Illinois Central College

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Session 1 – June 10-20 Session 2 – July 8-18 44thth - 110th0th GGradesrades

Dear College for Kids Families, Welcome to ICC’s College for Kids 2013! We are excited to offer another summer of fun and educational opportunities for students Session 1 entering grades 4 through 10. At College for Kids, your child will explore areas of interest, June 10-June 20 learn new things, make new friends, and spend time on a college campus. From cake decorating to robot building there is always Session 2 something for everyone. July 8-July 18 All classes are held at the ICC East Peoria campus and are led by highly qualified and state certified teachers. Students may enroll in one, two, or three classes per session. General Information ...... 1 Classes meet for 2 hours daily Monday through Thursday for 2 weeks. Club CFK is Club CFK ...... 1 also available for those wishing to extend their stay at College for Kids. On Fridays, we offer Lunch Options ...... 1 optional day-long field trips. Adventures and More ...... 2 In an effort to ensure a positive experience for students and maintain high standards for Computers and Technology ...... 3 safety, a mandatory orientation is held on the first day of College for Kids. A parent or Foreign Language ...... 4 authorized adult must attend one orientation with their student. Please bring your child’s Interpersonal and Study Skills ...... 4 com pleted Emergency Medical and Assump - tion of Risk and Release form to orientation. Language Arts ...... 4 These can be printed from our CFK website, or completed upon registrations that are done in Mathematics ...... 5 person at the ICC North Hickory Hall location. Performing Arts ...... 5 Remember to choose a lunch option when registering your child for College for Kids. Science and Social Sciences ...... 6 For additional information and details, please Visual Arts ...... 7 refer to the CFK website at www.icc.edu/cfk or give us a call at (309) 690-6900. Class Grid ...... 8-9 Thank you for sharing your children with us! We look forward to seeing you this summer! Friday Fun Trips ...... 10-11 Best Wishes, Daily Schedules ...... 12 The College for Kids Staff Register early! Class sizes are limited. Pick-up Information ...... 12 ICC Map ...... 13 General Information Cost $75 per class unless otherwise noted Club CFK – $65 per session GRADES 4-10 Friday Fun Trips – cost varies Refer to Friday Fun pages 10-11 Visa, MasterCard, Discover, personal check and cash are accepted. Payment is expected Need more College for Kids? at the time of registration. Enrollment is not guaranteed without full payment. Want to extend your fun? Scholarships Come join us at Club CFK with games, art activities, Limited scholarships are provided by the computers, crafts, snacks, and more! On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Club ICC Educational Foundation. The scholarship CFK will take the ICC Cougar bus to the new CougarPlex Fitness Center. amount is $50 per class with a maximum of Students will have an opportunity to play on the courts, two scholarships per child, not to exceed participate in group exercise, and learn about health and nutrition. Club $100 total. Limit of four scholarships awarded CFK is led and supervised by certified teachers. Enrollment is limited, per family, not to exceed $200 total. Additional classes will be charged at full price. so sign up early. Dress for exercise, shoes preferred. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to availability 3:15-5:00 pm Session 1 $65 of funds and verification of financial need. Club 3:15-5:00 pm Session 2 per session CFK and Friday Fun trips do not qualify for scholarships. A parent or other authorized adult MUST come to Homeroom 303A to sign Scholarship application is available online at out their student. Students may be picked up at any time during Club CFK. www.icc.edu/cfk or call (309) 690-6914 for ad - A late fee will be assessed for students picked up later than 5 p.m. ditional information. Do not register online if you are requesting a scholarship. Registration Online at www.icc.edu/cfk By phone at (309) 690-6900 Lunch at College for Kids In person at ICC North Hickory Hall , 5407 12:30-1:05 pm • Monday-Thursday • Tranquility Room (located next to the Cafeteria) N. University, Peoria. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. There are 4 options for lunch . . . Full payment is expected at the time of regis - 1 Bring a sack lunch. You are responsible for keeping track of your lunch. tration. Class enrollment cannot be confirmed We do not have lunch collection bins or access to a refrigerator. without full payment. 2 Bring cash and purchase your lunch. May be used in vending machines and the cafeteria. Registration deadline is one week prior to the 3 Lunch Punch card – cost is $55 per session and has a fixed daily menu for 8 days first day of each session. (see website). Meals include an entrée, side dish, beverage and dessert. Students are Cancellations and Class Changes served lunch in the Tranquility Room. May not be used for vending machines or other cafeteria items. You may cancel or change your registration up to 5 working days prior to the first day of Two ways to purchase Lunch Punch cards: a session and receive a full refund. • Online when you register with a credit card NO REFUNDS OR CLASS CHANGES • Orientation day at the Lunch Punch card table. Look for the sign and we will issue you a WILL BE GIVEN AFTER THAT TIME. • Lunch Punch card. Cash, check, and credit cards are accepted for payment. College for Kids reserves the right to cancel No refunds are given for Lunch Punch Cards for any reason, including unused punches and any class due to low enrollment. A full refund absences. will be given for classes cancelled by College 4 Pre-paid CaféCash gift card – cost: You choose the amount to put onto the pre-paid card. for Kids if an alternate class is not available. Students use the card to buy their own choice of lunch from the cafeteria and take their lunch Discipline Policy to the Tranquility Room. Prepaid CaféCash gift cards must be purchased in the cafeteria. This may be done prior to the start of College for Kids or on orientation day. CaféCash gift cards Students are expected to maintain proper cannot be purchased online. Cash, check, and debit/credit cards are accepted. behavior while attending CFK. Parents will be contacted if a child displays disruptive, disrespectful, or inappropriate behavior. If the behavior continues, the student will be dismissed from class with no refund given. Students are expected to abide by the rules and regulations of ICC in that no weapons (i.e. knives, guns of any kind, etc.) are allowed on campus. This is a zero tolerance policy, any student choosing not to abide by the rules and regulations of ICC will not be allowed to return to College for Kids. These policies help ensure the safety of our students and staff. www.icc.edu/cfk with homemade yummy summer recipes, Cheer Up! Adventures and More you’ll become a summer specialist. This Grades 4-8 Session 1 8:15 cure-your-summer-blues-class will find you Grades 4-8 Session 2 8:15 Fashion Design far from the couch. Enjoy tie-dying, bubble art, Grades 4-6 Session 1 1:10 NEW! a make-and-take yard game, summer fruit Hey girls! Want to learn how to bring it on just Grades 4-6 Session 2 1:10 smoothies, water games, and more. like the cheerleaders in the movies? Learn how to do jumps and basic cheer movements, Do you like to draw and design fashions? as well as numerous chants and a full cheer Learn to draw and design just like the pros. Fun with Arts and Crafts to take back to your school – or share with Experiment with different fabrics, trims and Grades 4-7 Session 1 10:30 friends! A hip-hop dance routine will help you accessories as you design your own fashion Grades 4-7 Session 2 10:30 kick up your dance moves and boost your line and create garments using 1/4-size dress Bring your creative side and learn to make a confidence. There will be a performance for forms. Take a look at the current fashion variety of arts and crafts. Some of the projects friends and family so you can show off your trends and learn about the fashion industry. If include making a memory board, finger knit - new moves! Perfect for those who want to ex - you are ready to design and create fashions, ting, making stained glass pictures and a plore cheerleading or just improve their skills. this class is for you! waterproof beach bag! These projects make great gifts – or keep them for yourself! Digital Scrapbooking Crazy about Candy? Grades 4-8 Session 1 8:15 Grades 4-6 Session 1 1:10 Feelin’ Crafty Grades 4-8 Session 2 8:15 Grades 4-6 Session 2 1:10 Grades 4-8 Session 1 8:15 or 10:30 We have taken scrapbooking to a whole new Who doesn’t like CANDY? Have you ever Grades 4-8 Session 2 8:15 or 10:30 level! Digital scrapbooking has become very wondered what you can create with candy? Are you feeling crafty? Want to create some popular over the past couple of years; it’s fun, Join in on the fun to create a candy bouquet, fun things to hang around your house? Learn exciting, and easy to learn. We will create candy airplanes, candy kiss flowers, and how to create pop-books, puppets, stepping memories from pictures that you have saved much more! Create your own candy recipe stones, birdhouses, and more! Students will to a flash drive. We can even scan your pic - book to share with family and friends! We will complete one project a day. Students will tures during class and upload them into your also make some of our own candy and learn need to provide a t-shirt for tie dying. digital scrapbooking pages. It’s that easy! how candy is made. Have your photos saved or have photos ready Fun with Balloons to scan when you come to class on the first Wild About Disney NEW! day. Let’s get started creating memories that Grades 4-8 Session 1 8:15 will last a lifetime. Grades 4-6 Session 1 8:15 Grades 4-8 Session 2 8:15 From Mickey Mouse to Cinderella, you will be Join the “pop” culture by exploring the fun entering the world of Disney! Learn about the Minute to Win It of balloon twisting and balloon sculpture. history of Disney, play games, create Disney Grades 5-8 Session 1 1:10 Balloon twisting and sculpture is a fun art and more! If you love all things Disney, this Grades 5-8 Session 2 1:10 activity which also helps chil - is the class for you. dren with manual dexterity, Do you think you have what it takes to com - self-esteem, and even pete on the show Minute to Win it? In this Move It! NEW! structural engineering. class, students will explore some of the Grades 4-6 Session 1 10:30 Learn the secrets of challenges that contestants must face and Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 balloon art as a create some of their very own with everyday professional balloon objects. Students will create blueprint designs Don’t just sit there – get up and move! artist shows you the and challenges for one another that they can Exercise your body and mind while learning basics of twisting share with friends and family at home. how a healthy lifestyle can help you make the balloons into simple most of your summer. This fun and interactive objects, animals, and Cake Decorating class will explore many different aspects of complex structures. It is a fun fitness, health and nutrition through classroom Grades 5-8 Session 1 1:10 hobby that can last a lifetime. NEW! activities, games and more. Please dress for Grades 5-8 Session 2 1:10 exercise – you won’t be sitting for long! Learn the fundamentals of cake decorating. What’s (Not) Cooking Learn how to use a piping bag and beginner NEW! ® Grades 4-8 Session 1 1:10 tools for cake decoration. You will learn a LEGOS , LEGOS, LEGOS Grades 4-8 Session 2 1:10 Grades 4-6 Session 1 10:30 variety of decorating tips to make stars, roses , Get ready to cook – without an oven. Learn to borders, flowers, and pipe messages. You may Do you love LEGOS and enjoy building with make toaster oven treats, no-bake cookies, just be the next great Cake Boss! Students them? Did you know that children around the smoothies, deserts and more. You will learn will be icing styrofoam and prebaked cakes. world spend 5 billion hours a year playing about kitchen safety, measurement, healthy with LEGO bricks? The tallest LEGO tower food choices and make your own recipe card is a 94.3 ft-high pirate ship mast made with Strategy Survival file. Join us as we learn to cook and create 465,000 bricks! In this class you will learn Grades 6-8 Session 2 1:10 delicious foods that you can make for yourself the history of LEGOS and have fun building or share with your family! Will your colony survive on the newly dis- awesome new LEGO creations! covered continent? Would you survive on a Caution: We will be cooking with chocolate, deserted island? Will you be able to form Summer Fun 101 nuts, peanut butter, milk, eggs, etc. this is not kinships and exploit resources? Put your Grades 4-6 Session 1 8:15 or 10:30 the class for you if you have a food allergy. geographic, economic and survival skills to the test with exciting competitions. The fun Come join Summer Fun 101 and make the never stops as we create new twists and best of your summer! From competing in our turns and challenge each other. very own Summer Olympics to cooling down

