Help your child prepare for September! Through interactive literacy and numeracy activities, your child will learn to share and communicate respectfully to build confidence, focus, and social skills which are skillsets to success in kindergarten. 

In this one week creative writing camp, children will be inspired to become storytellers and writers! Through a variety of fun reading and visual art activities, children will gather ideas for their own creative stories. They will be encouraged to expand their vocabulary and practice writing with more detail. To build confidence in reading and speaking, children will also have opportunities to share and present their stories.

This one week camp will introduce students to the elements of the plot line and the art of storytelling. Students will learn about setting, character and plot to create descriptive and engaging fiction through fun an interactive activities. In addition to improving their writing skills, the goal for this course is to encourage and motivate students to love writing. By the end of this writing camp, your child will be equipped with the tools and strategies to effectively create narrative pieces and provide details to create engaging, thoughtful and thorough stories.

Students will learn about the structure and styles of various forms of writing such as description, expository, persuasion, and narration. Through fun and interactive activities, students will apply the writing process to practice creating paragraphs and short essays. This will be the perfect refresher writing course before the start of the new school year.

In these classes, we will establish a weekly theme and have students practice their reading and writing through a variety of interactive activities.  Students will:

• practice reading stories aloud and independently

• generate ideas for story writing and sharing

• learn and form good writing habits

This will be the general lesson plan, but content and level of complexity will vary with each individual student's abilities. By the end of this program, your child will build their confidence and enthusiasm in reading and writing, and look forward to their upcoming school year. 

Maximum 4 students in each class. 

Core competencies in Language Arts intermediate years require students to expand on the narrative structure and apply literary elements into their writing. In this live online course, students will learn to: 

• define theme and the power of the narrative 

• deconstruct the plot line 

• paint the setting  

• craft the character 

• create the conflict 

• determine the a-ha moment 

• add the final touches 

• collaborate and present ideas to others 

By the end of this program, your child will be equipped with the tools and strategies to effectively create narrative pieces and provide details to create engaging, thoughtful and thorough stories.

In this course, students will learn to inquire, respond and deepen understanding of text by: 

• making predictions, inferences and drawing conclusions using context clues 

• considering alternative viewpoints 

• drawing connections 

• questioning the author’s viewpoint and intent 

• stating opinions with supporting reasons and explanations 

Types of text can include: short stories, speeches, poetry, songs, editorials, ads, online media, TED Talks, editorial cartoons, Illustrations and infographics 

Students will be encouraged to exchange and build on others’ ideas to create shared understanding and record their ideas, questions, and thoughts in a reading journal.  By the end of this course, your child will learn to read more critically and build context around what they read which will prepare them for success in their intermediate school years and beyond.