Grade:  Completed Kindergarten or Prefirst
Instructors: Kateland Johnston & Jill Trimble
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: BBI
Description:  Calling all incoming prefirst and first grade students!  This class is designed to challenge students as they continue to make tremendous growth in the four core academic areas.  Each child’s individual learning needs will be met using strategies of small group guided reading, writing exploration, and phonics reinforcement. Math concept development will be strengthened through hands-on activities.

Back to Basics II:
Words & Numbers Alive

Grade:  Completed Grade 1
Instructor: Julie Jackson
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: BBII
Description:  This class is designed to challenge and support incoming second graders. The class will reinforce literacy skills, including reading, writing, and spelling.  Small group and individualized instruction will be provided through guided reading.  Development of ideas, conventions, word choice, organization, and voice are writing traits that will be addressed.  Using a variety of strategies, manipulatives, and games, students will practice problem solving and strengthen their computational skills in preparation for second grade.  Telling time, reading temperature, recognizing attributes of shapes, counting money, measuring, and exploring patterns will be presented through this course.

Culture Kaleidoscope

Grade:  Completed Grades 1-3
Instructor: Michelle Lucas
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: CK

Description:  Join us on an adventure that will foster creativity, sensitivity, and originality!  We will read about people, places, events and artistic influence in culture.  Children will be encouraged to appreciate the uniqueness of various cultures through reading, writing, and arts and crafts.  We will even sample some ethnic cuisine. We will celebrate the Hispanic, Native American, African American, and Asian cultures.  Our studies will help us to see and appreciate the richness of the increasing diversity within our community, nation, and world.

Young Writers Club

Grade:  Completed Grades 3-5
Instructor: Shelley Freirich
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: YWC

Description:  Welcome to the world of writing!  All eager readers and writers are welcome!  Students will create a children’s book and write an autobiography. Each student will design and edit his or her own magazine.  Students will express their creativity while strengthening their descriptive writing, developing their voice, and extending their understanding of story elements and writing conventions.  Writing activities will be tailored to the writing level and skill of each participant.

Cooking & Crafts

Grade:  Completed Kindergarten or Prefirst
Instructors: Kateland Johnston & Jill Trimble
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: CC

Description:  Join Kateland Johnston and Jill Trimble for a cooking and art adventure involving lots of measuring, mixing, chowing down, and hands-on excitement!  This class will mix up the ingredients of literature, fractions, estimation, measuring, and creativity to produce a delightful dish of fun.

Nature Adventures

Grade:  Completed Grades 1-3
Instructor: Julie Jackson
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: NA

Description:  Embark on an outdoor ADVENTURE into NATURE!  Children will develop a sense of place by studying the outdoors and learning that a place is more than a location.  It is the people who live there, the land, the plants, the animals, the water, the air, and the soil, all of which are connected.  Children will find that they too are connected to and can have a powerful impact on our environment. They will ask questions about the outdoors and then set out to answer them through hands-on exploration, recording their findings in nature journals.  By studying their surroundings, they will become scientists, ecologists, historians, artists, and authors while having fun! 

Computer Champs

Grade:  Completed Grades 2-5
Instructor: Esther Evans
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: CH

Description:  Spend those lazy, hazy afternoons of summer developing your technology skills. In this class, you’ll create fantastic projects using PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Word, and Publisher.  Photography techniques will be presented.  Students will take digital photographs and incorporate them into their computer projects.  Daily touch typing lessons will hone students’ keyboarding skills.  Each class will end with 45 minutes of fun and games as students explore educational software.

