2020 Summer Program Activities/Schedule
Session Dates
The NIS Summer Program runs for four weekly "sessions" from Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-3:00 pm. Applications for Sessions 1 & 2 are due by June 26. Students can participate in just one session, or both sessions if interested.
- Session 1: July 27-31
- Session 2: August 3-7
*Application Deadlines: Sessions 1+2 is June 26
Session Schedule
- The NIS Summer program starts daily at 9:00 am.
- The program finishes each day at 3:00 pm.
- Parking is available in the UPPER parking lot.*
2020 Daily Schedue & Course Descriptions
Session 1
| 7/27 - 7/31 (Mon-Fri) | |
| 9:00 | Drop-Off |
| 9:05 | All-Group Activity |
| 9:20 |
(Period 1) |
| 10:20 | Morning Break |
| 10:40 |
(Period 2) |
| 11:40 | Lunch and Outside Play |
| 12:30 |
(Period 3) |
| 1:30 | Afternoon Break |
| 2:00 |
(Period 4) |
| 3:00 | End of Day Goodbyes |
| 3:05 | Pick-Up |
Course Descriptions
(Group A) Photography Studio From backyard panoramas to portraits to still-life compositions—children get to see the world in a whole new way.
(Group B) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
(Group C) Dolphin DIY A maker space where students can tap into their creativity to make collages, build sculptures, write and illustrate books, and/or design and play their own board games.
(Group D) EV3 Engineers Students will learn how to program EV3 Lego robots and participate in a sumo robot tournament.
PERIOD 2
(Group A) Preserving Nature In this class students will explore the nature around us and discover ways to preserve it as memories that can last forever.
(Group B) Product Pitch Join us in our workshop, working together to come up with products that we then have to pitch to an audience.
(Group C) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
(Group D) Dolphin DIY A maker space where students can tap into their creativity to make collages, build sculptures, write and illustrate books, and/or design and play their own board games.
PERIOD 3
(Group A) Story Time This is a time for our younger students to slow down and relax in a quieter setting. Students will have the choice of being involved in reading or being read too, group games or just relaxing to music.
(Group B) Recycled Clothing Using t-shirts to make yarn, we will create new crafts from old clothing.
(Group C2) E-Inventors Students will use littleBits and paper circuits to make inventions based on simple electrical circuits. Students will learn how to program Sphero mini and BeeBot robots.
(Group D) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
PERIOD 4
(Group A) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
(Group B) Puppeting Using selected books for inspiration, we will immerse ourselves in the world of make-believe by creating our own characters and performances.
(Group C) Product Pitch Join us in our workshop, working together to come up with products that we then have to pitch to an audience.
(Group D) Drama Students will choose a classic fairy tale, break the tale into a storyboard, come up with lines, design costumes/sets and will act out the story.
Age Requirement for Summer Program 2020
Red (Group A) = Students in Preschool /Kindergarten (Born between 9/1/14 - 8/31/16)
Green (Group B) = Students in Grade 1 (Born between 9/1/13- 8/31/14)
Blue (Group C )= Students in Grades 2-3 (Born between 9/1/11- 8/31/13
Yellow (Group D) = Students in Grades 4-6 (Born between 9/1/08 - 8/31/11)
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Group placement will be based on a student's age-determined grade placement for the equivalent of the 2020-2021 NIS school year, which runs from September-August, not the Japanese school year placement which runs from April-March.
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In cases where students come from different international school calendar cut-off date, considerations will be made for different placement.
Session 2
| 8/3 - 8/7 (Mon-Fri) | |
| 9:00 | Drop-Off |
| 9:05 | All-Group Activity |
| 9:20 |
(Period 1) |
| 10:20 | Morning Break |
| 10:40 |
(Period 2) |
| 11:40 | Lunch and Outside Play |
| 12:30 |
(Period 3) |
| 1:30 | Afternoon Break |
| 2:00* |
(Period 4) |
| 3:00 | End of Day Goodbyes |
| 3:05 | Pick-Up |
Course Descriptions
PERIOD 1
(Group A1) Puppeting Using selected books for inspiration, we will immerse ourselves in the world of make-believe by creating our own characters and performances.
(Group A2) Recycled Clothing Using t-shirts to make yarn, we will create new crafts from old clothing.
(Group B) Math Mysteries There are many cheeky number puzzles just waiting for you to figure them out. We will work together to discover strategies and problem-solving skills to answer these riddles.
(Group C) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
(Group D) Scratch a Story Learn the basic building blocks of programming in Scratch. Click building blocks together to make characters jump, dance, sing and move around the screen. Design and edit your own characters, use your voice and even import your own picture into the scene. Make your story or game come to life.
PERIOD 2
(Group A1) Preserving Nature In this class students will explore the nature around us and discover ways to preserve it as memories that can last forever.
(Group A2) It's not a box! Is it a race car? A ship? A burning building? A princess? Using the children’s book ‘Not a box’ for inspiration, we will make imaginative use of recycled materials.
(Group B) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
(Group C) Dolphin DIY A maker space where students can tap into their creativity to make collages, build sculptures, write and illustrate books, and/or design and play their own board games.
(Group D) Physical Science We will explore aspects of the world around us through fun, thought-provoking experiments.
PERIOD 3
(Group A) Story Time This is a time for our younger students to slow down and relax in a quieter setting. Students will have the choice of being involved in reading or being read too, group games or just relaxing to music.
(Group B) Dolphin DIY A maker space where students can tap into their creativity to make collages, build sculptures, write and illustrate books, and/or design and play their own board games.
(Group C) Scratch a Story Learn the basic building blocks of programming in Scratch. Click building blocks together to make characters jump, dance, sing and move around the screen. Design and edit your own characters, use your voice and even import your own picture into the scene. Make your story or game come to life.
(Group D) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
PERIOD 4
(Group A) Triple C Cardio with communication and collaboration. Students will participate in daily fun and enriching physical activities which push their English and their bodies.
(Group B) Stop Motion Students will come up with an idea for a short story and make their story come to life with a stop motion film.
(Group C) Math Mysteries There are many cheeky number puzzles just waiting for you to figure them out. We will work together to discover strategies and problem-solving skills to answer these riddles.
(Group D) Dolphin DIY A maker space where students can tap into their creativity to make collages, build sculptures, write and illustrate books, and/or design and play their own board games.
Age Requirement for Summer Program 2020
Orance (Group A1) = Students in Preschool (Born between 9/1/15 - 8/31/16)
Red (Group A2) = Students in Kindergarten (Born between 9/1/14 - 8/31/15)
Green (Group B) = Students in Grade 1 (Born between 9/1/13- 8/31/14)
Blue (Group C )= Students in Grades 2-3 (Born between 9/1/11- 8/31/13
Yellow (Group D) = Students in Grades 4-6 (Born between 9/1/08 - 8/31/11)
-
Group placement will be based on a student's age-determined grade placement for the equivalent of the 2020-2021 NIS school year, which runs from September-August, not the Japanese school year placement which runs from April-March.
-
In cases where students come from different international school calendar cut-off date, considerations will be made for different placement.
