Summer English Extended Program

Children’s art classes are inquiry-based and focus on an exploration of the creative process. Classes are driven by the imagination and curiosity of children, with a belief that children’s work is play-based and connected to things that are relevant and meaningful in their lives. We take a multi-media approach that allows for a diversity of art-making processes, techniques and materials. Skills and concepts are taught through engaging, contemporary and fun projects like puppet making, 3D name art, and exploring nature and inventive ways to make art outside the classroom.

With instruction from a professionally trained actress, students practice various drama techniques for stage and film addressing areas as diverse as theory, improvisation, voice, mime, movement, and script analysis. Students create short skits and video clips related to different genres, including comedies and scary movies.

This course introduces students to the innovative techniques in the stop-motion and movie making industry through basic technology and design tools used in video art. Students work together as teams to design and create their own short films based on different themes using English vocabulary, including verbs, animals, foods and many other topics.

Children learn a range of rhythms and rhymes, games, songs, creative movement, and musical stories using drums, ukeleles, and percussion instruments. The focus in Music class is to educate the whole child – intellectually physically, socially, emotionally and creatively. Children develop confidence, self-esteem, memory, language, communication, listening, concentration, social skills, fine and gross motor skills, imagination and self-expression, while building an excellent foundation for future musical pursuits.