P WS PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT WORKSHOPS -2017 Summer CatalogThe most fun you’ll ever have learning! Register Today! Call 698-8028 for information. Classes held at WINDY HILLS Elementary 4211 20th Avenue Summer Math Institute Summer Reading Institute Page 10 Page 11 Watch kearneypublicschools.org for workshops that are closed. Every year the PAWS program provides unique and special opportunities to students. Register quickly, space is limited! Page 3 EARLY BIRD LIBRARY TIME & LUNCH BUNCH Pages 4-5 Pages 6-7 Pages 8-9 CLASSES FOR ENTERING GRADES 1-2 CLASSES FOR ENTERING GRADES 3-4 CLASSES FOR ENTERING GRADES 5-6 Page 10 SUMMER MATH INSTITUTE ENTERING GRADES 2-3-4 Register with your school principal by May 12 Must perform at the 2nd Grade Level or above Page 11 SUMMER READING INSTITUTE ENTERING 1-2-3 Register with your school principal by May 12 Must perform at the 1st Grade Level or above Pages 12-14 IMPORTANT INFORMATION & REGISTRATION Complete BOTH sides! All students must be able to participate independently without the aid of a para. New cancellation fees Cooking classes/Class snacks will use foods that contain allergens: nuts, eggs, soy, milk, wheat, chocolate, peanut butter, etc. Limited Financial Aid is available through the United Way. Click the link at kearneypublicschools.org/programs/paws.html Kearney Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disability in employment or the provision of services. 2 Early Bird LIBRARY TIME 8:00-9:00 am $10 Week Register for Early Bird Library Time Kids will read, play games, and play on the computer in a non-structured, supervised environment. EARLY OPPORTUNITY for WORKING PARENTS LUNCH BUNCH 11:30 Hot and cold lunches are available from the Bearcat Diner. For safety and security reasons, all children must be supervised between workshop sessions from 11:30-12:30. Lunch is served only at 11:30. Recess is from 12:00-12:30. For lunches at 11:30 and supervision: COST PER WEEK — $20 Bring your own lunch (11:30 lunch time) We’ll provide the supervision. COST PER WEEK — $10 3 — June 5-9 — ENTERING GRADES 1 & 22 Bubbles, Lava, Exploding Milk Spend a week putting a smile on other people’s faces and your own! Decorate tissue boxes for the hospitals, create birthday cards for people in nursing homes, make a treat for your mailman, make play dough for preschoolers, and bake desserts that will be given to police officers and firefighters. Come feel the power of positivity! June 12-16 STEAM: SCIENCE — TECHNOLOGY — Teacher: Mary Stuart June 5-9 9:00-11:30 You’ll be a happy camper as you share exciting campfire stories, make yummy s'mores, and create glowing “firefly” jars. Hike on over for camp games, activities and crafts. We will set up camp with a real camper! Have you ever looked at the milk in your cereal and your ‘science mind’ takes over and you begin to think of ways to transform it into something new? Do you like to blow bubbles? Transform bubbles? Create art with bubbles? Have you tried your hand at creating your own lava or exploding a volcano? Join us for a week of explosive FUN at PAWS! Teacher: Megan Szafrajda Teacher: Jorden Tobey June 5-9 9:00-11:30 June 5-9 12:30-3:00 Animal Jurassic Journey From rock candy to rubber eggs... Play with common kitchen ingredients to mix up things that are delicious and things that are just plain gross! Discover cool chemical reactions that will bring out your inner chemist in Kitchen Chemistry! June 12-16 9:00-11:30 Lions and tigers and bears...oh YES! Join us for a week in the wild as we explore common and exotic animals. Do Bearcats really live? Do fish breathe? Do you have what it takes to survive in the wild? Find out in Animal Tracks! Field Trip: take you places as you build a Lego Ranger Station or Lego Fire Department. Take off in a Lego Space Shuttle and drive a Lego garbage truck. Build your very own LEGO castle that you can eat! We will have Lego car races and more. Don’t miss the fun… Kid power rules in LEGO Land! Teacher: Jennie Schuster June 5-9 12:30-3:00 Weather or Not It’s raining cats and dogs and fish and spiders. It’s true! Well, the cats and dogs aren’t