Summer Day Camp

Come Ye, Come Ye! Actors and actresses enhance their oral skills by performing in a mini-musical production. Your child will practice singing, listening and memorization talents while learning songs. This course improves visual motor integration skills while working with paint and other art materials. Students will design and craft costumes in anticipations of a final performance for family and friends.

This is a perfect class for kindergarten and first graders who enjoy acting, singing and drawing. The inherent foundation of the course will emphasize classroom routine, behavioral expectations and productive work habits.

If your child is interested in the arts, they may be Broadway Bound! This program hones the creative process, and offers an opportunity to exhibit a bit of flair! Students will design and build sets, learn lines, master songs, create a script and expand their talents. This small-group setting will improve oral expression, reading and memorization skills. On the last day of the program the course will culminate in a mini-musical production for family and friends. Students are required to commit to the entire session.

• Sing, Dance and Act
• Perform for Family and Friends
• Create a Play
• Design Simple Props and Sets
• Improve Oral Expression, Reading and Memorization Skills

Designed to meet the individualized needs of students to experience the real joys of reading. Jumpstart Readers focuses on basic skills in an integrative, thematically based curriculum. The course strikes a creative balance between direct, small-group instruction and hands-on activities. It helps students gain confidence as they create, dramatize and illustrate stories, master basic phonics, and read thematic literature from standard readers. All students are assessed prior to the class to assess proper placement and individual needs. There is a conference at the end of the program. Some homework is required.

• Illustrate Stories
• Master Basic Phonics
• Improve Reading Skills
• Small Group Instruction
• Hands-On Activities
• Enhance Esteem and Self-Confidence

Welcome all in-coming Del Mar Pines second graders to Reading and Writing Explorations. Students will develop several methods of creating effective graphic organizers and use them to create well thought out and detailed papers. In addition to fiction and non-fiction selections, students will experience an in depth novel study. This study will include: vocabulary skills, building comprehension based on concrete evidence from the text, and making real life connections through the development of the plot. During this course, the highly effective 6-Traits Writing model will be used to cultivate the students into strong creative writers. Some homework is required. Del Mar Pines students only.

• Mind Maps and Plot Development Papers
• Non-Fiction Story Webs and Informational Reports
• Novel Study
• 6-Traits of Effective Writing

For four decades, hundreds of students have become outstanding readers, writers, spellers, and thinkers using the comprehensive Del Mar Pines learning system. This is the opportunity for students who do not currently attend Del Mar Pines School to get this unique learning experience.

Students will discover the joys of literature while learning proven academic formulas for synthesizing ideas and committing them to paper. There is a parent-teacher conference at the end of the program. This is an intensive course with some homework.

• Analysis of theme, result, characters, setting and plot
• Proven step-by-step system
• Small discussion groups
• Vocabulary development
• Total recall comprehension questions
• Story guides as a focus for silent reading
• Plot development papers
• "Mind maps" and "Story webbing"

This course will build and strengthen reading, writing and language skills. It will also expose students to quality literature and provide a solid foundation for the craft of writing. The class will begin with daily journal writing and instruction in punctuation, mechanics, usage and grammar. Next, students will read an acclaimed novel and participate in high-interest, dynamic class discussions in response to key literary elements and themes.

Students will then be guided through reading comprehension activities, focusing on extracting details and textual evidence to support ideas. Lastly, students will be challenged to write strong active essays through the 6-Traits writing model. This course will prepare your child for language arts classes in the years to come. This is an intensive course with some homework.

• Elements of writing
• Review of language mechanics
• Exposure to acclaimed literature
• Vocabulary development
• Literary discussion and analysis
• In-depth essay writing

Do you want to learn the basics of photography? Have you ever wanted to learn Adobe Photoshop? This class will teach students how to take photos with a digital camera and transfer them to a computer where they will work with photos and additional images. The class will explore proper composition, exposure techniques, and types of photography. The class will look at examples of famous pictures and attempt to duplicate the styles. Students will walk around the campus looking for unique angles, shapes, colors, and lighting as we capture a variety of images. We will take our photos and enhance them using Photoshop to correct minor flaws in the image and to experiment ways to make the images different. We take photos almost every day in our lives and our kids will most certainly do the same. This class will provide the basics of a journey that will last a lifetime.