2 Monday-Thursday classes • 2 hours • $75 (plus materials fee if noted) A Wedding Story Robot Revolution Computer Programming Grades 6-8 Session 1 10:30 Grades 4-6 Session 1 10:30 with Etoys Grades 6-8 Session 2 10:30 Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 Grades 7-10 Session 1 10:30 or 1:10 Planning a wedding is a lot of fun, and a lot of Grades 6-8 Session 1 8:15 Grades 7-10 Session 2 10:30 or 1:10 work! In you will plan your Grades 6-8 Session 2 8:15 a Wedding Story, Are you a right brain and left brain person? dream wedding. From invitations to a recep - Materials Fee: $15 Do you have a need to create and use your tion hall – you choose everything, and unlike We are experiencing an explosive growth of powers of logical thinking? Then this course a real wedding, you don’t have to worry about robotics both at home and at work. Join us to is for you! Here you will learn the basic skills a budget! Create a dream wedding book to experience this robot revolution in action. We of computer programming. You will sketch showcase your ideas and learn how to make will explore three old friends: Spider III, Hyper your own worlds and elements. Then learn some fun wedding crafts! Line Tracker, and the Robotic Arm Trainer. how to program their movements and These favorites will be joined by five new actions just like the pros. You can also Film Festival 2013 robots to explore: Rockit Robot, Jungle Robot, create animated storybooks. If you wish, Grades 6-9 Session 1 10:30 Wall Hugging Mouse, Soccer Pro Robot and your finished projects will be submitted to Grades 6-9 Session 2 10:30 Sound Activated Walking Robot. Students Etoys , a collaboration with the Univer - will learn robot history and do hands-on sity of Illinois and Google, to be posted on the Do you love movies? Learn about creating exploration activities to discover real-world World Wide Web for all to view. An awesome storyboards, casting actors, and producing uses for robots in this exciting age of robotics. experience awaits you! films. Find out what goes into making movies and create a director’s notebook or a film poster for a movie of your own! Look out Game Maker I Robot Revolution Hollywood – here comes the next great Grades 4-7 Session 1 8:15 or 1:10 Building director! Grades 4-7 Session 2 8:15 or 1:10 Grades 8-10 Session 1 1:10 Have you always wanted to design computer Grades 8-10 Session 2 1:10 What Not to Wear games, but you don’t want to spend a lot of Materials Fee: $70 Grades 6-9 Session 1 1:10 time learning how to become a programmer? Then you’ve come to the right place. Game Want to build your own robot? Build your own Need help pulling your clothes together? Maker is a program that allows you to make Hyper Line Tracker robot in June and your Applying make up? This is the class for you! exciting computer games without the need to own Spider III robot in July. The Hyper Line Just like TLC’s, What not to Wear , learn write a single line of code. You can make robot will be able to follow a pathway of your how to dress your body type, appropriately games with backgrounds, animated graphics, own design. The Spider III robot uses its in - apply make up to enhance your features, music, and sound effects. Once you get more frared sensor and sees objects to avoid, accessorize, and learn what colors work experienced, there is a built-in programming changes direction, and finds a new path. together. Have fun while learning to be the language that gives you full flexibility. Game Take your robot home with you. best you can be! Maker can be used free of charge, and you can use the games you produce in any way Advanced Game Maker you like – you can even sell them! Grades 8-10 Session 1 10:30 Computers and Grades 8-10 Session 2 10:30 Computer Aided Design CAD Prerequisite: Game Maker i (or instructor’s Technology Grades 6-8 Session 1 10:30 permission). Advanced Game Maker shows Grades 6-8 Session 2 10:30 you how to create several exciting games Start from SCRATCH Grades 8-10 Session 1 1:10 using new graphics while advancing the skills Grades 4-6 Session 1 8:15 or 10:30 Grades 8-10 Session 2 1:10 you learned from Game Maker i . This class Grades 4-6 Session 2 8:15 or 10:30 covers a range of genres, including action, Students will enjoy activities which include adventure, and puzzle games, complete with Programming made easy is what Scratch is creating mechanical images that are used in all about. Scratch is a dynamic programming professional quality sound effects and visuals. careers like engineering and manu - It discusses game design theory and features language that allows facturing. You will be introduced to students to create anima - practical examples of how this can be applied the units of CAD navigation, draw - to making games that are more fun to play. tions, games, interactive ing basic objects, modifying those stories, music, and art. Game Maker allows games to be created objects, orthographic projections, using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so Students will unleash their isometrics, and dimensioning. creative potential utilizing you don’t need to have any prior coding expe - AutoCAD will be the principle rience. It includes an optional programming the programming tools that software used. Scratch provides. Scratch is language for adding advance features to your developed by the Lifelong games when you feel ready to do so. Kindergarten Group at Web Design the MIT Media Lab. Grades 7-10 Session 1 8:15 Grades 7-10 Session 2 8:15 Give your “techy side” a boost by creating ALL CLASSES MEET your own eye-catching website, while learning basic HTML coding. Students will markup AT THE ICC text, add images, incorporate sound files and EAST PEORIA CAMPUS animated pictures, and link those elements together to form a website that is truly fun and unique.

