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Prime Foundation Montessori’s Summer Enrichment Program, Prime Explorers, features summer enrichment camps for both Primary and Elementary ages! Both enrichment camps are held on Prime Foundation’s location with field trips scheduled throughout the summer.
The majority of our enrichment camp staff are Prime Foundation Montessori teachers and staff members during the school year. Their collective experience and alignment with Prime Foundation Montessori's values provide a unique enrichment camp experience that is captivating, challenging and fun!
PRIME EXPLORERS
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PRIMARY
Prime Foundation Montessori’s Primary Enrichment Summer Program provides explorers with exciting and enriching daily offerings and work cycles. Highlighted by weekly themes such as “Under the Sea” and “Outer Space”, this camp brings the world to all explorers!
Movement, nature study, needlework, embroidery and sewing, cooking, etiquette and decorum, food and nutrition and much more are explored when the children are on campus.
Also, Art such as Printmaking Studio! The children explore a different technique for making prints with a wide variety of materials.
Printmaking is a process based art form that is as much fun to make as it is to see the magical results. At the end children take home a personal portfolio of prints.
Prime Explorers also have the opportunity to explore the DMV area with a field trip every week accompanying our themes.
We also celebrate a day in the week with one of our explorer-favorite activities: Water Day!
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Elementary
Prime Foundation Montessori’s Elementary Enrichment Summer Program blends an exciting mix of on-campus activities with field trips throughout the DMV area!
On-campus activities include baking, fitness, the arts, life skills, financial literacy, health and safety, food and nutrition, nature study and STEM-related challenges!
Field trips take place twice per week and include activities such as rock climbing, exploring museums, zoos, roller skating or ice rinks!
Prime Explorers also join our specialist for mental mathematics, originating from Japan! This is a fun and sensorial program that helps children to develop and enhance both the right and left-brain hemispheres while strengthening various skills and abilities such as photographic memory, attention and concentration, imagination and visualization!
Each number is represented by a bead or combination of beads. Explorers initially learn to use the beads to perform math operations and slowly graduate to manipulate the beads mentally!
summer enrichments program details
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Hours: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
PrimeCare PM (Aftercare) available daily from 3:30 to 6:00 PM for additional fees.
Ages
Primary:
The Primary program is available for children who will be in Primary school programs (Pre-K through K) during the 2024-2025 school year. Ages 3 - 5 years at the start of camp, toilet-trained required.
Elementary:
The Elementary program is available for children who are in Elementary school programs (Grades 1-6) during the 2024-2025 school year.
Location
Arrival and dismissal will take place at the front of Prime Foundation Montessori Campus each day.
All PrimeExplorers will travel off-campus throughout the DMV area via vehicle, train and walking.
Logistics
Camp fees include all activities and transportation.
Lunch & snacks are not provided.
An official schedule of field trips will be released in the Spring.
Please note: this camp’s classrooms are not Montessori, although many elements of the program incorporate Montessori teachings and principles. All activities are subject to change due to weather!
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Prime Explorers runs for 4 weeks beginning on July 1 up until towards. the end of July.
Week 1: July 1 - July 3 (no camp on July 4 & 5)
Week 2: July 8 - July 12
Week 3: July 15 - 19
Week 4: July 22 - 26
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Our Primary camp features a special theme every week! Many of the week’s activities, including that week’s field trip, are geared towards these themes.
Here are the themes for Summer this School Year:
Week 1: The Wild Jungle
Week 2: Cooking Club
Week 3: On the Farm
Week 4: Under the Sea
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In addition to the Elementary camp’s on-campus programming of art, fitness, baking, health, safety and nutrition, mental arithmetics, life skills, STEM related activities, games and more, students will attend two field trips per week. The camp’s full field trip schedule will be released in the Spring.
A few of our previous summer’s highlights included:
Sandy Springs Adventure Park
National Zoo
Butler’s Orchard
Cabin John Ice Rink
Zava Zone
Baltimore Aquarium
For Life Skills:
Life Skills at PrimeExplorers is designed to provide students with a safe space to reflect and discuss important topics such as happiness, self-worth, empathy, and self-growth, and other social-emotional skills.
Topics covered in this program may include:
Communication and Learning Styles
How to set (S.M.A.R.T) Goals
Identity: How I see myself and how others see me
Law of Attraction: The power of positive affirmations and positive thinking
The power of language and how it affects our behavior and those around us
Emotional Intelligence
How to manage emotional states (how to turn negative states to positive states)
Conflict resolution
Self confidence
Time Management
Bullying
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Pricing
Price for Week 1: $425
Prices per Week for Week 2 - Week 4: $525
A 20% deposit is required; full payment due May 15
Full Summer Discount
$20 off each week if signing up for every week of camp.
Do you have questions about PrimeExplorers at Prime Foundation Montessori? Please email us at info@pfmschool.org or call 240 744 0400.