may include tiled picture frames, patterned Experienced staff will supervise children in that is played outdoors during summer mirrors, peace signs, letters, boxes and more. a safe and pleasant environment while they and indoors in winter. The playing area is Repeat students are offered alternate projects. await the start of the first period of the day. separated by a center line and net. Using

See examples at clayart4kids.com. JOAN This program is available only to students only an arm or closed fist, players hit the 973.378.7620 TAMASCO, CLAY ARTS 4 KIDS STAFF whose Period 1 Summer Program course ball across the net to the opponent’s half Grades 1-6: Period 1. meets at SOMS. Cost per child is $36 for where it can be contacted up to three times Grades 3-6: Period 2. week 1 and $46/week for weeks 2, 3 & 4. by separate players (with a bounce being STAFF permissible before contact.) The three hits

CUPCAKE DECORATING Grades 1-7: 8-8:45am. are ideally used to save, set and spike the somadultschool.org Create your own decorative cupcakes! Have ball back into the opponent’s half, in that order. fun exploring various techniques, decorations EGYPTIAN GODS, PHARAOHS & CORY DAHN and details of cupcake decorating. Each day THE BOOK OF THE DEAD Grades 5-9: Periods 1, 2, 3. you’ll enjoy a delicious treat when you bring The goal of every Ancient Egyptian was Session 1 only. your creation home! STAFF to reach the afterlife, a world of peace, Grades 3-6: Periods 4, 5. prosperity and happiness. Embark on the C

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Topics will include hair and fiber analysis, own stories, this class is for you! AMANDA 20 years. She is a member of the International SUMMER PROGRAM 2020 handwriting analysis, analysis of blood BURNS-ELHASSOUNI Jugglers’ Association and Jersey Jugglers. evidence, fingerprint evidence, eyewitness Grades 3-6: Period 2. SANDRA LIETH testimony, DNA evidence, toxicology and many Grades 6-9: Period 3. Grades 1-3: Period 1. other topics. NICOLE CHIRLO Grades 3-6: Periods 2, 5. Grades 3-5: Period 2. GREEK MYTHS, MONSTERS Grades 6-8: Periods 3, 4. Grades 6-8: Period 3. & HEROES The mythological traditions of Ancient JUNIOR VIRTUOSI FUN-CYCLE: RECYCLED CRAFTS Greece created the lens through which all This group will focus on repertoire for small Learn about waste and our environmental mythology is viewed. Their stories are rooted ensembles. It is open to all string instruments, responsibilities and use reclaimed items to in the hero’s journey, challenged by horrific flute, oboe and French horn, as well as one make all sorts of fun things including jewelry, monsters and judged by the family of Zeus advanced level pianist. This class is designed masks and mosaics. DONNA DREW — the Olympians. Look into the magnificent to get students ready to join the Virtuosi Grades 1-4: Periods 4-5. world of the great Mount Olympus and delve Ensemble when they get to Columbia High One-Week Sessions: Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4. into the meaning and purpose behind each School. TODD VAN BEVEREN character’s existence. From the family of Grades 5-9: Period 3. GLASS FUSING gods and goddesses to the heroes who This interactive class teaches the foundations were challenged by awesome and frightful KEEP YOUR CASH of glass fusing while exploring different monsters of all kinds, we’ll travel together on Have fun learning about personal finance and techniques to create fun, colorful fused- a journey of self-discovery through mythology. test what you’ve learned in a daily Jeopardy glass projects from opaque, transparent and EYLEEN FAUST competition. NANCY WHEELER iridescent glasses. All glass pieces will be Grades 3-6: Period 3. Grades 5-6: Period 4. fired in a kiln. Projects may include picture Session 2 only. Grades 7-9: Period 5. frames, mirrors, night lights, bowls and Session 1 only. jewelry. CLAY ART 4 KIDS, JOAN TAMASCO INDOOR SPORTS & GAMES Grades 1-6: Periods 3, 4. Enjoy indoor activities played with balls, nets KNITTING and hoops. Build your skills, play games and Create scarves, hats and more! In this knitting GLOBAL MYTHOLOGY get great exercise. Wear sneakers. class you will learn how to finger knit, cast on, In ancient times people wove stories about