3 Harry Potter Unveiled Foreign Language Interpersonal Grades 6-10 Session 1 10:30 American Sign Language I and Study Skills Grades 6-10 Session 2 10:30 Grades 4-8 Session 1 8:15 Expelliarmus! Come arm yourself against the Grades 4-8 Session 2 8:15 Life Skills for Middle School dark arts in a course that explores the world Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 of Harry Potter with a critical eye. Take this This class teaches the basics of ASL. opportunity to examine everyone’s favorite Students will learn the manual alphabet, Learn important skills necessary for success series and see what makes this story a time - numbers, and common phrases. Students in middle school. We will role play tricky less epic. You’ll get to join the house that fits will learn ASL vocabulary through games and situations requiring anger management and your personality, play games other hands-on activities. Students will learn coping with bullying. We’ll talk about making against your rivals, and con - about the deaf community and how to sign and keeping friends and dealing with every - jure up spells that bring your The Pledge of Allegiance and some songs. day annoying situations. We will also practice magical fantasies to life. We organizational skills which will help get you will focus on “Harry Potter and and your homework to the right place at the the Goblet of Fire,” but wizards and American Sign Language II same time. We will discuss how to earn more Grades 4-8 Session 1 1:10 witches of all experience levels are NEW! freedom by taking more responsibility, learn encouraged to join. Grades 4-8 Session 2 1:10 about internet safety, and make a plan for This class will continue where ASL for Begin - involvement in school activities and seeking ners finished. We will review the alphabet and a leadership role in your school. This class is Starving for the common phrases. The class will use games led by a current middle school counselor. Hunger Games and role playing activities to help students Grades 7-10 Session 1 10:30 or 1:10 understand old and new concepts. Students Leadership Training Grades 7-10 Session 2 10:30 or 1:10 will also learn a new song and present it at Grades 6-8 Session 2 1:10 the end of the session. We will also watch a Prepare for the journey into Panem! If you movie in American Sign Language. Are you a “take charge” person? Do you enjoyed the Hunger Games series, this enjoy helping others to experience success? class is for you. We’ll look at some of the Learn how to use your talents and personality inspirations Suzanne Collins used in writing German for Fun to become a better leader at your school and the books, take a look at some examples of Grades 4-8 Session 1 10:30 in your community. Learn about setting goals dictatorships throughout history, and build Grades 4-8 Session 2 10:30 and taking steps to reach them. This course some of the things used in The Arena. Come Speaking German is fun! Conversations is based on the book, the Seven Habits of prepared to dive further into the book than will be a big part of this class with enhanced Highly Effective teens by Sean Covey. you imagined and be prepared for the odds vocabulary including numbers, time, colors, to ALWAYS be in your favor! food, days, month, seasons, school objects, Work Smarter and weather expressions. Listening and Grades 6-8 Session 1 8:15 Edgar Allan Poe speaking skills are practiced through role- Grades 6-8 Session 2 8:15 Grades 8-10 Session 1 8:15 NEW! playing, games, songs, and poetry. There Grades 9-10 Session 1 10:30 Grades 8-10 Session 2 8:15 will be awards and prizes for all! Grades 9-10 Session 2 10:30 “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pon - This course is designed for junior high and dered weak and weary” – Join us as we study French for Fun high school students in anticipation of the Edgar Allan Poe, one of the great writers of Grades 4-7 Session 1 10:30 future. You will learn study skills, strategies, our time. Explore his writings and discover Grades 4-7 Session 2 10:30 habits, attitudes, and self-awareness that will the secrets behind the darkness of his tales. Come along with us and become serve you through your high school and Become a better writer and complete your French for a session. You will experi - college careers. We’ll practice goal-setting, own original pieces of work. Lessons for this ence French culture and enjoy French time management, organization, memory, class are designed to meet the Illinois Com - cuisine. Learn how to converse reading strategies, note taking skills, test mon Core Standards for Language Arts. in French about a taking skills, researching and writing, and variety of fun top - learn to reduce test anxiety. Hip-Hop Poetry ics. Play games Grades 8-10 Session 1 8:15 in French with Grades 8-10 Session 2 8:15 colors, numbers, Language Arts the alphabet, What do Tupac Shakur and Robert Frost have and more! in common? They were both poets!! Do you Not Just for Poets enjoy hip-hop music and poetry? Did you Grades 4-6 Session 1 1:10 know that the two are closely related? Join French with Flair Grades 4-6 Session 2 1:10 NEW! us as we analyze how hip-hop music and Grades 8-10 Session 1 8:15 Poetry is more than just rhyming words. poetry compare in motifs, themes and poetic Grades 8-10 Session 2 8:15 Learn how to express yourself through devices. Examine “classical” poems that are In this session you will experience French different forms of poetry. You will finish several traditionally studied and uncover how these culture and enjoy French cuisine. Greet and pieces of writing and create some artwork are related to hip-hop music. You will create a converse in French about where you live, the to go with it. Become a better writer and dis - portfolio of your own original hip-hop poetry date, weather, school, things you like (and cover your inner poet! In an effort to improve and maybe uncover a hidden talent for music don’t!), and foods. Learn French vocabulary your student’s skills, lessons for this class are and writing. through many games. We will also learn designed to meet the Illinois Common Core about Paris and what makes it the “City of Standards for Language Arts. Lights.” Come explore with us for a session!

