Airplane Engineers: Hobby Quest
Adina Heavenrich
6/28-7/2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades K-5
8 - 17 campers
$235
Soar through the summer with your own hand-made aircrafts! Your Hobby Quest flight captain will teach you how to build helicopters, gliders and even motorized planes. By the end of the week you’ll know all about how planes fly and what each part of the airplane is for. You’ll even take your planes outside and see them fly! Children learn fundamental STEM concepts of aviation and valuable skills like following step-by-step instructions, measuring and sanding. Program fee includes all materials, and children take home every plane they build.
Jewelry Camp
Lila Sullivan
6/28-7/2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 1-4
$235
Let’s make jewelry! We are excited for a week of jewelry making and fun. From beading to friendship bracelets, to shrinky dink pendants, it is going to be a week full of fun and arts & crafts. Students can come with any type of jewelry in mind they want to create or we can come up with ideas all together. The options are endless. There is so much jewelry to make for any student. They can enjoy their jewelry themselves or use them as gifts. No experience is necessary.
Lila Sullivan, TCS ‘18 is a junior at Daniel Hand High School where she plays on the varsity soccer and golf teams.
Running
Beth Coyne & John Fixx
6/28-7/2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 4-8
$235Spend five days at the start of summer (and, if desired, then two days a week throughout the summer) learning about and practicing the greatest and oldest sport in the world—cross-country and distance running. Featuring elite coaches, individualized instruction and scenic runs that often end with a swim, you’ll walk away—no, you’ll run away!—with an unforgettable experience and fine-tuned skills, hungry for the fall season to start. Our hands-on approach and expertise make this camp unique, whether you are a good runner trying to become great or a novice runner just learning the sport. Our coaches possess deep skills, both in the sport of running and as educators working with children. Your child will leave our camp at the end of the week or end of the summer a better athlete and a more confident student. We teach the campers about running, discipline, and motivation.
John Fixx is Head of School at The Country School. Beth Coyne is the Assistant Head of School. Both are avid runners and coaches of The Country School's Cross Country Team.
Cool-ology
Claudia Esposito
6/28-7/2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 1-4
10 campers max
$235
Spark your creativity, invigorate your problem solving skills, and have a blast with Cool-ology® at the Country School! Cool-ology® offers hands-on, inquiry-based STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) activities that get children really excited about science, engineering, and the world around them. Participants will engage in empathetic problem-solving, creative design, and critical thinking skills to deepen their understanding of core science and engineering principles.
Cool-ology®’s TCS camp activities will be conducted safely outdoors (weather permitting). Campers will create amazing works of art using natural objects and chemistry. Participants will engineer a mini water park and investigate and build mini roller coasters. We’ll build rockets powered by a chemical reaction, and much more during this amazing week of
exploration and discovery!
Claudia Esposito is a STEAM teacher at The Country School.
The Arithmetic of Architecture!
Mathnasium
6/28-7/2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 4-6
12 campers max
$235
Have you ever seen an architectural blueprint and wondered how to read it? In this program, you’ll learn about scale factors, reading blueprints, and eventually how to create your own! The course will culminate in a design-your-own-structure showcase where the students will make their own blueprints to scale. Students will also work on Mathnasium Workout Book materials to develop their mental math, quantitative analysis, and proportional thinking.
Colonial Days
Kathy LeBlanc
6/28-7/2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 1-4
$235
Hear Ye Campers!
Join us at The Country School as we wind back the clock to the Colonial times for our Colonial Days at TCS! We'll take a walk back in time and learn how the children in the Colonial era learned, worked and how they played too! We'll explore how they helped their families in their day to day living, while utilizing the beautiful grounds of The Country School garden and surrounding woods where the children may spend time collecting natural items to create their own old fashioned games. Each day will be devoted to learning and playing different Colonial games - all while enjoying the outdoors and remaining safe and socially distant.
The Colonial Days Camp will be hosted by Kathy LeBlanc, an educator in the Madison Public Schools for over twenty years. Mrs. LeBlanc is a lover of history, especially Madison's, and will embed some local lore and anecdotes about this amazing time period throughout the week.
Coach Wallack's Farewell FinalsChris Wallack6/28-7/29 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 4-6
$235
There must be 12 participants for this camp to run.Each week Mr. Wallack will have the kids participate in his most beloved PE activities! If you have ever asked your child, “What was your favorite part of your school day?” The answer will most likely have been, “Gym class with Mr. Wallack!” The Country School is so lucky to have such a gifted PE teacher who possesses amazing energy and talent with students of all ages and abilities. Give your child one more opportunity with Mr. Wallack before he sails off into the sunset to enjoy his retirement. Choose one or multiple weeks, your child will always be engaged and will love all the different, fun activities that Mr. Wallack offers. Get a group of kids together and customize your camp the options are endless!
Chris Wallack is a veteran PE teacher and Athletic Director at The Country School.
Introduction to Russian
Kamilla Knova
6/28-7/9
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 1-6
This two-week camp and is priced at $470
This two-week program is designed to introduce participants to the Russian language. The program integrates language, art, math, and science and provides exposure to Russian culture.
Activities will include vocabulary games, reading and writing short and common words, naming the world around us, dialogues, and scavenger hunts. The overarching project calls for participants to create artwork that infuses Russian into visual art, i.e., craft, collage, and/or writing.
This program is designed by a native Russian-speaking teacher for beginners; groups can be randomly assigned or grouped by grade level (grades 1-3 and 4-6).
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robotics Camp
Stephanie and Wiley Johnson
6/28-7/2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades 4-7
$235
Minimum 4 participants, Maximum 12 participants.
In this week-long course, the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and Spike systems will be used to introduce campers to block programming and mechanical design. By building robots to complete exciting daily design challenges like navigating mazes, competing in fun games of tug-of-war or trying their (robotic) hand at ping-pong, campers will gain hands-on engineering and programming experience, while sharpening logical reasoning, pattern recognition, and modeling simulation skills. They will also learn how to integrate and combine motors, sensors, and gears, to build interactive robots.
Instructors: Stephanie Johnson, TCS Science/STEAM Teacher and Robotics Coach and Wiley Johnson, TCS Class of ‘18, Hopkins School Class of ‘22 Summer Owlets
6/28-July 2
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Grades PreS-K
$235
8 children max
Every day brings a new adventure for our littlest owls with this PS-K camp!
Monday - Mother Nature
Tuesday - Field Games
Wednesday - Wacky Science
Thursday - Water Works
Friday - Camp Out
Your little one will learn, create and grow in a rich environment full of collaboration, activities, discovery and the nurturing the wonder of childhood. A true Country School offering!