WJFPR Camp&Education Guide 042623

Education,

If you have children, then you know planning for summer can be a challenge: Choosing a variety of activities. Planning around vacations and friends. Committing to weekly sessions 6 months in advance. But with Steve & Kate’s Camp coming to Oak Park, your entire summer could be solved!

Choice For Kids

Steve & Kate’s Camp, which has been a San Francisco Bay Area staple since 1980, is opening in Oak Park this summer! Steve & Kate’s Camp was founded on the belief that trusting a child helps them build their self-confidence and helps teach them to trust their own judgment.

Oak Park Campers will design their day in real-time by choosing from a variety of activities including, sewing, stop-motion animation, music, performing arts, makers crafts, bread making, coding, sports &

recreation, and more. The children will decide what they want to do and for how long.

Flexibility for Parents

Steve & Kate’s Camp operates a flexible day-pass system where families can sign up for one day here, 22 there, or pay a flat fee, which covers the entire summer. Either way, families can use their passes any day this summer–without advanced notice! If your plans change, they’ll even refund your unused passes automatically at the end of the season.

And just like everything else at Steve & Kate’s, kids will get to choose their lunch entree daily. Most of their meals come from local vendors and are prepared just moments before lunch. They throw in snacks and the occasional frozen treat to boot!

Lunch, snacks, and all hours (8am–6pm) are included.

Unplug your kids and let them get dirty at Terra Incognito!

Terra Incognito offers fun and educational wheel throwing camps for ages 8 and up. Summer clay camps provide young artists the outlet for exercising both critical and creative thinking through clay. If you want to nurture your child’s creativity, this is the place to be!

Students learn the skills to make functional pots and decorative clay art both on the wheel and by hand. They will then learn how to decorate their creations using underglazes and glaze. The projects they complete will be food safe, made from non-toxic materials which are all supplied. In addition, students will

be shown the firing process, leading to a full understanding of the entire operation. With our low teacher-tostudent ratio, every camper will get

the attention they need.

Morning sessions are from 9:00 am until noon for preteens (8-12 years old) and afternoon sessions are from 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm for teens (13 years old and up). Each session is 2 weeks long, Monday through Thursday, starting on Monday, June 12th. The cost per 2-week session is $330.

Terra Incognito is located at 246 Chicago Ave in Oak Park. It has held Potter’s Wheel camps for over 30 years. Several of our former students are now well-known artists and teachers. We are thrilled to

Summer Potter’s Wheel Camps

Fun and intensive Wheel Throwing Camps for Preteens (8-12 yrs.) and Teens (13+yrs). Sessions run June 16 - August 17

help cultivate the next generation of artists from Oak Park.

TerraIncognitoStudio.com

Summer Cooking Camps at Schoolhouse Kitchen are so fun!

Schoolhouse is celebrating its 6th year of Cooking Camps this Summer.

• HOMESTEADING CAMP - AGES 5-11

Kids will love baking and cooking in our beautiful kitchen studio each day. Learning new recipes, crafting, playing games and making friends is the perfect way to relax and learn.

Young chefs are so happy to bring home what they made to share with you and you’ll enjoy trying our kid approved recipes at home with them, too.

½ day camps - M-F - AM or PM

Frick Kids Art

Frick Kids Art

Frick Kids Art

Kids Love Art!

Kids Love Art!

Kids Love Art!

Kids Love Art!

Nurture your kid's natural creativity with fun, hands on creative art classes. Check out our after school classes and summer programs.

• T/WEEN COOKING CAMP - AGES 11-15

T/weens are challenged by our well designed projects that teach practical cooking and baking techniques. They build on skills all week long as they explore a variety of fun and creative recipes. Chefs bring home what they made each day to share with you and we send home all recipes at the end of the week.

4-6PM - M-F

Camps are available at our three locations!

River Forest, Portage Park and Wicker Park

349 Ashland Ave. River Forest

Learn more @ www.iloveschoolhouse.com

Frick Kids Art

Free Trial Class for new students!

for new students!

