Summer 2025
Summer Adventures
Summer Adventures offers two full-day sessions that focus on adventures and explorations. Each session has a separate registration.
Session A July 14–18 (8:00 am–3:15 pm)
Session B July 21–25 (8:00 am–3:15 pm)
*Registering more than one child? Submit a separate registration for each student.*
Maximum enrollment: 14 students per session
Field trip locations are tentative
Seekers
Grades 1, 2
Students will engage in weekly field trips and daily physical education, art projects, science experiments, and other activities focused around a central weekly theme. Through project-based learning, students will apply critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and self-management skills to solve real-world scenarios.
Session A: Voyaging in the Vast Pacific We will find out about the ancestors of the ancient Polynesians and how bravely they traveled the treacherous oceans and discovered and colonized our islands. Imagine yourself as the adventurer, travelling by double-hulled canoe, with your supplies, crewmates, and animals. What will you encounter? How will you survive? How would you save the same oceans in the future? Join us in this expedition across the ocean.
Note: This class will take a scientific (not cultural) approach to our oceans.
Session B: Ocean Animals Let's go on an adventure to learn about the animals that live in the skies above and the waters below our vast oceans. We will study a variety of ocean animals including birds, sea turtles, fish, marine mammals, and many others. How are they important to our Earth? What is happening to their environments? And, most importantly, how can we save them?
Investigators
Grades 3, 4, 5
Students will be part of a structured learning experience around a weekly theme. Hands-on activities will explore science, art, and engineering concepts. We plan to take one or two field trips to further explore our theme.
Session A: Riding the Waves—Light and Sound Students will learn through hands-on activities about light and sound waves. These will include the use of art, music, photography and science. Students will learn how light helps with vision and photography by making pinhole cameras, and they will then learn how sounds are related to music by creating sand art using sound. On Friday, we will end the week with a dance party to celebrate all we have learnt about light and sound.
Session B: Where We Live—Plants and Animals Students will learn about plants and animals by exploring nature through excursions. We will immerse ourselves in nature and learn about the interconnectedness of plants, animals, and the environment around them. We will use nature to make art but also see the art in nature. Finally, we will choose our favorite animals and give them special superpowers to adapt them to their opposite habitats. This will be displayed in a Diorama of Super Animals made by the students.
Junior Challengers
Grades 1, 2, 3
This course is designed to physically and mentally engage students in a variety of environments. Activities will place an emphasis on map reading skills, teamwork, and exploration. Students will participate in team games, explore scenic hiking trails, read and follow a map, practice teamwork and sportsmanship, and more.
Session A & B schedule will be available in May
Challengers
Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
This course is designed to physically challenge students in a variety of environments and activities. Experience many of the natural hidden treasures on and around our island through a variety of vigorous physical activities and adventures. Students will explore scenic hiking trails and caves, slide down cascading waterfalls, learn to navigate with a compass, read and follow a map, and more. Students will also learn water safety skills through fun swimming, snorkeling, paddling, and diving activities.*
Session A & B schedule will be available in May
Junior Entrepreneurs: Mini Marketplace
Grades 6, 7, 8, 9
July 14–25 (8:00 am–3:15 pm)
This 10-day course will run both weeks of Summer Adventures
Students will form their own companies—conceptualizing, creating, marketing, manufacturing, and selling their own products. They will learn the basics of marketing and economics including how to design their merchandise, create and promote their brand, and keep track of their expenses and profits. The course will culminate in a fun mini-marketplace event where students will sell their products to the Summer Programs students and staff. Families are encouraged to join us!
Explorations in English: Secondary
Grades 6, 7, 8, 9
July 14–25 (8:00 am–3:15 pm)
This 10-day course will run both weeks of Summer Adventures
This two-week immersion class for English as a second Language (ESL) students will be filled with language lessons and fun, engaging activities that include group projects, field trips, food sampling, yoga practice, and exciting adventures that will provide students ample opportunity to practice their conversational English. This class will include the 4 skills of language acquisition: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Class will be conducted in English. To enroll in this class, students must have completed at least 2 years of English language study and be able to communicate in English well enough to participate in class activities.
IMPORTANT: Notify the office of any food sensitivities or dietary restrictions as sampling food may be an optional part of this class.
Announcements
Happy 2025! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season.
We are finalizing our course schedule and preparing to launch registration for Summer 2025 in February. Thank you for your continued support of COE Summer Programs.
**updated 01/16/2025**
Registration opens February 2025