Students will use digital cameras that are provided by the school in addition to a laptop with Adobe Photoshop.

There is no better way of discovering your own art ‘style’ than first taking a close look at what others have accomplished. Learn about famous artists, their unique techniques, and the art movements/styles they started while doing a variety of two and three-dimensional fun art projects. An assortment of art’-isms’ such as minimalism, mannerism, dadaism, etc. will be discussed and students will create their own artwork (painting, collages, sculptures, etc.) using the same style/techniques. By the end of the session, students will have a better understanding of the art movements/styles; and will be able to discuss the technique that best appeals to them and describes their own work. Taught by Mrs. Robinson.

In this art class children will explore a variety of sculpting materials (Ceramics, Playdough, Paper Mache, and Plaster of Paris). What a wonderful experience to learn terms and techniques while  creating three-dimensional decorative and functional works of art. How exciting to create your own piece of art! This class is taught by our very own Mrs. Robinson.

Students entering First or Second grade in the fall will travel through a world of math adventures in pursuit of fun with math concepts. While reveling in a safari theme, students will use manipulative tools, modeling clay, paper, toys and iPads to discover and develop functional math skills and awareness of foundational math ideas. Students who are poised to discover the wonders of the math world will have the opportunity to explore:

• Number sense
• Sets
• Geometry
• Fractions
• Money
• Measurement
• Telling time

This is an exploratory class intended to develop confidence and interest in the world of math, not a remedial class focused on “drill” or memorization. Students should come prepared with a sense of adventure and willingness to discover!

Students will enjoy exploring the world of numbers and enhance their mathematical ability through a variety of games and problem solving activities. This class is designed to reinforce, review and extend mathematical concepts, with a focus on problem solving skills in a fun and exciting way!

In this game-based class, students will develop positive feelings about math as they improve their confidence, math facts and number competence. Games, computational skill checks, and independent activities all in engaging formats will attract and hold students’ interest! Topics include mixed facts, mental computation, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals.

It is important to encourage creativity and a sense of exploration in children. Discover and expand your artistic talent this summer! We provide a comfortable, fun environment for your artists to develop confidence and a positive attitude toward their art. This make-it-and-take-it class is a fantastic way to engage your child in a variety of creative learning activities while developing self-expression, creativity, fine motor skills, imagination and success. All materials included.

Does your child want to write enthralling stories, create beautiful poetry, and delve into an array of creative writing techniques? Well you came to the right class! 

Welcome to Adventures in Creative Writing where students will unleash the storytellers within. This writer’s workshop will focus on the ‘art’ of writing and explore the many purposes for writing. Why do we write? We write to express ourselves, we write for fun, we write to share our knowledge with others, to strengthen our grammar skills, and to enhance literacy within the community.  

All writing lessons will be considered invitations to engage students’ creativity and allow students to find their own tones and voices. Nicole Lewis has an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry and a passion for teaching writing to children. The class is aimed to cultivate the writer within and welcomes writers of all levels. Includes materials: Journal and Google Classroom account.

Unique, creative, and hands-on technical class for children of any skill level who are interested in building, creating and engineering.

Possible projects include:

• Centripetal Force Board
• Lego Challenge Day
• Meteor Rockets Creations
• Laser Maze and Solar Kits
• Slingshot Rocket Construction
• Magnet Experiment Day
• Cool Circuits & Bristle Robot Construction PVC Fort Day!

