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The Dragon Room Summer Program is a series of camps for young children sponsored by the Phinney Neighborhood Preschool Co-op (PNPC) and held in the PNPC's enchanted Dragon Room at the Phinney Neighborhood Center.
Open to PNPC families and community members alike, the Dragon Room Summer Program offers rich and diverse classes for preschoolers and elementary aged children.
The classes are drop-off so do not require parental involvement, but you are always welcome to stay for all or part of the class to explore along with your child.
Founded in 1981, the PNPC is a cooperative preschool dedicated to creating a supportive community of families and encouraging the individual social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of children through creative play.
Camps this year vary in time and number of days per week, ranging from one to five days.
Registration is open to all! To register, please visit our Eventbrite page: 2012 PNPC Camp Registration.
Campers will need to bring the following forms to
class:
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MINI-CAMPS
FOR MINI-PEOPLE! with Laura Genoves
June 18-22 (1 day camps), 9:30-11:30, Ages 2.5-5,
$25/day (or $115/week)
July 30-Aug 3 (1 day camps), 9:30-11:30, Ages 2.5-5,
$25/day (or $115/week)
Join long term Phinney resident and PNPC supporter,
Laura, and her two dynamic sons for a variety of morning
fun. Camps run daily. Camp themes for the June week are:
Monday ~ Dinosaur Day 1, Tuesday ~ Dino Day 2 (because
one day of dinos is not enough!), Wednesday ~
Transportation focus on things with wheels, Thursday ~
Trains, trains and more trains!, Friday ~ Down on the
Farm. Themes for the July week are: Monday ~ Down on the
Farm OR Pets (dogs, cats, etc), Tuesday ~ Dinosaur Day
1,Wednesday ~ Dino Day 2 (because one day of dinos is
not enough!), Thursday ~ Focus on things with wheels,
Friday ~ Trains, trains and more trains!
BIRDS, BUGS
AND BUTTERFLIES with Allison Eva and
Jan Harvey-Smith
June 18-20, (3 days), 12:30-2:30, Ages 3-5, $65
Let’s welcome the beginning of summer by exploring the
worlds of birds, bugs, and butterflies. We’ll feature
art, games, and songs about these tiny creatures and go
on outdoor adventures to find them “in the wild”. On the
last day, we’ll plant a mini bug- and-butterfly friendly
garden to take home! Potty trained campers, please.
Teacher Jan is the Lead Scenic Artist for the Pacific
Northwest Ballet and an art teacher at Whittier
Elementary School. Teacher Allison is a former site
director for a Camp Fire Boys and Girls day camp. They
are both Whittier Elementary School moms.
SPACE CAMP with
Francie
Ringold
June 25-26 (2 days), 9:30-12, Ages 3-5, $50
June 27-29 (3 days), 9:30- 12, Ages 3-5, $75
June 25-29 (5 days), 1:00-4, Ages 4-5, $150
Space Camp is back by popular demand! Come explore and
learn about space and the planets through art, music and
movement. Help build a rocket ship and head to the solar
system with Francie Ringold PNPC’s Head Teacher and 3’s
teacher. Stories and activities will help you learn
about space while having fun.
THE
DRAGON, THE WIZARD, THE FARMER, AND THE RABBIT: A
creative drama adventure with Meredith Berlin
July 2-3 (2 day), 9:00 -12:30, Ages 3.5-6, $63
Join us as we become characters in our own adventure
story. We’ll make friends with a dragon, and help the
Queen of the Castle deal with some mischievous fairies.
Along the way we’ll play, dance, make music, wear
costumes and exercise our imaginations. Instructor
Meredith Berlin has been teaching creative drama at the
Seattle Children’s Theatre and in Seattle area schools
for over fifteen years.
MAMA
GORDITO'S SPANISH FIESTA with Martha Escobar de
Breslauer
July 2-6 (4 days), 1:30-4:30, Ages 4-7, $120
Immerse your child in Spanish this summer, while he or
she creates a fiesta! Through song, dance, crafts and
words your child will learn and practice many useful
Spanish phrases while enjoying the arts of Latin
American culture. Taught by an experienced teacher and
native Spanish speaker, Martha Escobar de Breslauer.
Each student will work with other students to create a
fiesta on the last day of class, which their parents
will be invited to enjoy!
CREATIVE
SCIENCE FOR KIDS with Lisa Storch Goldberg
Creative Science:
July 9-12 (4 days), 9:30-12:30, Ages 3-5, $150
Amazing Human Body:
Aug 20-23 (4 days), 1:30-4:30, Ages 3-5, $150
Kids love science and they are naturally inquisitive.
Lisa will guide your curious and creative kids through
an exploration of real science topics using experiments,
books, art, music and movement activities.
Join us as we explore Creative Science. We’ll
learn about different science concepts such as how
rainbows are made (refraction/reflection), what happens
when solids turn to liquid (melting point), what makes a
volcano explode or muffins rise (gas formation) and much
more!
Join us for more fun learning about the Amazing
Human Body from the outside in. We’ll explore how
the body processes external information (5 senses), what
holds the body up and together (skeleton and muscles),
important organs that transport nutrients into the body
(lungs and digestive tract), and the delivery system
(blood and heart) – includes mini dissections!
Lisa has a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry and is a PNPC
Parent. Please bring a snack and water bottle.
Child(ren) must be potty trained.
