2019
Welcome to Summer at St. John’s Join us for a fun-filled summer with camps for every age and interest. Experience camp favorites like Summer Musical, American Girls Celebrate the Holidays, Book Cooks, Dodgeball and Commune with Your Community. Try great new camps like Escape the Room, Harry Potter, Silly, Sloshy Science, Journey to Mars 2030, DJ Academy, Olympic Sabre Fencing and more. Browse our camp descriptions or get a bird’seye view with “At A Glance” on page 3. We look forward to seeing you this summer!
Lynn Granello
Laurie Bret
Director Summer at St. John’s
Assistant Director Summer at St. John’s
Pre-k thru 8th GRADE
JUNE 3rd thru
JULY 26th
QUICK GUIDE: General Info
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At A Glance
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Session 1: June 3 - 7
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Session 2: June 10 - 14
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Session 3: June 17 - 21
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Session 4: June 24 - 28
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Session 5: July 1 - 5
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Session 6: July 8 - 12
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Session 7: July 15 - 19
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Session 8: July 22 - 26
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CONTACT US: 848 Harter Road • Dallas, TX 75218 • 214.328.9131 x132
StJohnsSchool.org/Summer
BEFORE CARE: 7:30am-9am AFTER CARE: 4pm-6pm
MORNINGS: 9am-12pm AFTERNOONS: 1pm-4pm FULL DAYS: 9am-4pm
GENERAL INFORMATION Enrollment is open to all children four years old by September 1, 2019. Please register for camps according to the grade your child will enter in the fall of 2019. Children who are enrolled for full-day camps or for both morning and afternoon camps should bring a sack lunch (unless on a camp field trip). Campers will have a supervised lunch and recess period from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Summer at St. John’s is a nut sensitive camp program, therefore, campers may not bring products containing peanuts or tree nuts. Snacks that are served will not contain peanuts or tree nuts. Before and After Care is available for an additional fee. Full week before/after care is available as part of the online registration process. Drop-in before and after care is available for a fee of $10 per care session. Drop-in before and after care may be arranged by emailing summer@stjohnsschool.org or calling the summer office at 214.328.9131 x116. Summer at St. John’s reserves the right to limit camp enrollment size and/or cancel camps if minimum enrollment is not met. Reimbursement for cancelled camps will be paid in full. If you find it necessary to cancel your child’s camp registration, refunds will be provided according to the following procedure:
•A full refund, less administrative processing fee of $50, will be provided if cancellation occurs prior to two weeks in advance of the commencement of the camp session.
•F ifty percent of the camp fee will be refunded if requested in writing prior to one week before the commencement of the camp session.
•N o refund will be made within one week of the commencement of the camp session.
For Questions: Contact Lynn at summer@stjohnsschool.org or call 214.328.9131 x132
REGISTER ONLINE StJohnsSchool.org/ Summer LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this material.
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At A Glance
JUNE 3-7 PAGE 5 SESSION 1
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ABC's Chess
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A Long Time Ago, LEGO Star Wars
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A Week of Holidays
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American Girls Celebrate the Holidays
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Fun in the Metroplex
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Gardener's Camp
MARVEL LEGO Universe - Fight and Flight Bots
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Minecraft for Minis
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Silly, Sloshy Science
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JUNE 10-14 PAGE 8 SESSION 2
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A very "pinteresting" Camp
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Cardboard Kingdon
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Commotion in the Ocean
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Commune with your Community
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Fiber Fun
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Harry Potter
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Medieval Knights camp -‐ Beginning Foam Sword
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Musical Adventures
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Olympic Sabre Fencing
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Slime Squad
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JUNE 17-21 PAGE 11 SESSION 3
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Ballet Basics
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Construction Zone DIY -‐ week 3
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Create Your Own Cartoon Characters
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Discover Magic Orange Wand
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Disney Camp
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Doc McStuffins
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Energetic Engineering for Girls
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Exploring French Cooking
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Games!
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Get on the Bus and Go
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Pottery Wheel Camp
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Under the Big Top
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USTA Net Generation Tennis
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Video Star Hit Sensation
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Woodworking Makers Camp
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Zoom to the Moon
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JUNE 24-28 PAGE 14 SESSION 4
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A Bag for Everything Adventures in the Metroplex
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DJ Academy Level 1
Fabulous Fun with Fancy Nancy
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Kindergarten Kick-‐Off
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Middle School Flag Football
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Natural Architecture
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Spirit Cheer and Dance Camp
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Step Up to Second Grade
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Tumblefun
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Lower School Basketball
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DJ Academy -‐ Produce and perform your own Music
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Emoji Camp
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Escape the Room!
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LEGO City
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Magical Mystery Camp
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Minecraft Societies
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Outdoor Adventure Camp
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Senior Fusion Gaming
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At A Glance
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Best Veterinarian Ever Camp
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Everything Camp
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Fashion, Faces and Flowers
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Fort Island Camp
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Game On!
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Growing Buds of Science
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Journey to Mars 2030!
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Junior Veterinarian Camp
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Master the Masters in Pastel
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A Day at the Beach Machine Sewing
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Art of Science
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Discover Magic -‐ Blue Wand
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Drones Fly Now AM
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Hoops, Scoops and Shots
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Jump Rope Skills Camp
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LEGO Minecraft World Building
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Tech Detectives
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Deep Worlds! Marine Biology
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Discover Magic Green Wand
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Fairy Tale Camp
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Session 1 June 3 - 7
SESSION 1 BUILD YOUR OWN STRINGED INSTRUMENT Martin Delabano 5th-8th Mornings $400
ABC’S OF CHESS Eric Telzrow K-6th Mornings $225 Master the game of kings! Learn about chess notation, openings and great tactics like skewers, pins, x-ray attacks and more. You will also learn the rules of tournament chess, including various timed chess games. It’s your move!
A LONG TIME AGO: LEGO STAR WARS Championship Robotics 1st-8th Afternoons $225 Padawans Wanted! You will build remotely-controlled, motorized LEGO Technic battle droids, speeders, ships and tanks that are based on Star Wars Episodes I-III. Adventures will include racing your speeder bike; chasing Zam through Courasant on your air speeder; navigating your pod through the challenging obstacle course; and battling your tanks in the Clone Wars. Every trained Padawan leaves with a LEGO mini-figurine and a personalized backpack tag. Help the Jedi fight the Dark Side!
A WEEK OF HOLIDAYS Katie Fuqua and Laura May Full Days
3rd-5th $400
Join Ms. May and Mrs. Fuqua for a fabulous week celebrating all the best holidays of the year. Do you love Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween and your birthday? Then you are going to LOVE this camp! Crafts, snacks, parties, books and more all celebrating the best the year has to offer. The week culminates with a birthday party for you…and ALL your camp friends at a special surprise location. You do NOT want to miss this one!
AMERICAN GIRLS CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS Monica Breeding Full Days
K-3rd $400
CELEBRATE! Come be a part of the American Girl® summer holiday soiree! Each day, you and your American Girl® will celebrate a different holiday: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and the Fourth of July. We will end our festive week with lunch at the American Girl® Bistro at the Galleria.
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Experience the joy of working with your hands as you build a soprano or tenor ukulele, dulcimer, violin or campfire mandolin with Mr. Delabano. At the end of camp, take home a beautifully-crafted stringed instrument, as well as an instrument songbook. You’ll also gain a basic understanding of how to play your handmade instrument. First-time campers should start with the ukulele; those who have already taken the camp may make a dulcimer, violin or mandolin.
CROSS STITCH Megan Nasser 2nd-6th Afternoons $225 Do you like to create beautiful craft items for your family and friends? Come learn how to cross stitch! You will learn how to cross stitch keychains for your parents, Christmas ornaments for your family, and bookmarks and coin purses for your friends and yourself. Cross stitching combines the best in sewing and embroidery to create memorable gifts and accessories.
FIRST TEE GOLF Sportkinetics 1st-5th Afternoons $225 First Tee Golf makes learning basic golf skills fun and easy through an innovative curriculum created in association with the PGA, LPGA, Champions Tour and Masters Golf Association. Learn the four basic shots of golf: putting, chipping, pitching and the full swing. Equipment is specifically designed for young children with oversized club faces, color-coded grips, and target-oriented training tools and alignment markings. Come learn to golf!
Session 1 June 3 - 7
FROSTBITTEN Challenge Island Pre-k-1st Mornings $225 Glide on over to the coolest camp in town where you’ll join Elsie and Annie on a STEAMtastic journey through Winter Wonderland! Your movie-inspired adventure will include designing and decorating your very own ice palace, using cool science to make frosty slime and frozen treats, and even building a snowman! Our fantastic Frostbitten camp is sure to fill fast so don’t LET IT GO too long!
KARATE KIDS NINJA Chamberlain Studios of Self Defense K-6th Mornings $225 Enjoy a fun-filled week of karate, martial arts and selfdefense. Learn the basics or improve your martial arts skills. You will experience and use the acclaimed 3-Steps to a Great Kid™ martial arts character development program. Learn kicking, blocking and striking skills, selfdefense techniques, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, martial arts history, appropriate times for martial arts use and much more.
LEGO JEDI TRAINING CAMP Father John Thorpe and Connie Cook Full Days
FUN IN THE METROPLEX Cindy Isbell and John Walker Full Days
3rd-8th $475
There is so much to see and do in the Dallas–Ft. Worth Metroplex! Hop on the bus for a week of fun activities. There’s bowling, laser tag, Top Golf, Six Flags, movies, and much more. Lunch and snacks will be provided. Wear comfortable clothes and your walking shoes.
GAMES GALORE Rebecca Freyenberger Pre-k-1st Afternoons $225 Play all of your favorite games and learn fun new ones. We’ll have a blast with scooters, parachutes, freeze tag, capture the flag, relay races of all types and much more. After the physical games, we’ll wind down with some team-building games. Exercise body and mind, while having tons of fun playing games galore!
GARDENERS’ CAMP Megan Nasser 2nd-6th Mornings $225 Did you know that gardening does your spirit good? It’s scientifically proven! Participants will gain experience with plant propagation using seeds, plant cuttings, and rooting techniques. Gardening-related crafts, such as decorating plant containers and making seed bombs, will be included. Watering, weeding, maintenance and planting projects in our campus garden will also be part of our week together.
Pre-k-1st $395
Are you ready to engage in games, crafts, challenges and plenty of creative building time in a galaxy of our own? Using LEGO and your creativity, join fellow Jedi in a battle against the Dark Side of the Force. In the end, good triumphs over evil!