but the others are! See it for yourself in this wild wacky week of weather! From monster nor’easters to killer tornadoes...learn the science behind the weather. Become a mini-meteorologist Cottonmill Petting Zoo as you study what causes Teacher: Melinda Hogeland Teacher: Megan Szafrajda Teacher: Amy Burns June 12-16 9:00-11:30 June 12-16 12:30-3:00 Field Trip UNK Chem Lab Teacher: Megan Szafrajda Tracks Let your imagination 4 thunder and lightening. June 12-16 12:30-3:00 ENTERING GRADES 1 & 2 Come have fun with the sun! Get prepared for the event of a lifetime! On August 21, Kearney will experience a total solar eclipse. Make a solar eclipse model and conduct solar lab experiments. Spend a week with this amazing star-learning, experimenting, and preparing for this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon! FIELD TRIP : HASTINGS PLANETARIUM June 23 at 8:00AM SPECIAL ACTIVITY: EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER DEMONSTRATIONS Teacher: Jenny Knipping June 19-23 9:00-11:30 BEARCRAFTS BearCRAFTS for all those Bearcats that love to craft. Get creative with hands-on art projects like painting pillowcases, tie-dying t-shirts, and designing string art. Bring your creative minds and let’s get crafting! (Bring a white tshirt) Teacher: Taylor Kittle Staycation Take a guess! Can you huff and puff and blow a house in? Do you have superhero strength? Toss your passport and leave your bags...We’re going on a staycation! Visit fascinating places around the world...See the pyramids in Egypt, Hands on experiments the kangaroos in Auswill give you those an- tralia and the glaciers in Antarctica. Taste lobster swers and more! Exfrom Maine and a Haplore science in an ex- waiian coconut. Travel citing way and we’ll near and far without have you saying “Guess leaving the classroom... It’s an exciting StayWhat?” cation! Teacher: April Heilbrun June 19-23 9:00-11:30 June 19-23 12:30-3:00 Teacher: Amy Burns June 19-23 12:30-3:00 STEAM: SCIENCE — TECHNOLOGY — Guess What SUN June 19-23 ? FUN with the Things that fly June 26-30 9:00-11:30 Teacher: Megan Szafrajda Teacher: Jennie Schuster June 26-30 9:00-11:30 June 26-30 12:30-3:00 5 Come aboard matey and take part in a mayhem of pirate activities. Use ye mighty compass to follow a map to a hidden treasure full of doubloons. Hear the tales of real pirate adventures! But avast...don’t ye be late buccaneer or ye be walkin’ the plank! Join us for a swashbucklin’ good time! Teacher: Shannon Rodehorst June 26-30 12:30-3:00 — Teacher: Megan Szafrajda Visit the Kearney Aviation Center and climb aboard a private plane. ARGH! A Pirate’s Life! — Field Trip: Yanney Splash Park Bugs can be such pests...and learning about them can be F-U-N! Did you know an ant can lift 100 times their own body weight? That’s like you lifting a truck over your head! Discover how a lightening bug glows and how humans can’t live without our teeny tiny friends. Make bug catchers! June 26-30 Dive in and discover what’s below the H2O. Uncover the life of sea creatures…from the tiniest mollusk to the biggest animal on the planet. Watch how Crush the turtle swims and eats. Go INSIDE a lifesize whale! Dive in for a swimming good time. Launch yourself into Float & Fly and you won’t ever want to come down! Launch rockets hundreds of feet in the air. Decorate, assemble and fly your very own kite. Make and float hot air balloons into the sky. You’ll learn the principals of floating and flying: lift, area, volume , thrust, force motion and density! So much fun, you’ll be flying high! FIELD TRIP: — June 5-9 — ENTERING GRADES 3 & 4 PAINT Yourself Silly You don’t have to be an artist to create something that is uniquely you. Come with your imagination... Leave with awesome projects! Paint on paper, wood, plates, canvas and even on YOURSELF! Discover wildly fun projects as you paint yourself silly! June 12-16 STEAM: SCIENCE — TECHNOLOGY — Teacher: Natasha Hahn June 5-9 9:00-11:30 POTIONS? MAGIC? OR IS IT SCIENCE? Potions and magic might look real in all the movies, but in reality it’s all science and chemical reactions! Join us for a week of “potions and magic” as we explore how to