During the summer, Champion provides high quality, individualized tutoring, designed to reinforce concepts learned during the past year and also to help prepare for new academic challenges. As always, we offer one-on-one tutoring—flexible to your child’s schedule—in all general subjects including elementary education, as well as foreign languages including Spanish, Latin, and French. Summer is also a great time to get a head start on standardized test preparation. Our trained teachers can chart a course of study best suited to your child’s test prep goals.

This summer, our successful SAT Math “Boot Camp” will return, along with a new SAT Verbal workshop. We will also offer additional writing, test-prep, and foreign language workshops. These small classes are designed to reinforce fundamental skills before the start of the next academic year. Our teachers are experts at presenting these “nuts and bolts” of learning in a fun, creative, and intellectually challenging environment. Please call soon to reserve a spot—space is limited!

SAT Math “Boot Camp”

August 3–6, 2:00pm–4:30pm

This intensive four-day course outlines the essential math skills necessary for success on the SAT exam. The first part of each day will provide an in-depth, comprehensive review of all major math topics, and will assign a series of problems designed to reinforce that day’s topic. For the last part of the session, students will meet one-on-one with a trained SAT instructor for individualized break-out sessions in which they work through the assigned mathematics problems and reinforce the concepts learned that morning.

Spanish Immersion

Saturday, August 7, 12:00pm–3:00pm

Is your Spanish getting rusty this summer? Get prepared for Spanish II with an intensive review of Spanish I. In this Spanish II-preparation workshop, students will focus on grammar and vocabulary with plenty of opportunities to practice conversational skills in small group and one-on-one settings. Come join the fun!

Saturday, August 14, 12:00pm–3:00pm

In our Spanish III-preparation workshop, students will receive a brief review of Spanish II before progressing to more challenging grammatical concepts (commands, imperfect vs. preterite, and an introduction to the subjunctive). Emphasis will be placed on conversation and dialogue. The class will conclude with a group translation and discussion of a Spanish folktale, a fun and collaborative process that will also familiarize students with the translation skills expected of them in Spanish III.

SAT Verbal Workshop

This one-day course will introduce every section of the SAT Verbal exam: sentence completion, passage-based reading, identifying and correcting sentence errors, and the essay. The workshop is designed to highlight the most frequently occurring types of SAT Verbal questions, and to help students learn how to group these questions together into familiar “categories.” A variety of effective test-taking strategies will be discussed.

PSAT/SAT Prep (Vocabulary-building emphasis)

Using words pulled from actual SAT exams, students will participate in a variety of games and enrichment activities designed to build a solid vocabulary that will improve reading comprehension and performance on future SAT tests.

College Essay Workshop

Our trained instructors will guide students through a series of creative brainstorming sessions aimed at helping them discover “their” topic and creating a genuine voice in their writing. Students will complete the workshop with at least one polished essay that highlights their unique accomplishments—and will help them stand out in today’s competitive college admissions process.

Creative Writing Workshop

Using fun, innovative techniques, our trained instructors will teach students how to develop and organize thoughts into a complete project. Skills like generating clear sentences and providing supporting details will be incorporated into topics that your child enjoys exploring.