Children's Day School Summer Program

Children’s Day School 2010 Summer Camp e uniqu t our l f fun a a beautifu lots o n us for way o Com e join uc ked a land in the amp t acre of mer c orhoo d sum ecure and s ion neighb Miss Children’s Day School. 333 Dolores St, San Francisco , CA 94110 - 415.861.5432 - www.cds-sf.org Preschool-Kindergarten Camp Preschool-Kindergarten Camp operates on a daily schedule similar to the CDS preschool during the school year. Throughout the day, students will enjoy morning and afternoon snack, morning and afternoon meetings, outdoor time, lunch, nap, art activities and much more. Here is an overview of the themes interwoven into every camp that children will explore during each two-week session: • Farm and Garden: participants will spend time getting acquainted with our friendly chickens and our two resident sheep, Lucky and JoJo. Children will collect eggs from the farm for group cooking projects and have lots of opportunities to grow flowers and other organic fruits and vegetables in the garden. • Song and Dance: children will sing, dance and play musical instruments. Folk songs, modern music and classical music may be introduced. Children will have opportunities for playing drums, string and wind instruments. Stretching, yoga and dance parties are often included in this camp. • Sports and Games: campers will learn new games and sports with an emphasis on cooperation. A wide range of indoor and outdoor activities will be introduced such as active games that include balls, running and jumping, individual games using the balance beam, quiet games like puzzles, stretching and yoga, and team games. In addition, each camp will include activities surrounding a theme particular to that session: Session I, Animal Kingdom: come participate in bug hunts throughout our gardens, study the food chain, and act out your favorite animal’s behaviors as we examine the exciting diversity of creatures in the animal kingdom. Session II, Music and Movement: join us for making instruments out of found objects, creating songs to celebrate our feelings, dancing till the floor heats up and finding ways to incorporate music into our everyday lives. CDS Summer Camp -- PAGE 1 Children’s Day School 2010 Summer Camp Session III, World Traveler: come claim your passport and prepare for stamps from around the globe as we complete a whirlwind tour of world cultures by exploring art, food and much more from select countries and continents. Session IV, Living Green: sustainable lifestyles, here we come! Campers will learn the dynamics of our physical environment through activities focused on water usage, rain forests, pollution and recycling. Session V, The Working World: time to study the world of grown-ups as we learn what parents do during the day, from homemakers to firemen to teachers, and find out how communities are created from individuals. CDS Summer Camp - PAGE 2 Elementary Summer Choices Camp For Students entering 1st-4th grade Based on the student-directed learning principles practiced by CDS, Summer Choices Camp gives elementary students the opportunity to chart their own course of learning and enrichment throughout each session. The daily schedule includes a morning and afternoon period on a specific programmatic theme such as Broadway Wonders, Animal Trackers or Rock Band Land. Additionally, campers will also have daily morning and afternoon activity choices centered on the following subjects: • Visual and Performing Arts: campers will be introduced to a wide range of art techniques. Field trips may include visiting Creativity Explored, San Francisco MOMA, Yerba Buena and other photo and painting exhibits. • Farm and Garden: campers will have the opportunity to care for and feed our resident sheep and chickens on the CDS farm. Other activities may include making paper and producing old-fashioned handmade ice cream. • Outdoor Games: campers will participate in a wide variety of athletic and strategic games. Traditional sports like basketball and soccer will be played with teamwork emphasized and games such as capture the flag will be introduced. Theatre Stars, Session I If you love to act, play make-believe, or be on stage, sign up for Theatre Stars. Everyday we’ll be playing fun theatre games that teach us skills in voice, movement and acting. We’ll also read stories and act them out. Together we’ll create a short play to perform at the end of the session. And of course we welcome needed backstage help with costumes and sets! CDS Summer Camp - PAGE 3 Castles to Space Stations, Session I Elementary Summer Choices Camp One of two camps based on CDS popular after school building clubs, Castles to Space Stations will