make soap explode, how to create fireworks in a jar, how to make an eggshell disappear, and so much more! I look forward to seeing my fellow wizards! Teacher: Jorden Tobey June 12-16 9:00-11:30 Join the Club and discover the world of SCIENCE. Enjoy its many flavors, just like ice cream. Bend light, make gloop, create a weather instrument, dissect owl pellets, and of course, make homemade ice cream. Join us and let us tickle your science taste buds. Special Activity: Edgerton Explorit Center Demo Teacher: Sandra Hanson June 5-9 9:00-11:30 Paper Creations Learn camping skills and discover what it takes to survive in the wild. Learn how to build a shelter, use a compass and find food. Learn animal tracks and basic survival skills. We’ll have class in a real camper and make s’mores and tell camp stories. From relaxing in the woods to survival in the wild... Come camp at PAWS. Field Trip: Yanney Park to fish with NE Games and Parks Mythbusters Is it a fact or is it a myth? Try, test, experiment, and evaluate to find the truth. What happens if you mix pop rocks and soda? Can you dissolve a penny in a can of Coke? Don’t try this at home, try it at PAWS! You don’t need a high tech lab to be a MythBuster. Hands on experiments will let you put the myths to the test right in the classroom. Explore science the mythbusters way! Teacher: Megan Szafrajda Teacher: April Heilbrun June 5-9 12:30-3:00 June 5-9 12:30-3:00 Lego Mechanics Take an ordinary piece of paper & transform it into your own work of art! Learn origami, the ancient art of paper folding. Each day you will have many origami creations to take home. Get creative with other paper creations that will delight your inner artist. Learn first hand how STEM concepts such as gravity, force and momentum can create a chain reaction! Build a variety of chain reaction courses. With a drop of the ball onto the tracks, you will find out whether your course works or how to fine tune the reaction. Let your imagination take you places as you build with Lego blocks. Use Legos to test your engineering skills as you build cars and test them for speed and distance. Build your very own LEGO castle that you can eat! We will have Lego car races and more. Don’t miss the fun….Kid power rules as you become a LEGO mechanic! Teacher: Natasha Hahn Teacher: Katheryn Sauer June 12-16 9:00-11:30 June 12-16 12:30-3:00 Teacher: Jennie Schuster 6 June 12-16 12:30-3:00 ENTERING GRADES 3 & 4 FIELD TRIP : HASTINGS PLANETARIUM JUNE 23 8:00AM SPECIAL ACTIVITY: EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER DEMONSTRATIONS Teacher: Mary Stuart June 19-23 9:00-11:30 THE Clay Clay Clay Bend it Mold it WILD SIDE Take a walk on the wild Mix it Bake it side and discover fasci- Create your own sculptures and works of art as you make awesome creations from all kinds of clay. world of animals! Join nating facts about the wild, wacky, wonderful us for a furry—scaly— feathery—slimy week at PAWS! Field Trip: MONA Nat Geo Photography Teacher: Natasha Hahn June 19-23 9:00-11:30 Teacher: Megan Szafrajda June 19-23 12:30-3:00 June 26-30 9:00-11:30 YOUR BRAIN Take the challenge! Make sure you are READY for it! Explore how to make rockets out of plastic eggs, move objects without touching them, and even make an oven to cook s’mores without electricity! Are you up for the challenge? Test your brain with a series of games and fun activities designed to make you think. Solve mysteries. Play card games. Discover optical illusions and test your skills at brain benders. Assess your problem solving skills in group and individual activities. It’s a brain bender with STEM activities! Teacher: Mary Stuart Teacher: Katheryn Sauer June 26-30 9:00-11:30 June 26-30 12:30-3:00 7 Teacher: Jennie Schuster June 26-30 12:30-3:00 — Teacher: Natasha Hahn June 19-23 12:30-3:00 — Learn to embroider & stitch and create your own silly sewing! Teacher: Taylor Kittle June 26-30 Are you ready to make your own plush monster? Want to personalize a pillowcase? In Silly Sewing you will be able to create your own stuffed animal, pillow & much more! Get those creative juices flowing at Creation Station! Do tons of hands-on