CLASSROOM MATTERS
and Symba EdVentures Super Summer Camps!

Super Summer Camps! (ages 5 - 10)

Two experienced educational forces are combining this summer to bring your family high quality activities and adventures. We offer multicultural, enriching experiences for children to build and grow on. Super Summer is unique: families can design their own program based upon your interests and needs. Come for the morning, come for the afternoon or spend the whole day with us. Choose your weeks and come and play! No matter when you come, your child will be immersed in a stimulating environment! Designed to meet all learning styles, in addition to the activities within our indoor/outdoor facilities, Super Summer Campers will go on field trips to near by parks and other local haunts. See below for program information.

Schedule Pricing and Overview Registration Info Payment Info Instructor Bios Course Descriptions

Schedule

Seven Weeks of Quality Summer Programming for your 5-10 year old. Come Mornings, Afternoons or All Day

Week	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Dates	June 19-23	June 26 - 30	July 10 - 14	July 17 - 21	July 24 - 28	July 31 - 8/4	Aug 7 - 11
Morning Session (snack included) 8:30 am - 12:00 pm	CM Summer	CM Summer	CM Summer	CM Summer	CM Summer	CM Summer	CM Summer
Lunch (supervised, but please bring your own) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session (snack included) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Symba Ed. Jabberwalks	Symba Ed. Amazing Animals	Symba Ed. Wacky Inventions	Symba Ed. Culture Shakes	Symba Ed. Great Artists	Symba Ed. Storytelling	Symba Ed. Mind Joggers
Aftercare 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Pricing & Overview

Come for the Morning, Afternoon, or the Whole Day! Can't come for the whole week? Come for part of it! Come M/W/F or T/TH. Prices can be pro-rated. CMSummer Morning Half Day 8:30 am - 1:00 pm Symba EdVentures Afternoon Program Afternoon Half Day 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm CMSummer and Symba EdVentures Full Day 8:30 pm - 5:00 pm 1 week: $125 1 week: $150 1 week: $275 2 weeks: $225 ($25 discount) 2 weeks: $275 ($25 discount) 2 weeks: $500 ($50 discount) 3 weeks: $325 ($50 discount) 3 weeks: $400 ($50 discount) 3 weeks: $725 ($100 discount) Multiple week sign-ups need not be consecutive weeks Aftercare available from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm for $50/wk. Work-trade discounts available - call to find out more!
{All programming occurs at Classroom Matters Tutoring NEW Location: 2436 Sacramento St. in Berkeley}
CM Summer: Super Summer Enrichment MORNINGS	Symba EdVentures Super Summer Enrichment AFTERNOONS
Description Through activities like gardening, bookmaking, cooking and games, we will reinforce key academic (biology, chemistry, math and writing) concepts in a fun, playful, encouraging atmosphere. Every Friday, artist and educator Talia Wabnig will lead Fun Arts, involving mixed media and a combination of new techniques. Everyday, campers will have an opportunity for a field trip to nearby Acton Park where scavenger hunts, cooperative games and open play time will be available! Read a description of a morning class here. Instructor(s) My Hong, Talia Wabnig Ages 5-10 yrs Hours 8:30 am-1:00 pm (noon lunch) Activities Mondays: Gardening and Bugs Tuesdays: Make Your Own Book Wednesdays: Game Lab Thursdays: Cooking Fridays: Fun Arts with Talia Fees $125 per week Group Size 1:12 teacher student ratio	Description Symba EdVentures will keep your child totally engaged in dynamic, highly interactive mind-expanding educational activities which will include multicultural arts and crafts, challenging games, music, movement, drama and storytelling. Everyday, campers will have an opportunity for a field trip to nearby Acton Park where scavenger hunts, cooperative games and open play time will be available! Read a more in depth description here. Instructor(s) Suellen Primost Ages 5-10 yrs Hours 1:00 -5:00 pm (5:00 - 6:00 pm aftercare) Themes Session 1: Jabberwalks Session 2: Amazing Animals! Session 3: Wild and Wacky Inventions Session 4: Culture Shakes (World Arts) Session 5: Discovering Great Artists Session 6: Storytelling & Creative Dramatics Session 7: Mind Joggers and World Games Fees $150 per week Group Size 1:12 teacher student ratio

Registration and Contact Information

Please download and complete the SuperSummer registration form (PDF or MS Word). E-mail, mail or fax your registration form to us. See below for payment information.

