Topic: | MATH KANGAROO CONGRATULATIONS AND SUMMER CAMP |
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Teacher Peng 2012-12-21 12:28:09 MST |
MATH KANGAROO CONGRATULATIONS AND SUMMER CAMP Dear Parents/Guardians, Congratulations are in order!!! We are very happy to announce that in the 2012 Math Kangaroo contest, fifty-two of our Sunshine Academy students have received scores within the top 15 places state and nation-wide! This is the highest number of winners for any one school in the United States! Below are some wonderful news we would like to share with you about our outstanding students’ achievements. Warmest congratulations to our 1st graders and 2nd graders who received excellent scores on the GT test and were accepted by the GT program! Many of our 6th graders achieved very high scores on IAAT test and qualified to take Algebra I in middle school! This will provide them with an advantage when they apply to TJ. Congratulations to our 4th and 6th graders who received perfect scores on the 2011 Math League competition! Many of our 8th graders were accepted by TJ! Thirteen of those students received a perfect score on the math portion of the TJ test. In 2011, 123 of our students had their creative stories published by the Anthology of Short Stories by Young Americans. Warmest congratulations to all of our students for their hard work and achievements! In our 2012 Summer Camp, we will offer reading, writing, and math for rising 1st -8th graders. As the end of the school year approaches rapidly, it is time to start planning for the summer. Our camp is designed to engage students in a challenging but fun learning environment to help them develop their skills and reach their fullest academic potential, making it an ideal place for students to spend part of their summer. Below are brief descriptions of the programs we will offer in the camp. For our rising 1st and 2nd graders, we will offer GT prep classes. Students who have taken our GT Prep classes have been extremely successful in joining GT centers or school-based GT programs. The teachers for the 1st and 2nd classes are all current, outstanding FCPS 1st and 2nd grade teachers with years of experience. For our rising 3rd -5th graders, we will provide a complete curriculum of enrichment in reading, writing and math, tailored to the students’ needs in each class and designed to boost maximum achievement. These classes will be taught by current excellent, experienced FCPS teachers from the AAP program. In the fall, our rising 6th graders will take the IAAT math test that will determine whether or not they will be eligible to take Algebra I Honors in 7th grade. In our camp, we will offer classes that can prepare them to do well on the test. Students who attended our summer camp and weekend classes in the past have performed very well on the IAAT test. The instructor is a current 6th grade AAP teacher who has been teaching in FCPS for many years. His dedication and hard work has earned him high respect from all of the parents and students. We will offer full day TJ Prep classes and teach middle school competition math, such as MathCounts, AMC, Math Olympiad and Math League to our rising 7th and 8th graders. In the morning, the students will build on their verbal skills to prepare for the verbal portion of the TJ test. The instructor is a current FCPS 10th grade English teacher who has 19 years of teaching experience. Many of her students achieved a perfect score on the verbal portions on both the TJ test and SAT exam. In the afternoon, the students will develop their math skills and prepare for the math portion of the TJ test under the instruction of a skilled, qualified MathCounts coach. We will also offer a MathCounts/English program for our rising middle school students. In the morning, the official state MathCounts coach will help the students expand their competition math skills to prepare them for the MathCounts competition next year. The primary goal of this class is to help students make it to their schools’ Mathcounts teams and to perform well in the competition. In the afternoon, the English teacher from the TJ prep class will teach essay writing, reading comprehension, and scrambled paragraphs to the students. In order to continue our summer learning fun, we have hired a Hollywood Studios cartoon artist to teach our students drawing and a US Chess Center chess master to teach chess to our students as part of their after-school activities. Not only do we continue to expand our extensive curriculum for our enrichment classes, but also we ensure that our teachers are highly qualified and have wide-ranging experience and expertise in their subjects. All of our teachers know by heart how to help your children not only meet but exceed grade-level expectations and to perform their best on the tests. These teachers have been specifically requested and praised by both parents and students. Furthermore, parents have expressed their satisfaction that their children have simultaneously enjoyed learning and improved their English and math skills under careful instruction of these teachers at our summer camp and weekend classes. Our camp will be held in Fairfax County public schools with large playgrounds, gyms and cafeterias. Physical and social activities are certainly an important part of the day at our summer camps. Attached to this email are brochures for the 2012 Summer Camp and fall weekend classes. The 2012 summer camp will be held in two locations: Session I will be held at McNair Elementary School, 2499 Thomas Jefferson Drive, Herndon, VA 20171. The availability of seats in this session is as follows: Rising 1st graders: 5 seats remaining Rising 2nd-8th graders: full Session II (7/23-8/17) will be held at Shrevewood Elementary School (7525 Shreve Rd, Falls Church, VA 22043). There are few seats remaining in each class, with the exception of the rising 6th grade class. Contact Information Email: info@sunshine-academy.org Phone: 703-830-8212 Web Site: http://sunshine-academy.org/ We look forward to working with your wonderful children in the summer! Best regards, Sharon Peng Sunshine Academy http://sunshine-academy.org/ |
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