STEAM Related Courses
Course Title: 1st Grade S.T.E.A.M. Team
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 1
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 10th - Thursday, July 13th (Mon - Thurs)
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Students will explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math topics together through daily challenges incorporating independent work as well as cooperative and collaborative projects. Additionally, each class will include a book and/or biography related to the day’s challenge to extend learning about S.T.E.A.M. topics and S.T.E.A.M. pioneers. Hope you’ll join our S.T.E.A.M. Team!
Course Title: 2nd Grade S.T.E.A.M. Team
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 2
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 17th - Thursday, July 20th (Mon - Thurs)
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Students will explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math topics together through daily challenges incorporating independent work as well as cooperative and collaborative projects. Additionally, each class will include a book and/or biography related to the day’s challenge to extend learning about S.T.E.A.M. topics and S.T.E.A.M. pioneers. Hope you’ll join our S.T.E.A.M. Team!
Course Title: 3rd Grade S.T.E.A.M. Team
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 3
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 24th - Thursday, July 27th (Mon - Thurs)
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Students will explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math topics together through daily challenges incorporating independent work as well as cooperative and collaborative projects. Additionally, each class will include a book and/or biography related to the day’s challenge to extend learning about S.T.E.A.M. topics and S.T.E.A.M. pioneers. Hope you’ll join our S.T.E.A.M. Team!
Course Title: Crime Scene Investigation
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 4-5
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 10th - Friday, July 14th
Time: 10:00 am- 12:00 pm
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Learn the science behind fingerprints and how to solve a crime scene investigation. Students will get hands-on experience with a variety of forensic science techniques like searching for evidence, gathering clues, and discovering how science can solve a mystery! Activities include dusting for fingerprints, analyzing handwriting, learning about DNA, morse code and invisible ink. This course is much more than simple fingerprinting!
Course Title: STEM Challenges
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 4-5
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 17th - Friday, July 21st DATE CHANGE
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Science camp offers students exciting and innovative ways to get hands-on experience integrating science, technology, and engineering (STEM) concepts. Students will explore basic concepts such as gravity, force and acceleration with the egg drop challenge. Students will design and build the tallest possible tower using nothing but paper and tape, with an added challenge. In addition, students will learn about the science behind bottle rockets. Get ready to put your building skills to the test!
Course Title: Nature and Art
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 4-5
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 17th - Friday July 21st
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Do you enjoy being outside and learning about nature? Experience the beauty of Mountain Lakes by going on nature walks and identifying the flora and fauna around. Students will also be integrating art by making homemade paper and pressed flower bookmarks. Activities include bird watching, flower pressing, and identifying insects. Get ready to explore the great outdoors!
Course Title: Kitchen Chemistry
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 4-5
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 17th - Friday July 21st
Time: 10:00 am- 11:30 am
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: This course is a real sugar rush! Learn about the science behind kitchen chemistry experiments. Activities include making ice cream in a bag, rock candy, solar smores, extracting DNA out of strawberries, learning about hot ice, magic milk science experiment, and candy chromatography. Please let us know if there are any food allergies.
Course Title: Destination Imagination (Enrichment)
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 4-6
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday July 17th - Friday July 21st
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: Briarcliff
Course Description: Destination Imagination is a fantastic program that calls itself the "largest celebration of creativity in the world"! Students in this course will engage in a variety of STEAM based challenges based on the famed international competition. The students will learn collaboration, design principles, creativity and problem solving while having lots of hands-on fun!
Course Title: Fun and Adventure with Legos
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 2-4
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 24th - Friday, July 28th
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: This LEGO enrichment class offers children the opportunity to explore their creativity and learn about architecture, engineering and design using Lego bricks. Each child is given a building challenge that requires them to problem solve: they plan, build, test, and evaluate. The building sessions, activities, and challenges will include math with Legos, building and designing increasingly advanced mechanisms, and creating stories based on original designs. Children will improve their critical thinking skills, fine motor abilities, and develop team work and communication skills which they can apply in daily life.
