2010 Summer Schedule

We are very excited to announce our summer schedule for 2010! Extended hours and seminars available. Please contact us if you want to come in earlier in the day and avoid summer brain drain! Lots of fun activities for kids this summer!

2010 Summer Seminar Schedule

Our 2010 Summer Seminar schedule is out and we are now enrolling students k-12. Call now to get early registration discounts for your student! 866-949-4776

Word Analysis (K-3rd)

• Learn and review phonics and spelling skills
• Practice fluency
• Learn to decode words according to phonetic rules

Read Ahead: Early Reading Fun (pre-K and K)

• A fun approach to building early reading skills and kindergarten readiness
• recognize and write capital and lowercase letters
• Build listening comprehension strategies
• Improve phonemic awareness

Write On! Writing Styles (3rd - 5th and 6th - 8th)

Your child will have fun engaging in different roles as an author, while practicing and improving writing skills

• Discover literary voice
• Write descriptive, informative and persuasive pieces
• Write as a newspaper reporter, an advertiser, a movie critic, and more
• Create and illustrate stories
• Practice different approaches to pre-writing
• Create a unique piece of work that reflects personal style

Advanced Reading Skills (7th -12th)

• Increase reading speed
• Learn to adjust reading rate for a variety of text
• Maintain comprehension
• Prepare for the reading load of high school and college

Organization and Time Management

• Organize short and long term tasks
• Set goals
• Analyze classes and teachers
• Work with your learning style

Sum Fun

Addition and subtraction math fun. A fun approach for your student to improve understanding of basic addition and subtraction skills, while increasing speed and accuracy

• Learn strategies to help with addition and subtraction
• Understand the concept that addition and subtraction are related
• Increase speed and accuracy of basic addition and subtraction facts
• Solve simple addition and subtraction word problems

Divide and Conquer

A fun approach for children to improve understanding, speed and accuracy of basic multiplication and division facts

• Understand the concept of multiplication as repeated addition
• Identify division facts as they are related to multiplication facts
• Learn strategies to help learn multiplication facts
• Increase speed and accuracy of basic multiplication and division facts

Solve This! (3rd - 5th and 6th - 8th)

Math problem solving skills

• Students will become confident, analytical thinkers and problem solvers
• Students will explore many option s to solve problems and discuss their tactics with the group

Fraction Action

A fun approach for your student to improve fraction skills, and to develop confidence working with fractions

• Model and write fractions
• Add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions with like and unlike denominators
• Compare and order fractions
• Find equivalent fractions

Geometry Prep: Get ready for high school geometry!

• Foundations and reasoning
• Properties of triangles and circles
• Similar triangles and transformation

Writing Contest

Sylvan Learning Center and Educators United are sponsoring a writing contest open to all students kindergarten through 12th grade. Students who enter have the chance to be published.



Interested students should submit a short story or a poem, along with an entry form that you can pick up at the Anthem, Arrowhead, or Phoenix Sylvan Learning Centers, or visit the website: http://www.educatorsunited.weebly.com/.



Love reading? Students can also write a book review using a book report form created by the student's teacher or one the student created.



Contest ends May 31, 2010