2019 Vacation Week Program Feb 15th, 18th - 22nd
| Dates | Morning classes | Break | Afternoon Activities | Availability |
| Friday Feb 15th | Pokemon in Winter LEGO Robotics |
Pokeball Crispies | Light-up Quiz | Available |
| Monday Feb 18th | Ice Age LEGO Robotics |
Glacial Jello | Prehistoric Puppets | Available |
| Tuesday Feb 19th | Sound Science LEGO Robotics |
Crunchy Chips | Pleasing Percussion | Available |
| Wednesday Feb 20th | Icy Adaptions
LEGO Robotics |
Hibernation Treats | Bird Fun | Available |
| Thursday Feb 21st | The Secret of Balance LEGO Robotics |
Cubes | Catapult Comparisons | Available |
| Friday Feb 22nd | Roots and Rainbows LEGO Robotics |
Flowers | Sleeping Seeds | Available |
Vacation Program Descriptions
| Friday (Feb 15th) |
| Morning | Pokemon in Winter: The Pokemon team made ice monsters out of fir trees, foxes, and furry crabs. What do they have in common, and what can they tell us about real-world life? | Robotics: With Lego Mindstorms you'll build and program a robot. You'll learn the basics of programming then set your creation loose! |
| Break | Pokeball Crispies: Capture the taste. |
| Afternoon | Light-up Quiz: Learn about electric currents and completing the circuit, then use this knowledge to create a quiz game to bring home. |
| Monday (Feb 18th) |
| Morning | Ice Age: The Pleistocene era was full of amazing animals. While many are familiar with mammoths, there were also thousand-kilogram cave bears, car-sized armodillos, and even nine-foot sabertoothed salmon! | Robotics: With Lego Mindstorms you'll build and program a robot. You'll learn the basics of programming then set your creation loose! |
| Break | Glacial Jello: What lurks within? |
| Afternoon | Prehistoric Puppets: Create paper prehistoric puppets and map out a spiraling timeline of life on Earth. |
| Tuesday (Feb 19th) |
| Morning | Sound Science: If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? What is sound, exactly, and how can you get so many different notes out of a single piece of string? | Robotics: With Lego Mindstorms you'll build and program a robot. You'll learn the basics of programming then set your creation loose! |
| Break | Crunchy Chips: A concert in your mouth. | Afternoon | Pleasing Percussion : Let's make some instruments! |
| Wednesday (Feb 20th) |
| Morning | Icy Adaptions: Winter can be a difficult season for animals: it's cold, food is scarce, and deep snow makes it hard to get around. Some migrate to warmer lands, but many stay behind. Let's find out how the fauna around us survive wintertime. | Robotics: With Lego Mindstorms you'll build and program a robot. You'll learn the basics of programming then set your creation loose! |
| Break | Hibernation Treats: Pack it in. |
| Afternoon | Bird Fun: Midwinter is a tough time for our feathered friends, especially the native birds of North America. Make their days better with birdfeeders! |
| Thursday (Feb 21st) |
| Morning | The Secret of Balance: How do things stay up and why do they fall down? Why does dropped toast always land on the buttered side? What's the trick to making a water bottle land perfectly? Learn how weight, gravity and symmetry figure into everyday life. | Robotics: With Lego Mindstorms you'll build and program a robot. You'll learn the basics of programming then set your creation loose! |
| Break | Cubes: Stackable snacks. | Afternoon | Catapult Comparisons: We'll explore the many factors that go into flinging objects across the room as we build and test out catapults. |
| Friday (Feb 22nd) |
| Morning | Roots and Rainbows:You can dye cut flowers easily, yet you can't make blue roses by watering white ones with food coloring...but you can change the color of hydrangias from pink to blue or blue to pink with a bit of fertilizer. We'll get to the root of how and what plants absorb from their surroundings. | Robotics: With Lego Mindstorms you'll build and program a robot. You'll learn the basics of programming then set your creation loose! |
| Break | Flowers: No, really. |
| Afternoon | Sleeping Seeds:All the plants look dead in winter, even the trees. How do they survive the freezing temperature? And what about the seeds and bulbs in the frozen ground? |
Vacation Week Tuition
| Dates: | Feb 15th, 18th - 22nd. Program hours: 9:00am-4:00pm. Daily Schedule: Morning is one science class and one technology class, followed by lunch and recess. We then get back to learning with a fun educational activity in the afternoon. |
| Extended hours: | Extended AM hours are offered starting at 8:15am at an
additional cost of $8 per day. Extended PM hours are offered from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at an additional cost of $8 per half hour. |
| Cost: |
Daily tuition: $90 Sign up for four days and receive your choice of educational toy. 10% sibling discount. Refer a friend and if they sign up, get 10% off! |