2016 Summer School PreK-6 - Pleasant Hill R

Summer School
2016
Grades PreK-6
Pleasant Hill Intermediate School
May 31st-June 24th
Please bring your schedule and bus number first
day of Summer School!
ATTENDANCE
Summer school classes bridge
the gap that often occurs between the ending of one
school year and the start of
the next. Consistent, daily attendance will ensure that
your child is gaining the full
benefit of the program!
Pleasant Hill R-III School District
Questions may be directed to
Vicki Hartsell, Summer School Principal
[email protected] or
(816) 540-2220
Pleasant Hill R-III School District
2016 Summer School
Grades Pre-K thru 6th
Dates and Times
Conduct
Tuesday, May 31st- Friday, June 24th
8:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m.
Location
Pleasant Hill Intermediate School
1204 East 163rd Street
Pleasant Hill, MO 64080
816-540-3156
Transportation
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The district will provide transportation contingent on
state funding.
Complete the transportation section of the enrollment
form.
All transportation requests must be received by Thursday, April 28th or district-provided transportation is
not guaranteed.
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Student Dress
Appropriate dress is required. All school dress
codes are in effect for summer school.
 Shoes must be worn at all times
 No hats may be worn in the building
 Tank tops (not undershirts), T-shirts and
All classes are either 2 hour or 4 hour sessions.
sweatshirts are acceptable as long as they are
Use this year’s (15-16) grade placement to choose
neat and clean. All shirts must be buttoned.
classes.
 The length of skirts and shorts must extend
Classes will be filled on a first come first serve babelow the finger tips.
sis.
 No offensive writing (profanity, obscenity,
Due to enrollment sizes, student’s schedules may
sexual references, or references to alcohol,
be adjusted.
tobacco, or other drugs)
If classes do not have enough students, other
classes will be substituted.
Class Schedules
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All school conduct codes for the regular
school year will be in effect during the
summer school session.
Dismissal from summer school based on
these codes is the decision of the Summer
School Administration.
Students are expected to behave in a manner
that does not disrupt the learning process.
Summer school is an optional program;
therefore, behavior infractions will not be tolerated.
Students engaging in inappropriate conduct
will be removed from the summer school
program by the administration.
You will receive a copy of your student’s summer school
classes and bus number by the last day of school.
The summer school staff will be contacting you by
phone to confirm enrollment and answer any questions
you might have.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD/CHILDREN BRINGS
HIS/HER SCHEDULE AND BUS NUMBER ON THE FIRST
DAY OF SUMMER SCHOOL.
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Pre-K Summer School
Children entering kindergarten will learn about letters, sounds and numbers to
prepare them for the kindergarten curriculum. Students
will enjoy learning to read
and write as they experience Reader’s/Writer’s
Workshop. This is a 4 hour course.
Picture Book Workshop (K-1)
Come one, come all and join me as we dive into
the reading and writing process
using newly selected beloved
children’s picture books!! We
will learn about parts of a story
and the roles of authors and illustrators. In the practice of our
illustrating and writing skills we
will use various art supplies as we create our
own versions of a few favorite tales and an
original masterpiece. This is a 2 hour course.
National Park Explorer (K-3)
Come be a National Park explorer. We will explore unbelievable places like Yellowstone National Park and the moon like landscape of the Badlands through virtual tours and hands on activities.
During the class we will build a volcano, create a cave, and cook native
food. Students will learn about ancient trees that a car can drive through in the
Giant Redwoods and the underground world of
Mammoth Cave. This is a 2 hour course.
Olympics “2016 Version” (K-3)
Spend your summer school experience learning about the various games, history,
and events surrounding the 2016 Summer Olympics in South America. We
will explore not only the history and
events of the games but the host country. We will create expression through
a variety of paper crafts using words, pictures,
numbers, and problem solving. Some projects
include ring and torch making, reading Olym-
2016 Summer Classes
Pre-K thru 6th
pic activities, and hands-on homemade games
like that of the Olympics. You will need to join in
the fun to see what happens! This is a 2 hour
course.
ZOOBILEE ZOO—Look Who Lives at the Zoo!
(K-1)
Come and meet Zoe the Zebra, Montie the Monkey and Henry the Hippo! We will take a safari
and read about animals at the
zoo. While reading about our zoo
friends, we will review our letters, numbers, count and read.
