• TECHNOLOGY •

ADVANCED ANIMATION

  • So you’ve already taken Beginning Animation - what could be next? How about in-depth cartooning, new stop motion experiments, and more time on independent projects. In this class, we will work to create longer animations with sound and special effects using Stop Motion or Flash. Also you will learn how to prepare your animation for your own website. (To enroll in this class you must have already taken Beginning Animation)

BEGINNING ANIMATION

  • Do you like Wallace and Grommett, Naruto or South Park? Make your own animations! This class will create, draw, and animate using Flash and Stop Motion programs. After watching animations and experimenting with the programs, students will create their own mini films.

SCRATCH PROGRAMMING: Imagine - Program - Share    

  • This powerful program is made for beginning programmers.  Use snap together blocks to make animations, games, greetings, interactive art, music and dance, name art, simulations and stories that you can share with others on the Internet.  Scratch is a free program that you can download for any computer.  Go to scratch.mit.edu where you can look at shared projects and even download Scratch to get a head start.

WEB 2.0

  • We will play the role of new media journalist for LCSI as we create podcasts, videocasts, twitter updates and other web elements to add content to the LCSI website (lcistl.org). Come ready to interview your LCSI friends and teachers.  

• ARTS •

CERAMICS

  • Make art in THREE dimensions!  Create hand-built pottery and artistic sculpture in clay while learning about how people all over the world have used this art form for all recorded time! 

COCA—LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION

  • Learn the basics of video and filmmaking, beginning with a focus on the creative and collaborative process that precedes picking up the camera, and continuing with an exploration of camera angles and point of view.  Throughout this camp, student film- makers will practice shooting exercises, leading up to the creation of a short narrative video. Camp concludes with a screening of the final projects.  (This class is only offered at Saint Louis University).

 

COOKING WITH CLASS

  • Learn the how’s and why’s of basic cookery as we explore the cuisine of many lands and peoples.  Expand your horizons as we cook our way around the country and around the globe.  (This class is only offered at the Annunciation School in Webster Groves).

 

DRAWING AND PAINTING

  • Did you say your name is Picasso? We artists, brand-new and seasoned, will investigate some of the most popular art techniques and styles from all over the world and try our dirty hands at some of them.

 

D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) CRAFTS

  • How about stencils, patches, shrinky-dink jewelry, magnets, zines, t-shirts, and music. In this resourceful class, we will make, market, and sell our own punk-rock art wares.  (Session 2 only).

 

FIT FUN & GAMES

  • Are you up to the challenge?  Join us 4 fitness games and nutrition fun!  Jammin’ music, obstacle courses, dodgeball, basketball, limbo, relay races, biking, and much, much more.  Make salsa, smoothies, fruit kabobs, and other healthy snacks.  This class is sponsored by Fitwize4Kids.

 

GAMES—BOARD BUT NOT BORING 

  • Have fun playing all sorts of games with friends.  Apples to Apples, Set, Blokus, Coda, Tiki Topple, and Exago, classic Dominoes, chess, card games, Monopoly, Battleship and much more.  Two feature games each day and plenty of time to play any game of your choice. 

 

GLASS MASTERS--Excuse me, May I have a Band-Aid?

  • If you’ve ever taken 2 glass classes before at LCSI, you qualify for this advanced art studio class. Everything you make will be your own original design!

 

IRISH DANCE

  • Learn the basics of traditional Irish dance, the dance form that inspired Riverdance and Lord of the Dance.  Students will learn traditional technique and steps in addition to preparing for a performance at the end of the session.  Classes will be divided by age: grades 3-5 and grades 6-8.  No experience necessary.

 

A MIXED-MEDIA ART CLASS

  • Take a creative trip without leaving the country.  Using materials such as paint, collage, papier-mâché, and found objects, we will explore the art of other countries and make our own stupendous works of art.  (Session One only).

 

REAL STAINED GLASS

  • Challenge yourself and be pleasantly surprised! We’re talking real glass cutting, grinding, and soldering! If people from the 1300’s A.D. could do it, you certainly can! You’ll learn to make simple sun catchers at first and then go on to create your own designs. (Students must have completed at least 4th grade to be in this class).

