Lyon Elementary School, 1335 Waukegan Road

9:20 - 12:00
Tuition (Morning Only): $365

9:20 - 3:00
Tuition (Full Day): $570

Click HERE for general program details.

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Course Descriptions:

Ocean Explorers: Sail the ocean blue! Visit islands around the globe, investigate tidal pools, scuba dive around coral reefs, and discover the briny deep through imaginative interdisciplinary activities. Grades PreK-K

Harry Potter-Ology: Enter a wizarding world. Be sorted into a house, create your own wand, formulate spells, and play quiddich. Try butter- beer and wizard candy, and participate in our End of Term Feast! Grades 3-8

Crystals, Lemonade, and Dancing Raisins: Mix and swish your way through amazing, sometimes delicious, always scientific, hands- on chemistry experiments. Grades 1-4

Sculpture Studio: Create, shape, mold, and model your ideas into 3-D masterpieces of such diverse media as clay, fabric, paint, paper, wood, and wire. Grades 1-8

Creative Writing: Could posters, magazines, paintings, films, and books inspire you to write stories and poetry? See your work published in our writing magazine. Submit your work to competitions; our students have won many prizes for excellence in writing stories and poems. Grades 1-8

Historic Games of Strategy and Diplomacy: Re-enact history through games of strategy. Expand empires through 4000 years of History of the World or fight World War II in Axis and Allies. Lay iron track and establish railroad networks in Eurorails, India Rails, and more! Grades 5-8

Lego Mindstorms Robotics II: Work with other advanced students to strategize solutions for challenging tasks as you employ creative problem solving to construct and program your robots. ($10 lab fee) Grades 5-8

Hands-On Geometry: Explore geometry with compass and straightedge. Construct geometric figures, create intricate designs, and develop geometric intuition. Grades 1-2

Theater Club: Experience the exhilarating world of live theater! Develop characters as you play theater games and rehearse skits, culminating in a performance for family and friends on the last day . Grades 1-8

Biological Explorations: Investigate the living world, from the microscopic to the environment, including such topics as cell biology, genetics, and animal behavior. Consider alternative energy sources, and build a solar cooker. Grades 3-8

Fabric Fusion Art Quilts: Explore a new art medium! Create art quilts using fusible inter- facing to glue a collage in place and, if you like, add details with embroidery. Discover the history of quilting and how this medium reflects changes in women's place in society. Grades 5-8

Lego WeDo Robotics: Build robots, such as an alligator, with Legos, motors, gears, and sensors. Program your robots using a computer. ($10 lab fee) Grades 1-4

Lego Mindstorms Robotics I: Create an auto- nomous robot using motors, gears, and sensors. Program it to complete tasks of increasing complexity, then observe the results. Do your commands direct your robot as you intended? ($10 lab fee) Grades 3-8

Math Mingles with the Arts: Learn how math, music, visual and kinesthetic arts are all inter- twined. Follow Fibonacci, Pythagoras, and other mathematicians to see how their ideas link to music theory, composition, and performance. Explore how artists like Escher, Mondrian, and Calder created visual arts based on mathe- matical theories. Create your own collaborations with math and the arts. Grades 3-8

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Additional Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder Locations for Summer 2013:

Burr Ridge | Chicago - Lakeview East | Chicago - Lakeview West | Chicago - Lincoln Park | Chicago - Portage Park

Elgin | Elmhurst | Grayslake/Prairie Crossing | Naperville - North | Naperville - South | Oak Forest | Skokie