Monica Ros School

Open to all families in Ojai, Summer Camp is a great time for new students to become acquainted with the school and have some summertime fun while forming new friendships. Offered during the month of July, each week of camp explores a different theme such as gardening, cooking, camping, and more. Brochures become available in April.

First Week: June 29-July 3- Old Fashioned Summer Fun

Preschool – 3rd Grade  – 9am-2pm

We will explore what the 4th of July was like long ago, complete with picnics, watermelon bust, games of long ago and old fashioned fun.  We’ll enjoy a docent presentation form Ventura Museum of History and Art, with an emphasis on times gone by.  Monica Ros in our Ojai Independence Day parade and campers will have an opportunity to decorate wagons and bikes

 

 

First Week: June 29-July 3 – Create a City

Grades 3 – 6 with Katie Haydon 9am – 12noon

Have you ever wished you could invent your very own place, with its own history, people, things to do, places to be, shops, restaurants, parks, customs, and maybe even a unique language or numbering system?  Here’s your chance to put your imagination to the test and create a city unlike any other on Earth . . . or, perhaps, in another galaxy!

 

 

Second Week: July 6-10 –Fun with Food

Preschool – 3rd Grade     9am – 2pm

We will plunge into culinary experiences for summer fun ….. making ice cream, shortcake, home grown lemonade, gourmet pizza, cool cookies and cupcakes, and culminate with a kid-friendly summer cookbook.

 

 

Second Week: July 6-10 -Musical Theatre

Workshop  9am – 2pm

Grades 3-6 with Julia Zonic and Julia Hamann

What does it take to create a musical? 

Acting -    Theatre games & Improvisation

Singing -   Vocal technique, finding your voice in the song

Dancing -  Dance technique, telling a story through movement

Join us for a week of self-discovery and a whole lot of fun.   

 

 

Third Week:  July 13-17 – Let’s Play Ball

Preschool -3rd Grade   9am – 2pm

We’ll be playing baseball, making personalized trading cards, learning about trading cards, rooting for our favorite team, making team pennants, discussing sportsmanship, learning cheers and eating cracker jacks and BBQ hot dogs!

 

 

Fourth Week: July 20-24 – ETM and Magical Music Makers

Preschool – 3rd Grade    9am – 2pm

Finally we all have an opportunity to experience *ETM (Education Through Music) this summer.  If you have heard snippets of songs this year at Monica Ros or your child has come home singing “Oats, Peas, Beans” or “Puncinella” they have been playfully singing them with our very own staff.  This summer there will be an ETM instructor AND storyteller.  We will create some wonderful, magical musical instruments.  We will have opportunities to sing together daily.  Everyone benefits from these delightful songs that combine music and movement.

 

*ETM is:

• Enhanced natural learning process
• Heightened perceptual awareness
• Improved self-concept
• Improved social awareness
• Enhanced ability to focus and attend
• Enhanced alertness
• Increased motivation to read and write

 

 

Fifth Week: July 27-31 – Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh my!!

Preschool – 3rd Grade     9am – 2pm

A week full of discovery about a favorite fairytale: The Wizard of Oz!  We will discover the Emerald City, learn about WILD animals and enjoy a visit from the Humane Society, have a Toto day, plant ruby slippers and much more!

 

 

Special Week: Aug 3-7 – “Mock Trial” with Mrs. Hardenbergh

Grades 3 – 6      9am – 2pm

CSI Monica Ros!  What’s missing from Monica Ros?  Can we get it back?  Can we bring the perpetrators to justice? Come and explore our justice system from the collection of evidence to the Jury’s decision with Mrs. Hardenbergh, Mr. Gilbreth and Mr. Thurston. 

  

**Summer camp is open for children ages 3-9. Select weeks open to grades 3-6.   Snack will be provided daily. Lunch will be brought from home. Children will have a swim time each day. We have inflatable pools. Contact the office , at 646-8184, for an enrollment form.