Come for the Morning, Afternoon, or the Whole Day!
Can't come for the whole week? Come for part of it!
Come M/W/F or T/TH. Prices can be pro-rated.

Email: info@classroommatters.com

Phone: 510-540-8646

Fax: (510) 540-8647

Mail payments and forms to: 2607 7th St., Suite E, Berkeley, CA 94710

Payment Information

We gladly accept the following forms of payment:

Checks: please make checks payable to Classroom Matters

Cash: in person only, please

Master Card or Visa: please call or visit our center

PayPal: for your convenience, you can use PayPal right now, email us your form and you are all set!

All registrants will receive confirmations and receipts of payment

Instructors

Suellen Primost, director of Symba Center in Oakland and Kiddie Kampus in Alameda, is a seasoned storyteller, a respected multicultural arts and enrichment specialist, teacher trainer and literacy consultant. She has worked for over 30 years with schools, libraries, museums, colleges, early childhood centers and home-school groups throughout the US. While living in Santa Fe, NM, Suellen founded Symba Center for Multicultural Education and the Arts and was an artist-in-residence at The Santa Fe Children's Museum and the Museum of International Folk Art. After moving to the Bay Area, Suellen coordinated the Osun Festival of Oakland, a 3-day family event honoring African heritage and traditions.

My Hong has six years of educational-assistance experience working in various school districts all over California from Long Beach to Sacramento to Oakland and now Berkeley. She has years of experience working with all age groups from preschool children to adults. My enjoys working with students to find their own personal learning style and loves finding new, fun, and creative methods of learning. My is completing her final year at UC Berkeley. She is double majoring in Mass Communications and English Literature concentrating on pop culture and folklore.

Talia Wabnig is a graduate of UCSC with a BA in Fine Art, with an emphasis in painting and photography. Talia has worked in youth centers from Santa Cruz to Alaska using art as a medium of self expression and as a tool to explore childrens' worlds and the choices they make. Currently, Talia works at Little Dolphins by the Sea preschool, a school based on the philosophy of teaching children about world cultures through art, music and theater. Talia is an artist in her own right, a painter and builder of marionette puppets.

Course Descriptions

Sample Activities of Classroom Matters Summer Morning Camp: All activities are gauged for different age levels.

Mondays	Biology through Bugs and Gardening. Each session will incorporate a lesson relating to the activity as well as a lesson of cohabitation (bugs/birds/worms and more). Every participant will take something home every day! " Pocket Plants: These mini-biospheres are created with pebbles, seeds, tiny miniatures and more. " Grass People: Create a Chia pet of your own with a more artistic and natural flair! " Bean variations: Many sprouts, roots, shoots…all grow at different rates…see, feel and discover how. " Bug Inspections in our garden and park: Identification, classification and studying the habits and purpose of our wonderful bugs. Materials include: bug houses, magnifying glasses, ant farms and more.
Tuesdays	Literacy through creative activities. Reading, writing and performance. Each day participants will create something as well as get up and move their bodies! " Bag story time: This activity tests memory. Work on interpretation while create character puppets, which fit inside a paper-bag on which you have created the stories setting! " Story bag puppets: Choose a character from a story from our library, create that character on a paper bag and then interact with other characters from other books! " Senses chart: Remember facts about the story that relate to your senses: what do you hear, see, taste and more.
Wednesdays	Game Lab. Math through movement and more! We start with brainteasers and puzzles… " Freeze tag Math: Save yourself by finding the right match (as you wear numbers on your back) " Working with money: Counting, sorting, creative play with money. " Math terms with shapes: Learning terms through movement and shape play.
Thursdays	Chemistry through cooking. Each session has a lesson in nutrition, relationships in chemistry, safety guidelines and more. " Pretzels: An easy hands on food activity involving measuring and chemical reactions! Discover how liquids become solids in baking. " Fruit pops: Learn about freezing points as you make a nutritious snack just perfect for summer " Lasagna: Layers and layers. The stratigraphy of lasagna! Yum! (Vegetarian)

 