Outdoor Games

Grade:  Completed Grades 3-5
Instructor: Shelley Freirich
Supply Fee: $35                       
Course Code: OG

Description: Come enjoy the fun of “old fashioned” playground and camp games!  We will develop teamwork and cooperation skills as we engage in scavenger hunts, Capture the Flag, old-fashioned relays, Spider Soccer, Ultimate Balloon Volleyball, Dodge ball, T.V. Tag, and much, much more!  The warm, summer weather will also allow us to have slip-and-slides, water balloon and squirt gun fights, and swimming excursions.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:

• Apply sunscreen to children at home each day before coming to school.
• Remember to send a snack for each morning and   afternoon session that your child is attending.
• Children enrolled for a full day should bring their own snacks, lunch and drinks.  Milk or juice may be ordered through the office for $10.00.
• Children enrolled for a full day are not billed additionally for the lunch period.
• Daycare is available before and after class for $4.40 per hour.  Daycare hours are from 7:00 to 8:30 a.m. and from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m.
• PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH CLASS HAS A SUPPLY FEE (see course description pages for cost).

Fairy Tale Friends

Age:  3 Year Olds           
Time:  Morning Class
Instructor: Mary Varley

Description:  Run, run as fast as you can to discover and learn with fun fairy tales!  Each week a different fairy tale will be presented, both the original version along with a different take on the timeless tale.  Your child will enjoy wonderful activities that incorporate the theme of the fairy tales with language arts, science, math, art, music, and more. This class will be “just right” for your preschooler!

Adventures in the Garden

Age: 4 & 5 Year Olds                       
Time:  Morning  OR Afternoon Class
Instructor: Michelle Jaramillo

Description:  Come and join us in The Garden, the beautiful Sunset Mesa Preschool outside classroom. We’ll observe and help along the life of plants, insects, birds and other wild life that comes our way. The students will participate in daily lessons of science and exploration while enjoying lots of water activities, literature and many other sun-filled surprises!
    
Digging into Dinosaurs

Age:  3 & 4 Year Olds                                  
Time:  Full Day Class
Instructor: Allison Webster

Description:  Come join us on a fun-filled journey back in time!  We will explore the world of dinosaurs through music, movement, science, arts and crafts, books, games and dramatic play.  We will also enjoy cooking and gardening projects.  This will be a fun and relaxing class designed for our young learners.

The Wonderful World of Animals

Age:  3 - 5 Year Olds           
Time:  Full Day Class
Instructor: Megan McCarthy and Jennifer Lacy

Description:  Get ready for new and exciting activities as we explore the Wonderful World of Animals through children’s literature. From African safaris to underwater mysteries, we will be learning about animals all around the world through arts and crafts, cooking, games and dramatic play. We will conclude with a family picnic to the Rio Grande Zoo so the students can have a first-hand view of the animals they have studied.

Around the World in Twenty Days!

Age:  4 & 5 Year Olds                       
Time:  Full Day Class
Instructor: Lenore Kaye

Description:  Imagine a world where every day is an exciting adventure as we visit new places, near and far, without ever leaving our classroom! Through the exploration of various folktales and stories, your child will be introduced to different places, people and foods.  This will be reinforced through a variety of art, language, cooking and dramatic play activities.  So come along with us as we explore literature from Around the World!

South Campus
Arrival and Dismissal Schedule

AM Classes:
Arrival 8:20-8:30
Dismissal 11:20-11:30

PM Classes:
Arrival 12:30
Dismissal 3:20-3:30

Full Day Classes:
Arrival 8:20-8:30
Dismissal 3:20-3:30
           
*Full Day students will have lunch in the classroom

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:

1. Apply sunscreen to children at home each day before coming to school.
2. Remember to send a snack for each morning and    afternoon session that your child is attending. Please label snack as AM or PM.
3. Children enrolled for a full day class should bring their own snacks, lunch and drinks.  Milk or juice for lunch may be ordered for the entire session through the office for $10.00.
4. Full day students should bring a bath towel and travel size pillow for rest time.
5. Preschoolers need a complete change of clothing labeled with the student’s name.
6. PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH CLASS HAS A SUPPLY FEE (see course description pages for cost).
7. Daycare is available before and after class for $4.40 per hour.  Daycare hours are from 7:00 to 8:30 a.m. and from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m.