To compliment the Summer Adventures program, Touchstone is offering a variety of enrichment workshops for children ages 5 and up.  These half-day and full-day experiences will offer your child opportunities to learn something new or to spend time with friends in an activity they already enjoy. 
 
Please note:  If you are enrolling your child in a morning and afternoon workshop in the same week, your child is invited to bring lunch and enjoy a supervised hour at Touchstone at no additional cost.

Be a Summer Scientist                                                         
Age: 5-8                                                                      Date: July 7-11, 2008
Max:  8 students                                                          Time: 9 a.m. - 12 noon
Lead Instructor: Sharon Borg                                       Cost: $125
 
In this workshop, children will explore scientific phenomena through interactive games and hands-on explorations.  Inquiries will include water discovery, bubbles and light, building/engineering, and nature studies.  The workshop includes plenty of outdoor time and mess making, so leave your fancy clothes at home.  Science has never been so much fun.  A child attending this workshop may also enroll in the Summer Adventures program for the afternoon, bring lunch, and stay for the full day.  Call for more details.
 
  
Are You the Next Top Chef, Jr.?                                          
Age: 5-9                                                                       Dates: July 14 - 18, 2008
Max:  10 students                                                         Time: 9 a.m. – 12 noon
Lead Instructor: Lisa Walden                                        Cost: $125
 
In an easy and fun way, students will create tasty and healthy treats such as shortbread, granola bars, muffins, scones, and snicker doodles while learning cooking terms, how to measure, and how to follow a recipe.  While the goodies are baking, students will have time for play, and then finish the morning by sampling their own delicious creations.  A child attending this workshop may also enroll in the Summer Adventures program for the afternoon, bring lunch, and stay for the full day.  Call us for details.

Cool Arts & Crafts
Age: 5-9                                                                     Dates: July 21 - 25, 2008
Max:  10 students                                                       Time: 9 a.m. – 12 noon
Lead Instructor: Lisa Walden                                      Cost: $125
 
In this workshop sure to spark creativity, projects will be fun to make as well as use.  Students will make super crafts that they can take outside to play with, such as beanballs, kites, and flutterballs.  Students will work with a variety of materials including fabric, clay, paper, paint, and the old-time kids favorite, “junk.”  A child attending this workshop may also enroll in the Summer Adventures program for the afternoon, bring lunch, and stay for the full day.  Please call for more details.
 

New Workshop!
 
Landscape Drawing / Painting
 
Age:  10 and up                                                          Date: July 21 - 25
Max:  10 students                                                      Time: 1 - 4pm
Lead Instructor: Jon Hansen                                      Cost: $125
 
Learn to draw from life while enjoying your surroundings.  This class will teach students the importance of observational drawing through contour, gesture, shading, crosshatch and more.  Weather permitting; we will be outside for every class learning to draw what we see.  Please bring sunscreen!

Tapping, Tossing and Rhyming Our Way to Phonemic Awareness
Age: Entering Kindergarten and 1st Grade                  Date:  July 28 – August 1, 2008
Max:  4 students                                                       Time: 9 a.m. – 12 noon           
Lead Instructor:  Mary Brochu                                   Cost:  $145
 
Research has shown that phonemic awareness is the single best predictor of reading and spelling achievement in first and second grade.  Systematic and explicit phoneme instruction provides valuable benefits to emergent readers.  Limited to four students to provide a nurturing learning environment, this workshop will offer an introduction to phonemes, or reinforcement of what has already been taught, in a fun and engaging way.  We will sing, rhyme, and play on our journey to improved phonemic awareness.  A child attending this workshop, may also enroll in the Summer Adventures afternoon program, bring lunch, and stay for the full day.  Please call for more details.
 
 
Summer Tutoring Available at Touchstone

Summer can be a great time to serve your tutoring needs.  There can be more scheduling flexibility  for teachers and students, and a more relaxed atmosphere that's conducive to focusing on a particular area of study.

Fee:  $60.00/lesson

Please contact the specific instructor for scheduling

Julie Olsen:  Project Read is a systematic, multi-sensory approach to early reading and writing skills.  Comprehension strategies for more experienced readers.  Math for 5-9 year old children. julieo@touchstoneschool.com  or 508-885-2312

Sally Kent:  6th grade math through Algebra II, Geometry, High School Chemistry. sallyk@touchstoneschool.com (email preferred) or 508-529-3008
 
Mary Brochu:  Multi-sensory reading instruction children struggling with fundamental reading skills as well as children diagnosed with dyslexia.  maryb@touchstoneschool.com or 508-603-7038