4 Monday-Thursday classes • 2 hours • $75 (plus materials fee if noted) Math Magic Mathematics Grades 4-7 Session 1 1:10 Performing Arts NEW! Math Trick or Treat Grades 4-7 Session 2 1:10 Broadway Bound Grades 4-6 Session 1 10:30 Brush up on the basics – facts, fractions, Grades 4-6 Session 1 8:15 Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 decimals, and more... Experiment with hands- Grades 4-6 Session 2 8:15 on algebra and geometry. Make a math model Let’s use math tricks in the kitchen to or craft and sample a tasty math-made treat Grades 7-10 Session 1 10:30 create some treats. We will review fractions, each day. See how “magical” and fun math Grades 7-10 Session 2 10:30 conversions, multiplication, division, and learn can be! Join us for a “Gleefully” fun time in the foot - to read amazing math “recipes” (story prob - lights as we explore the world of theater. If lems). To finish off this class we will eat and you love the show “Glee” and are interested make our math worries disappear. Geometry All Around Us in dancing, singing, acting and performing, Grades 6-9 Session 1 8:15 this class is for you! You’ll love experiencing Math Scene Grades 6-9 Session 2 8:15 theater with fun and games including the Students will explore basic geometry concepts spontaneity of improvisation, the body move - Investigation and discover how geometry is ments of pantomime, basic musical theater Grades 4-6 Session 1 10:30 all around us! We will stage movements, as well as learning proper Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 use hands-on activi - vocals while learning performance-based Grades 7-9 Session 1 8:15 ties and real life musical numbers. No experience necessary, Grades 7-9 Session 2 8:15 examples to improve just the desire to have fun. Who knows, you may someday be...Broadway Bound! Do you like to investigate things? our basic geometric Use your math and forensic skill to thinking skills. solve a mystery. Begin each day Students will have Let’s Sing with a Brain Teaser, then get ready a firm grasp of Grades 4-6 Session 1 10:30 to sharpen your math skills! From geometry and will Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 problem solving, applying basic math feel more confident Grades 7-10 Session 1 1:10 operations, fractions and basic algebra in the classroom Grades 7-10 Session 2 1:10 skills you will be on your way to solving after taking this class. mysteries and improving your math skills. Join us for two weeks of singing! This will be an exciting opportunity to sing a variety of Algebra Basics music, learn healthy vocal production, and im - Junior Achievement Grades 6-9 Session 1 10:30 prove your own singing voice. This summer’s More Than $$ Grades 6-9 Session 2 10:30 session features some Broadway and popular favorites! You will get to keep some of the Grades 4-6 Session 1 10:30 Students will be introduced to and Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 pieces that we sing. We will also have a final explore algebra concepts using hands-on day performance to showcase all we have Ja More than Money teaches students about learning activities as well as real life examples learned! earning, spending, sharing, and saving money. to gain comfort with algebra skills. We will first Through a series of fun, hands-on activities explore pre-algebra skills and then introduce and games, students will learn to manage a the basics of algebra. Students will enter their Stage Struck bank account and identify personal skills and algebra classes with confidence and enthusi - Grades 4-8 Session 1 1:10 interests. This class will also connect students asm and parents can be assured that their Grades 4-8 Session 2 1:10 students will have a good grasp on algebra with possible business opportunities, help Are you struck by the desire to perform? skills after taking this class. them learn about market research, identify Get in touch with your inner star by joining the basic steps for starting and operating us for this beginning acting class and prepare a small business, practice making smart Risky Business yourself for drama and the speech team. consumer decisions, and learn to recognize Grades 5-8 Session 1 10:30 You’ll love focusing on the acting aspect of deceptive advertising and the importance of Grades 5-8 Session 2 10:30 theater through skits, duets, monologues ethical business practices. and improv based on the television show Buy low, sell high! Meet the Bear and the Whose Line is it anyway? No experience is Bull. Wipe those Wall Street blues away as necessary. Sportistics you learn about business and economics Grades 4-8 Session 1 1:10 and invest in your future! Create your own Grades 4-8 Session 2 1:10 companies and participate in a simulation So You Think In this course, students will compute statistics stock market game. Earn play money and You Can Dance? for their favorite sports and learn how to then spend it during a live auction the last day Grades 6-9 Session 1 10:30 of class. evaluate some of their favorite athletes from Grades 6-9 Session 2 10:30 a mathematical perspective. With a focus on , students will create a fantasy team Become well rounded in a variety of dance and compute daily scores and statistics genres. We will dance our way through jazz, based on their team’s performance. Students hip-hop, line dance, and salsa! This will also spend time exploring statistical infor - class will focus on turns, leaps, basic mation for basketball and football, and will positions as well as a history of each have the opportunity to earn prizes based on type and the famous dancers behind their team’s performance. those dances. Perfect for girls and boys to expand their dance talent!

