Elective Course Themes

 

Elective Courses for Grades 1-3:

Week 1 (June 15-18)

  • Option 1. Crafty Kids Workshop: In this creative workshop, students explore hands-on crafting using materials such as pipe cleaners, paper cups, and art supplies. Campers create themed crafts like flowers, animals, and decorative art while developing fine motor skills, attention to detail, and confidence in following creative processes.
  • Option 2. Robotics (Bee-Bot Coding Adventures): In this hands-on coding camp, students use Bee-Bots and unplugged activities to learn how to give step-by-step directions and solve problems. Campers build early coding confidence as they plan routes, test their ideas, and work together to help their robots reach a destination. This elective course is currently full.

Week 2 (June 22-26)

  • Option 1. Storybook Adventure: Step into the world of stories! In Storybook Adventure, students explore favorite books through reading, discussion, and creative activities. Students will act out stories, create story maps, and imagine new endings while building comprehension skills and a love for reading in a fun, interactive way.
  • Option 2. Robotics (Ozobot Adventures): In this hands-on robotics camp, students learn the basics of coding by drawing paths and color codes that guide Ozobot robots through mazes, maps, and creative challenges. Campers build early computational thinking skills as they experiment, debug their designs, and bring stories and ideas to life through robot movement. This elective course is currently full.

Week 3 (June 29-July 2)

  • Option 1. Word Wizards: Word Wizards turns language learning into a game! Through hands-on activities, word play, and games, students strengthen phonics, spelling, and vocabulary skills. Students build confidence with words while making reading exciting and approachable. 
  • Option 2. Robotics (Sphero Art Adventures): In this creative, hands-on camp, students use Sphero robots as art tools to explore movement, color, and design while creating one-of-a-kind robot-made paintings. Campers discover how speed and direction affect patterns as they experiment, collaborate, and proudly showcase their robotic artwork. This elective course is currently full.

Week 4 (July 6-10)

  • Option 1. Math Investigators (Number & Operations): Students build strong number sense through rich mathematical tasks that deepen their understanding of how numbers are composed, decomposed, and related. Students explore place value, counting, and number relationships using visual models, games, and real-world contexts. 
  • Option 2. Robotics (LEGO Maker Adventures): In this hands-on maker camp, students use LEGO WeDo 2.0 to design, build, and test moving creations such as sound machines, dancing robots, and helpful inventions. Campers develop creativity, collaboration, and early coding skills as they explore how motors and simple programs bring their ideas to life.

Week 5 (July 13-17)

  • Option 1. Math Investigators (Geometry): Students explore geometry through rich mathematical tasks that deepen their understanding of shapes and spatial relationships. Students investigate two dimensional shapes by composing, decomposing, sorting, and transforming shapes and develop geometric reasoning, spatial awareness, and the language to describe how shapes can change and fit together.
  • Option 2. Robotics (VEX 123 Move it! Shake it!): In this high-energy coding camp, students use VEX 123 robots to move, turn, dance, and play their way through hands-on challenges and games. Campers build confidence with sequencing and problem-solving as they collaborate, experiment, and bring their robots to life through motion and action. This elective course is currently full.

 

 

Elective Courses for Grades 4-5:

Week 1 (June 15-18)

  • Option 1. Math Investigators: Students explore fractions as numbers, not just pieces of pies, pizzas, or cookies. Through rich mathematical tasks, students investigate key ideas like equivalence, unit fractions, comparing fractions, and relationships between fractions. Using visual models and real-world contexts, students develop a deep conceptual understanding of how fractions work and why they make sense.
  • Option 2. Robotics (On the Move): In this hands-on robotics camp, students work in small teams to design, build, and test robots that compete in exciting movement-based games like Robot Soccer and Tug of War. Campers explore driver controls, manipulators, and gear systems as they collaborate, problem-solve, and refine their robots for friendly competition.

Week 2 (June 22-26)

  • Option 1. Data Science Investigators: In this data science camp, students collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data to answer meaningful questions. Through hands-on activities, students create charts and graphs, identify patterns, and explore how data are used to make decisions in the real world.
  • Option 2. Robotics (Carnival Games with Robots): In this lively robotics camp, students design and code robots to play carnival-style games like bumper cars and cube-stacking challenges. Working in small teams, campers refine driver control and autonomous strategies while exploring how sensors and coding bring interactive games to life.

Week 3 (June 29-July 2)

  • Option 1. Mini Makers Workshop: In this creative design workshop, students create wearable art such as bracelets, keychains, and fabric accessories while exploring pattern, symmetry, and visual balance. Students also design functional products using upcycled and recycled materials, transforming everyday items into thoughtful, creative designs. 
  • Option 2. Robotics (Robot Games): In this fast-paced robotics camp, students build, drive, and code VEX IQ robots to take on a series of game-based challenges that test speed, accuracy, and strategy. Through guided builds and creative problem-solving, campers strengthen their robotics skills as they improve designs and programs across multiple competitions.

Week 4 (July 6-10)

  • Option 1. Reading Detectives: Calling all detectives! In Reading Detectives, students solve mysteries by using reading strategies like finding clues, making predictions, and drawing conclusions. Through stories, puzzles, and teamwork, campers sharpen comprehension skills while having fun cracking the case.
  • Option 2. Robotics (Robot Olympics): In this challenge-driven camp, students train their robots for Olympic-style events by building, coding, and customizing driver controls to compete across a variety of tasks. Through teamwork and iterative design, campers develop advanced coding skills and game strategies as they aim to earn medals in multiple robotic events.

Week 5 (July 13-17)

  • Option 1. Young Writers Club: Young Writers Club is a creative space where students develop their own voices as writers. Campers will write stories, poems, and short pieces using prompts, pictures, and shared ideas. With opportunities to draw, revise, and share their work, students grow confidence and creativity in a supportive environment.
  • Option 2. Robotics (Search and Rescue with Robotics): In this immersive robotics camp, students become problem-solvers as they design, code, and test robots to complete search-and-rescue missions. Working collaboratively, campers use sensors, coding loops, and custom-built claws to strategize, troubleshoot, and compete in a final treasure hunt challenge.