Hogarth Country Day School
Established 1980
| Hogarth School Summer 2010
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The
long summer vacation breaks the rhythm of instruction, leads to forgetting, and
requires a significant amount of review of material when students return to
school in the fall. Harris
Cooper (Click
here to read the entire article.)
Let
the friends, fun and learning continue this summer at Hogarth! I will be
offering a 6-week summer session specifically designed to avoid “summer
slide,” that phenomenon in which children lose hard-won skills acquired
during the academic year.
This
summer, the children will engage in structured play situations that will allow
them to maintain and sharpen the following skills:
·
listening abilities
·
following directions
·
alphabet (sight and sound letter
recognition)
·
number (sight recognition and
number concepts of 0 through 10, and 11 through 20, if appropriate)
·
shapes (sight recognition of
circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond and oval)
·
fine motor (handwriting, cutting
with scissors)
·
social (sharing, taking turns,
peer compromise, perspective-taking, emotional self-control and mind-reading,
which allows a child to decode another child’s intentions and anticipate
another’s child’s actions and reactions)
The
importance of developing good social skills during the preschool phase of a
child’s life cannot be overemphasized. Social skills are the key to successful
interactions throughout a person’s life, not just during childhood. A child
who cannot make a place for him or herself within the social structure of his or
her peer group is a child at risk of a miserable school experience. Children
learning to initiate and maintain social relationships need ongoing real-life
opportunities to practice and perfect those skills. The HCDS summer session will
allow a child to maintain and build upon those skills developed over the course
of the school year. (Click
here for an interesting article about preschool social development.)
Here
are the nuts and bolts details about the program:
·
Meets Monday and Tuesday mornings
from 8:30 until 11:30 in our air-conditioned classroom.
·
Session runs 6 weeks from June 14th
through July 20th.
·
Session open to 14 children who
attended HCDS from September 2008 through May 2010.
·
Cost for the entire session is
$300 and payment in full is due by Friday, June 11th. There is no
registration fee. Enrollment is for the entire 6 week session. There are no
refunds for days not attended.
Enrollment is done on a first-come, first-enrolled basis, and I will be filling the class list in the order enrollment requests are received, either by e-mail or over the phone. You can call me at home at 679-8409 with any questions you might have, or with your intention to enroll for the summer session.