MARVEL LEGO UNIVERSE: FIGHT AND FLIGHT BOTS! Championship Robotics 1st-6th Afternoons $225 ALL NEW! Jump into the Marvel Universe with LEGO Technics. Build and control Avengers’ Quinjet, Guardians of the Galaxy’s “The Milano,” Nick Fury’s Suburban, HYDRA Uber Tank, Captain America’s Motorcycle, Spider-Man’s Vulture Flight Rig, or the S.H.I.E.L.D. Armored Personnel Carrier. Every Super Hero earns a LEGO mini-figurine and a personalized backpack tag.
MINECRAFT FOR MINIS Eric Telzrow K-2nd Afternoons $225 Come learn Minecraft Pocket Edition with Mr. Telzrow! Yes, it is a game, but it is also an excellent collaborative, creative and critical-thinking resource. Campers will spend their week practicing teamwork, demonstrating responsibility, and exercising their creativity and problem-solving skills while being challenged by puzzles, quests and daily missions as they learn the ins and outs of Minecraft Pocket Edition on the iPad. Join us as we explore, learn, problem-solve and create amazing and unique worlds together.
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Session 1 June 3 - 7
SUMMER MUSICAL – TWO-WEEK CAMP! Allison Bret Full Days
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CAMP Chris Gresbeck and Suzanne Barthelemy Mornings
Pre-k-K $225
Outdoor Adventure Camp brings inquisitive minds, active bodies and nature together for a week of creative fun. Each day will include a nature walk, creation of crafts from items found on the walk, and science experiments using local natural treasures. You will make walking sticks, dream catchers, beautiful painted rocks, fairy gardens and more.
Katie Burkhead and Rebecca Crouse Full Days
Pre-k-K $395
Come make silly slime and sloshy papier-mâché! Finger paint with hair conditioner and create a magic drawing board! We’ll make Oobleck, kinetic sand, and so much more in this hands-on, interactive camp for preschoolers! It’ll be SILLY, it’ll be SLOSHY, and it’ll be FUN!
SOCCER Rebecca Freyenberger Mornings
K-3rd $225
Find joy in the most popular game in the world while learning positive team values and life lessons from Coach Freyenberger. We will focus on individual and team soccer skills. Players will work on agility, ball-handling skills and physical fitness. Kicking, trapping, passing and shooting are introduced and practiced. Learn and practice soccer in a positive, relaxed environment with a coach experienced in making sports fun for young children!
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Get ready to cast, rehearse, design and put on a full show in just two weeks! Learn about blocking, auditions, movement and vocal techniques while having a ton of fun! Campers will receive scripts to keep and memorize. On the last day, we will have two performances! The play will be chosen based on the number of participants in the camp.
SUMMER SLUMBER PARTY
SILLY, SLOSHY SCIENCE Studio Bella Full Days
3rd-8th $790
K-3rd $395
Do you love slumber parties? Join us for a summer slumber party that lasts all day long! We will paint nails, do facials, play games, cook treats and so much more! Bring your friends, wear your jammies, and get ready for a weeklong party!
SWEETS AND TREATS Mary Odom 4th-8th Mornings $240 Join us for a week of preparing sweet treats to enjoy and share with others. Learn the essentials of baking and candy making, then create a wonderful treat to take home every day! Cookies, cupcakes, pies and candy will be on the menu this week. You will also create a personalized cookbook of wonderful sweet treats for future cooking fun!
SESSION 2
Session 2 June 10 - 14
A VERY “PINTERESTING” CAMP Laura May and Polly Lisle 3rd-5th Mornings $235 Join Ms. May and Mrs. Lisle as we make the best of all Pinterest has to offer. Crafts, artwork, cooking, fashion and more are explored and enjoyed during this weeklong adventure tackling the most fun “pins” on Pinterest.
BACK TO NATURE Susan Benton and Morgan Martinez Mornings or Full Days
Pre-k-K $225/$395
Trek through the beautiful St. John’s campus (hiking boots not required) as you explore the surroundings and get back to nature. Field discoveries are transformed into lasting treasures to commemorate your week’s adventures. Stories, games and crafts round out the experience. A peaceful rest period after lunch is included for those enjoying the full-day camp.
BATTLE BOTS – LEGO DESTRUCTION AWAITS Championship Robotics 1st-6th Mornings $225 Destroy all the other bots in daily competitions! Using the most powerful LEGO Technic motors, remotes, gears and parts, your team claws, drills and rips up your competitors’ bots! Start with our battle-tested, wheeled and tracked designs and then modify to create your winning bot. Only the strongest survive! Every warrior leaves with a LEGO mini-figurine and a personalized backpack tag. Do you have what it takes?
BEST EVER PLAYGROUNDS AND SPRAYGROUNDS Jennifer Powers 1st-3rd Mornings $225 Play, laugh and splash! Let’s hop on the bus and hit the area’s most popular playgrounds. After that, let’s visit one of the local splash parks to cool off. Wear a bathing suit under your clothes and bring a towel, sunscreen and water bottle.
BOARD AND COLLECTIBLE CARD GAMES Eric Telzrow 2nd-6th Mornings $225 Calling all board game and collectible card game fanatics! Whether you enjoy standard board games like Monopoly and The Game of Life, complex strategy games like Settlers of Catan or Puerto Rico, group games like Mafia or Apples to Apples, or even collectible card games like Magic the Gathering or Pokémon, this camp is for you! Explore new games, and master old and new favorites.
CARDBOARD KINGDOM Eric Telzrow 2nd-6th Afternoons $225 Do you love constructing houses, mazes, castles and other fun structures out of cardboard? This camp is for you! The only limit to your construction is your imagination! You will create blueprints, design according to your measurements, and collaborate to build. What does your dream kingdom look like?
COMMOTION IN THE OCEAN Monica Breeding Full Days
Pre-k-K $395
We’ll mix ocean fun with motor skills development as we swim through our week at camp. As we explore the ocean, you’ll build and strengthen large and small motor skills. We’ll dive right into working on grasp development, eye-hand coordination, building, coloring and scissor skills. In the afternoon, we’ll glide like stingrays and play like dolphins while developing multi-sensory and large motor skills. Each camper will make a mini fine motor kit for home use.
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Session 2 June 10 - 14
IN A GALAXY FAR AWAY: LEGO STAR WARS Championship Robotics 1st-6th Afternoons $225
COMMUNE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY Tracey Gonzales and Thor Herrin Full Days
5th-8th $395
Make a difference in your community and discover the joy of giving. We’ll volunteer with a variety of organizations including White Rock Center of Hope, The Stewpot, C.C. Young Retirement Community, Dallas Animal Services and more. Campers will receive credit for 35 volunteer hours, which may be used to meet school, Scouting, confirmation class and other requirements. Give of yourself and help make a difference!
FIBER FUN Carol Graham 2nd-8th Mornings $225 Use inspiration from our beautiful natural surroundings to create contour drawings of local and exotic flowers and plants. Then apply wax, dyes, fabrics and threads to your drawing to create stunning batik art, pillows and soft sculptures.
HARRY POTTER Rebecca Crouse and Rebecca Freyenberger 3rd-8th Full Days $395 Calling all Harry Potter fans! From the moment you arrive, until you must leave, you will cease to be a Muggle, and will enter the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry. Do you have what it takes to learn potions? Are you ready for daily Quidditch practice? Do you know your spell book front to back? Lots of activity, imagination and fun will fill our week. Come prepared to be immersed in the world of Harry Potter!
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Enter the Jedi Trials of Star Wars episodes IV-VI. You will build remotely-controlled, motorized LEGO Technic droids, speeder bikes, sand crawlers, walkers and ships. Your adventures will include racing Endor speeder bikes; transporting droids in your sand crawler; navigating your AT-ST walker; battling your astromech droids, and saving the galaxy by navigating your X-Wing through the Death Star Trench. Every Jedi Master leaves with a LEGO minifigurine and a personalized backpack tag. May the Force be with you!
LEARN LACROSSE Sportkinetics K-5th Mornings $225 Lacrosse is the nation’s fastest growing sport. Soft stick lacrosse will introduce this great sport to boys and girls and will help develop the tactical, technical and cooperative skills needed to enjoy success on the lacrosse field. This is a great opportunity to explore lacrosse for those developing their interest. For more experienced players, this will provide the skills and knowledge necessary to enjoy a great lacrosse season.
LET’S GO HAVE SOME FUN! Cindy Isbell and John Walker Full Days
3rd-8th $475
Get ready for a week of sports, culture and history! Hop on the bus for fishing, jumping, exploring, painting and lots more. Lunch and snacks will be provided. Wear comfortable clothes and your walking shoes.
MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS CAMP – BEGINNING FOAM SWORDS Cutting Edge Fencing 1st-3rd Afternoons $225 Come one, come all, to Medieval Camp! This week, the Knights of Cutting Edge Fencing will guide you on your quest to learn the art of the sword. Knights-in-Training will learn to battle in the medieval style and the modern Olympic style. Participants will design their personal coat of arms, make their own foam sword, and create a shield. Everyone will battle it out the last day of camp to see who will become Champion!
Session 2 June 10 - 14
MUSICAL ADVENTURES Logan Herod Pre-k-2nd Mornings $225 Do you love to sing and dance? Would you like to learn more about music? Come join us, as we make our own musical instruments, learn lyrics and movements to Disney favorites, play instruments and march in a real parade, and even write our own music. If your child enjoys exploring music, they will love this camp!
OLYMPIC SABRE FENCING Cutting Edge Fencing 4th-8th Mornings $225 Have you ever dreamed of wielding a sword? Of dueling at dawn? Of rattling sabres aboard a pirate ship? Come to this camp for a taste of the Olympic sport of fencing and feel like you’re bringing movie fights to life! Learn footwork, bladework, fencing skills and tactics. You’ll also use training drills to improve footwork and coordination. A tournament on the final day will determine the camp fencing champion. All campers must wear long athletic pants (sweatpants or yoga pants), a t-shirt and lace-up athletic shoes for safety reasons. All fencing gear is provided, including mask, sabre, glove, jacket and plastron.
SUPER SPORTS SAMPLER Sportkinetics Pre-k-1st Afternoons $225 Do you like to learn new games and sports? This is the camp for you! Super Sports Sampler is a fun week of active games and sports with a healthy mix of sportsmanship, nutrition and creative arts. Activities will include ageappropriate versions of golf, tennis, basketball, baseball, soccer, badminton, hockey, obstacle courses, hula hoops, noodlekinetics, jump rope, kickball, lacrosse, volleyball, frisbees and parachute games.
