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Katherine Michiels School (KMS) is proud to announce the return of its hugely popular, De Colores Spanish Summer Camp, a Spanish Language and Latino Culture camp that puts the fun back into learning a language. DE COLORES means colorful. It is the title of a traditional Mexican song that, like our summercamp, celebrates life!
Using music, dance, arts, crafts and theater, children will speak, listen and interact within a community of Spanish speakers. Through this immersion-style program, your child will come to love learning, living and practicing Spanish. Instruction is based on creative, interactive activities, rather than desk-style learning. DE COLORES runs for four consecutive two-week sessions. Sign your child up for as many sessions as you like. We look forward to having your child join us this summer! (Download our Summer 2010 Brochure.)
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Our 2 week camps begin June 21st and ends August 13th.
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HOURS: are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open to ages 5 -11.
COST: $600/2-week session
EXTENDED CARE available from 8–9a.m. & 3-6p.m. for $75/week or $8/hr.
DISCOUNT: Campers who enroll in 2 or more sessions get a $50 discount. Each additional sibling enrolled in camp receives a $25 discount.
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Grupo Azul (Ages 5-6)
This group of campers will be exposed to Spanish in a friendly, playful and positive way. Learning will be integrated into the children’s daily routine, in a manner that relates directly to them and their interests. We will play games, sing songs, make masks, and venture to parks. Most of our “learning” will be experienced through play and physical movement, and children will enjoy both structured activities and free time.
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A TYPICAL DAY MIGHT INCLUDE:
Welcome songs and games
Arts and Crafts projects
Snack
Creative movement
Lunch and free time
An outdoor adventure in the neighborhood
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Grupo Magenta (Ages 7-11)
- This second group of campers will experience the language through a larger emphasis on cultural traditions. Learning will continue to be focused on hands-on experience, but we will go further in depth on a given topic. For example, we may take a field trip to visit the murals of the neighborhood and then work on our own large-scale paintings that tell a story about our lives. Or we may listen to Brazilian samba percussion and then make our own drums and perform for the younger campers. Before we head out to the mercados on Mission Street, we may act out a scenario in which we learn the basics of ordering at a restaurant, how to ask questions from a grocer, and the way to say potato, onion, or pineapple in Spanish.
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A TYPICAL DAY MIGHT INCLUDE:
Welcome games and day-planning
An outdoor adventure in the neighborhood
Lunch and free time to work on projects
Arts and crafts
Creative movement
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CAMP STAFF
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Director Maria Luna brings years of experience teaching Spanish, Mexican folk dance and culture to children.…Ms. Luna is a native from Mexico City with over 25 years of experience teaching Spanish and Mexican folk dance to pre-school, elementary and middle school children. In the Bay Area she has collaborated with World Arts West, Young Audiences of Northern California, The Burbank Center of the Arts and KQED educational programs. She has a strong background in education and performing arts as a dancer and member of Ensambles Ballet Folklorico for 17 years. She has directed the Spanish immersion educational trips to Mexico and the Arts Festival at KMS for the last several years.