AUSTIN JACKSON knit, purl and cast off. ANNA ELSON powerful spirits and diabolical monsters to Grades 4-6: Periods 4, 5. Grades 4-8: Periods 1, 2, 3. help explain things that they didn’t understand about life, death, nature and time. We’ll INTRODUCTION TO CODING LANYARDS journey through history, analyzing the stories Students will learn how to problem-solve Calling all lanyard enthusiasts! Come have that grew into the great books of Mythology using code blocks to move in an algorithm fun and learn how to create different lanyard and creating a collection of fabulous projects pattern or drag and drop to create different stitches. We will be learning stitches like box, based on the most amazing myths ever! We’ll programs. TERRELL LAMPLEY butterfly, zipper, barrel, Chinese staircase and study pre–historic, Egyptian, Greek, Viking, Grades 1-4: Periods 2, 5. more. KATHY JONES Roman, Native American and other myths and Grades 4-7: Periods 2, 5. explore the world’s cultures together. INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE EYLEEN FAUST PLATFORM LEGO BUILDERS Grades 3-6: Period 3. Students will gain hands-on experience Budding Engineers will build LEGO projects Session 1 only. learning the basic features of Google Drive, based around daily missions (Blast Off to Google Docs and Google Slides. Working in Space and Improve Your Town, to name a few). GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH CANVA Google Drive, they will create an “All about In addition to building daily missions, we will Learn how to design your own materials for Me” storybook. TERRELL LAMPLEY explore simple machines, use motors, gears digital and print use. Create party invitations, Grades 2-4: Periods 1, 4. and sensors, and use the bricks we build with event materials, flyers, report covers, signs to tell a story about the world around us. All of

and so much more with Canva. Canva is a free JUGGLING & CIRCUS TRAINING this while learning science, engineering, city 973.378.7620 online tool that provides design templates to Have you ever wanted to run away and planning, teamwork and more. LEGO projects start, and an intuitive platform to customize join the circus? Learn one of the basic are not brought home. JAKE EZZO for your needs. An email address is required requirements to do just that — juggle! We’ll Grades 1-4: Periods 1, 2. for the class. DANI GERACI start by learning the basic three-ball cascade

Grades 5-8: Periods 4, 5. and then begin adding tricks such as “tennis,” LEGO ROBOTICS, RACING, somadultschool.org Session 2 only. “under the leg,” “the shower” and “two-in- OLYMPICS one-hand.” Later we’ll tackle “columns,” Want to learn the basics of coding, robotics GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOKLET MAKING “the yo-yo” and “441.” As time allows, we’ll and engineering? Want to build race tracks, You will have the chance to explore try our balance skills on the Rolla Bolla and race lego racecars, improve your design and storytelling and characters while building a we’ll practice spinning plates. For the younger compete in the difficult LEGO Olympics? In graphic novel booklet one page at a time. ages, we’ll explore eye-hand coordination, this class, we will create simple machines Using the graphic novel format you will create practice throwing and catching and get a feel to compete in both drag and powered races, C create tracks, courses and competitors for an MUSICAL THEATER CAMP in order to create a take-home portfolio filled H I L

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We will use our cumulative skills to tackle of musical theater production in this intensive please bring a smock, a smile and get ready E project-based scenarios like solving the all-day program that includes a Supervised for some exciting hands-on learning! N’ S environmental crisis, creating a new space rover Lunch period. Classes are devoted to singing, LESLIE JENKINS SUMMER PROGRAM 2020 and developing robots/inventions to combat dancing, acting and technical aspects of Grades 3-6: Periods 2, 3. problems in our world. LEGO creations will not theater and culminate in an exciting musical be brought home. Students will learn computer production for family and friends on the last PAPER & PRINT programming, science, engineering, teamwork day. Each child must participate in all areas of Use a variety of materials to print on and innovative skills in a fun environment. production and performance, onstage as well paper that you’ve created. Block printing, JAKE EZZO and JAMES COKORINOS as off. MICHAEL MALANGA, Director; KARINA marbleizing, collage and decoupage are a Grades 5-8: Periods 3, 4, 5. BRUK, Music Director. few of the colorful, creative techniques you Grades 4-10: Periods 1-5. will master. MICHELE REISMAN

