Summer Camps and Programs
Help Your Child "Maintain and Gain" This Summer
Grades K-2:
Puppet Play Every Day
Dates: June 21 - 25Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $189.00
Kids will be provided with opportunities for self-expression, decision-making, and collaboration as they select, make and use broom puppets, mouth puppets, and rod puppets to explore literary concepts. Reinforcing story plotline, public speaking skills, and comprehension skills, students will read narrative and expository material and select passages from an area of interest to form a puppet script of their own.
Grades 3-5:
Acting with Sentences: From Mannequin to Motion
Dates: July 12 - 16Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $189.00
Freeze! Is it tag? No! It's acting to learn and learning to act. In this workshop, young actors will be guided by the words in the sentences they hear and later, write, as they try on new roles and explore experiences different from their own. Moving from one active, but frozen, mannequin position to another, stories will be revealed physically alongside the sentences shared by narrators. Participants will learn several fun techniques of performing arts as they work on their own verbal and written communication skills.
Grades 6-8:
Improving through Improv
Dates: August 2 - 6Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $189.00
"What are you doing?" is a phrase often heard around middle school students, at least in this workshop! Beginning with exercises such as "What Are You Doing?" in which two participants have to think on their feet to brainstorm new activities for each other to do while continuing their own physical task, students will have many opportunities for critical thinking, becoming attuned to their partner/group members' verbal and non-verbal cues, and practicing quick decision-making. They will draw upon their 5 senses to recall personal background experiences and tie them into the creation of characters they are portraying. Students will research and write a script outline around which an improvised scene will be created, rehearsed and formulated into a full script.
Minimum of 7 students; maximum of 15 students per session.
Taught by Tanya Chartier
B.A. English Literature, Education minor
M.A. Reading Specialist
Performing Artist of 20 years.
E-mail: tchartier@davidsoncenter.com
Call or e-mail to enroll your child
Call: 704-892-4533
2010 Summer Group Schedule
Summer College Planning Group
Open to rising juniors and seniors- Up to eight students per group
- Eight 1.5 hour evening sessions over two weeks (12 hours)
- Sessions include parent orientation, career testing, personality inventory, study skills assessment, college research instruction, college list recommendations, high school curriculum advising, extracurricular activities advising, scholarship search assistance, application essay guidance, and family financial aid/scholarship seminar
- Scoring, researching, and developing college list
- One follow-up session included
Dates: August 9-19
Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
Fee: $695
$100 deposit required to hold spot.
Balance of $595 due on first day of class.
$50 discount available to SAT/ACT prep students.
Application Essay Workshop (up to 5 hours)
Open to high school seniors- Two 1.5 hour group sessions (up to 10 students per group)
- One individual follow-up session (1 hour)
- Additional editing, as needed (up to 1 hour)
Dates: August 2 & 3 or September 20 & 23
Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
Fee: $250
1 payment of $250 or 2 monthly payments of $125
Call or e-mail to enroll your child
Call: 704-892-4533