arts and crafts projects to keep or give to a friend. Paint a fancy pillowcase, tie-dye a tshirt, and design your own string art. Let’s get creative! (Bring a t-shirt) Take the.. Challenge STEMulate SILLY SEWING Station June 19-23 Are you prepared for the event of a lifetime? On August 21, 2017 at 12:58 p.m. Kearney will experience a total solar eclipse. Make a solar eclipse model and conduct a lab experiment demonstrating an eclipse. Spend a week learning, experimenting, and preparing for this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon! STEAM: SCIENCE — TECHNOLOGY — FUN withEthe SOLAR CLIPS E SUN June 5-9 — ENTERING GRADES 5 & 6 — The light bulb, the Post-It Note, the wheel... Do you have what it takes to be the next great inventor? Discover amazing inventions and the inventors that changed America. Then, create your own inventionand pitch it to the PAWS Sharks! Have fun with math through art. Use protractors, triangles, graphs, compasses and tessellations to create your own Minecraft or pixelated character drawings… bring your math creations to life by becoming ART! June 12-16 STEAM: SCIENCE — TECHNOLOGY — Teacher: Natasha Hahn June 5-9 9:00-11:30 June 5-9 9:00-11:30 June 5-9 12:30-3:00 June 5-9 12:30-3:00 Art STEMulate Your Brain 2 Can you create a box that can hold an egg using only straws and tape without breaking it? Can you build a model structure that can withhold the speed of a mild earthquake simulation? Solve these STEM challenges and many more... join us for a week of problem solving and critical-thinking! Learn firsthand how STEM concepts such as gravity, force and momentum can create a chain reaction! Build a variety of Rube Goldberg courses. With a drop of the ball onto the tracks, you will find out whether your course works or how to fine tune the reaction. Teacher: Mary Stuart Field Trip: Archway Maze Teacher: Katheryn Sauer June 12-16 9:00-11:30 June 12-16 9:00-11:30 8 Paper Art Take an ordinary piece of paper & transform it into your own work of art! Learn the ancient arts or quilling and origami. Origami is the ancient art of paper folding. Quilling makes beautiful curled paper designs. Each day you will have numerous creations to take home. Science Tech... A TRIPLE THREAT Teacher: Natasha Hahn Who knew that when you put Art, Science, and Technology together you’d get something so magical! This class includes projects that promote STEAM and will provide a challenge for your child as they create some amazing art along the way! Design your own robot. Try your hand at evaporation art or pendulum painting. The possibilities are endless with the “triple threat”. Teacher: Jorden Tobey June 12-16 12:30-3:00 June 12-16 12:30-3:00 ENTERING GRADES 5 & 6 Field Trips: Kearney Floral for floral design & Steinbrinks Landscaping for planting. Teacher: Alyssa Clay June 19-23 9:00-11:30 June 26-30 9:00-11:30 Teacher: Natasha Hahn June 19-23 9:00-11:30 June 19-23 12:30-3:00 Teacher: Jennie Schuster June 19-23 12:30-3:00 UKULELE U STOP Motion Enroll in Ukulele University. No prior experience required. Build and decorate your ukulele from a kit and then learn to play it. Using basic chords and strum patterns, learn classic and popular music. Like Adam Sandler, you’ll be playing like a pro in no time. Discover the Island life with the history and culture behind the instrument. Mahalo! You’re trapped! And you need to find a way to escape the box. This is an immersive game platform for all learners. In Escape the Box, players work collaboratively in a team to solve a series of critical thinking puzzles in order to open a locked box! Can you ESCAPE THE BOX? And the Oscar goes to.....Try your hand at making your very own iMovie with Claymation or Lego figures. Challenge your imagination as you design your characters, write a storyline and start filming. You might be the next Kearney Oscar winner. We’ll provide the iPad…you provide the creativity! Teacher: Paloma Mena-Werth Teacher: Luke Garringer June 26-30 9:00-11:30 June 26-30 12:30-3:00 9 Teacher: Natasha Hahn June 26-30 12:30-3:00 — Teacher: Nicole Hoffman Teacher: Sandra Hanson Use Legos to test your engineering skills as you