Please note:
Summer Academy 2022 will be held in-person. Registration will only be available online. Please be aware that registration may potentially close on day one due to high demand. Students will be able to select from any available course within your grade level, on the website. If your first choice is not available, you have the option to enroll in another course or sign up for the course waiting list. Students may only enroll in one course. Because courses fill up quickly, prior to registration, we encourage you to find 3-5 courses that could interest your student.
Opening time will be at 8:00 AM CST on March 12th.
Click this link for 2022 course registration times
You may only register for one course at Summer Academy
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Do you love learning about exotic and unheard of animals? Building and designing things? If so, then Exploring Habitats Through STEAM is the perfect place for you! Join us this summer designed for 1st and 2nd graders to strengthen students’ critical thinking skills, ingenuity, and problem solving mindset, all while exploring various animal habitats.
How many times have you been asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” In our class you will have the opportunity to become an expert on a career that you choose.
Bring your imagination and your favorite story or book, and From Story to Stage will guide you through the process of changing your selection into a script for a play.
HELP WANTED! The Summer Academy Publishing Company is looking for authors and illustrators. Love books? Can you read, write and draw? Great – you’re hired!
Did you know that some of the world’s finest inventions like bubble gum, Coca-Cola, Band-Aids and Post-it notes were invented by chance? We think the next great inventor might be joining this class!
In this exciting class, you will learn the history of some challenging games, the rules to play, and thinking strategies that will help develop your problem-solving abilities.
Being an International Detective means having the opportunity to explore a variety of nations, while solving local riddles and mysteries.
Have a “whale” of a time fishing for exciting underwater facts and fun! Map the oceans, learn about waves, tides, and ocean critters through hands-on activities, experiments, computers, books, and videos. Go under the sea with your new friends to investigate various mammals, fish, invertebrates, and crustaceans! Do you like art projects? Each day we … Continue reading Ocean Adventures
In this class we will re-use and re-purpose everyday objects that we often overlook and combine them with some new art materials in order to create amazing artwork.
Sharks and raptors: terrifying or awe-inspiring? Join us as we search the skies and seas to discover the truth behind birds of prey and sharks. Students will learn how these predators hunt, how their physical traits make them unique, their importance to the ecosystem, and threats they face. This is a multi-disciplinary class in which … Continue reading Predators of the Sea and Sky
On our journey we will grow a rock, drop and roll a rock, study a rock, wear a rock, and yes, even love a rock! You will be astounded and impressed at the many things we will learn and notice about rocks.
This summer you will become a tech ninja and have an App-Mazing time in this tech-novation class!
Explore ancient Greece by embarking on a B.C.E journey that promises to enthrall! Your travels will begin with the Minoans (5000 years ago) where you will create a labyrinth, design a fresco to enjoy for years to come, and explore how Ancient Greece has influenced our culture today. Then it’s on to the Age of … Continue reading It’s Greek to Me
Come to this class and understand what most people only see. Visit real caves. Create realistic caves. Challenge people’s knowledge of caves.
Let’s step back over a hundred years ago as we visit Gibb’s Farm, Gammelgarden Musuem and Kelly Farm. We’ll learn how pioneers and Native Americans helped each other.
We will explore myths about the Moon, Pirates, Earthquakes, Cooking, Magic and much more!
Are you a born maker? Do you have so many interests from writing, engineering, painting, acting and sculpting that you just can’t decide what to take? Do you love theatre but feel shy about performing? Come and explore the fun and creative world of puppetry! On our voyage you will get to learn about this … Continue reading Puppetry & Storytelling
Come join your fellow TOMODACHI (friends) in learning about Japan. We will dive deep into the Japanese culture and language!
You will work in a group to come up with a logo for a fictitious sports team and, as the artist of your own business, you will be commissioned by a client in the Summer Academy to design a logo for their class.
How do artists get ideas? Inspiration is all around us. Artists know how to look at the world through “artist eyes” noticing colors, patterns, textures, interesting lines and incorporating them into their artwork. The course is meant to guide kids through the creative process to inevitably unleash their creative potential. In this course students will … Continue reading To Be an Artist!
If building with clay sounds like fun, then this combination will be a blast.
Lights, Camera, ACTION! In this class we will become filmmakers using the amazing technology of Stop Motion Animation.
This class will take you back to explore how battles were won or lost, how castles were built and learn the devastating facts about the Black Death.
Do you love to create your own designs? Do you love math? In this NEW class, curious students will independently and collaboratively explore, create, and investigate the many ways art and mathematics come together in our world.
You will learn how engineers and architects work by designing, then building a 21st century environment or even your own mechanical pinball machine.
The stage… the lights… the music… the applause! Theatre is a magical experience where you can learn, laugh, play, and have a ridiculously good time. Join us this summer as we use creativity and skill to bring to life a story on the stage to share with others.
Come explore this increasingly popular style of literature…the graphic novel.
If you enjoy exploring historical “what ifs” and replaying battles that changed history, this is the experience for you.
Come, play in the mud with us! Clay mud, that is. For three great weeks we will discover the joys of working in clay.
In 1609 Galileo Galilei invented a telescope that magnified objects twenty times. With it, he mapped our moon, discovered the four moons of Jupiter, and observed phases of the planet Venus. This marked the beginning of a scientific revolution regarding human knowledge of space. The discoveries since that time have led to a much deeper … Continue reading Astronomy: Our World in Space
Have you ever wondered why cars rust? What makes the colors in fireworks? How dirty, smelly, and oily (all around gross) water is purified and cleaned?
Summer Academy’s Teaching Assistant Program (TAP) matches you with a Summer Academy teacher. You will experience what it’s like to teach bright and talented students like you. TAP students need to be mature, responsible, dependable, caring, highly motivated, self-disciplined and have good interpersonal skills. You must be in good standing at your school with no … Continue reading Teacher Assistant Program (TAP)
In an effort to offer multiple choices to students completing first grade, multiple patterns and impressions strands are offered.