LUNCH PERIOD Session 2 only. Grades 6-9: Period 2. Bring a bag lunch labeled with your child’s name. Lunches will be collected inside the MYSTICAL CREATURE PAY IT FORWARD entrance door in the morning. All students ADVENTURES Pay It Forward is a unique opportunity for in Supervised Lunch must remain in the Lochness Monster, Big Foot, Greek Gods students to learn how to impact the world designated lunchroom area. All children and mystical creatures…did we get your around them. Our leaders will learn about registered in both Periods 3 and 4 MUST be attention? We are going to fill your days with public speaking, civic involvement and signed up for Supervised Lunch (unless you discoveries about these legendary creatures. community outreach opportunities with an are picking up your child). STAFF Not only will you have fun, but you will engaging curriculum that will channel their All Grades: 12-12:30pm. broaden your creative mind and gain critical desire to have a positive impact on the world reasoning skills. This is one adventure you will around them. LITTLE SCHOLARS STAFF MICROWORLDS-EXPLORING not want to miss! LITTLE SCHOLARS STAFF Grades 3-6: Periods 4, 5. MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS Grades 1-4: Periods 1, 2, 3. Session 1 only. Life is all around us! We see plants and Session 1 only. animals everywhere we go. But what about all PHOTOGRAPHY of the living things we can’t see with our own ORIGAMI From light writing to using photography two eyes? You will get to collect microscopic Learn the Japanese art of paper folding. as a language, we will dive into traditional organisms from different environments and We will create many types of animals and and nontraditional uses for cameras and view them using a variety of magnifying objects that will ignite the imagination. photographs. Students are required to bring devices. Perfect your microscope skills and JASMINE CLARK their own cameras (fully charged and with an create different types of slides for viewing the Grades 2-5: Periods 2, 3. empty memory card), point and shoots and organisms you collect. NICOLE CHIRLO dSLR’s only. No cell phone cameras. STAFF Grades 2-6: Periods 4-5. ORIGAMI 2.0 Grades 6-9: Periods 2, 3. One-Week Sessions: Weeks 2 & 4 We will create more advanced and intricate Grades 4-6: Periods 4-5. (July 6-10 & July 20-24). Origami that will broaden the imagination One-Week Sessions: Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4. further. This class is for those who have MINECRAFT completed the first Origami class. PIRATE’S LIFE If you like playing with Legos and have a JASMINE CLARK Ahoy matey and shiver me timbers! We’re off great imagination then Minecraft is for you. Grades 2-5: Period 4. on a high seas adventure to learn all about Minecraft is an open-world game unlike any what it was like to be a pirate. We’ll navigate other. Players are placed in a borderless, ORNAMENT WORKSHOP the ocean with a compass, fill up a treasure randomly generated land with no supplies, Students will make holiday ornaments with a chest and bury it with a treasure map, create directions or objective. Objectives are Russian paper mache technique. Starting with a Jolly Roger and more as we sail the seven imagined by players, allowing them to create a simple Christmas bell ornament, students seas and explore the life and times of these their own virtual world, mining materials and will eventually progress to making a bird, a renegades, learning about how they came to building tools. SABINA ELLIS polar bear, a husky sleigh dog and a human be and why they are still glamorized today in Grades 4-8: Periods 3, 4, 5. figure from a Russian fairytale. tv, movies and games. EYLEEN FAUST ELIZAVETA LIMANOVA Grades 1-4: Period 2.