THE GREAT BRITISH COOKING COMPANY Father John Thorpe 4th-8th Afternoons $250 From steak and kidney pie, to Christmas pudding, to haggis and Ulster fry-up, many unique and tasty dishes have been created in the kitchens of the British Isles. Explore the history behind British cooking and then create your own meals using traditional British, Scottish and Irish cooking. If you love cooking, this camp is for you!
SLIME SQUAD Challenge Island Pre-k-1st Afternoons $225 Slime flies when you’re having fun! Campers will have plenty of hands on mixing and measuring for all the mixtures created this week. Slime Squad isn’t just about making slime and magic mixtures, it also shows you what you can do with your mixtures and how you can play with everything you make.
SUPER HEROES Challenge Island Pre-k-1st Mornings $225 Calling all super kids for a high-flying experience! You will channel your extraordinary powers to take on a universe of challenges inspired by your favorite super hero. Create buildings for Spider-Man and the Wasp to fly through, create ziplines allowing your character to fly through the sky, and even design your own super hero roller coaster! This incredible camp is a wonder-filled STEAM adventure for every child.
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Session 3 June 17 - 21
SESSION 3 CONSTRUCTION ZONE DIY EDITION: AM SESSION Danielle Dupuis Mornings
BALLET BASICS Katy Samford 2nd-4th Mornings $225 Learn beginning ballet from SMU ballerina and St. John’s teacher Katie Samford. Each day, you will learn proper stretching, the correct form of barre and center movements, and study a notable dancer, composer or historical event that relates to ballet. You may wear ballet clothing and shoes, but these are not necessary as clothes with plenty of stretch and socks will work, also. At the end of the week, you will be able to demonstrate proper posture, count music, and show off new stretches and moves. Ballet is a wonderful art form to teach strength, confidence and poise.
BASKETBALL BUDDIES Rebecca Freyenberger Pre-k-1st Mornings $225 Do you love to play with others? Do you love sports and games? Do you like trying and learning about new activities? If you answered yes to any of those questions, please join us for a week of motor and basketball skill development, with inclusive and friendly competition! Campers will develop movement concepts and foundational motor skills related to basketball through an explorative, fun and interactive approach.
COMMUNE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY Tracey Gonzales and Donna Knox Full Days
5th-8th $395
Make a difference in your community and discover the joy of giving. We’ll volunteer with a variety of organizations including White Rock Center of Hope, The Stewpot, C.C. Young Retirement Community, Dallas Animal Services and more. Campers will receive credit for 35 volunteer hours, which may be used to meet school, Scouting, confirmation class and other requirements. Give of yourself and help make a difference!
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K-3rd $250
Are you interested in working with wood, hammers, nails, textiles and paint to create and build hands-on projects? This fun camp is ideal for girls and boys who like to tinker and be creative. Make your own geoboard game, yarn art and useful wooden cases. You will also work collaboratively on inventive building projects. A wide variety of construction options is sure to spark your building genius!
CREATE YOUR OWN CARTOON CHARACTERS Young Rembrandts 1st-5th Afternoons $225 Learn the basics of cartooning to create your own characters! You will learn techniques used in cartooning, including character and feature exaggeration, action indication and personification. You will immediately apply your new skills to create your own original cartoon characters.
DISCOVER MAGIC: ORANGE WAND Dallas Magic Academy 2nd-8th Mornings $240 The Dallas Magic Academy offers five different magic camps at Summer at St. John’s for 2019 – blue wand, purple wand, green wand, black wand and orange wand. Each camp features new and different magic tricks and may be taken in any sequence. You will receive amazing custom tricks and props with full-color instructions, top-secret file folders with bonus extras, and a cool messenger bag to carry your magic supplies. You will also learn the eight traits of a true magician and receive secret code key cards to unlock bonus magic effects and secrets online. Discover Magic builds selfconfidence, teaches respect, inspires creativity and improves social skills in a safe and friendly environment.
Session 3 June 17 - 21
DISNEY CAMP Katie Burkhead and Rebecca Crouse Full Days
Pre-k-1st $395
Do you love great Disney movies? Let’s explore some of your favorites! Make crafts, cook special movie treats, watch beloved movies, then find new ways to creatively pretend and play using the Disney characters to spur your imagination. This camp is perfect for any Disney lover! Come spend the day with us as we unlock the magic of Disney!
DOC MCSTUFFINS Studio Bella Pre-k-K Mornings $225 If you love animals and Doc McStuffins, this camp is for you! Adopt a toy dog, name it and learn how to take care of your puppy all week long. The vets in training will create vet kits with stethoscopes and other tools Doc McStuffins uses to care for her little patients. As a pet owner, you will design your own doghouse, pet food bowls and more.
ENERGETIC ENGINEERING FOR GIRLS Studio Bella K-4th Afternoons $225 Dive into the fun and exciting world of engineering! Build and take home your very own mini spin art machine that will impress any professional engineer. Jump at the chance to become a toy engineer by designing and building a dancing nesting doll. Then, race into our slime challenge to experience chemical engineering. Excitement will fill the air as girls design, build, create and mix to solve the engineering challenges of the day!
EXPLORING FRENCH COOKING Father John Thorpe 4th-8th Afternoons $250 What makes French cuisine unique? Learn how to choose the best ingredients and prepare basic dishes and sauces. After one week, campers will be able to plan, purchase and prepare a basic French meal at home. If you love food and love to cook, this camp is for you!
GAMES! Rebecca Freyenberger Pre-k-1st Afternoons $225 Play all of your favorite games and learn fun new ones. We’ll have a blast with balloon ball, freeze tag, Chinese jump rope, capture the flag, scooters, relay races and many more fun games. After the physical games, we’ll wind down with some team-building and memory games. Exercise body and mind, while having tons of fun playing games!
GET ON THE BUS AND GO! Cindy Isbell and John Walker Full Days
3rd-8th $475
Are you ready for some fun? Then this camp is for you. We’re taking the bus to join in activities involving sports, art, animals, history and lots more. Lunch and snacks are provided. Wear comfortable clothes and your walking shoes.
LEGO BLITZ BOTS VS. NERF GUNS Championship Robotics 1st-6th Mornings $225 Your Mission: Design, build and control your LEGO Blitz Bots to withstand the forces of daily NERF gun assaults in this fun, new spin on Battle Bots. Teams take turns getting past obstacles without getting hit and shooting at the advancing forces. Every warrior leaves with a LEGO minifigurine and personalized backpack tag. Will you advance and take out the enemy?
MARY POPPINS RETURNS – to SUMMER AT ST. JOHN’S Holly Maxwell and Julie Neubach Full Days
Pre-k-1st $395
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! We’ll bake treats, make crafts, learn songs, read stories and play games all centered on the whimsical world of Mary Poppins! “With your feet on the ground you’re a bird in flight with your fist holding tight to the string of your kite.”
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Session 3 June 17 - 21
U.S.T.A. NET GENERATION TENNIS Sportkinetics 1st-4th Afternoons $225
MINECRAFT MECHANIZED – LEGO VERSION Championship Robotics 1st-6th Afternoons $225 Steve needs your help! Go way beyond regular LEGO brick packages and design and construct your home with working “piston-activated” doors while keeping out remotely-controlled Creepers. Collect gold, lapis and emerald blocks and navigate your motorized mine cart through the Netherworld. Of course, there is an “End Game” – avoid the stare of the Endermen and destroy the Ender Dragon. Every brave crafter leaves with a LEGO mini-figurine and personalized backpack tag.
POTTERY WHEEL CAMP Studio Bella K-5th Mornings $250 Get ready to get your hands dirty as you dive into the world of pottery by making pots, vases, monsters and pitchers. Venture into coil pots, slab pots, tile and mixed media pieces, too. Learn about texture and faux glaze to make the perfect pieces. The best part? You get to take the pottery wheel home as you continue to grow your pottery passion!
Eric Telzrow and Laura May 3rd-6th Afternoons $225 Are you the next Taylor Swift? Justin Bieber? Katy Perry? We are looking for dancing, singing, performing kids to help us make premium music videos that could surely go viral. You must be full of SO MUCH ENERGY, be ready to dab and possess mad vocal abilities! We are ready to blow the roof off this place, and need aspiring future rock stars to help us!
Thor Herrin 5th-8th Afternoons $240 Use your imagination and reclaimed materials to make a wide variety of objects from birdhouses and spice racks to wooden doormats and even desks. Bring ideas to life while learning about the safe use of power tools, stains and paints, and other essential skills. Open to anyone, from the woodworking beginner to a seasoned carpenter. Projects are customized to each camper’s interest and skill level. You get to keep everything you make!
ZOOM TO THE MOON Pre-k-2nd $395
Ever wanted to be a ringmaster, tightrope walker or lion tamer? Well...we’ve got the greatest camp on earth! Join us under the Big Top to create a one-of-a-kind circus performance for your family to enjoy.
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VIDEO STAR HIT SENSATION
WOODWORKING MAKERS’ CAMP
UNDER THE BIG TOP Monica Breeding and Morgan Martinez Full Days
Would you love to play tennis, but get too hot in the summer sun? Come join us inside for Under Ten Tennis! Developed to introduce kids to the game of tennis using specialized equipment, smaller court dimensions and modified scoring, all equipment is specially designed to suit the needs of beginning players. Racquets are made with super light carbon fiber, shorter grips and an oversized face to make great shots happen all the time.
Susan Benton and Connie Cook Full Days
Pre-k-1st $395
Get your jet packs ready as we launch into orbit on an imaginary rocket to take a trip through space! Through spectacular glowing centers, you’ll discover that outer space is a far-out place. This camp includes a black light experience that will enhance the space adventure. May the force be with you!
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Session 4 June 24 - 28
A BAG FOR EVERYTHING – MACHINE SEWING Sew Fun Studios 2nd-8th Mornings $325 Create projects based on the theme, A Bag for Everything! Tote bags, zipper bags, fashion bags and more! You will learn strap making and zipper installation, work with stabilizer, and create a line of bags that are just your style! Each day we will make a different project. You get the chance to design each bag using our beautifully curated fabrics! Great for ages 7-14, no machine sewing experience is required.