Activities include constructing
animals from various materials,
graphing with animal crackers, Animal Bingo,
and comparing/contrasting our zoo friends. So
grab your safari hat and bug spray and come to
Zoobilee Zoo! This is a 2 h our course.
Fractured Fairy Tales (1-2)
Cinderella Bigfoot..Once Upon a Motorcycle
Dude..The Three Ninja Pigs?! Someone has taken
our fairy tales and given them a big twist! We will
read original fairy tales and compare them with
these newly “twisted” versions! Get
ready to hear about how annoying
Cinderella can really be and to act
out a current version of Little Red
Riding Hood through Reader’s
Theater! This is a 2 hour course.
.Dive into Summer (1-2)
Do you love swimming? How about building sand
castles? Do you want to know
more about what lives in the
ocean? Dive into Summer is the
class for you! We will learn
about ocean animals and the
habitat. You will feel like you
are at the beach all summer long! This is a 2
hour course
Getting Buggy with Art ( 1-2) (3-4)
Join us as we learn about bugs
through exploration, guest speakers, arts and crafts. Bugs will be
used as inspiration for our art and
craft projects during this course.
Students will have opportunities to observe bugs up
close and personal, including the handling of some
bugs!! This is a 2 hour course
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Chocolate Fever! (3-4)
Calling all chocolate LOVERS! Could there ever
be such a thing as too much chocolate?! Chocolate pudding, chocolatecovered strawberries, chocolate bunnies, chocolate pie..In this course we
will delve into Chocolate Fever by
Robert Kimmel Smith and find out
what happens when you wish for too much
chocolate! Of course we will have to sample
chocolates as we go, just to be sure! This is a 2
hour course.
The Fablab! (2-4)
Students put your creative caps on and be prepared to work with a team to create many different and unique
projects that could help solve real
world problems or at least how to
keep your brother and sister out
of your room! This hands-on class
will allow students to team up and use snap circuits, little bits, Legos, k’nex, magnets, and so
much more to make creations that will help others solve a possible problem. Or just let their
imaginations soar! Not only will we be creating
we will also be breaking! That’s right we will
work to break down some of the electronics that
have been used in the past to see how it works,
we may even see if we can put it all back together again! Finally, in Fablab we will also dig
into the world of coding and open up even more
possibilities of fun in our summer school adventure. Join us this summer to create and break in
our Fablab! This is a 2 hour course.
Animal Habitats (1-3)
Do you love animals? Have you
ever wanted to know more
about where your favorite animals live? If so then join me
and fellow classmates on adventure through five animal
habitats including the grasslands, the forest, the
ocean, the polar region, and the desert! We will
explore what it is like in each of these regions
and which animals call that region home. This is
a 2 hour course.
2016 Summer Classes
Pre-K thru 6th
Under the Sea (K-3) (4-6)
Our oceans are full of beauty and wonder, a
separate world waiting for us to explore. We will
become ocean explores this
summer and learn about the
mysteries of the oceans. We
will research different ocean
animals through books and
videos, and create amazing
ocean animal crafts! We will also use our math
skills as we become awesome oceanographers!
Join us and splash into summer reading, writing,
math , art, and science! Daily activities will send
imaginations diving down to the bottom of the
ocean as students use everyday items to create
ocean-related projects. This is a 2 hour course
Math Workshop
(K-1) (2-3) (4,5,6)
Students will take part in hands-on-learning to
solve Math problems that
they may encounter on a
daily basis. Students will
problem solve, journal and
demonstrate that they understand the concept of
solving various math problems.
This is a 2 hour course.
Reading/Writing Workshop (K) (1) (2)
Students will utilize Reader’s/
Writer’s Workshop to build on
their reading comprehension and
fluency skills by exploring different genres. Readers will learn how
to ask questions, make connections
using their prior knowledge.
This is a 2 hour course
Reading/Writing Zone
(3-4) ( 5-6)
Find your reading “Zone”
through in-depth lessons in a
small group setting by using the
workshop model. If you are
searching for books you can
thoroughly enjoy reading and
find strategies that work for you,
this is your place in summer school!