MISSION TO MARS Grades 2-5: Periods 3, 4. Session 2 only. 973.378.7620 Get ready for the journey of a lifetime as you blast off for Mars. Learn about the Martian PAINTING & DRAWING POP STARS IN TRAINING environment while planning, designing and Students will learn drawing and painting Students will have fun singing and dancing building a Mars base right here on earth. Let techniques using a number of different to the pop hits they love. Elementary vocal your imagination burst with fanciful designs to mediums including graphic and colored coaching and confidence building will be somadultschool.org make life inhabitable on the surface of Mars. pencils, markers, charcoal, pastels, emphasized. REGINA BRADSHAW Discover what it would take to actually go watercolor, tempera and acrylic painting on Grades 3-6: Periods 2, 3. to the red planet to establish a colony on its canvas. Students will learn the wonders of surface. JIM DIEGNAN color theory while mixing and creating new Grades 3-6: Period 2. shades. Every young artist should get ready Session 2 only. to have fun exploring various art techniques POTTERY study different styles of dance including ULTIMATE FRISBEE: ADVANCED Learn the art of working with clay. Slab it, contemporary, jazz and hip hop. Students can Invented at CHS in 1968 and now played coil it, pinch it and texture it! Explore hand- expect to learn and analyze different forms nationally, this fast-moving disc sport building techniques and working with a and perform full routines! INDIGO JACKSON combines elements of football, soccer and pottery wheel. When your pieces are finished Grades 1-3: Periods 1, 3, 4. basketball. This is an advanced course for we will glaze them and you will take home Grades 2-4: Periods 2, 5. players who have experience on the beautiful original works of art. Bring a smock frisbee field. STAFF and be prepared to get messy! SUMMER BAND ACADEMY Grades 4-9: Period 4. LESLIE JENKINS Are you interested in being a great musician? Grades 3-6: Periods 1, 4. Do you want to get a headstart on learning ULTIMATE FRISBEE: BEGINNER to play your new instrument? Do you love to Invented at CHS in 1968 and now played ROCKETS, MAGNETS, play in band and want to play more? If you nationally, this fast-moving disc sport BERNOULLI & MORE answered yes to any of these questions, you combines elements of football, soccer and In this fun-filled one-week camp children need to join the Summer Band Academy! basketball. This is a beginner course for will explore the science of flight and related Students in the Summer Band Academy will players who have not yet mastered the sport. topics such as gravity, lift, thrust, drag and air work with SOMSD Band Director Christopher STAFF pressure. They will participate in experiments Balas on individual instrumental techniques Grades 4-9: Period 5. involving magnets, gyroscopes, air currents, as well as playing all different styles of music. light and water atomizers. There will also be The Summer Band Academy is open to rising UPCYCLED: WEARABLE ART demonstrations with electricity, temperature 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students who are Learn about sustainable design and how to and heat transfer. Scientific principals behind already or plan to be in their school’s band upcycle by creating new wearable art with each experiment will be discussed and program. Let’s make great music together materials such as reclaimed corks, upholstery explained in detail. Finally, each camper will this summer! Students are expected to samples, denim remnants and fabric from learn how to build their own model rocket and have their own instruments. old T-shirts. You will use these and other launch it at the end of the week. Returning CHRISTOPHER BALAS & STAFF materials to make T-shirt yarn, fabric pouches, students will build new rockets. The focus of Grades 5-8: Periods 1-2. patches, key rings and more. DONNA DREW both sessions will be on inertia, magnetism This is a 4-week course (June 29-July 24). Grades 5-9: Periods 2, 3. and the Bernoulli principle. BRAD TURNER Grades 1-6: Periods 1-3. SUMMER ORCHESTRA ACADEMY VIDEOCASTING One-Week Sessions: Weeks 2 & 4 (STRINGS) Do you like the idea of making movies? You’ll (July 6-10 & July 20-24). Open to violin, viola and cello students be acting and producing short movies and entering 3rd through 8th grade. It provides music videos in this class. You’ll also learn to SCULPTURE & POTTERY intensive small-group instruction and use Animoto and other programs. We’ll finish In this more advanced class, students will individual mentoring for students. Ensemble with an Oscar party. Each participant will be explore working with all types of clay and a lessons are also included. Students are able to copy and take home a compilation of variety of other materials in order to create expected to have their own instruments. her/his movies. BRIAN SELTZER original works of both pottery and sculpture TODD VAN BEVEREN & STAFF Grades 3-6: Periods 1, 3, 5. art forms. Additionally every student will enjoy Grades 3-8: Periods 1-2. Grades 5-9: Periods 2, 4. using the pottery wheel to create functional This is a 4-week course (June 29-July 24). glazed clay pieces. Students