Monday-Thursday classes • 2 hours • $75 (plus materials fee if noted) 5 Acting for Beginners Learning About Learning Medieval Times Grades 7-10 Session 1 8:15 Grades 6-8 Session 1 8:15 or 1:10 Grades 4-8 Session 1 1:10 Grades 7-10 Session 2 8:15 Grades 6-8 Session 2 8:15 or 1:10 Grades 4-8 Session 2 1:10 Do you love to perform? Do you know how to How do humans learn? What hinders Join us as we step back in time to the days of NEW! tell a story that makes people interested? If and helps our learning? Do animals imposing castles, knights in armor defending you want to get on stage and make people learn in a similar way? Does the structure of the kingdom, and noblemen ruling over serfs. laugh, cry, or gasp in surprise, this is the class our brains change as we learn? Investigate Embark on an exciting adventure which will for you! We will learn basic stage movement, the process of how we acquire, assess, and lead to a wealth of knowledge of the time in pick small scenes and monologues to deliver, retain information. In this interdisciplinary history we call the “Middle Ages.” Discover and learn the basic building blocks of acting. hands-on unit, students delve into the human medieval art, culture, wars, religions, daily life, You don’t need to have acted before, you organism and nervous system, animal be- and more! Creative projects and activities will don’t need to know how to sing or dance (we havior, health and safety issues, product help us explore this exciting time in history. will be performing non-musical pieces); you testing, and the ethics of experimentation. just need to be ready to act now! In the process, they learn a great deal about what scientists actually do. CSI: Dallas Grades 6-10 Session 2 10:30 this GEMS (Great Explorations in Math and Science and Science) unit was developed at the university Where were you on November 23, 1963? of California, Berkeley, California. all lessons Who killed John F. Kennedy? Investigators Social Sciences are designed to meet the illinois Common have asked this question numerous times. Core Standards for Math and Science. Become a crime scene investigator and join us as we review the evidence in a murder Science Explorations case that has left historians without a verdict. Grades 4- 6 Session 1 8:15 NEW! Totally Gross Anatomy Maybe you will be the one to solve this 50 Grades 4-6 Session 2 8:15 Grades 6-9 Session 1 1:10 year old case! Come and enjoy the exciting world of science. Grades 6-9 Session 2 1:10 Watch chemical changes take place before Why do we have boogers and ear wax? Why your very eyes and see if you can explain the Great Debates do we “pass gas”? You’ll find the answers to magic. Discover the scientific mysteries of Grades 6-10 Session 2 8:15 these questions and many more. Come par - many common household items and learn “All you like to do is argue!” “You just won’t ticipate in a brief study of the human body how fun science can be! Lessons for this stop until you have the last word!” If you hear and how it works. You will learn about organ class are developed to meet the Illinois these phrases frequently, this class will put systems, various bones, blood cells and blood Common Core Standards for Science. your confrontational skills to good use! Great types, and the brain. We will even make snot Debates informs students about topics that and dissect a real heart! This is not a class relate to social studies and then lets them for people that are easily “grossed out”! Irresponsible verbally duke it out. Students will debate on Come play lots of games and watch unique a range of topics that date from Christopher Science demonstrations that offer a clue to what is Columbus to modern politics. This class will Grades 4-6 really going on inside our bodies. Session 2 not follow strict school debate rules, but will 8:15 instead encourage students to speak their Black Dirt, Bones mind, create arguments based on fact, and Cola Geyser. Homemade think about topics from multiple perspectives. Lightning. Static Electricity Slime. and Burns Frankenstein’s Hand. If these Grades 6-8 Session 2 1:10 science experiments sound in- Do you have the skills to solve a crime? triguing, this is the class for you. During our classess, we will analyze soil Based on the Book of totally samples, develop observation skills, examine irresponsible Science this course a crime scene, work as an arson investigator, will introduce young scientists to and much, much more! If forensic science basic physics and chemistry in interests you, then this class is a must! Join a way that they will never forget. us for hands-on learning, investigating, and Have fun with these eye-opening forensic sleuthing! lessons and see where they will take you. Junk Battles Grades 4- 6 Session 1 10:30 Grades 4-6 Session 2 10:30 “To invent, you need a good pile of junk.” – Thomas Edison. In this class, you will be chal - lenged to create devices that will accomplish ENROLLMENT a task using only the “junk” provided. Using IS LIMITED, your science and engineering skills, you will be a contender in the Bridge Challenge, Bat - SO SIGN UP EARLY! tle of the Boats, Marvelous Marble Maze, Drop Zone, and many more battles. We’re looking forward to building with you!