bring out the architect, master builder and city planner in each student. Come join Ms. Danielle and Mr. Noah for daily block tower building contests, turning the structure into a medieval fortress, making blueprints for sand castles at Ocean Beach and even dreaming up futuristic space stations to assemble out of recycled materials. Carnival Crazy, Session II Do you have a few magic tricks up your sleeve? Are you ready to learn some? Join Carnival Crazy camp for potential activities such as juggling lessons, hula- hoop tricks, balloon animals and more. This camp promises to be great fun as we imagine, plan and produce our own carnival for the preschool campers to attend. Come help plan an acrobatic floor show, ring toss, food booth and face painting to produce an unforgettable carnival in the CDS yard. Animal Trackers Session II Here’s a camp for animal lovers and budding zoologists! We’ll complete an archaeology dig for ancient bones, go dog-spotting in Dolores & Duboce Parks, photograph birds for our Avian Wall, complete bug hunts in our garden and bower and take field trips to the Aquarium of the Bay and the San Francisco Zoo. CDS Summer Camp - PAGE 4 Spanish Experience Camp, Session III Back for its second year, Spanish Elementary Summer Choices Camp Experience Camp introduces novices to Spanish vocabulary and ignites current students’ interest in utilizing their skills. Taught by a fully bilingual staff, campers will have student choice periods, group projects and field trips, all in Spanish. We’ll explore significant cultural and historical sights in our surrounding Mission neighborhood while encouraging each other to use Spanish exclusively throughout the day. Rock Band Land, Session III & IV Welcome pirates, princesses, astronauts, knights and Jedi-Knights, fairies, cowboys, and ballerinas to Rock Band Land; the land where kids rule! Together with experienced musicians Brian Gorman (Tartufi) and Marcus Stoesz (Paper Airplanes), we’ll form a rock band, create an original rock song, and get crazy with fun music and performance related games and activities. Each day the rockers will have a chance to smash and bash on the drums, shred on guitar, dance on the keys, and sing and scream into the microphones. No experience necessary, just the desire to rock out! Parents will be invited to a performance of the band's song at the end of the session. Additional $20 materials fee. More info at rockbandland.org. Come join if you’re ready to rock! Bug Lovers, Session IV Here’s a two-week journey into the fascinating and fun world of bugs using art projects, books, videos, crafts, bug hunts, observation, scientific tools, movement games and even a tiny taste of bug cuisine. Bug Lovers will cater to everyone from Bug Beginners to Insect Experts, so come grab your magnifying glass as we set out on exciting bug hunts to the garden and bower leaving no stone or stump unturned. We'll be both opening our brains and rolling-up our sleeves as we dig in and uncover the real dirt on bugs! CDS Summer Camp - PAGE 5 Broadway Wonders, Session IV Elementary Summer Choices Camp Do you know all the words to “Doe a Deer?” Do you love to sing and dance? Well, so do we! Join Ms. Jasmin for a session of Broadway fun! We’ll sing songs from our favorite musicals, like Hairspray, The Wiz, The Sound of Music and Annie. We’ll practice choreography to go with the songs and perform them at the end of the session. Not ready for center stage? No problem—we also need backstage help with costumes and sound! Caves to Skyscrapers, Session V Another camp based on CDS’s popular after school building clubs, Caves to Skyscrapers offers students the chance to construct their own paper mache caves, sugar cube igloos and cardboard castles. We’ll be working as a team to complete a towering popsicle stick skyscraper, make an endless domino chain and turn the structure into a billowing fun- filled desert tent. So join us if you’re ready to get your hands dirty and keep your imagination busy! Daring Designs, Session V Are you ready to design your own clothing line? Perhaps you’re ready to plan a wardrobe for a real or imaginary pet? Daring Designs is your opportunity to imagine, style and create during a week full of constructing fashion collages, decorating shoebox apartments, sewing doll suits or dresses and preparing for a camp-ending showcase of everyone’s work. Come join the fun! CDS Summer Camp - PAGE 6 Maximum Movie Making Elementary Summer Choices Camp Session V Ever wanted to be in the movies? Now you can! This class is for kids who are expert moviemakers and beginners, too! Working as a “crew,” kids use their imagination to think up a movie. They learn how to storyboard