ADVENTURES IN THE METROPLEX Cindy Isbell and John Walker Full Days
3rd-8th $475
There is so much to see and do in the Dallas–Ft. Worth Metroplex! Hop on the bus for a week of great adventures such as fishing, skating, going to Six Flags, obstacle courses, the movies and a lot more. Lunch and snacks will be provided. Wear comfortable clothes and your walking shoes.
ARTSY ANIMALS STUFF AND FLUFF Trish Lopez Pre-k-3rd Afternoons $225 Get ready for a fun and unique workshop filled with art activities and animals! Hand-stuff a new furry friend to help you create art throughout the week. Make mosaics with paper, beads and stones, and create painted sculptures of your animal. You’ll even paint a canvas portrait of your new furry friend. It is a great camp for those who love hands-on art activities.
Martin Delabano Mornings
5th-8th $400
Experience the joy of working with your hands as you build a soprano or tenor ukulele, dulcimer, violin or campfire mandolin with Mr. Delabano. At the end of camp, take home a beautifully-crafted stringed instrument, as well as an instrument songbook. You’ll also gain a basic understanding of how to play your handmade instrument. First-time campers should start with the ukulele; those who have already taken the camp may make a dulcimer, violin or mandolin.
DISCOVER MAGIC: PURPLE WAND Dallas Magic Academy 2nd-8th Mornings $240 The Dallas Magic Academy offers five different magic camps at Summer at St. John’s for 2019 – purple wand, green wand, blue wand, black wand and orange wand. Each camp features new and different magic tricks and may be taken in any sequence. You will receive amazing custom tricks and props with full-color instructions, top-secret file folders with bonus extras, and a cool messenger bag to carry your magic supplies. You will also learn the eight traits of a true magician and receive secret code key cards to unlock bonus magic effects and secrets online. Discover Magic builds self-confidence, teaches respect, inspires creativity and improves social skills in a safe and friendly environment.
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BOOK COOKS Susan Benton and Stacy Herring Full Days
BUILD YOUR OWN STRINGED INSTRUMENT
K-2nd $400
Bon Appétit! Let’s combines cooking with your favorite children’s literature to create fun and delicious treats. From If You Give a Pig a Pancake to Where the Wild Things Are, you will enjoy sharing books together, cooking, and creating projects every day. Work cooperatively as you prepare recipes that will be a part of your own cookbook. Get ready for lots of compliments to the chef!
Oontz Kids 4th-8th Mornings $300 Have you ever wanted to be a DJ? To be the life of the party who gets everyone dancing to your favorite tunes? Or, do you just love music and want to spend a week at the coolest camp in town? Join Oontz Kids DJ Academy to learn the art and skills to be a great DJ. Then, create your own personal mix to perform on the final day of camp. Each camper uses an individual workstation that includes a Pioneer DJ Controller, headphones, speaker and a laptop computer loaded with all genres of DJ-friendly, age-appropriate music and Rekordbox DJ software from Pioneer DJ. Professional DJs will show you how to analyze your favorite music, manipulate parameters of your favorite tracks, and seamlessly mix from one song to the next so that the beat never stops. You may even showcase your work to families and friends on the last day of camp.
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Session 4 June 24 - 28
GARDENING AND OUTDOOR CAMP Tony Adler Full Days
DJ ACADEMY – PRODUCE AND PERFORM YOUR OWN MUSIC Oontz Kids 4th-8th Afternoons $300 In today’s music, we hear so many more sounds than could ever be produced with traditional instruments. Whether you listen to Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, EDM, movie soundtracks, or even country, almost all music today is produced using some sort of software. Welcome to the world of electronic music! If you’ve ever wanted to create your own songs and beats in your own style, OontzKids DJ Academy has just the class for you! In this camp, you will learn with softwarebased virtual instruments. You’ll learn how to program and play the instruments, as well as how to record, save, modify, loop, sample, and build a unique live performance of your own customized tracks. All equipment will be provided including computers, software, synth plugins, MIDI controllers, speakers and headphones. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to create music like you never have before!
EXPRESS YOURSELF Monica Breeding Full Days
K-3rd $395 Express yourself while learning from the masters. Paint like impressionists such as Monet and Van Gogh, work with sunflowers like O’Keeffe, and sculpt with wire and glass like Calder. Experience many types of art media while expressing your creativity. All works of art will be displayed in our camp gallery art show on the last day of camp.
FABULOUS FUN WITH FANCY NANCY Kellie Day and Rebecca Crouse Full Days
Pre-k-K $395
Bonjour! Come have a fun week with Fancy Nancy and enjoy all things fancy. Explore Nancy’s world and have a relaxing day at the spa, a pajama party, movie day, be an artist, indulge in a dress-up tea party and more fancy activities. We cannot wait to see you, be fancy and learn all the fabulous new words to build your vocabulary!
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3rd-8th $395
Calling all aspiring naturalists! Come spend quality time in the great outdoors. Campers will spend part of the morning tending to our community garden and preparing fresh produce for donation. Once the work is complete, we will hop in the van and venture to nearby hiking trails to enjoy nature and identify various species of plant and animal life. Join Mr. Adler and enjoy the great outdoors!
KINDERGARTEN KICK OFF Katie Burkhead K Mornings $225 Let’s get ready for kindergarten! St. John’s kindergarten teacher Katie Burkhead will help soon-to-be kindergarteners get ready for an exciting year of learning and fun. We will build on the experiences of pre-k to get a jump start on reading, writing, math and science. Enjoy these valuable lessons in a fun, relaxed and nurturing camp. Campers will walk into kindergarten feeling comfortable and confident!
KEY TO GRADE 3 Katie Fuqua and Laura May Afternoons
3rd $225
Join Mrs. Fuqua and Ms. May for a fun-filled week of language arts and math activities that will get you ready for the first day of school! You will walk into the first day of 3rd grade feeling confident and prepared for anything that comes your way!
LEGO GIRLS ROBOTICS Championship Robotics 1st-6th Afternoons $225 Opportunities for girls who master STEM skills are astounding! Girls will gain confidence as they learn basic engineering principles while building remotely-controlled LEGO Technic robots and vehicles. After building and decorating, girls have robot dance-offs to their favorite music and disco lights. All engineers take home LEGO mini-figurines and personalized backpack tags. Every day is a STEM party!
Session 4 June 24 - 28
LEGO STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Championship Robotics 1st-6th Mornings $225 Join the Rebellion and help Luke Skywalker fight against the Republic! Based on “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi,” build remote-controlled, motorized LEGO Technic vehicles and ships including a Snow Speeder, Rey’s Speeder, Troop Transport and the updated Millennium Falcon! Every Rebel will escape the class with a LEGO minifigurine, a Star Wars collectible dog tag and a personalized backpack tag.
LOWER SCHOOL BASKETBALL Devin Darnell 1st-4th Afternoons $225 Practice shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding in a fun, positive environment. Coach Darnell will help develop your game as you learn proper offensive and defensive techniques, build team chemistry, and use personal skills to be a more effective team member. All camp sessions will include team competitions to familiarize players with real game situations.
MAD SCIENTISTS Tania Kader and Lessett Lopez Full Days
Pre-k-1st $395
Explore the world of science through fun hands-on experiments. Create slimy concoctions and colorful art while learning about scientific principles. Learn how scientific reactions can create exciting events like volcanoes and tornadoes. We might get a little dirty as we explore life as junior scientists!
MIDDLE SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALL Devin Darnell 5th-6th Mornings $225 Join Coach Darnell and enjoy the great game of flag football. Practice offensive and defensive schemes for flag football. Learn skills and techniques for all your favorite football positions, practice different types of formations and plays, and show-off your new skills in scrimmages and games. Get your friends and join the fun!
NATURAL ARCHITECTURE Studio Bella 1st-4th Mornings $225 Attention architects and nature lovers! Build an innovative city from the ground up in five days, using supplies from nature, gathered on harvesting trips around campus, and construction gear from Studio Bella. Collaborate with fellow campers to build a city that includes commercial buildings, roads, housing and parkland. Makers’ design thinking at its best!
ODD SQUAD ADVENTURES Father John Thorpe 1st-3rd Mornings $225 Is something odd happening? You need to call…the Odd Squad! Based on a popular PBS show, our camp combines basic math concepts with a paranormal detective agency. Agents will team up to investigate odd and strange events all around the campus. They will rely on strong reasoning and math skills – with more than a little courage and inventiveness – to solve problems and stop the plots of some very odd super-villains.
SPIRIT, CHEER AND DANCE CAMP Tippi Toes Dance K-5th Afternoons $225 Do you love music and love to dance? At Spirit, Cheer and Dance Camp learn kid-friendly cheer and dance choreography to upbeat, age-appropriate music. You will also lead cheers, make cool crafts, and engage in confidence and team-building activities. Learn the stunts and cheers that really make going to the games fun. Parents and special friends are invited to a special performance on the last day of camp.
STEP UP TO SECOND GRADE Katie Fuqua and Laura May 2nd Mornings $225 Join Mrs. Fuqua and Ms. May for a fun-filled week of language arts and math activities that will get you ready for the first day of school. You will walk into the first day of second grade feeling confident and prepared for anything that comes your way!
TUMBLEFUN Sportkinetics Pre-k-K Mornings $225 Let’s combine the best of tumbling and gymnastics with games and activities to provide you with a week of fitness, skills and FUN! You will learn floor activities including forward and backward rolls, bridges, donkey kicks, jumps and cartwheels. We will also use obstacle courses, parachute activities, music, rhythm streamers, games and more to make camp fun and exciting! Perfect for any child that likes to move, wiggle, and have FUN!
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Session 5 July 1 - 5
SESSION 5 NO CAMP JULY 4
EMOJI CAMP Challenge Island K-4th Mornings $190
BEGINNING VOLLEYBALL Kidokinetics 2nd-4th Afternoons $190 Come learn about the fun sport of volleyball. Beginning volleyball is designed specifically with young players in mind. We use modified equipment with techniques, drills, and games that make learning volleyball fun. During mini breaks from volleyball, we will learn games to improve important fitness components including agility, strength, power, endurance, speed, coordination and accuracy.
COMMUNE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY Tracey Gonzales and Donna Knox Full Days
5th-8th $340
Make a difference in your community and discover the joy of giving. We’ll volunteer with a variety of organizations including White Rock Center of Hope, The Stewpot, C.C. Young Retirement Community, Dallas Animal Services and more. Campers will receive credit for 35 volunteer hours, which may be used to meet school, Scouting, confirmation class and other requirements. Give of yourself and help make a difference!