6 Monday-Thursday classes • 2 hours • $75 (plus materials fee if noted) The U.S. Justice System Origami Basics Jewelry Making Grades 7-10 Session 1 10:30 Grades 4-6 Session 2 1:10 Grades 4-6 Session 1 1:10 Grades 7-10 Session 2 10:30 Grades 7-10 Session 2 10:30 Grades 4-6 Session 2 1:10 Analyze the U.S. Justice System and the Have you tried to do origami and ended up Grades 7-9 Session 1 8:15 rights we have as citizens such as the right to with a wad of paper? Origami is the Japanese Grades 7-9 Session 2 8:15 a fair and speedy trial and a jury of peers. word for paper folding. Learn the basics of Students will be introduced to the art of Students will learn about the Judicial Branch origami and how to read an origami dia - jewelry making in this class. Children are as a whole, as well as what happens in a gram – even if it is in Japanese! You will be encouraged to explore their creativity and courtroom. folding paper into recognizable shapes in no are introduced to interesting color and texture Students will take part in a mock trial and time! Many types of origami will be folded, while improving hand-eye coordination, small have specific roles, from attorneys to judges, including creating with plastic pieces. Bring a muscle development and pattern making witnesses, jurors, and other members of the shoe box or other similar sized container with skills in a relaxed, fun environment! We will court. This class is a great way to explore a lid to store your origami creations. create beautiful jewelry to take home during your interest in our legal system. each class. Students will be introduced to a Intro to Drawing range of age-appropriate jewelry making Modern America Grades 4-7 Session 1 10:30 techniques using lots of tools. Grades 7-10 Session 1 8:15 Grades 4-7 Session 2 10:30 Grades 7-10 Session 2 8:15 This class is for elementary students looking Discover Drawing to expand their drawing ability. A variety of Grades 8-10 Session 1 8:15 This class will cover material that many junior Grades 8-10 Session 2 8:15 high and high school history courses don’t different subjects will be covered. Students offer: Modern America. Students will evaluate will learn by teacher led demon - This class will focus on the fundamentals the causes and effects of the major modern strations and have plenty of of drawing and will enhance students’ wars and conflicts (the Cold War, Vietnam, time for practice. We will observational techniques. A variety of Korea, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq). cover the basics of how drawing materials will be used to explore It will also cover political and social changes to draw from life, copy the elements of design and composition. that have taken place since the 1940s and from pictures, and follow Learn how to easily add shading, detail, how these social changes came about (the teacher led and printed and texture. By the end of class, you will counterculture of the 60s, the invention of the step-by-step directions. have a partially filled sketchbook along with teenager, the space race, the digital age, etc.) Students will have a partially filled a collection of completed drawings. Activities will include mini research projects, sketchbook and several finished pictures role playing, and hands-on projects. by the end of the class. Exploring Clay Grades 8-10 Session 1 1:10 Psychology Photomania Grades 8-10 Session 2 1:10 Grades 8-10 Session 1 10:30 Grades 4-7 Session 1 8:15 Grades 8-10 Session 1 10:30 Have you ever wanted to learn how to create Grades 8-10 Session 2 10:30 ceramic objects? This class is designed to Why do people behave the way they do? Why Students will learn the basics of photo com - give students a chance to experience the do people pick the careers that they do? Is it position, what makes a good photograph, and potter’s wheel and introduces hand-building possible to “train” your brain? Psychology is tips and techniques on how to take great pic - techniques such as pinch, coil, and slab. This the study of the human mind and behavior. In tures. We will focus on the process of actually class will also cover basic glazing as well as this class, you will study the things inside and taking photographs and we will also work with painting on the ceramic surface. outside the brain that make people behave editing and post production ideas for photo- the way they do. You will even do some of graphy. Students must have a digital camera your own research to discover the patterns of to use for class. human behavior. Lessons for this class are designed to meet the Illinois Common Core Painting Standards for Science. Grades 6-9 Session 1 1:10 If you are looking for Grades 6-9 Session 2 1:10 something fun to do Get your canvas ready as you discover the Visual Arts artist within! Learn how to paint using different on Fridays when techniques in watercolor and acrylic. Explore College for Kids Art & Artists different artists and have some Grades 4-6 Session 1 8:15 adventures painting. You will is not is session Grades 4-6 Session 2 8:15 NEW! create several pieces of origi - na l art to showcase your talent! If your creative side needs something CHECK OUT to do this summer then join us for art & artists ! Study the history of art and explore the artistic Fri da yFun styles of several famous artists. You will use a variety of media to create your own ON PAGES 10-11 portfolio of masterpieces. Get your palette and brush ready – the artist within you awaits!

