Course Description: Students will review grade-level foundational math skills while also deepening their number sense through number logic puzzles, riddles, strategy games and a maker space project. Each day students will have opportunities to collaborate with their peers, stretch their thinking, and build their mathematical language!

Teacher: Nadia Pardesi, Lower School Math Specialist
Time: 9:00-11:00 am
Cost: $395.00

Course Description: Embark on a thrilling journey into the realm of Mathematics with Math Quest: 5th Grade Explorers! This class promises an exciting exploration of mathematical concepts, providing students with an enjoyable experience that reinforces their previous learning and enriches their foundational understanding of mathematics. This carefully designed course aims to make learning not only educational but also engaging through a diverse range of activities, including games, hands-on manipulatives, and captivating reviews. The core emphasis will be on multiplication, division, fractions, and problem-solving, all geared towards refreshing students' grasp of key mathematical concepts. Students will engage in an adventure where math becomes an exciting quest for knowledge!

Course Description: Embark on a thrilling journey into the realm of Mathematics with Math Quest: 6th Grade Explorers! This class promises an exciting exploration of mathematical concepts, providing students with an enjoyable experience that reinforces their previous learning and enriches their foundational understanding of mathematics. This carefully designed course aims to make learning not only educational but also engaging through a diverse range of activities, including games, hands-on manipulatives, and captivating reviews. The core emphasis will be on fractions, decimals, and problem-solving, all geared towards refreshing students' grasp of key mathematical concepts. Students will engage in an adventure where math becomes an exciting quest for knowledge! 

Teacher: Ms. Kyle Nelson, Middle School Math Specialist
Time: 1:00-4:00 pm
Cost: $525.00

Course Description: During the school year, fourth graders will use Math in Focus (MIF), a program based on Singapore Math model. The program focuses on an in-depth understanding of mathematical concepts and problem solving, which. may be unfamiliar to your student if they have not had previous exposure to Singapore Math or Math in Focus. This class aims at introducing basic problem-solving strategies that will help with the adjustment ot the curriculum next school year.

Course Description: The Skills for Effective Writing class is designed for rising seventh graders, who want to build their writing skills in preparation for the coming school year. Through a combination of activities, mini-lessons, modeled examples, and sustained writing practice, students will work towards a stronger command of sentence structure and grammar, with additional emphasis on clarity of expression and organization of ideas. Students will receive individualized attention and feedback on their writing, and each student will be provided a writing reference guide and computer to use during the summer session. Students will also learn best practices for using Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Classroom, and a Chromebook to complete writing assignments.

Teachers: Jennifer Ashley, Grades 6-8 Academic Technologist and Teacher
Time: 900 -11:00 am
Cost: $395.00

Course Description: This class is designed for rising eighth graders who want to strengthen their writing skills in preparation for the coming school year. Through a combination of activities, mini-lessons, modeled examples, and sustained writing practice, students will fine tune the traits of writing, specifically organization and word choice. Students will receive individualized attention and feedback on their essay writing, and each student will be provided a writing reference guide and Chromebook to use during the summer session. Students will also learn best practices for using Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Classroom, other apps, and a Chromebook to complete writing assignments and properly cite sources.

Teachers: Jennifer Ashley, Grades 6-8 Academic Technologist and Teacher
Time: 11:30 am-1:30 pm
Cost: $395.00

Course Description: Through collaboration and interesting problems, Gearing Up for Math prepares students for the type of problem-solving they will see in the coming school year, while reviewing and reinforcing important concepts and mathematical skills. This class is perfect for students who are new to Potomac as well as students who would benefit from a refresher before the school year begins. Number theory, integers, fractions, decimals, proportions, and solving simple equations are all the different topics covered in this class.

Course Description: Through collaboration and interesting problems, Gearing Up for Math prepares students for the type of problem-solving they will see in the coming school year, while reviewing and reinforcing important concepts and mathematical skills. This class is perfect for students who are new to Potomac as well as students who would benefit from a refresher before the school year begins. Number theory, integers, fractions, decimals, proportions, and solving simple equations are all the different topics covered in this class.

Course Description: This class is designed to introduce and refamiliarize students with active reading strategies and equip them to understand and enjoy reading a range of text types. Students will practice identifying and commenting on a writer’s purposes and viewpoints, explaining and commenting on a writer’s language choices (such as the literary features writers employ), inferring meaning “between the lines,” and using information and quotations from a text to support ideas about it. Activities will include reading prose and poetry aloud to improve fluency, understanding, and expression, and exploring a library’s holdings for students to find their own books to read. Students will engage in discussions (and other speaking and listening exercises) with each other and their teacher, and they will write about the themes, the characters, and the worlds that authors envision for their stories to inhabit.

Course Description: This week-long course will lay the foundation for a strong start to the upper school experience. Topics covered include strategies for notetaking, reading, studying, and test-taking; metacognition and the art of "self-coaching"; getting physically and digitally "set up for success"; and aspects of psychology related to attention, memory, and learning. 

Teachers: Alex Helwink, Director of Learning Support (Grades 7-12)
Time: 11:30 am-1:30 pm
Cost: $395.00

Course Description: This skills-intensive course is designed for 9th graders who would like to work on their writing skills. We will focus on the basic processes involved in writing effective critical paragraphs: reading for meaning, formulating ideas through the brainstorming process, composing clear and structurally sound sentences, crafting strong assertions, supporting ideas with evidence and analysis, and editing for accuracy. Students should expect to write daily and to receive daily feedback on their writing. This class does have homework each night.