DISCOVER MAGIC: BLACK WAND Dallas Magic Academy 2nd-8th Mornings $190 The Dallas Magic Academy offers five different magic camps at Summer at St. John’s for 2019 – purple wand, green wand, blue wand, black wand and orange wand. Each camp features new and different magic tricks and may be taken in any sequence. You will receive amazing custom tricks and props with full-color instructions, top-secret file folders with bonus extras, and a cool messenger bag to carry your magic supplies. Learn the eight traits of a true magician and receive secret code key cards to unlock bonus magic effects and secrets online. Discover Magic builds self-confidence, teaches respect, inspires creativity and improves social skills in a safe and friendly environment.
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Do you love the fun of using emojis? Let’s use emojis to make the fun of STEAM adventures even more fun. From Silly Emoji Day to Scary Emoji Day to Sunglasses Cool Emoji Day, you will create and enjoy an emoji-inspired world.
ESCAPE THE ROOM! Bethany Staub Full Days
3rd-6th $340
Campers, you have one hour to complete the tasks and ESCAPE the room! Do you have the courage to enter the room, and face a series of challenges, puzzles and surprises that you must figure out in order to “escape the room”? From secret agents to masked luchadores, you will encounter villains of all types. Problem-solving will be your ultimate superpower! You will learn crime scene investigation techniques, then use those skills to solve puzzles and crimes. Are you up for the challenge?
LEGO CITY Tania Kader and Lessett Lopez Mornings or Full Days
Pre-k-2nd $190/$340
LEGO City needs your help! Due to a growing population, LEGO City is expanding. We’ll add an airport, auto shop, restaurants and more. Join us for a week of building, playing games and making friends. There will also be cooking, crafts and LEGO games!
MAGICAL MYSTERY CAMP Challenge Island 1st-6th Afternoons $190 Calling all aspiring super-sleuths to Challenge Island’s® Marvelous Mystery Camp. Our eagle-eyed tribes will work together on top-secret STEAM challenges from CSI to Scooby Doo to Sherlock Holmes to Nancy Drew. So grab your detective gear and prepare to go undercover this summer with Magical Mystery camp.
Session 5 July 1 - 5
MINECRAFT SOCIETIES 8Bit Education K-3rd Mornings $190 Use teamwork, ingenuity and problem-solving skills to create a strong Minecraft society. You will start in a remote outpost in a harsh environment. Collaboration is a must to build a secure society that provides education, healthcare, public services and business. 8Bit Education will post student interviews and a video flyby of your city on a private, secure website.
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CAMP Chris Gresbeck Pre-k-K Mornings $190 Outdoor Adventure Camp brings inquisitive minds, active bodies and nature together for a week of creative fun. Each day will include a nature walk, creation of crafts from items found on the walk, and science experiments using local natural treasures. You will make walking sticks, dream catchers, beautiful painted rocks, fairy gardens and more.
SUPER SPORTS SAMPLER Sportkinetics Pre-k-1st Afternoons $190 Do you like to learn new games and sports? This is the camp for you! Super Sports Sampler is a fun week of active games and sports with a healthy mix of sportsmanship, nutrition and creative arts. Activities will include ageappropriate versions of golf, tennis, basketball, baseball, soccer, badminton, hockey, obstacle courses, hula hoops, noodlekinetics, jump rope, kickball, lacrosse, volleyball, frisbees and parachute games.
SENIOR FUSION GAMING 8Bit Education 3rd-8th Afternoons $190 Design, code, and create alternative values to build a three-level game. You will learn how to design and track character health, item counts, sound effects, and other gaming features. You will use Multimedia Fusion II software to create and take home a completed game to enjoy with your friends and family.
SUMMERTIME FUN! Danna Callahan Full Days
Pre-k-1st $340
Need to beat the heat? Then come on over! We’ll start the day with water fun and beach-themed craft projects, and then cool off by splashing around. Slip n’ Slide and water balloons included. Wear a bathing suit and bring a change of clothes!
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Session 6 July 8 - 12
SESSION 6 BEST VETERINARIAN EVER CAMP Studio Bella K-4th Afternoons $250 Fulfill your dream to become a veterinarian during Vet Camp. Adopt a (toy) dog as your newest family member and learn how to take care of man’s best friend. Make sure that your furry friend has a house, dog bowl, toys and needed supplies. When your pet rests, vet training will begin! Build your stethoscope and learn how to sew stitches for injured animals. Learn how to perform pet first aid, training and more. On Friday, some real animal friends will come to visit for you to meet and learn to care for!
CONSTRUCTION ZONE DIY EDITION: AM SESSION ANIMAL TALES STUFF AND FLUFF Trish Lopez Afternoons
Pre-k-3rd $225
Do you love animals? From Gerald the Elephant to Grumpy Cat, we will read books to improve reading comprehension strategies such as visualizing, predicting and inferring. On the first day of camp, you will make a special stuffed friend to keep forever. As we read books, we will create projects, sing songs and play games related to our animal story. Every camper will create their own special story about their new animal friend. On our last day, you will make a second special friend. Don’t miss this cuddly camp, as we learn about animals, their habitats and some who wear amazing clothes!
BATTLE BOTS: HUNGER GAMES ARENA Championship Robotics 1st-6th Afternoons $225 ALL NEW! Fierce Battle Bot matches in a steel and clear polycarbonate arena with lots of destructive surprises. Flashing disco and laser lights flood the field while music pulses. You build them. You control them. You destroy them. Many bots enter, but only one comes out! Every warrior leaves with a LEGO mini-figurine and personalized backpack tag.
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Danielle Dupuis Mornings
K-3rd $250
Are you interested in working with wood, hammers, nails, textiles and paint to create and build hands-on projects? This fun camp is ideal for girls and boys who like to tinker and be creative. Make your own geoboard game, yarn art and useful wooden cases. You will also work collaboratively on inventive building projects. A wide variety of construction options is sure to spark your building genius!
CONSTRUCTION ZONE DIY EDITION: PM SESSION Danielle Dupuis Afternoons
K-3rd $250
Are you interested in working with wood, hammers, nails, textiles and paint to create and build hands-on projects? This fun camp is ideal for girls and boys who like to tinker and be creative. Make your own geoboard game, yarn art and useful wooden cases. You will also work collaboratively on inventive building projects. A wide variety of construction options is sure to spark your building genius!
DODGEBALL Tony Adler 3rd-8th Mornings $225 Join Mr. Adler to play dodgeball, the greatest game ever. A full week of every type of dodgeball that you can imagine! Get your friends to join you for a week of fun. Take the challenge to become “King or Queen of the Court.”
Session 6 July 8 - 12
DREAM BIG, PRINCESS! Monica Zapletal Full Days
Pre-k-1st $395
Come enjoy adventures with the Disney princesses as each day of camp will feature a new magical experience! Play new games with Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White, Belle and Rapunzel. Which princess do you like best? Your adventure continues in the kitchen, as you cook special “royal” treats. All of your special princess dreams can come true!
GAME ON! Danna Callahan K-2nd Mornings $225
EVERYTHING CAMP Allison Bret and Bethany Staub Full Days
Pre-k-1st $395
Let’s do a little bit of EVERYTHING! We will spend time doing all your favorite things. We’ll make some yummy treats and create some amazing pieces of art. We’ll splash around on water day, scavenger hunt around the school for some mysteriously missing friends, and we’ll even attempt to create the world’s most perfect fort. We’ll play lots of games and have a blast together in this weeklong everything party!
FASHION, FACES AND FLOWERS Young Rembrandts 1st-5th Afternoons $225 For fashionistas, florists and budding makeup artists, this camp celebrates the beautiful world of girls. You will be challenged and delighted by drawing images that exude femininity and loveliness. Let’s draw and color faces, create realistic and also whimsical flowers, and then challenge your creativity to bring together images together in a gorgeous setting. Prepare for elegance and drawing excellence!
FORT ISLAND CAMP Challenge Island 3rd-8th Mornings $225 Float on over to Challenge Island’s® Fort Island Camp©! You and your squad will ride your balloon bus into an unforgettable computer-and-violence-free adventure inspired by the world’s most popular game. You will build walls, stairs and STEAMtastic shelters. You’ll land in Slanted Towers, Treasure Lake and other Fort Island hotspots. You’ll design your own skins, practice your favorite dance moves, and make up some brand new dances of your own. This Challenge Island Camp Royale promises to be a Slurp-Juicy, ELECTRONIC-FREE experience for every fort-loving boy and girl using adventures inspired by the game.
Ready, set, game on! Is Games Day your favorite day of the school year? Then join us for a full week of games and adventure! Challenge your friends to tests of speed, strength and creative problem-solving. Test your speed and coordination through obstacle courses, and bring your cooperative and competitive spirit for a week of fun and games.
GROWING BUDS OF SCIENCE Mad Scientists Pre-k-K Mornings $225 Open the door to the exciting world of science! Learn how animals track scents through forests and trails. Experiment with the forces of gravity and imagine how astronauts work and play on the moon. Combine ingredients to create amazing explosions. Your interest in science will grow as the week progresses.
JOURNEY TO MARS 2030! NuMinds Enrichment 3rd-8th Afternoons $225 In this highly creative maker camp, you are presented with a mission to complete as a special task force team for NASA. Help colonize Mars before an asteroid collides with planet Earth! You will need to brainstorm, collaborate, design and use critical thinking to solve challenges to land a rover safely with reduced atmosphere, engineer habitats that can withstand high winds and inclement weather, and use robotics to traverse the Martian landscape. Your task force team will use past Martian exploration mapping to plan for the landing location. You will also work creatively to plan for human life on Mars!
JUNIOR FUSION GAMING 8Bit Education K-3rd Afternoons $225 Learn how to design, code and even create a video to advertise your new game! You will learn how to code a game including the basics of level design. Campers will receive a copy of their new game to play with friends and family. You will also be able to share your video through 8Bit Education’s private YouTube Channel. This camp is perfect for the beginner coder.
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Session 6 July 8 - 12
MIDDLE SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL CAMP Thor Herrin 5th-8th Afternoons $225
JUNIOR VETERINARIAN CAMP Studio Bella Pre-k-K Mornings $250 Fulfill your dream to become a veterinarian during Vet Camp. Adopt a (toy) dog as your newest family member and learn how to take care of man’s best friend. Make sure that your furry friend has a house, dog bowl, toys and needed supplies. When your pet rests, vet training will begin! Build your stethoscope and learn how to sew stitches for injured animals. Learn how to perform pet first aid, training and more. On Friday, some real animal friends will come to visit for you to meet and learn to care for!