Monday-Thursday classes • 2 hours • $75 (plus materials fee if noted) 7 Class Grid • Session 1 June 10-20

8:15-10:15 Grade 10:30-12:30 Grade 1:10-3:10 Grade Wild About Disney ...... 4-6 Move It! ...... 4-6 Fashion Design ...... 4-6 Summer Fun 101 ...... 4-6 Legos, Legos, Legos ...... 4-6 Crazy About Candy ...... 4-6 Art and Artists ...... 4-6 Summer Fun 101 ...... 4-6 Jewelry Making ...... 4-6 Start from SCRATCH ...... 4-6 Fun with Arts and Crafts ...... 4-7 Not Just For Poets ...... 4-6 Broadway Bound ...... 4-6 Junk Battles ...... 4-6 Game Maker ...... 4-7 Science Explorations ...... 4-6 Junior Achievement More Than $$ . . . 4-6 Math Magic ...... 4-7 Photomania ...... 4-7 Let’s Sing ...... 4-6 Sportistics ...... 4-8 Game Maker I ...... 4-7 Robot Revolution ...... 4-6 What’s (Not) Cooking ...... 4-8 American Sign Language I ...... 4-8 Start from Scratch ...... 4-6 American Sign Language II ...... 4-8 Fun with Balloons ...... 4-8 Math Scene Investigation ...... 4-6 Stage Struck ...... 4-8 Cheer Up! ...... 4-8 Math Trick or Treat ...... 4-6 Medieval Times ...... 4-8 Feelin’Crafty ...... 4-8 French for Fun ...... 4-7 Minute To Win It ...... 5-8 Digital Scrapbooking ...... 4-8 Intro to Drawing ...... 4-7 Cake Decorating ...... 5-8 Robot Revolution ...... 6-8 German for Fun ...... 4-8 Learning About Learning ...... 6-8 Learning About Learning ...... 6-8 Feelin’ Crafty ...... 4-8 What Not to Wear ...... 6-9 Work Smarter ...... 6-8 Risky Business ...... 6-8 Painting ...... 6-9 Geometry All Around Us ...... 6-9 Computer Aided Design CAD ...... 6-8 Totally Gross Anatomy ...... 6-9 Jewelry Making ...... 7-9 A Wedding Story ...... 6-8 Starving for the Hunger Games . . . . 7-10 Math Scene Investigation ...... 7-9 So You Think You Can Dance? ...... 6-9 Let’s Sing ...... 7-10 Web Design ...... 7-10 Film Festival 2013 ...... 6-9 Exploring Clay ...... 8-10 Modern America ...... 7-10 Algebra Basics ...... 6-9 Robot Revolution Building ...... 8-10 Acting for Beginners ...... 7-10 Harry Potter Unveiled ...... 6-10 Computer Aided Design CAD . . . . . 8-10 French with Flair ...... 8-10 Computer Programming with Etoys . 7-10 Hip-Hop Poetry ...... 8-10 Starving for the Hunger Games . . . . 7-10 Club CFK Edgar Allan Poe ...... 8-10 Broadway Bound ...... 7-10 Grades 4-10 3:15-5:00 Discover Drawing ...... 8-10 The U. S. Justice System ...... 7-10 Meet in the Cafeteria Advanced Game Maker ...... 8-10 Photomania ...... 8-10 Friday Fun Session 1 Psychology ...... 8-10 Peoria Riverfront Museum and Caterpillar Visitors Center Work Smarter ...... 9-10 June 14 8:15-4:30 ...... 4-10 Mt. Hawley Bowl and Wheels O’Time Museum June 21 8:15-4:30 ...... 4-10

8 Class Grid • Session 2 July 8-18

8:15-10:15 Grade 10:30-12:30 Grade 1:10-3:10 Grade Start from SCRATCH ...... 4-6 Move It! ...... 4-6 Fashion Design ...... 4-6 Art and Artists ...... 4-6 Start from Scratch ...... 4-6 Crazy About Candy ...... 4-6 Broadway Bound ...... 4-6 Robot Revolution ...... 4-6 Not Just For Poets ...... 4-6 Science Explorations ...... 4-6 Math Trick or Treat ...... 4-6 Origami Basics ...... 4-6 Irresponsible Science ...... 4-6 Math Scene Investigation ...... 4-6 Jewelry Making ...... 4-6 Game Maker ...... 4-7 Junior Achievement More Than $$ . . . 4-6 Math Magic ...... 4-7 Digital Scrapbooking ...... 4-8 Let’s Sing ...... 4-6 Game Maker ...... 4-7 Feelin’ Crafty ...... 4-8 Junk Battles ...... 4-6 Medieval Times ...... 4-8 Fun with Balloons ...... 4-8 Life Skills for Middle School ...... 4-6 American Sign Language II ...... 4-8 Cheer Up! ...... 4-8 Fun with Arts and Crafts ...... 4-7 Stage Struck ...... 4-8 American Sign Language I ...... 4-8 Intro to Drawing ...... 4-7 What’s (Not) Cooking ...... 4-8 Work Smarter ...... 6-8 French for Fun ...... 4-7 Minute to Win It ...... 5-8 Robot Revolution ...... 6-8 Sportistics ...... 4-8 Cake Decorating ...... 5-8 Learning About Learning ...... 6-8 German for Fun ...... 4-8 Black Dirt, Bones and Burns ...... 6-8 Geometry All Around Us ...... 6-9 Feelin’ Crafty ...... 4-8 Strategy Survival ...... 6-8 Great Debates ...... 6-10 Risky Business ...... 5-8 Learning About Learning ...... 6-8 Math Scene Investigation ...... 7-9 A Wedding Story ...... 6-8 Leadership Training ...... 6-8 Jewelry Making ...... 7-9 Computer Aided Design CAD ...... 6-8 Painting ...... 6-9 Web Design ...... 7-10 Film Festival 2013 ...... 6-9 Let’s Sing ...... 7-10 Acting for Beginners ...... 7-10 Totally Gross Anatomy ...... 6-9 Starving for the Hunger Games . . . . 7-10 Modern America ...... 7-10 So You Think You Can Dance? ...... 6-9 Computer Aided Design CAD . . . . . 8-10 Hip-Hop Poetry ...... 8-10 Harry Potter Unveiled ...... 6-10 Robot Revolution Building ...... 8-10 Edgar Allan Poe ...... 8-10 CSI: Dallas ...... 6-10 Exploring Clay ...... 8-10 French with Flair ...... 8-10 The U.S. Justice System ...... 7-10 Discover Drawing ...... 8-10 Computer Programming with Etoys . 7-10 Club CFK Starving for the Hunger Games . . . . 7-10 Grades 4-10 3:15-5:00 Broadway Bound ...... 7-10 Meet in the Cafeteria Origami Basics ...... 7-10 Psychology ...... 8-10 Friday Fun Session 1 Advanced Game Maker ...... 8-10 Wildlife Prairie Park – Geocaching July 9 Work Smarter ...... 9-10 8:15-4:30 ...... 4-10 Rockin’ P Ranch ENROLLMENT Horseback Riding IS LIMITED, July 19 SO SIGN UP EARLY! 8:15-4:30 ...... 4-10