Our Future ENTREPRENEUR Program will focus on:

• Leadership Skills
• Emotional Intelligence
• Innovation
• Team Building
• Problem Solving
• Purpose
• Mental Skills
• Focus
• Positive Attitude
• Confidence
• Growth Mindset
• Daily Nutritional & Fitness Activities!

Our future entrepreneurs program cultivates our student’s leadership skills, emotional intelligence. We help them to discover their personal purpose, spark innovative ideas, and teach them team building and problem solving strategies. Each student will have the opportunity to build their personal startup company and present it to their parents at the end of the program!

Our music production program focuses on teaching students how to write, arrange and form their own personal songs. Students learn how to create basic beats, set up, mix and produce music. Your child will discover, explore, and develop the artist within them and perform or present their musical production they created within our program to their peers and family!

Our Music Production Program will focus on:

Class Entails:

• Song Writing
• Music Arrangement
• Create Basic Beats & Bass Lines
• Song Form
• Music Theory
• Vocabulary Development
• Voice Coaching
• Poetry Writing

Mental Skills:

• Critical Listening
• Creativity
• Daily Leadership  
• Self Improvement
• Homework

Total Kids Magic brings it’s popular Magic Camp to Del Mar Pines.  Dynamite Dave has been performing in the San Diego area for 8 years and is the exclusive presenter in San Diego of the very popular Discover Magic program, which teaches children important life skills via a method that kids love – Magic! In this course your child will learn amazing coin and card tricks, how to magically make a rope go through a spectators closed fist, and even travel through time with a magic bandana.

What makes Discover Magic truly special is its structure. We are leveraging the power and excitement of learning magic secrets to get kids to put down their electronic devices and learn important social skills that will last a lifetime.  Each lesson teaches one of the 8 traits of a true magician.  Our purpose is to teach respect, inspire creativity, encourage preparation and so much more all in a safe, friendly, fun environment.

At the same time we utilize modern technology both with instructional videos in class and online. Children learn new magic tricks by giving each child the opportunity to perform several times in class before going home to show a family member.  

Here are just some of the reasons you should Discover Magic!!!

• Amazing custom tricks
• Simple full color instructions
• Top secret file folders with bonus extras
• Learn the 8 traits of a true magician
• Videos featuring Michael Ammar - one of the greatest teachers in magic history
• An exclusive graduation wand and certificate
• Discover a new hobby that could change your life

On the first day of class students get a secret file folder, a custom trick, and a special key card to access the online video vault. That key card gives them access to our exclusive Discover Magic video vault. Once logged in, secret words given at the end of each class will unlock more and more videos – including the special in-class videos that teach the 8 traits of a true magician and bonus videos covering additional tricks.

Each child receives a magic kit ($80 value) which includes eight high-quality magic tricks exclusive to Discover Magic, eight top-secret magic fun file folders, a graduation magic wand and certificate, and access to our magic video vault, which includes many magic tricks including the tricks they learn in class.  There is always something to spark the imagination and not only help kids discover magic, but unlock their potential.

Children will learn the fundamentals of basketball focusing on passing, shooting, dribbling, defense, foot work, court awareness and teamwork!

Our basketball classes are designed to teach kids the fundamentals of sports in a FUN, dynamic and fast paced environment. This camp is led by enthusiastic and highly trained 549 Sports basketball coaches. They include a dedicated staff that is passionate about helping kids grow as athletes and people. Good sportsmanship, positivity, kindness and teamwork is always emphasized in this Basketball program.

Athletes Globals program combines practical self-defense techniques. MMA Bootcamp fitness, mental, physical stamina drawn from Boxing, Muay Thai, Grappling, Judo training to provide participants with world-class mixed martial arts instruction. Our classes will keep participants engaged, excited and motivated in a structured and a positive environment.