MASTER THE MASTERS IN PASTEL Young Rembrandts 1st-5th Mornings $225
Open to players of all skill levels, the St. John’s Volleyball Camp provides expert instruction by a coach who has more than a decade of experience instructing girls and boys. Whether this is your first time to play volleyball or you are a seasoned veteran of club and school teams, you will improve your skills and make lasting friendships that come from the positive and nurturing environment of team sports. All equipment is provided, and participants should attend with proper footwear and kneepads (if desired). St. John’s students interested in playing for the IAA or TAPS volleyball teams are highly encouraged to attend.
MY FIRST STEM LAB Mad Scientists Pre-k-K Afternoons $225 Take a new look at the world around you during this exciting camp! Learn how to create codes so you can unlock and decode secret messages. Design and build devices that can help us to save our planet. Learn about the diet and habitat of animals that we love, and even learn about outer space as we explore the world around us.
Learn about a new master each day, by creating a large, original pastel drawing replicating a famous artist’s masterpiece. You will draw a colorful goldfish bowl as Henri Matisse did in The Goldfish painting. Next, you will recreate Vincent Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night complete with swirls throughout the sky. Campers will also create powerful still life pastels full of robust color as Paul Cezanne often did in his paintings. On Thursday, you will draw Andre Derain’s Portrait of Matisse. Finally, we will draw as Thiebald did for his Cake Paintings. By learning from the techniques of the masters, your work will grow in detail and design. Please wear an old shirt or smock to class each day.
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
MIDDLE SCHOOL FUN
ROCK AND ROLL ROCKETRY
Rebecca Crouse and Rebecca Freyenberger 5th-8th Full Days $425 Want to hang out and socialize with your friends, go to fun places and do the things that YOU want to do? Join Mrs. Freyenberger, Mrs. Crouse and your friends for the greatest week ever! We will go to Hawaiian Falls, movies, the mall and other places that YOU want to go. The summer gets boring without your friends – join the fun!
Jacques Vroom Full Days
7th-8th $395
Spend a week learning the art of photographic portraiture. Learn how to use the settings and features of cameras and lenses to capture the best possible pictures of each other. Create a 20-page e-book portfolio by the end of the week that can become a printed coffee-table book if you like! St. John’s students interested in taking photographs for the yearbook are highly encouraged to attend. You may use your own DSLR or MILC camera—or borrow a Canon or Nikon DSLR from the camp. No prior experience needed.
NuMinds Enrichment 3rd-8th Mornings $225 It’s science! It’s math! It’s history...and quite literally, it’s a BLAST! Explore some of the basic principles of Newton’s Laws of Motion and the aerodynamics of flight as you construct and fly your own model rockets. We examine the importance of Sputnik, and the cultural implications of this milestone event in science history. From the birth of Newton’s Laws of gravity to the launching of the first rockets to space travel today, the cause and effect of rocketry is fun to explore!
WONDERFUL WORLD OF WIZARDRY CAMP Challenge Island 1st-5th Afternoons $225 Calling all muggles! Join us for Wonderful World of Wizardry Camp! Our wizarding tribes will take on spellbinding STEAM challenges. Design magic wands, build Hogwarts’ castle, and mix magical potions. This exciting camp is every bit as magical as it sounds!
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SESSION 7
Session 7 July 15 - 19
A DAY AT THE BEACH – MACHINE SEWING Sew Fun Studios 2nd-8th Afternoons $325 Make adorable projects perfect for the beach (or the pool!) and celebrate magical mermaids along the way! Each day we’ll make trendy and useful projects — a beach bag, a mermaid tail blanket, a beach pillow and more. Each camper will put their own creative touch on their projects and can choose from a selection of beach/mermaid/ colorfully-designed fabrics! No sewing experience required.
Studio Bella K-4th Mornings $225 The possibilities are as great as your imagination! Build contraptions, gadgets and toys that will rock your world. Design the perfect painting pendulum, build a bubble spinner and create a squeeze and spin! Take home your own mini spin art machine to impress your family. Use your imagination and makers’ skills to create the next toy sensation. Remember, the world needs kids like you!
DISCOVER MAGIC – BLUE WAND Dallas Magic Academy 2nd-8th Mornings $240
ABC ANIMALS STUFF AND FLUFF Trish Lopez Pre-k-1st Afternoons $225 Do you want to learn your ABC’s and get better at spelling? ABC Animal Camp is an exciting way to make words come to life! On our first day of camp, make a fun stuffed animal who will get to live with you forever. Learning the alphabet through the letters and animals of the day will be amazing and fun! We sing songs, read stories and play alphabet games such as ABC Bingo, Leafy Letter Learning and Alphabet Match Up. We will also go on an alphabet hunt, make shapes with clay, write in the sand and make shaving cream letters. On Friday, we will stuff one more special friend for you to keep forever. Enjoy a week of hands-on activities and learn more about phonics, writing and spelling!
ART OF SCIENCE Tania Kader and Lessett Lopez Full Days
COOL CONTRAPTIONS AND GADGET GREATNESS
1st-4th $395
Ever wonder about the chemistry of color and paint? Do you know how and why beautiful crystals are formed? Learn to make your own paint and create a work of art. Travel into a microscopic world revealing unbelievable color and design. Create beautiful and delicious science experiments – and then eat them! Come join the fun and be dazzled by the surprising relationship between art and science.
The Dallas Magic Academy offers five different magic camps at Summer at St. John’s for 2019 – blue wand, purple wand, green wand, black wand and orange wand. Each camp features new and different magic tricks and may be taken in any sequence. You will receive amazing custom tricks and props with full-color instructions, top-secret file folders with bonus extras, and a cool messenger bag to carry your magic supplies. You will also learn the eight traits of a true magician and receive secret code key cards to unlock bonus magic effects and secrets online. Discover Magic builds self-confidence, teaches respect, inspires creativity and improves social skills in a safe and friendly environment.
DRONE HIGH-SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY Jacques Vroom Full Days
7th-8th $395
Get ready to take photographs of things you can’t often see with your own eyes! (Your iPhone camera can’t record these things, either!) Each day we will focus on different subjects—a Mentos/Diet Coke “explosion,” a basketball free throw, oil dropping into colored water, a football catch, the strike of a wooden match and more. You will use cameras that snap a photograph in as little as 1/10,000th of a second. You will observe a camera shooting 20 pictures per second, each as short as 1/32,000 of a second. You will be able to use a drone for some of your photos. You may use your own camera, or borrow a Canon or Nikon DSLR from the camp. No prior experience needed.
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Session 7 July 15 - 19
JUNIOR STEM KIDS CAMP Championship Robotics 1st-4th Mornings $225
DRONE FLY NOW - A.M. Fast Forward Kids 2nd-8th Mornings $225 Merge the best in science and technology with the wonder of flight. Drone Flight Academy uses a hands-on learning approach (one drone for each pair of campers) and mixes in innovation and adventure. Make new friends, play creative games and embrace one of the fastest growing technological career fields. Learn how drones fly, then engage in drone races, trick flying, drone challenges and more. Take to the skies and become a junior drone pilot.
DRONE FLY NOW - P.M. Fast Forward Kids 2nd-8th Afternoons $225 Merge the best in science and technology with the wonder of flight. Drone Flight Academy uses a hands-on learning approach (one drone for each pair of campers) and mixes in innovation and adventure. Make new friends, play creative games and embrace one of the fastest growing technological career fields. Learn how drones fly, then engage in drone races, trick flying, drone challenges and more. Take to the skies and become a junior drone pilot.
HOOPS, SCOOPS AND SHOTS Sportkinetics Pre-k-K Afternoons $225 Hoops Scoops and Shots combines three highly popular sports into a fun-packed week of interaction, skills learning and just the right emphasis on fitness and exercise. Hoops explains fundamentals of basketball including the skills of passing, shooting, dribbling and basic game rules. Scoops includes an introduction to lacrosse stressing skills development in cradling, passing, scooping and catching. Shots will feature the highly popular USTA Texas Hot Shots tennis curriculum combining basic skills and interactive games to reinforce tennis skills.
JUMP ROPE SKILLS CAMP Morgan Martinez and Katie Fuqua 1st-8th Afternoons $225 Calling all Red Hot Peppers and all kiddos who love to jump rope! Join us for a week of learning awesome single rope tricks, Double Dutch and 2-in-1 tricks! We will also learn routines to music, make our own jump ropes and prepare for a performance showcase on Friday! All levels of jumpers are welcome.
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STEAM skills can make a huge impact on your ability to solve difficult problems by using outside-the-box thinking skills. Our youngest future engineers gain foundational skills in this holistic STEAM camp by learning basic electronics, engineering, construction, computer programming (coding) and robotics all in one action-packed, hands-on week.
LEGO MINECRAFT WORLD BUILDING Championship Robotics 1st-6th Afternoons $225 Do you want to build your own Minecraft world, and leave the electronics behind for a while? Use LEGO bricks from a wide variety of Minecraft builds to construct your own Minecraft world. Join fellow campers for raids and adventures battling zombies, Creepers, spiders, blazes, Endermen and even the Ender Dragon! Every brave crafter leaves with a LEGO mini-figurine and personalized backpack tag.
MINECRAFT ARCHITECTS 8Bit Education 3rd-8th Mornings $225 Join fellow Minecraft lovers to work together to design and build houses, buildings and machines for your Minecraft village. Each project will consist of various challenges such as limited resources, time limits and environment constraints. Use design thinking, geometry, math, collaboration and creativity to complete the tasks. Challenge accepted!
MIXED MEDIA MASTERPIECE Studio Bella K-4th Afternoons $225 Love to paint, draw, sculpt, design and everything in between? “Art soup� mixes and mashes all types of art to create a mixed media work of art each day! Roll up your sleeves and prepare to dive into painting and designing, creating kinetic art (art that moves), building and drawing all week long. You will combine new processes every day to create mixed media masterpieces!
Session 7 July 15 - 19
PAW PATROL Studio Bella Pre-k-K Mornings $225 Calling all Paw Patrol fans! Learn to serve and protect our community Paw Patrol Style. You are sure to have a blast participating in Marshall’s Fireman Challenge, Everest’s Avalanche Escape, Chase’s Police Car Race, Skye’s Helicopter Take Off and more. Take on new rescue challenges every day. You will also enjoy Paw Patrol story time, art, crafts and games.
