Week 9

July 24-28, 2023

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Basketball Clinic

July 24-28 | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls entering grades 5-8
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instructor: Thomas Jones (varsity basketball coach, AAU coach, and basketball trainer)
cost: $150
Creative Crafting

July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 1-2
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instructor: Anne Sawyer
cost: $200
Brain-Boosting Boot Camp

July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering grades 7-9
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This summer, take some time to boost your brain power by building strategies and routines to free your mind from the monotonous. In this camp, we’ll explore who you are and what you enjoy by creating a vision of your future self. Consider how you engage with information and try different organization tools to find the style that works for you then you’ll design your perfect planner. Escape the drudgery and trauma of last-minute studying by learning to plan and chunk your work time. Use your best super sleuth skills to break out of your ordinary student life to find the best management, study, and test-taking strategies for you. We’ll wrap the week up with competitions and a celebration of your powerful, new skills. You have the power to BEE amazing! Boost your brain power!

date/time: Monday-Friday, July 24-28; 9:00 am-noon
instructor: Kim Knauss (middle school learning specialist)
cost: $200
Bugs and Birds

July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades JK-K
*JK campers must be 4 years old by June 1st
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Learn where and how to collect insects like a scientist and complete hands-on activities to learn more about bugs. Investigate habitats and migratory paths for birds. Explore ways to use your bird-watching notebook to record the birds you see.
date/time: Monday-Friday, July 24-28; 9:00 am-noon
instructor: Kaitlyn Hagen
cost: $200
Center for Excellence Summer Internships

For Hutchison girls entering grades 9-12
Please contact Brianna Lofton in the Center office at (901) 507–2460 or cfe@hutchisonschool.org with questions. Register at cfe.hutchisonschool.org/register.
Family Feast

July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-8
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Campers will learn how to make some summer staples for your family to enjoy for dinner each day. Prep meals and learn the cooking techniques to finish preparing dinner for your family at home. A fresh meal every night and essential skills to last a lifetime!

Instructor: Amanda Killen (Center for Excellence Co-Director and family chef)
Cost: $225
FUNdamentals of Movement

July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades JK-K
*JK campers must be 4 years old by June 1st
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Campers will learn the ABC’s of movement. Locomotor, stability, and manipulative to build more complex and specialized movements in sports, play and daily life. FUNdamentals of movement will introduce and encourage participants to explore different fine motor skills through fun and engaging activities and games.

instructor: Sharda Collier (Hutchison fitness coach)
cost: $200
Keep Up Camp

Mondays, June 12-July 28 (no class 7/3) | 1:00-3:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering 1st grade
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Keep sharp with phonological awareness and phonics skills to head into first grade at your best! Review rhyming & syllables, phoneme isolation, letter & sound correspondences, and decoding skills tailored by the data on each girl enrolled. Activities will be multisensory and hands-on so we will have fun while we prevent a ‘summer slide’!

date/time: Mondays, June 12-July 28 (No class 7/3); 1:00-3:00 PM
instructor: Shannon Manzi (lower school learning specialist)
cost: $200 (six sessions)
L.E.A.P.S 2: Language, Enrichment, Acquisition, and Phonics

July 17-28 | 1:00-3:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering grades 3-4

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Language Enrichment, Acquisition, and Phonics (LEAPS) will reinforce letter-sound correspondences by offering multisensory (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile), systemic, evidence-based phonics instruction for students in rising 3rd and 4th grade. During our two-week classes, LEAPS will focus on blending and segmenting words, syllable division,
r-controlled vowels, hard and soft G and C, Y as a vowel, and
grade-appropriate vowel teams.

date/time: Monday-Friday, July 17-28, 1:00-3:00 pm
instructor: Alyson Ruby (lower school learning specialist)
cost: $300
LASER Camp: Letters And Sounds for Early Reading

Tuesdays, June 12-July 28 (no class on July 4th) | 1:00-3:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering Kindergarten
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Keep sharp with phonological awareness and letter-sound knowledge to head into kindergarten at your best! Review rhyming & syllables, beginning sound isolation, and TONS of practice with letter & sound correspondences. Activities will be multisensory and hands-on so we will have fun while we prepare for kindergarten!

date/time: Tuesdays, June 12-July 28 (No class July 4th); 1:00-3:00 PM
instructor: Shannon Manzi (lower school learning specialist)
cost: $200 (six sessions)
Make a Day of It With SPARK Day Camp

May 30-August 11
9:00 am-3:00 pm (early and aftercare available)
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Combine Center for Excellence summer camps with SPARK Day Camp for the best of both worlds - a full-day camp experience and specialty camp offerings.
Packet Pacer

June 14 - July 26 (No class July 5th) | 1:00-3:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering grades 1-2 and 3-4
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Need help getting all of your summer work done? Tired of haggling with your daughter to get it done? Send her to Packet Pacer! Summer work assistance for math packets, IXL, summer reading, and journaling. Each Wednesday afternoon from 1-3 all summer.

date/time: Wednesdays, June 14 - July 26 (No class July 5th); 1:00-3:00 PM
instructor: Hutchison lower school teachers
cost: $200
Quiz Bowl

Session I: June 26-30 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Session II: July 24-28 | 1:00-4:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 5-8
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Do you enjoy academic trivia? Do you have a love of learning across disciplines? If so, join us for Middle School Quiz Bowl this summer. Each day, campers will compete using an official Knowledge Bowl-style buzzer system in subjects including math, science, literature, history, geography, fine arts, popular culture, sports, and more. Additionally, campers will work together to research, explore, and build creative resources in areas of interest. Spots are limited to ten campers per session.

instructor: Robby Uhrman (middle school teacher and quiz bowl sponsor)
cost: $225 per session
Renegades of Rhythm Summer Intensive

July 24-28 | 8:30 AM-1:30 PM
For students in elementary through high school
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Students will learn fundamentals of drumming as well as rudiments, proper technique. Students will also learn group beats and play as a full group while preparing for the upcoming performance season.
All equipment is provided.

instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
cost: $275
Storybook Theatre

July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
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Come explore the world of color and character! Based on the children’s book Dot Town: Where Are You Blue? students will improve their confidence and acting skills as they create characters and act out scenarios from this charming book!
date/time: Monday-Friday, July 24-28; 9:00 am-noon
instructors: Julia Hinson (theater teacher and director)
cost: $225
Weightlifting

July 24-28 | 1:00-2:30 PM
For Hutchison girls entering grades 9-12
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date/time: Monday-Friday, July 24-28; 1:00-2:30 pm
instructor: Sharda Collier (Hutchison fitness coach)
cost: $140

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