their ideas, create costumes and props, plan for special effects and even do simple stunts! They put it all together and create a finished movie! CDS today… Hollywood tomorrow! Each student will receive a DVD copy of their movie to bring home. Middle School Summer in the City Camp With morning and afternoon workshops based on various themes, Summer in the City Camp features explorations of the city and small group collaborations for incoming 5th - 10th graders. Exploring Asian Cuisine w/ Melanie, Session I Come hunt through San Francisco’s famous farmer’s markets and hidden spice shops with daily trips such as the Ferry Building, Chinatown and the Outer Sunset that lead to Asian style cooking projects back on campus in our environmental education kitchen. Campers will get the chance to taste and utilize ingredients such as ginger, scallion, tofu, cucumber, hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, mirin, rice vinegar, shitake mushrooms, star anise, dashi, miso and chili sauces. We’ll perfect dishes like marbled tea eggs, miso soup, honey & miso-glazed salmon, fried rice omelets, wontons, dumplings and even sweet rice flour dessert balls, so bring your appetite and prepare to become a master chef San Francisco Snapshots w/ Vanessa, Session II Explore the city through the medium of photography with an emphasis on discovering and documenting urban dwellers living sustainable lifestyles in San Francisco. Students will learn about the basic mechanics of photography, photography as art, photojournalism and portrait photography. We’ll take daily trips to various neighborhoods in the city, searching out green San Francisco in its community gardens, its natural habitats, sites such as Golden Gate Park, Crissy Field and more. We’ll CDS Summer Camp - PAGE 7 Middle School Summer in the City Camp also create printed photo albums showcasing our work and, if time allows, produce our own photography exhibit on campus.Do you like to write poetry? Have you ever tried writing song lyrics? Rock Band Rebels w/ Terry & Ryan, Session III Back for its second year, Rock Band brings music lovers together to form a band, write and rehearse music, plan and organize a concert, develop and create CD art and flyers and record a song. There’s something for everyone, not just performers. We’ll break up into three teams: performance, design and marketing. Some of us will learn to play a song, some will develop an album cover, logo and t-shirts, and others will organize and market a concert. We’ll be working hard every day as we have just two weeks to produce an album and perform a concert. We’ll also host professionals from all over San Francisco to help make this happen, including professional sound engineers, music producers, indie rock band leaders and more. If interested, please email Terry at terrya@cds-sf.org with the following information: Do you play and own an instrument? Which one and for how long? Do you know how to use any art-generating computer applications like Adobe? Do you enjoy photography? Do you have a camera? Do you like to write poetry? Have you ever tried writing song lyrics? CDS Summer Camp - PAGE 8 Camp Dates & Cost* Camp Dates Cost* Session I: June 21 – July $600 Session II: July 6 – 16 $540 Session III: July 19 – 30 $600 Session IV: August 2 – 13 $600 Session V: August 16 – 20 $300 Preschool-Kindergarten Camp Spend the summer making art, cooking special snacks and participating in fun dance parties while learning from enthusiastic, well-qualified teachers. Meet new friends, gain new skills and have a safe and fun camp experience. Each two-week camp has a special theme in addition to the three general themes interwoven into all session. All campers must be three years old and able to use the bathroom on their own to attend. Elementary Choices Camp Join us for lots of fun! Each two-week camp has a variety of themes and featured activities, and with a low student-to-teacher ratio, campers will be able to focus deeply on a particular topic.. Middle School Summer in the City Camp Back for its third year, Summer in the City Camp features interactive learning through exploration of the city. Combining morning and afternoon workshops based on various themes, Summer in the City Camp is open to incoming 5th- 8th graders as well as any high school freshman who would like to attend. *Cost shown is for basic program, from 9 am – 5 pm. Extended Care is available from 8 – 9 am and 5 – 6 pm at a rate of $12/hour, billed by the quarter hour. Extended Care bills will be compiled and mailed at close of each session. Children’s Day School 333 Dolores St San Francisco, CA 94110 415-861-5432 http://www.cds-sf.org/life_at_cds/ summer.html