Gymnastics•Swimming•Gardening•Music

Your Toddler will love this introduction or continued exposure to the Montessori classroom. Our campers experience the classroom materials while developing motor skills,  language and socialization skills.

 Toddler Campers enjoy:

• music & movement •gymnastics
• create art projects   •swimming

Our swim program is run by experienced professionals. We boast a 99% success rate with our beginning swimmers and offer lessons daily.

Preschool Camp (Ages 3-4)

Swimming• Montessori Curriculum •Sports & Games•Garden Care •Music & Movement

 Preschool Discover & Explore (Ages 4-5)

Gymnastics•Yoga•Swimming•Tae Kwon Do•Sports & Games •Montessori Curriculum•Garden Care•Music & Movement•Arts & Crafts with Themes•Science

Preschool Campers ages 3 to 5 yrs. enjoy mornings exploring:

• The Montessori environment (with educational opportunities in math, language, sensorial, practical life, cultural, geography and life science)
• Music & movement
• Garden care
• Art
• Swim lessons are offered daily by the qualified & experienced professionals.

The afternoons for Preschool Discover & Explore Campers ages 4 to 5 yrs are spent exploring:

• Gymnastics •Yoga •Sports & games
• Tae kwon do •Music
• Fun educational themes through arts & crafts, science, language, dramatic play, cooking, music & movement.  The themes include: Tools and Machines, Community and Careers, Farms, 4^th of July and All About Me, Sea Life, Insects and Spiders, Harvest, &  Growing Things.

Funtastic Friday events keep the fun rolling with Water Fun, Dance Parties, Scavenger Hunts and more!                                

 Elementary Explore! (Ages 6-12)                                        

Explore: Fun & Exciting Field Trips •Hands On Science  •Sports & Games•Swimming•Musical Instruments•Arts & Crafts•Tae Kwon Do Computers•Drama•Funtastic Fridays

•New Late Night Camp Outs & Movie Nights

Session II – Beach, Surf & Science!  Science has never been this cool!  We hit the beach in the    morning and enjoy the sand, surf & snorkeling.  Then we head over to Gumbo Limbo and the FAU Shark or Turtle Lab to see first hand recent discoveries and research.     

Science– Weather or Not- Learn about weather as we take an up close and hands-on look at a tornado, touch lightning, & make it rain!

Session III- Sizzling Summer look out! We Have Water Mania!!  Outrageous combo waterslides,  water games, open swim and more! The Fun is Hot but the Kids are Cool!

Science– Cosmic Capers- explore our solar system & launch rockets! 

  (Interactive science workshops provided by High Touch High Tech) 

In  Addition Every Session includes:

Explore Music! – Here’s your chance to try several instruments from the strings family and beyond! Explore Swimming, Sports & Games, and Explore Exciting Themes with Arts & Crafts, Drama, Computer research, experiments, creative writing & games.  Themes being developed- Rainforests, Go Green!, Space Travel, Oceanography, Friends Connect Around the World, Create Art Like Famous  Artists, Caring for Pets, Community Service and more! Field trips subject to change and more added.

New this year – Late Night Camp Outs! Roast hot dogs, make s’mores, tell stories by the campfire & watch movies with friends. (additional charge)

Funtastic Fridays finish out each week! Catch all the fun at Camp Explore!!

Program:  Each class from Toddlers to Upper Elementary will be involved in the program to promote peace.  There will be art, music and literature presentations filled with creativity.  See the unveiling of the newest student made mosaic!  Parents, families and neighbors are welcome!                                                         

Service Project:  Children have been collecting Pennies for Peace to help build schools for children (primarily girls) in Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Central Asia Institute.  This organization was founded by Greg Mortenson, co-author of the Three Cups of Tea NY Times Best Seller.  Learn more at www.penniesforpeace.org.  Children have also collected funds for Smile Train, www.smiletrain.org, an organization that helps to repair cleft palates/lips for children in need that would otherwise be developmentally devasted.  All donations are welcome.

Important logistics: Please use our parking lot or the adjacent grass lot (west of the school on Spanish River, just before Grandview) to park.  Please do not park at the church across the street and use care when parking along NW 3^rd Ave. swales (section of grass closest to the street- city property).  Your courtesy and care when parking is much appreciated.
 

We look forward to seeing you there! 

I look forward to sharing more of their story with you as we honor their work at the Students for World Peace Day and a separate night for them to share their experiences, challenges, rewards and transformations with you.  Also keep an eye out for their article in the Sunday Sun Sentinel paper in April.
 

If their MMUN trip wasn’t enough, when they arrived back at school the next day, the Lower Elementary classes honored them with a beautiful “Welcome Home” banner and a delicious lunch, complete with homemade chocolate chip cookies.  Thanks to Ms. Angela and all of the Lower Elementary staff and students, who made their return so special.
 