PC BUILDER 8Bit Education 3rd-8th Afternoons $395 Build a fully-working Raspberry Pi computer and learn Coding and Minecraft Mods using Kano. Campers will build their own PC step-by-step and will learn the basics of coding as they create Snake, Pong, and Minecraft Modding programs. At the end of the course, students will take their mini PC home to continue learning.
RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS – MACHINE SEWING Sew Fun Studios 2nd-8th Mornings $325 Complete a new project each day of the week to celebrate the beautiful majesty of rainbows and unicorns. We’ll make accessories, stuffed animals, room decor, and more! Each project will celebrate either the unicorn or a colorful rainbow. With a wide selection of beautiful fabrics and adorably designed projects available, campers will create unique crafts that reflect their personalities.
TECH DETECTIVES Micah Sudbury Pre-k-1st Mornings $225 Get your magnifying glass ready and join us to solve important cases at places like Cyber Space, Network Neighborhood and Keyboard Castle! Computer detectives will unlock new ways to use technology to solve meaningful problems. Important STEAM skills are introduced as you learn keyboarding, technology, Internet safety, reading and writing. We will integrate critical thinking and creative components throughout the week, giving you many opportunities to express yourself as you do your work as a Tech Detective!
THE DAY THE CRAYONS COOKED Allison Bret and Bethany Staub Full Days
Pre-k-1st $395
Cooking, crafting, characters, oh my! Every day of this colorful camp will be based on a crayon color from “The Day the Crayons Quit,” a silly story about a group of crayons who write to their owner with some unusual requests. We’ll spend the morning cooking a dish or dessert that goes along with our color of the day, and in the afternoon we’ll use different art forms and materials to create a magnificent (and colorful!) craft. We’ll also brainstorm kind ways to help the crayon accomplish what they want from their owner and see how we can treat our belongings better, too!
READY, SET FIRST GRADE Kellie Day 1st Mornings $225 Get ready for first grade with Miss Day. We will play games that will sharpen our skills in math, reading, handwriting and Writers Workshop. We will also refine fine motor, collaborative and listening skills. You will head back to school feeling confident and ready for first grade!
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SESSION 8
Session 8 July 22 - 26
FAIRY TALE CAMP Tippi Toes Dance and Drama Pre-k-1st Mornings $225
DEEP WORLDS: MARINE BIOLOGY NuMinds Enrichment Pre-k-K Mornings $225 Did you know that the call of largest animal on planet Earth bellows across five hundred miles? Learn about Earth’s oceans and how aquatic animals adapt to different marine ecosystems. Use your imagination to think about the next new species still waiting to be discovered. What special adaptations will they have to help them survive? A new world awaits you, as you journey through the deep oceans to learn about great underwater sea life.
DESIGN YOUR LINE Studio Bella 3rd-8th Afternoons $225 This fashion-focused camp will teach you the skills to develop your creative ideas into wearable clothing and accessories. You will explore color, shape, textures, composition and pricing in a fun, hands-on manner. Then work with patterns, sizing, measuring and storyboards. You will be proud to show off your original fashions on the Studio Bella runway!
DISCOVER MAGIC: GREEN WAND Dallas Magic Academy 2nd-8th Mornings $240 The Dallas Magic Academy offers five different magic camps at Summer at St. John’s for 2019 – purple wand, green wand, black wand, blue wand and orange wand. Each camp features new and different magic tricks and may be taken in any sequence. You will receive amazing custom tricks and props with full-color instructions, top-secret file folders with bonus extras, and a cool messenger bag to carry your magic supplies. Learn the eight traits of a true magician and receive secret code key cards to unlock bonus magic effects and secrets online. Discover Magic builds self-confidence, teaches respect, inspires creativity and improves social skills in a safe and friendly environment.
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Once upon a time in a not so far away land, Tippi Toes® planned a magical Fairy Tale Dance Camp. Boys and girls come from near and far to spend time with princesses, superheroes and other magical characters. Together they dance, share stories, play games and create fairy tale crafts. At the end of the week, special friends are invited to join us at an awards presentation and special performance. Come dance into our fairytale!
FUSION GAMING VERSUS – 2 PLAYERS 8Bit Education 4th-8th Afternoons $225 What is better than creating your own game? Creating your own 2-player game! Fusion Gaming Versus allows you to dive deeper into Multimedia Fusion 2 coding to program with global variables using our custom Versus Sprite library. You will learn spawn protection, joystick support, and player 1 & 2 mechanics as you create a 2-player competitive game to take home to play with your family and friends.
GIRLS’ CLUB Studio Bella K-4th Mornings $225 Girls can do anything! Make a bow and arrows. Paint them pink – or not. Mix and measure ingredients for slime, design 3D rainbows and create string art. Then how about a quick game of tag or capture the flag? Slingshots anyone? Test your skills with fun creations throughout the week! Girls will use their imaginations to be fearlessly creative and celebrate their inner Wonder Woman!
HIP HOP DANCE Tippi Toes Dance K-5th Afternoons $225 Do you love music and love to dance? We will have you dancing to the Tippi Toes® beat in no time! Hip Hop campers will learn kid-friendly choreography to upbeat, age-appropriate music. You will also work on crafts and learn fun movement games. Tippi Toes® Hip Hop Camp is sure to be an awesome time! Invite your parents and special friends to a special performance on the last day of camp.
Session 8 July 22 - 26
KARATE KIDS NINJA Chamberlain Studios of Self Defense K-6th Afternoons $225 Enjoy a fun-filled week of karate, martial arts and selfdefense. Learn the basics or improve your martial arts skills. You will experience and use the acclaimed 3-Steps to a Great Kid™ martial arts character development program. Learn kicking, blocking and striking skills, selfdefense techniques, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, martial arts history, appropriate times for martial arts use and much more.
LEGO TECHNIC: SPECIAL FORCES Championship Robotics 1st-6th Afternoons $225 “Be all you can be,” when you build and modify remotelycontrolled and motorized LEGO Technic military vehicles. Race your Hummer through an obstacle course, navigate hostile waters in your Navy Destroyer, dodge enemy fire in your Bearcat F8F fighter aircraft, attack with your UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter, and blow them away with your customized M1 Abrams Tank! Led by a U.S. Army veteran infantryman, every soldier and sailor is awarded a LEGO mini-figurine, collectible dog tag and personalized backpack tag. No one is left behind!
LOWER SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALL Devin Darnell 1st-4th Mornings $225 Join Coach Darnell to learn about the great game of flag football. Learn about the skills and techniques for all of your favorite football positions, practice drills and play in scrimmages and games to highlight your new skills. Speed and agility drills will also help athletes develop skills that will also translate to other sports. Get your friends and join the fun!
MATH ANIMALS – STUFF AND FLUFF Trish Lopez Pre-k-1st Afternoons $225 Do you want to learn more about numbers and math concepts? Math Animals camp will make numbers come to life! We will begin by hand stuffing a new animal friend to take home and love. We will use our new animal friend to help count toes, fingers, spots, stripes and teeth. We will sing songs, read stories and play fun math games, like Jumpin’ Numbers, Animal Counting, Number Bingo and Number Match Up. We will also go on number hunts to find and recognize numbers all around us! Creating numbers with clay, sand and shaving cream are also part of our exciting journey. We will end our camp stuffing one more special friend to take home and love forever.
MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL Devin Darnell 5th-8th Afternoons $225 Develop the skills and techniques necessary to take your team to victory. Improve ball handling and shooting skills, refine defensive techniques, and work on speed and agility through individual and team drills, practice and games. This camp is ideal for middle school students planning to participate in school and club basketball teams.
MIND CRAFT MANIA Challenge Island 1st-5th Afternoons $225 Bring Minecraft into the real world to solve puzzles and create worlds inspired by the game. Swap computers for creativity and keyboards for ingenuity and imagination as you teleport through portals into action-packed worlds of Minecraft-inspired adventure! This camp will use NO COMPUTERS; instead, we will solve challenges and create worlds inspired by the game.
MUSICAL ADVENTURES Logan Herod Pre-k-1st Mornings $225 Do you love to sing and dance? Would you like to learn more about music? Come join us, as we make our own musical instruments, learn lyrics and movements to Disney favorites, play instruments and march in a real parade, and even write our own music. If your child enjoys exploring music, they will love this camp!
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Session 8 July 22 - 26
SUPER SPORTS SAMPLER! Kidokinetics Pre-k-1st Afternoons $225
ODD COUPLES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM NuMinds Enrichment Pre-k-K Afternoons $225 Learn about the friendships that form between species in the animal kingdom. Think scientifically about the ways symbiotic relationships form in nature, and wonder creatively about how individual animals view their friends and foes in the wild. How do animals make friends – and how can humans enjoy these special friendships?
Get first-hand experience as a website designer. You will receive 10 client profiles to review. First, you will “interview” your chosen client to learn about their business needs and current website situation. You will then create design templates and build the website using Weebly EDU. Campers will showcase their site for client approval. You may take home a portfolio of your website work at the end of the camp.
1st-4th $395
Are you ready to become a Pokémon trainer? Come and pick your starter Pokémon so our adventure can begin! Throughout this week you will be put to the test, going on quests and battles to prove you have what it takes to be a Pokémon Master. You will make your own Pokémon characters, balls and tools to help bring the world of Pokémon to life!
SENIOR STEAM KIDS Championship Robotics 5th-8th Mornings $225 STEAM skills can make a huge impact on your ability to solve difficult problems by using outside-the-box thinking skills. Designed for more advanced campers, you will build upon the foundations of earlier STEAM experiences. Come explore basic electronics, engineering, construction, coding and robotics all in one action-packed, hands-on week.
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WEB DEVELOPER 8Bit Education 3rd-8th Mornings $225
POKÉMON – GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL! Tania Kader and Lessett Lopez Full Days
Do you like to learn new games and sports? This is the camp for you! Super Sports Sampler is a fun week of active games and sports with a healthy mix of sportsmanship, nutrition and creative arts. Activities will include ageappropriate versions of golf, tennis, basketball, baseball, soccer, badminton, hockey, obstacle courses, hula hoops, noodlekinetics, jump rope, kickball, lacrosse, volleyball, frisbees and parachute games.
