Summer Matters - Valley Forge Educational Services

(Daily from 8:15 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.)
Students at all age levels learn proven strategies to strengthen reading and writing skills.

Young readers will reinforce these skills:

• Word identification
• Decoding
• Vocabulary
• Reading fluency
• Comprehension

Older students will reinforce these skills:

• Inferencing
• Prediction
• Comprehension

All students will engage in the writing process from pre-writing through publication. Exploration of writing through poetry, stories, and narratives will reinforce critical thinking skills as students construct interesting, well-structured paragraphs, essays and stories.

(Daily from 10:45 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.)

Students of all ages will use math manipulatives and “real life” situations to develop a thorough understanding of the process and concepts of mathematics.

Areas of study include:

• Problem solving
• Reasoning
• Estimation
• Math facts
• Computation
• Number Sense
• Fractions
• Measurement
• Patterns
• Time
• Money
• Numeration

Students preparing to enter Kindergarten in the Fall are given daily opportunities to participate in “hands-on” activities that develop pre-literacy and pre-math skills in a multisensory environment.

Optional one-on-one Speech/Language Instruction with a speech-language therapist is available (30 minute sessions).

Optional Occupational Therapy sessions are available (30 minute sessions). Enrollment is limited.

(Optional – Daily from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.)

Children will have opportunities to build healthy relationships with others within the context of relevant lunchtime activities. Choose from a 5 days/week option or a 3 days/week option.

(Daily from 11:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., includes “Lunch Bunch” Program)

The optional afternoon Recreation Program provides children with opportunities to engage in a variety of age-appropriate, high-interest activities, including:

• Recreational Swim – 2x/week at the Upper Main Line YMCA
• An “Express Yourself!” Creative Arts program, including Art, Music & Dance/Movement
• Karate Lessons 1x/week
• “Get Fit” & ”Back 2 Nature“ Clubs
• Field Trips & Community Outings