Middle School Programs

Middle school is a rough time of life both academically and socially.  Students who were part of our program last summer built friendships that have lasted all year, and developed their learning skills which also have lasted all year! 

Many of our camps will be split into two separate weeks.  One camp will occur soon after school lets out to review what may have been missed, and one will meet shortly before school starts up again to prepare for the coming year! 

 

Last school year many students seemed to have difficulty with elapsed time and measurement conversions.  Our goal this week is to create elapsed time fiends and measurement monsters!  Watch out!

 


Girls and co-ed camp run by our own Jean Porter (the former guidance counselor from Northwood Middle!), and boys camp run by Philip Pruitt  - Designed to take some of the unknown and fear out of entering Middle School.


We all remember encountering at least one word problem that we swore had a typo because there was no WAY they really expected us to figure out what time Train A left the station, or how tall the flagpole next to Brent is if it's shadow is 75' long and Brent is 5'3"!  These camps are designed to help students develop strategies and skills to tackle seemingly impossible word problems and ratios.  It has carefully been designed to help students determine rates of change (which is very important for algebra work later) and to develop strategies for tackling tough problems

 

  • Write Right -  Open to anyone in Middle School
  • July 12-16
  • 9am-Noon

Lead by Philip Pruitt - Spend the week with Philip learning what Middle School teachers look for in written works, and learn how to better organize your thoughts onto paper.

 

 

  • Algebra 1 Prep
  • July 19-23
  • 9am - 1pm

Relatively self explanatory . . . but it is open to anyone who wants to be ready for Algebra 1.  We will be covering ALL things algebra that are suitable for students in middle and high school.

  • Geometry Prep
  • August 2-6
  • 9am - 1pm

Open to anyone.