CAMP INSTRUCTOR BIOS Tony Adler has taught middle school English at St. John’s for the past four years. Before that, he was a middle school English teacher and coach at The Greenhill School. Suzanne Barthelemy has taught pre-school in the Lakewood area for many years and is passionate about introducing young children to the wonders of our world. Susan Benton has taught pre-k for 23 years, 19 of which she has spent at St. John’s. She leads a variety of summer camps for our young campers. Monica Breeding has been teaching early childhood since 1989. Ms. Breeding is an alumna of St. John’s and has been teaching our pre-k students for the past eleven years. Allison Bret is a St. John’s graduate and current teacher of kindergarten through sixth grade theater classes for the Texas School of the Arts in Ft. Worth. Allison has an M.A. in Educational Theatre from New York University. She is passionate about instilling a strong love for creative learning and emotional well-being for every student in her classroom! Katie Burkhead has taught kindergarten at St. John’s for the past five years. Before that, she taught third grade in Ft. Worth. She is a Dallas native and a TCU graduate with a degree in Early Childhood Education. Danna Callahan is a St. John’s alumna, class of 2006. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and now teaches Algebra at Roosevelt High School in South Dallas. She loves to play games, swim, cook and be outdoors! Challenge Island® is a program where engineering meets imagination! It offers a one-of-a-kind camps on the cutting edge of S.T.E.A.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) Education and 21st Century Learning. Chamberlain Studios of Self Defense™ is an organization dedicated to providing the very best in martial arts since 1981. The school brings together people from all lifestyles with the common goals of friendship, martial arts and hard work! Championship Robotics founder and longtime Summer at St. John’s robotics instructor, Jack Nelson, is a full-time engineering and robotics teacher for Richardson ISD and has led his competitive teams to multiple robotics world championships. Connie Cook came to St. John’s seven years ago as an early childhood aide and loves her job. She and her husband are longtime members of St. John’s Episcopal Church. Rebecca Crouse is the fourth grade math and science teacher at St. John’s. She graduated from Austin College with a degree in psychology and a Master of Arts in teaching. Cutting Edge Fencing is a full-time fencing center dedicated to teaching the Olympic sport of sabre fencing. In operation since 2004, Cutting Edge Fencing has an athlete-centered approach that promotes the development of the whole person. Dal Sanders of Dallas Magic Academy has been a professional magician and magic teacher for almost 40 years and has performed across the United States and overseas with his wife Cinde. They are the hosts of the nationally syndicated television show KARTOON CIRCUS where they perform magic for the live studio audience as well as the television viewers. Dal is a past president of the Society of American Magicians.
Devin Darnell has taught at St. John’s for the past four years where he also coaches flag football and basketball. Devin has previously coached college basketball, high school football and basketball, and middle school football, basketball, track and cross-country. Kellie Day is a first grade teacher at St. John’s. Ms. Day has a degree in English and a master’s degree in teaching from Austin College. She loves singing, reading books, watching movies, and playing soccer. Martin Delabano is an alumnus who teaches fifth through eighth grade art at St. John’s. He is a professional, exhibiting artist and also builds and plays ukuleles, mandolins and guitars. Danielle Dupuis is a 12-year teaching veteran from the Kessler School. She believes in integrating cooperative structures, literacy and Multiple Intelligences pedagogy into her lessons to ensure all students engage in and enjoy learning. Fast Forward Kids has been a leading provider of summer programs for children for more than 20 years. Higher-order thinking skills in the areas of math, science, reading and social development are implemented in fun and exciting ways. Rebecca Freyenberger is completing her second year as a St. John’s physical education teacher and advisor. She earned a teaching degree in Physical Education and School Health and has a Bachelor of Arts in Exercise Science and Athletic Training. She is excited to be sharing her love of the outdoors, games and physical activity. Katie Fuqua is a St. John’s alumna and is a second grade teacher at St. John’s. Katie has worked with Summer at St. John’s for the past nine years. Tracey Gonzales has assisted in pre-k for nine years at St. John’s. She loves watching children explore and learn new things. Carol Graham has worked at St. John’s for 34 years. She taught art in DISD for 8 years and 15 years at St. John’s. She is currently the Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Relations. She graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BFA in art education. Chris Gresbeck is a long-time Lakewood resident and preschool teacher. As a teacher and mother of four St. Thomas Aquinas graduates, she delights in teaching the children of East Dallas about the joys and wonders of the world around us. Thor Herrin, a St. John’s teacher for the past 12 years, is a St. John’s alumnus. He currently teaches fifth grade English and coaches middle school volleyball. Stacy Herring is a long-term substitute teacher for St. John’s. She is a treasured resource for St. John’s and is a parent of two St. John’s alumni children. Logan Herod is the pre-k and Kindergarten music teacher at St. John’s. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in sacred music at SMU and is a professional performance musician. Cindy Isbell has been teaching for 23 years and is currently in her 17th year at St. John’s. She teaches third grade and coaches middle school sports. Mrs. Isbell has led many excursion camps for Summer at St. John’s. Dr. Jayme Johnson is the head of lower school at St. John’s. She is passionate about creating engaging and interactive educational environments where children can harness their natural curiosity as they question, create, discover, and explore.
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CAMP INSTRUCTOR BIOS Tania Kader is an After School Program staff member and has been a member of the Summer at St. John’s staff for the past three years. Donna Knox has taught art and served as a pre-k aide at St. John’s for the past seven years. She is passionate about helping our local community and is excited to share her passion with middle school students. Polly Lisle teaches second grade at St. John’s. She loves her recent move to Texas and is excited to join the Summer at St. John’s teaching team. Lessett Lopez is a special education inclusion specialist in the Mesquite ISD and is a former camp instructor for the City of Mesquite Parks and Recreation Department. Lessett will complete her teaching certification this summer. Trish Lopez is an experienced educator with a B.S. in leadership and a Master’s of Public Affairs. She owns an educational company that works with students of all ages. Ms. Lopez loves to teach young children through hands-on learning and fun activities. Mad Scientists brings the joy of science to kids throughout the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. Creative, hands-on experiential learning allows children to experience STEM enrichment activities that will broaden their educational horizons. Morgan Martinez is the pre-k/kindergarten Spanish teacher at St. John’s. She has taught at St. John’s for seven years and enjoys participating in Summer at St. John’s. Laura May is a veteran teacher who joined St. John’s as a secondgrade teacher two years ago. She enjoys the relaxed, fun camps at Summer at St. John’s. Holly Maxwell is a St. John’s parent and a teaching assistant in Kindergarten at St. John’s. Prior to parenthood, Holly taught Kindergarten in DISD. Megan Nasser is the lower school music teacher at St. John’s. Megan loves to share her passion for Sewing Arts and gardening with the children of Dallas. Julie Neubach is a kindergarten teaching assistant at St. John’s. Julie was a pediatric dentist for many years before joining St. John’s kindergarten team. NuMinds Enrichment believes that learning should be fueled by student passion and driven by an intrinsic curiosity. We know that individual learners develop asynchronously, and therefore require a personalized approach for best learning. Mary Odom teaches middle school English at St. John’s. When not teaching and reading, Mrs. Odom loves to cook, and especially bake, for family and friends. Oontz Kids was founded by professional DJs who are also DFW dads. OontzKids DJ Academy enters their 4th summer of teaching kids and teens how to DJ, produce and perform music. All campers use their own workstations and professional equipment, providing a unique hands-on experience like no other as they learn the fundamentals of DJ music production. Every OontzKids workshop helps students to uncover and feed new passions and leaves students fulfilled, excited and curious to learn more. Jennifer Powers is the librarian at St. John’s. She loves to explore new places for children to have adventures and lots of fun.
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Katy Samford is a third-grade teacher at St. John’s. Before Katy Samford became a teacher, she spent 17 years studying ballet and other genres of dance. Sew Fun Studios makes the art of sewing relevant and exciting to modern kids. Kids leave camp with a new life skill, one-of-a-kind projects, and a sense of pride through creating something fun and useful with their own hands! Sportkinetics is a sports and physical education organization providing camps for children ages 3-13. All Sportskinetics programs are designed to inspire children to participate in health and fitness related activities in a non-competitive environment. Bethany Staub is a fourth grade teacher at Texas School for the Arts in Ft. Worth. She loves to bring creativity and personal choice to the curriculum and delights in helping children to become passionate, motivated learners. Studio Bella is a STEAM-based studio that focuses on problemsolving, higher-level thinking and creativity. Tammy Bardwell, an award-winning designer with a degree in education and a master’s degree in design, founded Studio Bella 11 years ago. Micah Sudbury has a degree in education and has taught school for eight years. In 2010, Micah started the education company, Keyboard Kids. It is Micah’s passion to help young children grow in positive ways. Eric Telzrow is the 4th grade language arts teacher at St. John’s in his 13th year of teaching. He enjoys playing volleyball, board games, the outdoors and music. He is excited to return to the Summer at St. John’s teaching staff. Tippi Toes is a dance company for boys and girls ages 1 ½ - 10 years that promotes self-confidence and healthy habits. Tippi Toes focuses on the basics of dance technique, music, movement and balance. The music in our classes is fun, kid-friendly popular music along with Tippi Toes Dance Company® original music. Father John Thorpe is a father, chef, musician and chaplain for the children at St. John’s School. He is excited to share his love of cooking and eating food, playing music and all things Star Wars! Jacques Vroom has spent more than 45 years as a visual/creative professional, working with The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neiman Marcus, Horchow, Williams Sonoma, and WGBH television. He is also the photography and yearbook teacher at St. John’s school. John Walker, who serves as dean of students and athletic director at St. John’s, co-leads several destination camps with Mrs. Isbell. He has been teaching and working at St. John’s for 25 years. Young Rembrandts teaches basic to advanced drawing skills, art techniques and vocabulary. Experienced art instructors use a systematic method that ensures every student is a creative success. Monica Zapletal teaches preschool at Ridgewood United Methodist Church school and served as the before camp care coordinator at Summer at St. John’s for the past three years. She is excited to share her love for creative expression in her first camp offering. 8Bit Education offers brings technology to life through fun, engaging camps that teach kids creative problem solving, collaboration and logic skills while having fun creating games and solving problems, both real and fantastical.
Pre-k thru 8th GRADE
JUNE 3rd thru
JULY 26th
Say Hello to Summer at St. John’s and discover a world of wonder and fun! Enrollment is open to all children four years old by September 1, 2019 to eighth grade.
BEFORE CARE: 7:30am-9am AFTER CARE: 4pm-6pm
MORNINGS: 9am-12pm AFTERNOONS: 1pm-4pm FULL DAYS: 9am-4pm
REGISTER ONLINE: StJohnsSchool.org/Summer