We had the distinct pleasure of a visit by Judith Cunningham and her husband just this past week.  Judith is the creator and Executive Director of the MMUN and her husband Michael, who works closely with the UN and recently organized an awards ceremony to honor those organizations working towards completing the Millennium Developmental Goals, complete with a stunning segment by Desmond Tutu.  Our wonderful Upper Elementary class performed a Japanese Tea Ceremony to honor Judith, Michael and myself.  It was the most respectful and peaceful honoring that I had ever experienced.  Judith and Michael were blown away by the children’s attention to detail, their integrity and their peacefulness.  We are so blessed by this class and they are great role models for us all.  There is a renewed sense of hope when you experience the reality of our students- hope that the future will be brighter and the world will find peace and social justice with each passing day.
 

Gratefully yours,
Dr. Susan

p.s. See our Sun-Sentinel article on the front page of the Community Sunday section.

Next came the Dance Party with our Hip Hop and Tap/Jazz teacher Ms. Wesa, and sports and games with Coach Roudy and Dr. Mike. To conclude the party, Dr. Susan and some Summit students, including Madison Reger, Cristina Neely, Daniel Luptak and Ryan Enriquez and others welcomed the YAC children into our library to choose a new book for themselves and gently used books for their siblings or friends from the collection of books donated by the Summit families. Special thanks to Kelle Enriquez, our PTA Service chair and Nicole Smith, from the Summit Fundraising Committee, for their extraordinary efforts in coordinating and assisting with this event. Heart-felt thanks also to the Keane Family for donating the Balloon Guy entertainment and to all the staff and parents who participated and donated books and food. The children had such a great time together and with the various gatherings we have had together, they are forming friendships that bring our community together.

The Elementary students at Summit Private School will be serving Thanksgiving dinner to the children served by the Youth Activity Center (YAC) of Boca Raton as one of many service projects that these children well be engaged in this year.  Every year Summit families, with the help of its PTA and devoted parent Evelyn Swid, create a Thanksgiving Feast for the entire student body, families and staff and the leftovers are taken to Boca Helping Hands.  This year, during a staff meeting, there was the idea to invite the students from the YAC to serve them a Thanksgiving feast as well.  Dr. Susan Mike, Vice Head of School and Kelle Enriquez, Service Chairman for the PTA, were thrilled with the idea and were determined to make it happen.  The feast takes place, Wednesday, November 19^th from 3:30-5pm.  A full Thanksgiving dinner will be served by the Summit Elementary volunteers and parents followed by sports and games and a dance party.  We are thrilled to have this opportunity to serve the community in this way- child to child, heart to heart. 

The students at Summit, grades 1^st-6^th have been serving the Youth Activity Center students since last Valentine’s Day, when the students, parents and staff came together to provide new books, snacks, crafts, games and dancing in a “Heart-to-Heart Giving Party”.  Each student of the YAC program, approximately 95 children, received a new book and they even took home a gently used book for their siblings.  

From this act of service, Kelle Enriquez, a Summit parent and active philanthropist, saw a need to provide these children additional snacks or a meal and shared the idea with Summit Administration to set up a monthly Peanut Butter and Jelly Jam, with the assistance of the Children’s Aid Club, to make sandwiches for the students of the YAC program.  Since then the PB& J Jam has grown and we now have joined with Grandview to increase our sandwich-making capacity.  Our first event was in October and we collectively made 600 sandwiches.  We plan to make a variety of sandwiches monthly to serve these children.  So how fitting to provide these children with a festive meal as we give thanks for the service we can provide and the lessons of gratitude our children can experience and share. 

         
23 elementary kids from Summit and 17 high school kids from Grandview joined together to make around 530 sandwiches in one hour!  It was great watching the kids from both schools interact.  The older kids were guiding the younger kids on the art of spreading peanut butter and jelly and explaining to them that they were making the sandwiches for kids that are hungry and don’t have as much as they do.  How cool is that?!

The 530 sandwiches, combined with 75 that Dr. Susan brought in from a mini PB&J Jam that she had over the weekend, made over 600 sandwiches that we delivered to the Youth Activity Center Monday evening.  The YAC was very appreciative and started handing them out right away.

Thank you to Dr. Mike, Dr. Susan and the parents who helped out with the kids. Everyone had a great time and Grandview is willing to host the PB&J Jam each month.

We are looking for families willing to sponsor or help cover the costs for the PB&J Jams going forward. It takes about $150 to make 600 sandwiches.  Not bad!

If anyone is interested in sponsoring the next PB&B Jam, or would like to share the costs, I look forward to hearing from you!

Please help us continue this great project where the kids on both sides benefit.

Kelle Enriquez, Honorary PTA Chair – Community Outreach Programs

(561) 702-4527 ~ kelle@juiceplusmakessense.com

“The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.” ~ Maria Montessori