Grade Level Prep Courses
Course Title: Kindergarten Kiddos (Enrichment)- OFFERING ONE
Applicable Grade Level(s): Kindergarten
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 10th - Friday, July 14th
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Prepare your child for Kindergarten in a fun, creative, hands on atmosphere. Children entering Kindergarten need to know more than their ABCs and 123s.This fun, and exciting class will help to better your child with important Kindergarten skills that are often overlooked. Through games, crafts, stories, and more your child will practice fine and gross motor skills, learn to better follow 2-3 step directions, work on sharing, and cooperating, as well as learn how to navigate working in groups successfully.
Course Title: Kindergarten Kiddos (Enrichment)- OFFERING TWO
Applicable Grade Level(s): Kindergarten
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 17th - Friday, July 21st
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Prepare your child for Kindergarten in a fun, creative, hands on atmosphere. Children entering Kindergarten need to know more than their ABCs and 123s.This fun, and exciting class will help to better your child with important Kindergarten skills that are often overlooked. Through games, crafts, stories, and more your child will practice fine and gross motor skills, learn to better follow 2-3 step directions, work on sharing, and cooperating, as well as learn how to navigate working in groups successfully.
Course Title: Get Ready for School - 1st Grade
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 1
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 10th - Friday, July 14th
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am CHANGE OF TIME TO 8:30 - 10:30
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: With a new school year on the horizon, get ready for a successful year in 1st Grade with this course! Students will strengthen their fluency in reading, independence in writing, and enhance their phonics knowledge! Math skills from Kindergarten will be reinforced and built upon for the upcoming year. Students will engage in a variety of fun activities that support a smooth transition into 1st grade.
Course Title: Splash into 2nd grade (Enrichment)
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 2
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 10th - Friday, July 14th
Time: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM CHANGE OF TIME TO 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Students will review previously learned concepts from 1st grade while preparing for the jump to second grade. We will dive into reading, writing, and math skills that will benefit them from not only in second grade, but years to come! We will focus on various literacy strategies, proper writing techniques, and important skills for decoding tricky math word problems.
Course Title: Get Ready for School 3rd Grade (Enrichment)
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 3
Cost: $458
Dates: Monday, July 10th - Friday, July 21st
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Wildwood
Course Description: Get ready, get on track, and get ahead with this class. Students will work on reading, writing and math to ensure their smooth transition into the next grade. Children will enhance their fluency and reading expression through reader’s theater while having fun! Math skills from the previous grade will be reviewed and upcoming skills will be introduced. Narrative, explanatory and opinion writing pieces will be developed as well! This course is designed to help your children retain what was already taught throughout the school year AND build additional skills for the fall.
Performing Arts
Course Title: Jazz Workshop (Enrichment)
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 5-8
Cost: $229
Dates: Monday, July 10th - Friday, July 14th DATE AND LOCATION CHANGE
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: MLHS
Course Description: This one-week course/ensemble is designed for students entering grades 5 to 8. All instruments are welcome, but students must have one full year of experience on their instrument. This course will cover small group lessons, jazz history, jazz theory/improvisation, and full ensemble rehearsals. The program is intended to increase student confidence playing their instrument and knowledge about jazz history and improvisation.
Course Title: Children's Theatre (Registration is now open)
Applicable Grade Level(s): Grade 4-8
Cost: $1,100
Dates: Monday, July 3rd- Thursday, July 6th (no rehearsal on July 4th)
Monday, July 10th-Thursday, July 13th
Monday, July 17th-Thursday, July 20th
Monday, July 24th- Thursday, July 27th, 9:00 AM- 3:00 PM
Time: 9:00 AM- 12:30 PM (Rehearsal weeks)
Final Performance(s): July 28th and July 29th
Location: Mountain Lakes High School
Course Description: Returning for our 3rd summer season, registration for the Mountain Lakes Children's Theatre Summer Program is open! Our staff and curriculum have grown, due to the ravenous interest in professional-level theater experiences for the community. The bar has been raised for MLCT, and we invite your child to jump in with us! Visit the ML Summer Academy Google Site to see information about this year's performance - Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical Jr! Go the 'Children's Theatre' page on this Google site for more information.