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All students who register for Friday Fun trips MUST ride the ICC Cougar Bus from the East Peoria campus to the Friday Fun location and then return to the East Peoria campus. This is necessary for the safety of our students. The bus departs from the East Peoria campus at 8:15 a.m. and will return by 4:30 p.m. For certain trips, students will arrive back at the East Peoria campus before 4:30 p.m. In these instances, ICC staff will engage students in activities on campus until 4:30 p.m. Students will be supervised at all times and will be walked back out to the pick-up/drop-off tent by ICC staff. Parents must be able to pick up their children from the East Peoria campus by 4:30 p.m. Space is limited for all Friday Fun trips, so make sure to register early.

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Planetarium/Gallery/Theatre Geocaching Date: Friday, June 14 Date: Friday, July 12 Time: 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Time: 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: Peoria Riverfront Museum Location: Wildlife Prairie State Park and Caterpillar Visitors Center Cost: $50 Cost: $50 Grades: 4-10 Grades: 4-10 Join us as we explore the world of Geocaching. Geo - Join us as we explore the new Peoria Riverfront caching is a fun and exciting activity where you use a Museum and Caterpillar Visitors Center. Our day will GPS (global positioning system) unit to locate cache begin with an educational movie on the giant screen, boxes or what some call treasure boxes. During this followed by a workshop on Extreme Planets. We will trip, we will teach you how to use the units, insert data, visit the Planetarium for The Leo Mystery Hour, and and use the units to locate a variety of cache boxes take some time to check out the galleries and exhibits. throughout the park. Most of the day will be spent We will eat lunch at the museum then finish our day at outdoors so dress for the weather, wear comfortable the Caterpillar Visitors Center. There we will learn about closed toed shoes, and be sure to bring water. All the history of Caterpillar and see how the “big trucks” supplies for this class, including GPS units, will be operate! provided. Lunch will also be provided. Students will need to bring a sack lunch and a drink. There will be an opportunity to visit the Museum Store.

Bowling/Museum Horseback Riding Date: Friday, June 21 Date: Friday, July 19 Time: 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Time: 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: Mt. Hawley Bowl and (Students will return to ICC at 2:00 p.m. and spend the after - Wheels O’Time Museum noon engaged in activities with ICC staff. Parents can pick up their children at the CFK pick-up/drop off tent at 4:30 p.m.) Cost: $50 Grades: 4-10 Location: Rockin’ P Ranch, Pekin Cost: $50 Spend the morning at Mt. Hawley Bowl and Grades: 4-10 the afternoon going back in time at the Wheels O’ Time Museum in Dunlap. At the museum you will see every - Come join us at Rockin’ P Ranch in Pekin for some thing from antique clocks and cars to airplanes and horseback riding. You will learn about horseback riding musical devices. The antique car collection includes a safety, ride a horse along a trail, and create a craft dur - Ford Model T, Packard’s, an Austin Healey, and an Indy ing your time at the ranch. All riders must be age 8 or race car. You can enjoy the sound of a player piano and older. Helmets are mandatory for children who ride. The put your coins into a juke box! This step back in time ranch can provide helmets at no charge or riders can takes you back to a place before the age of computers, bring their own. Liability waivers must be completed iPads and iPhones! See what life was like in the Peoria and signed by parents/guardians for all children before area 50 to 100 years ago! the trip. It is recommended that riders wear long pants and a heeled shoe or boot. Absolutely NO flip-flops are There is a museum store, selling T-shirts, postcards, allowed on rides. Also, please make sure to bring water models, key rings, books and much more. Please send for breaks and please bring a sack lunch from home for cash with your child if they would like to purchase a this trip. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the souvenir. Students will need to bring a sack lunch and great outdoors on horseback! a drink.

11 First Day of Session 1 • Monday, June 10 AND First Day of Session 2 • Monday, July 8

Students and Parents meet in the ICC Performing Arts Center Orientation/Class 1 – 7:45 a.m. Orientation/Class 2 – 10:00 a.m. Lunch – 12:00-12:30 p.m. Orientation/Class 3 – 12:40 p.m. Club CFK – 3:15-5:00 p.m.

Refer to the CFK website at www.icc.edu/cfk for additional information.

DAILY SCHEDULE Class 1 – 8:15-10:15 a.m. Class 2 – 10:30-12:30 p.m. Lunch – 12:30-1:05 p.m. Students will eat in the Tranquility Room (next to the Cafeteria) Class 3 – 1:10-3:10 p.m. Club CFK – 3:15-5:00 p.m.

Optional Friday Fun trips are offered at an additional fee. Refer to Friday Fun pages for additional information. All CFK classes are held at the ICC East Peoria Campus.

Drop-off and Pick-up Times at the College for Kids Tent

a College for Kids tent will be located in Parking Lot B. Drop-off is 30 minutes prior to the start of the first class. CFK Staff and a Campus Security Officer will supervise arriving students at the CFK Tent. If you are late, you must park your vehicle and escort your student to the Homeroom in 303A to check in. Do not send late students to class alone. For their safety we need to have accurate attendance. Pick-up at the CFK Tent is no later than 15 minutes after the student’s last class of the day. CFK Staff and a Campus Security Officer will supervise departing students at the CFK Tent. Students not picked up on time will be taken to the CFK Homeroom in 303A. You will be required to come to the CFK Homeroom to sign out your student. Club CFK requires all students to be signed out by a parent or authorized adult in Homeroom 303A. Please note that these procedures are for the safety of our students. To report a tardy or absence call the CFK Homeroom at (309) 694-8880. 12

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