Focus on:

Character, Strength, Health, Martial Arts

• Build Self Confidence
• Mental & Physical Stamina
• Increase situational awareness
• Flexibility
• Nutritional Homework
• Self-Defense
• Strength & Power
• Focus & Discipline
• Learn & Become Comfortable With Practical techniques
• Overall Physical Fitness

Introduce your children to the world of yoga with Ms. Nicole Lewis. The classes are designed to teach beginner yoga poses, breathing techniques, and mindfulness. Tree, Warrior, Volcano, and Butterfly are just a few of the many yoga poses your children will learn.

Nicole Lewis has been teaching yoga to children for over 20 years. She is the proud owner of Mariposa Yoga & The Creative Arts and holds a 200-hour Yoga teaching certification. 

Why should you sign your children up for yoga? Recent studies show that yoga improves academic work, memory, concentration, sleep, and relieves stress.

Mariposa Yoga classes blend fun yoga poses with creativity while encouraging self-awareness, self-esteem, and independence. Bring your own yoga mat.

Mad Science will run 3 science topics during our summer camp; Crazy Chem-Works Camp., Jr. Detective and Red Hot Robots

Crazy Chem-Works Camp

Shake up a flask of fun in the lab and become a junior chemist! Learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results. Check out the colors of chemistry with the power of pH paper and create a stopper-popping reaction. Probe the properties of light and discover some unusual applications of glow-in-the-dark technology. Campers have a blast as they make some crazy concoctions.

Jr. Detective

Become a Mad Science Jr. Detective and take a fascinating journey into the world of detection, forensics and classified information. Learn code language to send secret messages as part of your mission. Use special spy glasses to help learn about surveillance and the important role it plays in security. Investigate a pretend crime scene and sift through clues to crack the case. As part of the Mad Science Bureau of Investigation you will gain observational skills that are used by secret agents.

Red Hot Robots

Join Mad Science for an introduction to robots! Throughout the week, campers will become robot engineers as they build a unique motorized robot that transforms into four unique creatures, each increasing in difficulty. Discover the inner workings of robots by experimenting with circuits, gears, sensors and power supplies. Learn about robot programming and the different tasks robots perform in our world. Experiment with sound sensing, line tracking and solar powered robots

Our goal is to teach children in grades K – 6 abstract concepts of planning, analysis and strategy through the game of chess. Kids will be excited to understand and amazed by the positive experience that chess offers. We believe that when a child learns the most complicated game in the world, they will build self-confidence, develop self-learning tools and learn how to evaluate their own decision-making process.

This chess class is fun and educational. Kids participate in mental gymnastics, learn chess from trained instructors, and experience competition with others. Kids who learn chess will sharpen their analytical and observation skills which will be very useful in many aspects of their life.

Chess teaches critical and abstract thinking, planning, logic and analysis. It improves the ability to concentrate and teaches the value of good sportsmanship. Chess also teaches the importance of behavior management: making good choices and considering all possibilities.

• Chess develops memory.
• Chess improves concentration.
• Chess develops logical thinking.
• Chess teaches independence.
• Chess promotes imagination and creativity.
• Chess inspires self-motivation.
• Chess improves schoolwork and grades

Introduce your children to the world of yoga with Ms. Nicole Lewis. The classes are designed to teach beginner yoga poses, breathing techniques, and mindfulness. Tree, Warrior, Volcano, and Butterfly are just a few of the many yoga poses your children will learn.

Nicole Lewis has been teaching yoga to children for over 20 years. She is the proud owner of Mariposa Yoga & The Creative Arts and holds a 200-hour Yoga teaching certification. 

Why should you sign your children up for yoga? Recent studies show that yoga improves academic work, memory, concentration, sleep, and relieves stress.

Mariposa Yoga classes blend fun yoga poses with creativity while encouraging self-awareness, self-esteem, and independence. Bring your own yoga mat.

Raise your hand if you love to sing and dance! Have you heard of a Glee Club? It’s the perfect place for students who love to perform pop songs and classic tunes.