build bridges and test their strength. Use scientific methods to build Lego cars and test them for speed and distance. Build a Lego castle that you can eat! Let your imagination take you places as you become a Lego Engineer! — Are you curious of the world around you? Do you love to explore the unknown? Do you constantly ask why? Explore a variety of fascinating unknowns using the scientific method. Discover what's dirtier than a toilet seat. Explode popsicle sticks. Tie dye different materials. Come ready to explore the world around you and discover what’s fact and what’s fiction. We’ll mold your interest in everything clay! Use brightly colored polymer clay to create pens, magnets, jewelry and fun characters to hang on your book bag. Paint a mini ceramic plate. Bugs, animals, aliens...the possibilities are endless. Join us as we get carried away with clay. ENGINEERING June 26-30 FACT or Be amazed at the Science Scene and discover the world of science through exciting experiments. Make elephant toothpaste, glowing water, and magnetic slime. Create a weather instrument and dissect a cow eye...the possibilities are endless. Join us for the Science Scene. Special Activity: Edgerton Explorit Center Demo Lego June 19-23 FFA puts the AG in SWAG! Join us for a sample of FFA. Try FFA contests, activities, and experiments. Design your own brand. Talk crops and do a soil experiment. with Clay STEAM: SCIENCE — TECHNOLOGY — Carried Away The Summer Math Institute encourages students to practice and maintain math skills learned in the classroom during the regular school year. SMI is for students who need to review and strengthen those skills. A low childto-adult ratio gives students focused instructional interaction using the current KPS math curriculum. Teachers will use MAP scores to determine the areas of highest need for their classrooms and then focus instruction on those areas. 4 Week Session… 5 days a week… 2.5 hours a day = 50 hours of Instruction! June 5-30 Monday – Friday 12:30-3:00 Windy Hills Elementary School 4211 20th Avenue 698-8028 MATH MAGIC… A bit of math magic will be used when teachers use a variety of creative methods to teach math including manipulatives, computer programs, worksheets and more. A part of the class will be devoted to playing math games to strengthen skills through play. Students Entering Grades 2-3-4 Tuition Per Child: $200 Per child $150 Free/Reduced Cope Grant Class size is limited. *Students are required to perform at the minimum First Grade level or higher REGISTER WITH YOUR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL BY MAY 12 NO REGISTRATIONS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER MAY 12. CLASS SIZE IS VERY LIMITED SO REGISTER EARLY. 10 “My child really enjoyed going to class” Enhance your child’s success… Reading is one of the biggest contributors to educational success. To avoid summer learning loss, children must continue to read during the summer months. The Summer Reading Institute encourages students to practice and maintain vital reading skills. What is the Summer Reading Institute? The Summer Reading Institute is a reading program for students to maintain and/or improve reading skills based on district standards and assessments. Students will be placed in groups according to their reading level. A low child to adult ratio gives students focused instructional interaction. Students will receive instruction in reading strategies through the KPS Balanced Reading program. 4 Week Session… 5 days a week…2.5 hours a day… = 50 hours of Reading Instruction! Windy Hills Elementary School “John maintained his reading level and really enjoyed reading this summer” 4211 20th Avenue 698-8028 June 5-June 30 Monday -Friday 9:00-11:30 Why should I register my child for the Summer Reading Institute? Summer learning loss is evident when school begins in the fall. Children who read and write through the summer, maintain or improve current academic levels. Is this program for all students? This program is an academic program for all students to maintain reading skills. KPS provides a summer school program designed specifically for children with