Course Information

Chinese listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
The camp will not use any set of regular Chinese text books as teaching materials. Instead, we will use a series of Chinese children’s songs, stories, and Chinese children’s TV shows.The purpose of this course is to improve children’s level of Chinese proficiency and spark their interest in learning Chinese. For children who do not have a Mandarin Chinese-speaking environment at home, this camp will help them focus on and improve their Chinese listening and speaking abilities.

The chess course curriculum will be organized to learn Chess theories, game training, as well as game review and analysis. Teachers will be very high USCF rated high school students who have great experience, performing well in many national tournaments. Chess camp will only be available for four weeks (see the enrollment form for the schedule).

The math classes will focus on variety of math worksheets. The teacher will explain some typical questions and give students proper guidance.
Math Problem types include:
1) Fundamental concepts: The goal is to consolidate their fundamental understanding and enhance calculation speed.
2) Competition Math: These questions are different from those of basic math topics. They are the best training for children in thinking skills, including analysis, synthesis, induction, inference, and deduction. This early preparation is good training for students who are interested in participating in MathCounts and other math competitions in middle school and even high school.

Each year in September, all RRISD students in grades 2, 4, and 6 are required to take the OLSAT test. The OLSAT is an abstract thinking and mental ability test which is often used to assess the intellectual level of students. We will also add other intellectual examination testing to the training class, so students will become familiar with such tests and thus be able to succeed on them. The OLSAT test is also essential for those children who wish to qualify for the TAG Program.

This class is a combination of Ballet/Jazz/Tap combined with Hip-Hop dancing. The students will learn skills including ballet barre work, arm and foot positions, turns, leaps, dance combinations, and more. Additionally, this class will teach a very contemporary, popular, athletic dance style: Hip Hop. The class will be limited to 20 people. Dance camp will only be available for two weeks (see the enrollment form for the schedule).

We will provide three weeks of the Chinese/Art camp, which is composed of half a day of Chinese classes and half a day of drawing classes. If your child loves the arts, this will be a great opportunity to have more time to learn something he/she will enjoy. Unlike the weekly one-hour art class, which only does a small project, this camp will dedicate three hours every day and will be able to make 1-2 decent work of art. The class will be limited to 18 people. Art camp will only be available for three weeks (see the enrollment form for the schedule).

We have an experienced drum teacher, Dieyu Cao. She graduated from Shanghai with Drum Major. She have taught kids drum for several years. Drum camp will only be available for one week(see the enrollment form for the schedule).

This course format is somewhat similar to the “Mad Science,” but it is slightly more in- depth. The course is will not only expose students to nature’s scientific phenomena, but also try to teach them related theory. This course will be taught in Chinese in order to broaden the students’ science and technology vocabulary in Chinese. Science camp will only be available for two weeks (see the enrollment form for the schedule).

We provide crafts (Chinese knot, paper cutting, origami, etc.), instruction on how to make Chinese food (dumplings and moon cake, spring rolls, etc.), outdoor activities, field trip, etc.