Join us for a fun and exciting Glee Club where we will learn about different musical artists, genres, and decades! We will be working to improve our singing voices, and have the chance to sing in both groups and solos. Over the course of three weeks, we will learn fun songs, participate in group-style voice lessons, and perform in a recital at the end of the session! Students will be challenged to explore their favorite musical artists and choose a song they would like to perform at the end of the session. (We will also be designing and making our own Glee Club t-shirt, chosen from one of your very own designs!)

Evaluate, Solve, and Escape! Club Xcite has created an interactive learning experience that supports students in working together to search for clues, solve mysteries and puzzles to unlock the mystery of the day. The structure provides opportunities for students to acquire 21st century learning skills while having fun! Activities and skills may include: -

• Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
• Deductive Reasoning
• Collaboration
• Decoding Messages & Locks
• Riddles
• Puzzles
• Scavenger Hunts

Communication Each day, students will solve challenges and apply their new skills as they work towards solving the ultimate Escape Classroom experience.

It’s summertime!  Want to learn to play the ukulele?  Here is your chance to have fun with a new instrument! In this one-hour class, you will learn to strum and sing favorite folk songs that can be used while enjoying family, friends, or roasting marshmallows around the campfire.  Students will learn music theory, chord progressions, chords and strumming patterns as we learn to sing. We will also play some camp games and enjoy camping snacks as well.  Ukulele, cases and tuners will be available for use at school. There will be a short concert at the end of our session. It’s cool, easy and fun! You are welcome to bring your own ukulele to class.

Our Cheer and Hip Hop program focuses on fun cheers and modern hip hop movements with a vivacious urban feel. Our hip hop camp will focus on rhythm and musicality, how to “find”, count music and dance in with a team. Different styles of hip-hop dance will be combined with fun choreography. Our cheer camp will teach various dance and cheer combinations, basic stunts, and fun choreography. Along with these skills, participants will build teamwork, confidence, and leadership skills.

• Fundamentals: Motions & Jumps
• Stunts & Transitions
• Chants & Cheers
• Basic Tumbling
• Hand Springs & Back Tucks
• Fundamentals: Popping & Locking Drills
• House Dance & Breaking Moves
• Social Hop
• Body Isolations
• Bounce & Rhythm
• Performance at the end of our session.

It is important to encourage creativity and a sense of exploration in children. Discover and expand your artistic talent this summer! We provide a comfortable, fun environment for your artists to develop confidence and a positive attitude toward their art. This make-it-and-take-it class is a fantastic way to engage your child in a variety of creative learning activities while developing self-expression, creativity, fine motor skills, imagination and success. All materials included.

Mad Science will run 3 science topics during our summer camp: Mad Science All-Stars, Anatomy Academy, and Brixology

Mad Science All-Stars
You have been selected to participate on the Mad Science All-Star team! Learn about famous scientists and inventors who were all-stars in their field of expertise. Follow in their footsteps as we equip you with the science skills needed to rise to the top. Together with your teammates you will build super structures, create a volcanic eruption and examine rocks formed from volcanic magma. Soar high above as you build a kite and experiment with lift, aerodynamics and air pressure. Discover the secret behind the stars and make a star chart.

Anatomy Academy
Mad Science is on a mission to fascinate campers with the inner workings of the human body. This heart pumping, chest pounding, dynamic discovery camp is sure to blow their minds! Children will use ooey gooey ingredients to build a model cell and test their own traits to decode and decipher DNA. Campers will discover what keeps them alive as they take a trip down the organ trail. Mad mucus, canister canons and foamy fat will thrill all junior chemists!

Brixology
This summer put your hardhat on and step into the shoes of an engineer with Mad Science! Campers spend the week learning about aerospace, mechanical, automotive, structural and nautical engineering. Through hands-on construction projects using LEGO® bricks, teams of campers will complete engineering projects of varying difficulty levels. They will learn about aerospace engineering while assembling a space station, explore mechanical engineering while building boats and vehicles, and discover nature’s engineering secrets while investigating biomimicry. But that’s not all – from carnival rides to drawing machines, mechanical animals to truss bridges, your future engineer will have a blast exploring all the wonders the world of engineering holds. Let the tinkering begin!