exceptional needs for which the Summer Reading Institute is not equipped. Grade Levels: Students Entering Grades 1-2-3 Tuition Per Child: $200 $150 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Per child ($50.00 per week) Free/Reduced Cope Grant ($37.50 per week) “The price was much less than a tutor!” ……..A child who can read….Priceless! *Students are required to perform at a minimum of entering First Grade level. Why pay $20 an hour for a reading tutor when your child can receive 50 hours of instruction for much less? A private tutor could cost you over $1,200 for the same instructional hours. The Summer Reading Institute will help your child maintain vital reading skills so he/ she can begin the school year without any summer learning loss. Enroll your child in the Summer Reading Institute today! Prerequisite: Child must perform at the post kindergarten level or above. REGISTER WITH YOUR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL BY MAY 12. SORRY, NO REGISTRATIONS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER MAY 12. CLASS SIZE IS VERY LIMITED SO REGISTER EARLY. 11 How are students placed in classes? Students are placed according to the Scholastic Reading Inventory tests and Dibels administered by the classroom teacher. Your child may be placed in a classroom with students from different grade levels. Is this program for all ability levels? The program is designed for students working in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade reading ability levels. This program will help maintain current reading IMPORTANT INFORMATION Workshop Cost Costs are PER WORKSHOP and PER CHILD. Some workshops have additional fees due to field trips or activities. Prices are listed on the registration form. Registration: Registrations will be accepted on a space available basis. Class size is limited. You will only receive notification if you DO NOT get into a workshop. Field Trip Policy: Classes with field trips require a field trip fee whether you are going on the trip or not. Please be aware of departure times. The bus/van cannot wait for late students. Due to traffic delays, return times may vary. Pick-up Policy & Supervision: Class instructors keep a strict schedule between classes. Your child should come no earlier than 5 minutes before class and should be picked up promptly after. There will be no supervision 10 minutes after class ends. A lunch program and/or lunch supervision between programs is available. No student should be left unsupervised between sessions. Payment: & Refund Policy: Payment must be made in full to reserve a spot in a workshop. Make checks payable to "Kearney Public Schools". If your class is cancelled due to insufficient enrollment or if a class is full, a refund will be granted. A minimum of 12 students is required per workshop. Tuition will not be refunded for lack of attendance or behavioral problems. There is a $20 fee per class to cancel a registration. We understand that there are circumstances beyond your control, however, we rely on your registration to pay our instructors. Refunds can take up to 8 weeks to process. Discipline Policy: All Kearney Public Schools policies apply. Appropriate behavior is expected or students will be permanently removed from class and no refunds will be granted. Cooking Classes: Cooking classes will possibly be cooking with peanuts, chocolate, wheat and soy and other allergens. Medications & Hygiene Care: PAWS personnel will not dispense medications, prescription or over-the-counter. Please do not send medications with your child to workshops. PAWS personnel will not change wet/dirty pants. Parents are welcome to come up and make the change. RYDE Parents can contract with the RYDE bus for transportation services. Call:308-865-5677. Location: Windy Hills Elementary 4211 20th Avenue 698-8028 PHOTO & MEDIA RELEASE Photos and video are often taken of PAWS classes for television, newspaper, websites and the internet. By registering for PAWS, you are granting permission for your child and/or his/her likeness and work to be used for these purposes. 12 13 14
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