Symba EdVentures Afternoon Super Summer Enrichment Camps with Suellen Primost

Symba EdVentures Week 1 June 19-24 1:00 - 5:00 pm	Week One "Jabberwalks -What to Do When There's Nothing to Do" This summer discover a zillion exciting things to do just when you're thinking there's nothing to do. Turn moments of seeming "boredom" into moments of pure excitement. Come into a land of unlimited possibilities. Become a great storyteller, using whatever crazy stuff you can find lying around the house plus a splash of movement and creative dramatics. Create "Boring Boxes," thumbprint cartoons, shadow plays, puppets and flip books. Take a trip in a time-travel machine. Play cooperative games. Whip up goodies like tutti-fruiti kebobs and "Gummi Worm Goopies." Design obstacle courses, surreal photo montages, newspaper dolls, grocery bag safari gear, and learn to wow your friends with magic tricks and cool science experiments. After this camp, you will never again run out of ideas about how to entertain yourself and make that journey to the center of your imagination.
Symba EdVentures Week 2 June 26-30 1:00 - 5:00 pm	Week Two "Amazing Animals!" "Hungry as a horse." "Wise as an owl." "Sly as a fox." Isn't it interesting how often we refer to animals when we're really talking about humans? We'll examine the clever beaks of birds and make custom beaks for our bird boutique. We'll stir up some eggs-citement and create eggs-quisite quilts. We'll learn fantastic facts about the world's wildest critters, play animal charades, games like fast frozen critters, create wild animal prints, study curious creature habits - the ingenious ways animals have of camouflaging and protecting themselves, and make posters to raise awareness of the plight of our endangered species friends.
Symba EdVentures Week 3 July 10-14 1:00 - 5:00 pm	Week Three "Wild and Wacky Inventions" Be like cartoonist Rube Goldberg. Figure out ways to build the world's zaniest machines or find the wackiest ways to get from here to there. Design headgear to stop snoring, or parachute you out of a plane. Get Hungry Harry outfitted to do everything himself, Now here's a virtual one-man band. Isn't it about time someone invented a homework machine? Asound machine? In this camp, you will generate noodle-stretching ideas and let your imagination fly!
Symba EdVentures Week 4 July 17-21 1:00 - 5:00 pm	Week Four "Culture Shakes "(World Arts) "Culture Shakes" will expand your knowledge of other cultures, allow you to explore other traditions and sample a smorgasbord of engaging multicultural arts and crafts projects, movement, music, creative dramatics and storytelling. Projects will include: Guatemalan Ceremonial Hats, Balinese Guardian Angels, Japanese Toothpick Dolls, Origami, Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Painting, Aztec Masks, African Crowns and Nigerian Tie-Dye.
Symba EdVentures Week 5 July 24-28 1:00 - 5:00 pm	Week Five "Discovering Great Artists" Featured Artists: Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Juan Miro Marc Chagall Vincent Van Gogh Salvadore Dali Georgia O'Keeffe Explore the remarkable lives of 7 great artists. Discover the "signature" styles that made these artists so famous. Experiment with a wide array of arts techniques. Activities will include Picasso harlequin rod puppets, Klee underwater collages, Chagall Flying Fiddler dream pillows, Miro wire mobiles, Van Gogh "Starry Starry Night" glow books, Dali photomontages and O'Keeffe flowers.
Symba EdVentures Week 6 July 31- Aug 4 1:00 - 5:00 pm	Week Six "Storytelling & Creative Dramatics" Bring fascinating legends from many world cultures to life through storytelling, song, puppetry, poetry, creative dramatics, improvisation and movement. You will meet heroes and heroines, wily tricksters, gods and goddesses, wizards and wise men from Asia, South America, Africa, the Pacific Islands, the Northwest Coast, Australia, Europe, and Russia.
Symba EdVentures Week 7 Aug 7 - 11 1:00 - 5:00 pm	Week Seven "Mind Joggers & World Games" Games, games and more games! Take a trip around the world with Spillikins, Ampe, Peteca, Mora, Alquerque, Jan-Kem-Po, and Chemasit. Lose yourself in an Incan Maze. Pit your wits against Psycho, the automaton and the notorious Chicken Man from the Forest of No Return. Amuse your friends with fabulous feats and ridiculous riddles. Solve the Pyramid Puzzle of Ur. Explore secret codes. Learn to write in hieroglyphics and create an Egyptian Flip Book. Invent cool game boards and play with Chinese Tangrams. Joggle your cleverness out of the box for one fun-filled ride over the top!