Our Brain Fitness Program Will:

• Help Improve your Critical & Creative Thinking
• Help improve your ability to focus and concentrate
• Help improve attention skills
• Help improve confidence & self-esteem
• Help improve fitness & health
• Daily Leadership & Self Improvement
•  Homework

Our brain fitness class focuses on stimulating and improving our participants critical, creative thinking skills, focus, concentration and memory. Finally, goal is to help improve our participants social, emotional, physical and mental skills in a FUN learning environment.

Athletes Global program introduces participants to cinematic principles and techniques of filmmaking and video production. Our participants will learn film and video history, production, foundations of story, script analysis, editing, directing, and cinematography. We will end with our participants presenting their creative work to their peers and parents.

Our Future Filmmakers Program will focus on:

• Filmmaking and Video Production
• Screenwriting
• Script Analysis & Editing
• Directing
• Cinematography
• Storytelling
• Discovery of Creativity
• Improving Communication Skills

And Much More!

Does your child want to write enthralling stories, create beautiful poetry, and delve into an array of creative writing techniques? Well you came to the right class! 

Welcome to Adventures in Creative Writing where students will unleash the storytellers within. This writer’s workshop will focus on the ‘art’ of writing and explore the many purposes for writing. Why do we write? We write to express ourselves, we write for fun, we write to share our knowledge with others, to strengthen our grammar skills, and to enhance literacy within the community.  

All writing lessons will be considered invitations to engage students’ creativity and allow students to find their own tones and voices. Nicole Lewis has an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry and a passion for teaching writing to children. The class is aimed to cultivate the writer within and welcomes writers of all levels. Includes materials: Journal and Google Classroom account.

What could be better than having a story read to you (by Mrs. Robinson) after lunch! You will be using the illustrations in a book as an inspiration to create your own work of art. The children will not only learn about fun authors and illustrators of children’s books, but will be exposed to a variety of art media (drawing, collage, painting and sculpting) and create their own work of art based on these stories.

Students will learn the do’s and don’ts of social interaction while playing the game of Bingo. This will be a fun class for all.

Concepts include:

• Acceptable behavior in a variety of situations, 
• The proper way to greet and meet people, 
• Magic words that must accompany all requests, 
• The importance of one’s appearance,
• Correct behavior in public places, 
• Table manners, and much more.

 Participation and correct answers will earn Bingo points redeemable for prizes.

Explore the world of computer science and coding through fun, hands-on learning! Students will create interactive stories and design video games in this Google CS First Computer Science Class.

Google CS First empowers all students to create with technology. Students will learn how to build creative, interesting projects through programming based on real world themes in which students use the computer to create interactive stories or design games.

The two themes covered in Session 1 are “Storytelling” and “Game Design”.

In Storytelling, students use computer science to tell fun and interactive stories. Storytelling emphasizes creativity by encouraging club members to tell a unique story each day.

In Game Design, students learn basic video game coding concepts by making different types of games, including racing, platform, launching, and more!

Other coding platforms explored may include Code.org and Tynker.

*Students must bring their own earbuds/headphones.

Explore the world of computer science and coding through fun, hands-on learning! Students will create interactive projects and design games in this Google CS First Computer Science Class.

Google CS First empowers all students to create with technology. Students will learn how to build creative, interesting projects through programming based on real world themes in which students use the computer to create animations and interactive games.

The two themes covered in Session 2 are “Art” and “Sports”.

In Art, students create animations, interactive artwork, photograph filters, and other exciting, artistic projects using code. 

In Sports, students use computer science to simulate extreme sports, make their own commercial, and create commentary for a sporting event.

Other coding platforms explored may include Code.org and Tynker.

*Students must bring their own earbuds/headphones.