 

SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES  

  • Well then why don’t you join us this summer and learn how it is done.  We will plan a movie, write a script, learn how to do establishing shots, cut away shots, pans, point of view and all that is necessary to tell a great story.  Learn to write scripts, edit, act, and put the whole thing together.  Delight your friends and family with your new skills.  (This class is offered only at the Annunciation School).

 

WOODWORKING 2010

  • ZWETT-ZWETT-ZWETT-ZWETT -- ZWETT-ZWETT-ZWETT-ZWETT ZSHZSH-ZSHZSH-ZSHZSH-ZSHZSH -- ZSHZSH-ZSHZSH-ZSHZSH-ZSHZSH BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG -- BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG -- BANG-BANG ! ! . . .                                                             These are the sounds that you will hear yourself making as you learn to use the same hand tools that real carpenters use !  This year you will be hearing yourself make some “WOW” sounds too because you will be making some new and very creative projects that we have never done before.  Come and prepare yourself for the amazing fun you can experience both after and during the time when you are creating your very own projects!!

 

• WORDS AND BOOKS •

CREATURE FEATURE (a class in creative writing and animals)

  • Creatures don’t write.  Creatures don’t read.  But do creatures communicate with us?  And how can we communicate with them?  Through reading, writing, and hands-on events, you’ll learn about the “language” and stories of animals!  You’ll even meet some special creatures who are a part of our lives and share our planet!  We need them and they need us.  Yes, animals have plenty of stories to share!  And you can write articles about them for the LCSI ’10 school newspaper. 

(This class will feature horses from Equine-Assisted Therapy, Inc one of LCSI's 2010 Partners)

 

 

• SCIENCE •

MISSISSIPPI RIVER ECOLOGY (Have you ever seen a real bald eagle?)

 

  • In partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, LCI kids will have a remarkable opportunity this summer.  Students will get to study the ecology of life on the Mississippi River (including the American Bald Eagle) at the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary near Alton.  They will study birds--trying, for example, to identify birds’ eggs and to figure out the anatomy of feathers; they will study fish--learning to identify little stream critters that they seine in the wetlands (and, yes, they will get their feet muddy and wet); and they will delve into details about trees and plants.  Most of the week kids will study at LCSI, but one day each week they will take a field trip to Riverlands.

 

CHEMICAL CONCEPTS

 

  • A student favorite.  Students will investigate the wonders and magic of chemistry through hands-on experimentation and well-supervised demos including fire and ice. Students will experiment with crystals, acids and bases, and several different types of polymers. Each experiment makes learning fun and exciting.

CHEMICAL CONCEPTS Part Deux

 

  • An advanced version of Chemical Concepts, students will investigate more complex facets of chemistry including enzymes, commercial chemistries, and combustion. This class gives the students an opportunity to delve into investigative science. Students are encouraged to bring in their own ideas to take an active role in the experimental process. (Students must have completed at least 5th grade to be in this class).

 

GARDENS AND PLANTS

 

  • If you like being outdoors, getting your hands a little muddy by digging in the dirt, and watching a garden grow before your very eyes, this course is for you! You’ll develop a special garden from scratch on LCI’s beautiful campus, and take field trips to both the Missouri Botanical (Shaw’s) Garden and to the Rolling Ridge Nursery to learn about its many plants and flowers from one of their expert horticulturalists. This course is sponsored by the Rolling Ridge Nursery in Webster Groves.

 

SCIENCE AND MAKING THE EARTH “GREEN.”

 

  • This class will explore how the everyday things in our lives affect the environment around us. We will study pollution, create a makeshift landfill, and then sort-out recyclables to see how much recycling can improve our landfill situation. We will construct solar panels, wind, and water-powered electrical systems.  Finally, we will also conduct an energy experiment to learn how hybrid energy vehicles work.

 

SPACE AND ENGINEERING

 

  • This class will explore the solar system through interactive learning of basic engineering principles.  The tour through space will begin by exploring how we get into space on rockets, and how we see space through telescopes.  From there we will learn the about what makes up our solar system, and how we collect information about it.  We will also learn about how satellites are designed and sent into space.  We will learn about the Mars rover and how robots work.  Activities include building real rockets, and learning and experimenting with the construction of a real telescope, robot construction, and remote communication.