First Grade Project
In an effort to offer multiple choices to students completing first grade, multiple patterns and impressions strands are offered.
2023 Registration
Please note:
Summer Academy 2023 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 11th. Registration will be done through Mahtomedi’s Eleyo system.
You may only register for one course at Summer Academy
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Class # 2 Grades: 1- 2 Exploring Habitats through STEAM
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.
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Class # 3 Grades: 2- 3 Pay To The Order Of…
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.
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Class # 4 Grades: 2- 3 Written & Illustrated By You!
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!
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Class # 5 Grades: 2- 3 Inventions & Engineering
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!
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Class # 6 Grades: 2- 3 International Detectives
Being an International Detective means having the opportunity to explore a variety of nations, while solving local riddles and mysteries.
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Class # 7 Grades: 2- 3 Ocean Adventures
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
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Class # 8 Grades: 2- 3 Predators of the Sea and Sky
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
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Class # 9 Grades: 2- 3 I’m a Tech Ninja!
This summer you will become a tech ninja and have an App-Mazing time in this tech-novation class!
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Class # 10 Grades: 2- 3- 4 The Safari
Experience life in a Swahili market place as you speak Swahili to barter for the food we cook. Travel to a local African restaurant to taste the flavors of Africa.
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Class # 11 Grades: 3- 4 STEAM Masters
What can build a car, diffuse a bomb, traverse the surface of Mars, climb sheer walls with ease, fly at high speed, and shoot lasers from its eyes? ROBOTS!
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Class # 12 Grades: 3- 4- 5 Are YOU a Mythbuster?
We will explore myths about the Moon, Pirates, Earthquakes, Cooking, Magic and much more!
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Class # 13 Grades: 3- 4- 5 Go West Young Woman
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.
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Class # 14 Grades: 3- 4- 5- 6 Design Studio
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.
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Class # 15 Grades: 3- 4- 5- 6 Clay The Architectural Way
If building with clay sounds like fun, then this combination will be a blast.
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Class # 16 Grades: 4- 5- 6 The Power of Paper
In an increasingly digital world, we hear the word “paperless” on what seems to be a daily basis. However, paper is about more than just homework and files and documents. Paper is also about art, and about communication! In this fun summer course, you will make art and create meaning out of one of the world’s greatest inventions: paper.
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Class # 17 Grades: 4- 5- 6 Making Meteorologists
Curious about how weather affects the world around us? This course is the perfect place for you! Join us as we explore the world of meteorology!
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Class # 18 Grades: 4- 5- 6 Castles, Kings & Other Things
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.
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Class # 19 Grades: 4- 5- 6 Graphic Novels: Stories in Words & Pictures
Come explore this increasingly popular style of literature…the graphic novel.
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Class # 20 Grades: 4- 5- 6- 7- 8 SA Players Presents: Little Red Riding Hood
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.
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Class # 21 Grades: 5- 6- 7- 8 Scribble Society
Do you enjoy solving riddles? Are you able to make up creative and funny stories in your head? Do you love musical lyrics? Can you imagine a world that is unlike our own? Do you love telling others your stories? In this course we will explore the various ways in which writing impacts our world!
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Class # 22 Grades: 5- 6- 7- 8 CSI: Summer Academy
Have you always wanted to help solve a crime? CSI: Summer Academy is looking for the best investigators around to help solve the case.
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Class # 23 Grades: 5- 6- 7 Incredible Machines, Devices & Gizmos
You will learn how engineers and architects work by designing, then building a 21st century environment or even your own mechanical pinball machine.
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Class # 24 Grades: 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11 Simulation Games
If you enjoy exploring historical “what ifs” and replaying battles that changed history, this is the experience for you.
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Class # 25 Grades: 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11 Clay Studio
Come, play in the mud with us! Clay mud, that is. For three great weeks we will discover the joys of working in clay.
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Class # 26 Grades: 6- 7- 8- 9 Let Music Move You
In this course, you will listen to a wide variety of songs, watch music videos, and read lyrics to examine and formulate opinions about social justice topics.
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Class # 27 Grades: 6- 7- 8 Astronomy: Our World in Space
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
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Class # 28 Grades: 7- 8- 9 A Chemist’s #1 Tool – The Periodic Table of Elements
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?