TOTALLY FUN YOGA
with Wendy
Cunningham
July 9-13 (5 days), 1:30-3:30, Ages 3+, $105
This yoga class incorporates poses and movement while
traveling on imaginative journeys by utilizing themes,
music, stories, art, games, and relaxation. We will
focus on fun, play, and movement while introducing forms
of yoga. Definitely not your average yoga class! The
instructor, Wendy Cunningham has her BS in exercise
science and currently holds her 200 Hour Yoga Alliance
certification and children's yoga certifications from
Radiant Child Yoga Program (RCYP1 & 2) and Mini
Yogis in Los Angeles. She is the owner and director of
Bizzy Bodies Yoga and is also a Washington state
certified PE and Health teacher.
KIDS IN THE
KITCHEN with Jeanne McGrady
July 16-20 (5 days), 10-1:00, Ages 4-6, $175
Kids love to be in the kitchen! Feeling the
food...creating yummy things to eat...just being a part
of the process. Let Jeanne McGrady help your little ones
explore their way through the kitchen. We will be
cooking breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and snacks (so
clearly no snacks from home are needed - we'll be eating
our own creations! Just bring your own water bottle).
Skills will also be learned while we cook: kitchen
safety, cracking and whisking eggs, slicing, stirring,
flipping, kneading, baking and of course EATING! We will
also be spending time just playing in the magical Dragon
Room! Come and join the Kids in the Kitchen! All campers
must be potty trained.
PLEASE NOTE: due to so many food allergies that
are "out there" (I even have my own!) - Kids in the
Kitchen summer camp will NOT be a food allergy
free camp (materials and planning are completed prior to
registration so I will have no way of knowing potential
allergies). I am happy to have kids with allergies in my
camp if they know what they can and cannot eat (and I am
aware of the allergy) and if handling foods that contain
something they cannot eat is okay.
HANDS ON
ARTS & CRAFTS with Samantha Spencer
July 23-27 (5 days), 9:30-11:30 or 12:00-2:00, Ages
3+, $125
August 13-17 (5 days), 9:30-11:30 or 12-2, Ages 3+,
$125
Creative arts and crafts fun and sensory exploration! If
your kid likes to get messy and explore and experiment
with art, then this camp is for you! Glue and glitter,
foam and paint–they will have projects to bring home and
experiences to remember. We will be inside and out,
working large scale and small–taking detailed care and
being explosively impressionistic. If you've ever
dropped your child off at Play Group at the Phinney
Center, or Dragon Room Date Night, you know how much fun
your child has had with Sam Spencer. Sam is a parent,
artist and coordinator of ‘Date Night in the Dragon
Room’ and Playgroup--She has been running this art camp
for the last several years much to the enjoyment of the
kids!
ANIMAL ART
SAFARI with Allison Eva and
Jan Harvey-Smith
July 30-Aug. 3 (5 DAYS), 1:00-3:30, Ages 4-7, $125
Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Grab your
binoculars and pith helmets and get ready for a wild art
safari. Each day we will choose a different animal and
learn about them and their habitat, through art, crafts,
games and stories. We may even have a special furry
visitor or two. At the end of the week we’ll celebrate
with a teddy bear picnic! Please bring a water bottle
and snack. All adventurers must me potty trained.
Teacher Jan is the Lead Scenic Artist for the Pacific
Northwest Ballet and an art teacher at Whittier
Elementary School. Teacher Allison is a former site
director for a Camp Fire Boys and Girls day camp. They
are both Whittier Elementary School moms.
FUN UNDER THE
SEA with Linda Joss
August 6-10 (5 days), 9:30-12, Ages 3-5, $110
We are going Under the Sea! Come play with Teacher Linda
(2's class teacher) and her twin 12 year old daughters,
Annie and Kaley. We will create sea life art projects,
get silly with ocean movement songs and dances, read
stories about the sea, and play in the water outside! We
will make themed snacks daily too. You won't want to
miss this camp ;).
FAIRY ART CAMP with
Allison Eva and
Jan Harvey-Smith
August 6-10 (5 days), 1:00-3:30, Ages 4-7, $125
Calling all fairies, pixies, elves (and even an ogre or
two)! Come have a magical week at fairy art camp. We
will create flowery crowns, magical wands and delightful
wings. There will be fairy stories, games and songs and
we'll construct fairy houses for the fairies of Phinney
to live in. On our last day we will celebrate all of our
fun with a fairy tea party! Please bring a water bottle
and snack. All fairies must be potty trained.
Teacher Jan is the Lead Scenic Artist for the Pacific
Northwest Ballet and an art teacher at Whittier
Elementary School. Teacher Allison is a former site
director for a Camp Fire Boys and Girls day camp. They
are both Whittier Elementary School moms.
Enchanted
Garden Drama Camp with Mim Turnbull
August 20-24 (5 day), 9:30-12:30, Ages 3+, $150
(minimum 8, maximum 12)
The fairies have been stolen away by Garrett, the Greedy
Goblin! It is up to us to bring them back so the flowers
will bloom again. Along the way, we will meet magical
characters of all shapes and sizes, travel to mysterious
lands and use our creative powers to overcome obstacles!
Layered with song, verse, art, and treasure hunts, this
rollicking adventure awaits your child!
Mim is a classroom, drama, and movement teacher for
preschool through 6th grade. She is thrilled to be a
part of the Phinney Ridge Summer Program!