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Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:52 |
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SUMMER 2009 July 6 – 31 Integrating the elements and aesthetics of nature into the learning process, Lucy School provides an arts-based curriculum bursting with opportunities for joy and creative self-expression through drama, creative movement, dance, puppetry, music, and visual arts. Download our Summer Program Enrollment Forms The Lucy School summer program provides creative arts experiences (including drama, music, creative movement, and visual arts) that enhance the intellectual, emotional, physical, social and creative development of children – and that are fun! The arts are integrated as a lively and dynamic learning medium for young children that nurtures the need for play and fosters active learning. In addition to the arts, children explore our 17 acres of woods, fields, waterfall, pond, and organic gardens, integrating the aesthetics of nature as part of their multisensory learning experience. In the Lucy School summer program, projects are introduced through related literature and an introductory drama experience: Drama is used to introduce and create the learning environment, foster dramatic play and present “living through” learning experiences.
Music, Movement and Dance enhance the learning experience and facilitate multi-sensory learning, and
Visual Arts, based on Reggio Emilio, provide for creative self-expression. The arts serve as the foundation for daily activities. Art experiences enhance motivation and curiosity for learning and continued exploration in free choice play that takes place in our large dramatic play and block building area, and outdoors on two large playgrounds for ball play, bike riding, sand and water play, and lots of climbing opportunities to exercise large motor skills. Summer Program Activities - 2009 Using drama, creative movement and dance to create the journey and place, and integrating music, visual arts and outdoor exploration to enhance the experience, children will engage their problem solving skills during our fun-filled adventures. On the last day of each session, parents, in role as reporters, will come to interview the children about their travels and join us in celebrating our “return home.” Session One: Anansi the Trickster Anansi the Spider has promised Tiger that he can catch Snake alive and has invited us to help him. We’ll spend two weeks traveling to Anansi’s various homes in the villages and forests of West Africa, then on to Jamaica, helping Anansi blend magic and mischief as we encounter various dilemmas. Primary classes will explore our woods, pond, waterfalls and fields and discover the magic and mischief of nature. Pre-k and Kindergartner classes will make spider puppets and story boxes for creating our own Anansi stories. Stories we will dance, sing and dramatize include: Tiger and Anansi, Tiger Soup, and Anansi does the Impossible. Session Two: Slithering Sleuth Series Children will enter an intensive “training camp” for detectives (learning a few forensic tricks from a real life detective) then quickly be called into duty! Primary classes will be assigned The Case of the Missing Snake while our younger classes will be asked to solve The Case of the Missing Tooth (let’s hope their clues don’t get mixed up)! They’ll sleuth their way through a series of amusing and entertaining predicaments with characters based loosely on Ethan Clifford’s picture book series about Flatfoot Fox. During our second week, children will create their own mysteries to solve integrating clues found in nature! Early Threes: Runaway Bunnies We will put on our soft fuzzy bunny tails and ears each day as we hop through the stories of Margaret Wise Brown’s Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon and pepper our adventures with a bit of Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit’s Tales. The Lucy School “silo” will be our burrow and we will crawl through the “secret tunnel” each morning as we begin our playful adventures. On our outdoors escapades we’ll pick lettuce and carrots from our real garden to nibble and look for signs of real bunnies. Please join us on the last Friday of this four-week session as we celebrate our “return home” with a bunny hop song and dance party. Schedule and Tuition Information July 6 - 31 FULL DAY SUMMER PROGRAM –5 DAYS For children ages four – eight (Entering Kindergarten, First, Second, or Third Grade) Monday–Friday - 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Session One (7/6 – 17)……..… $ 375.00 Session Two (7/20 – 31)….… $ 375.00 Sessions 1 & 2 ..……………….… $ 700.00 FULL DAY SUMMER PROGRAM - 3 DAYS For children ages 3 – 4 (before May 1) Monday – Wed. - 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Session One (7/6 – 15)……… $ 260.00 Session Two (7/20 – 29)…….. $ 260.00 Sessions 1 & 2 ..…………………. $ 480.00 HALF-DAY “EARLY THREES” PROGRAM For children who will be three by 9/1 Thursday – Fri. - 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM Four weeks (7/9-31)……..…... $ 250.00 Download our Summer Program Enrollment Application. “A growing body of research on the effects of early arts experiences shows their positive relationship to improved overall academic performance and demonstrates that when creativity is developed at an early age, its benefits are continual and are transformed to many individual tasks.” –Arts Education Partnership Founder and Director: Victoria Brown Victoria Brown, PhD has worked with children, parents, teachers and artists nationwide for more than 20 years. Formerly professor of theatre arts at Gallaudet University, Victoria is currently co-director of the Luce Institute for Creative Arts in Early Childhood, providing arts in education training for teachers, artists and parents. Victoria is also a consultant for the National Head Start Bureau; a founding artist of the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, and is co-author, with Sarah Pleydell, of the award winning book: The Dramatic Difference: Drama for the Preschool and Kindergarten Classroom (2000) Heinemann Press. Faculty: All teachers at Lucy School hold a degree in Early Childhood Education or a related field. Each teacher brings her/his own unique talents to create a top-notch teaching team. Professional artists create and lead arts activities developed in collaboration with the teachers.
For more information please contact:
PO Box 1111 Middletown, MD 21769
(301) 293-1163
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Last Updated on Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:59 |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:42 |
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Admissions Lucy School honors diversity in its students and has an open admission process without regard to race, sex, color, religion or ethnic origin. Children, however, must be fully potty-trained before they can attend the school. Parents and/or guardians are encouraged to visit the school with their children. Please call for an appointment: 301.293.1163.
View and/or download the 2009-2010 Enrollment Application for Pre-K or the 2009-2010 Enrollment Application for Kindergarten and Elementary. |
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