The Love of Learning through Art & Play

Nurture your kid's natural creativity with fun, hands on creative art classes. Check out our after school classes and summer programs.

Nurture your kid's natural creativity with fun, hands on creative art classes. Check out our after school classes and summer programs.

Nurture your kid's natural creativity with fun, hands on creative art classes. Check out our after school classes and summer programs.

Group, semi private, events and parties available at your home or at our studio in Oak Park, Illinois For children and adults!

Group, semi private, events and parties available at your home or at our studio in Oak Park, Illinois

Group, semi private, events and parties available at your home or at our studio in Oak Park, Illinois

Group, semi private, events and parties available at your home or at our studio in Oak Park, Illinois

frickkidsart.com

frickkidsart.com

frickkidsart.com

frickkidsart.com

725 Woodbine Oak Park

725 Woodbine Oak Park

725 Woodbine Oak Park

725 Woodbine Oak Park

630-215-9789

630-215-9789

630-215-9789

630-215-9789

Teaching art has been Phyllis Frick’s passion her entire life. She began as a camp counselor and instructor at YMCA camps and after school programs as far back as high school. She then became a girl scout leader in college and a cub scout den mother when her two boys became old enough. She went to school to become a pharmacist because that was the preferred way to have a career back in the 70’s when women could have a profession. But her heart wasn’t in it. She always wanted to be more creative.

After twenty years of counting pills, she decided to switch directions and get a master of arts in teaching. She taught middle school science for fifteen years in Oak Park and was always sneaking art into her classes

to make it more hands on and interesting for her students. When she and her husband, along with their two young boys bought their home in Oak Park, the first thing she did was gather her boys and the neighbor children together and give them paint and brushes and let them go to town on the playroom walls. A wonderful mural resulted that stayed there until the boys left for college. Now her lifelong dream of having her own childrens art center has come to fruition. Frick Kids Art will focus on fine arts for kids and teach them the love of learning through art and play.

Learn more about our Art Classes at FrickKidsArt.com and 630-215-9789.

Mathnasium Transforms

Lives Every Day.

Students get the tools to fulfill their potential

We see it all the time. Kids come into Mathnasium who are struggling with math, and after a short time, they actually begin to love it. Or, we see kids who are advanced in math but not being challenged, and we’re able to propel them ahead. Because the Mathnasium Method™ focuses as much on the emotional aspects of learning as it does on the technical aspects. It’s why families around the world rave about the changes they’ve seen in their children’s scores and confidence.

LMS/International Mansion: every child has a gift to be shared

Our school can be best described as a ‘Homeschool in School’ style program. We have a full dynamic Spanish Immersion curriculum and are listed by MENSA as a recommended program for gifted students.

We are a small school with only 30 students total between Preschool and 8th grade.

What sets us apart?

- Fluency in Spanish Achieved within one year during Preschool years, or within two years during Elementary School years. The Spanish language is spoken

Current subjects, but not limited to, are:

• Penmanship

• Reading/writing

• Math

• Science

• Geography/history

• Logic/coding

• Theater (improv, superhero stage combat, musical theatre)

• Martial arts

throughout as the target immersion language. Academic classes are all taught in English and/or Spanish and English. If weather permits, many of our academic classes are done outdoors.

- Student to teacher ratio: some classes are one on one, two to one, with a maximum of six students to one instructor.

- Daily schedule is customized and flexible.

- Professional and passionate instructors.

- Guest tutors with real life experience.

- No test to enter, no traditional testing.

- Students paired by interest, in mixed age setting.

- Weekly reports sent to parents.

• Art (including painting, clay art, comic book art and more)

• Music (Rock band, intro to most instrument, harmony, chorus)

• Social emotional discussions/Life skills

• Spanish immersion spoken through out the day and taught in lesson format. Russian immersion taught in lesson format.

• Intro to Foreign languages (Hebrew, Italian, chinese, japanese, korean, etc.)

• Physical education: Archery/Ice Skating/ Soccer, and more.

• Chess and board games.

• Architectural design