This is a 2 hour course
2016 Summer
School PreK-6
Learning Through Movement /Healthy Kids,
Healthy Brains (1-3)(4-6)
Our bodies and brains are amazing
things, during this course you will
learn the importance of taking care
of both your bodies and your
brains. We will learn ways to be
healthy through games and activities and learn how the body functions. Students
will participate in a variety of activities, experiments and games that center around learning
through movement. Together, we will tackle
core subject material through physical games in
the gym. Students will become Mathematicians,
Scientists and Writers as they develop and explain their own games, use geometry, find
measurements and averages, investigate ideas
of force and motion and explore physical health,
bones and muscles. Each week, a new theme
will lead us through a series of exciting activities
as students apply what they learn in school to
the real world. Come along on this journey with
to a happy, healthy, body and mind! This is a 2
hour course
Video Game Creation (1-3) (4-6)
Come one, Come All! Calling all Gamers, learn
how to create your own video games! This
course will be about exploring what is needed
to construct the best video games.
We will be learning the process to
create a game, then we will be able
to play the video games that we
create! After mastering the construction of different styles of video games, we
will be trying to solve real world problems
through video games! This is a 2 course
Be A Book Cook! (1-4)
½ cup of fun, 1 cup of imagination and a tablespoon of surprises. Come prepared each day to
use your imagination as we bake and cook up
treats and healthy food to eat and
share with family and friends. Be
amazed as you make s’more
pops, edible play dough, monkey bread, muffins, puppy chow
(that humans can eat!) and much, much more!
Each food item we make will be connected to a
children‘s literature book. At the end of summer
school you will have your own Be a Book Cook
cookbook to take home! This is a 2 hour
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Once Upon a Scientist
Summer Classes
(4-6)
Explore your inner scientist as we
combine reading and science in a
fun way! We will be exploring
states of matter through Oobleck
and Ice Cream, we will create our
own solar ovens to cook hot dogs, and we will
take a look at things that crawl in the night!
Messy at times, fun always as we put on our science goggles, record our data in our interactive
notebooks, and explore the inner scientist inside
all of us! This is a 2 hour course.
School of Rock (3-6)
Are you ready to rock?!? This course is for any
3rd through 6th grade student that loves music.
We will be building math and ELA skills while
analyzing songs. Throughout the
four weeks of summer school,
students will use their knowledge
of fractions, mathematical operations, poetry, and figurative language to compose their very own
song. Students will perform and
record their songs using digital
music apps, including Garage Band and Beatwave! This is a 2 hour course
Life in Medieval Times (4-6)
Travel back in time to the Medieval Age-where
kings, queens, knights and peasants built spacious castles, explored new
worlds, and invented fascinating devices. We will build
catapults and castles, create
maps and practice medieval
math. We will read about the
legends of dragons and Robin
Hood and learn to talk like William Shakespeare.
We will compare the stories of medieval times to
the movies of today. Come be a lord or lady in
medieval times!
This is a 2 hour course.
Please bring your schedule
First day of Summer School!
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School PreK-6
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Summer Classes
Reader’s Theater (1-6)
The jungle is jumpin’ with a jazzy beat in this
classic Disney musical, The Jungle Book,
based on the book by Rudyard Kipling. This
musical features a host of your colorful characters and favorite songs from the movie.
Many levels of participation are needed—
from singing solos to singing in the chorus,
memorizing many lines to no lines. There is
a place for you! We will include enrichment
activities such as vocabulary development,
animal research, character study, and use of
expression. If you like to sing, dance and be
in costume this class is for you. Come join
the fun, but remember, if you take this
class, you will not take any other classes
during summer school. Every student will
be responsible for his/her costume. So get
the jungle beat and your dancing feet and
discover your hidden star qualities. This is
a 4 hour course!
The Reader’s Theater meets at the
Pleasant Hill High School from
7:50-12:00. Students taking part in
the Reader’s Theater class will be
transported by bus to and from the
high school.
ATTENTION STUDENTS!
Have good attendance, behavior, and
study skills and your name may be
drawn for one of the daily give aways
during summer school!
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All School Picnic
The last day of Summer School we
will be having an All School Picnic
as a reward for all students
attending Summer School 2016!
Students participating in the play will have
a separate rewards function.
Pleasant Hill R-III School District
2016 Summer School Enrollment
Pre-K thru 6th
Due Thursday, April 28, 2016
Will your student need bus transportation?
Name:
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(complete bus form)
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Courses: List in order (every effort will be made to place students in their top 2 choices)
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understand that I will be asked to leave Summer School if I choose not to follow these policies and procedures.
Student Signature ______________________________________
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C/O: Kari Barger 1204 E. 163rd Street
Phone: 816-540-3156
Fax: 816-987-6316
Pleasant Hill, MO 64080
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