will also combine WATERCOLORS FOR KIDS both wheel and hand-built clay projects SUZUKI VIOLIN: INTERMEDIATE Young artists will learn how to create great together. Please remember to bring a smock! These small-group intermediate classes are watercolor art. Explore the properties of LESLIE JENKINS for children who have taken Suzuki Violin watercolor and experiment with different Grades 6-9: Period 5. during the school year and want to continue materials to create unique effects. Learn to the next level. Violins are not provided proper techniques for mixing paint, handling a SIMULATION GAMES but can be rented from Elefante Music at brush and using watercolors to blend or layer. Students will create, build, design and 908.464.5928. TODD VAN BEVEREN Understand basic color theory and experiment manipulate cities and make smart choices to Grades 1-4: Periods 4, 5. with mixing colors. CLAY ART FOR KIDS STAFF keep their citizens happy and skyline growing. Grades 1-3: Period 4. TERRELL LAMPLEY TV PRODUCTION WORKSHOP Grades 3-6: Period 5. Grades 4-9: Period 3. Students will learn how to produce a TV show (producing, directing, editing, camera technique). WHIZ KIDS SINGING ROCKS! Students will learn basic camera techniques, Join us on a science discovery mission! Students will practice vocal warm-ups and on-camera performance, scripting and how to We will explore the world of chemistry, breathing techniques and be coached on shoot good footage. They will then be introduced engineering and earth science through singing ensemble and solo pieces, both to post production and the Final Cut Pro editing experiments and encounters. This program current and standard. Beginning sight singing program. Students have the option to enroll in will enhance STEM education philosophies will also be taught. REGINA BRADSHAW both sessions for a discounted rate: $405/each with a big punch of fun. Join us for this Grades 4-8: Period 1. session or $760/both. DIANE CAMINA exciting journey into the world of science! Grades 5-9: Periods 1-3. LITTLE SCHOLARS STAFF SOMAS DANCE ACADEMY Grades 1-4: Periods 1, 2, 3. Just starting your dance training? Or want Session 2 only. to improve your dance ability? Join us to WOODWORKING YOGA: BEGINNER New Projects for 2020! Learn classic The beginner yoga class is for students who woodworking in a hands-on, safe and are new to yoga and are interested in its supervised environment. Create a variety benefits. The beginner-level yoga sequence of projects while learning to accurately will help students build strength, increase design, measure, saw, drill, finish and more. flexibility and center the mind. Classes will Kids will also come home with confidence be moderately paced so you will learn the and a love for working with their hands. fundamental postures and principles that MAPLEWOODSHOP STAFF create a successful and effective yoga Grades 1-3: Period 1. practice. Classes will progress into balancing Grades 7-9: Periods 2, 3. poses, flowing sequences and partner Grades 4-6: Period 4. poses. Students will establish body-breath connection through breathing exercises. Some WOODWORKING: ADVANCED classes might offer guided meditation or For previous Maplewoodshop students breathwork, and all classes end in a state of or campers with significant hand-tool utter relaxation in Corpse Pose or “Savasana.” experience, this advanced woodworking class Lessons will promote building self-expression, will engage and challenge kids to create confidence, positive thinking and cooperation. more elaborate projects and further develop CASIANNE GUASTELLA their woodworking skills. New projects and Grades 4-9: Period 2. independent projects will be created for this class. MAPLEWOODSHOP STAFF YOGA: INTRODUCTION Grades 3-9: Period 5. This class will introduce young students to the mental and physical benefits of yoga. YOGA: ADVANCED Children will experience basic yoga postures The advanced yoga class is for students who and imitate the movements and sounds of have previous experience with the practice nature, connecting them with the world that of yoga. Classes feature flowing sequences surrounds them. Students will establish body- designed to progressively open the body. Each breath connection through breathing exercises sequence builds upon the previous, evolving and guided meditations for self-regulation into deeper, more advanced postures as the abilities. Classes will explore cooperative practice unfolds. Some classes might offer games, theme activities, storytelling, music guided meditation, chanting or breathwork, and partner poses. Lessons will introduce and all classes end in a state of utter children to yoga’s true meaning of union, relaxation in Corpse Pose or “Savasana.” while building self-expression, confidence, Students will gain a deeper understanding positive thinking and cooperation. of the physical and philosophical aspects CASIANNE GUASTELLA of Yoga. Partner poses inspire positive peer Grades 1-3: Period 1. interactions that are sure to carry into their everyday lives. Expanding minds come together through independent and group activities that stimulate physical strength, cooperation, trust and self-confidence. CASIANNE GUASTELLA Grades 4-9: Period 3.