Summer Programs
Don’t want your kids sitting around all summer long? Hoping your child doesn’t lose his desire to learn over the next few months? Check out our summer camps and courses to see which one works best for you and your child. With over 20 years of experience, we continue to provide support for children with all learning styles and needs.
Join our summer programs where your child will build relationships, learn and be active, and meet challenges with a smile. All of our staff members have significant experience in their fields and have all of the necessary clearances and background checks successfully in place.
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I would recommend this camp to kids who have trouble with math, and writing. This is fun and an enjoyable camp for the summer!
Summer Tutoring
Study Skills & Executive Functioning Strategies Camps
Interested in a week of camp that will help your child with their organization, planning, and focus, as well as teaching him note-taking and test-taking skills? This camp presents activities designed to focus on the part of the brain responsible for planning, organizing and prioritizing.
This camp will help your child to move from one subject to another, manage stress and finish what they start. We work with your child to increase their Executive Functioning skills and confidence. Our staff is committed to meeting the individual needs of the children we serve. And yes! There’s a lot of summer fun included.
Executive Functioning & Study Skills Camp is for Grades 5-12.
Camp Dates:
July 22-26 | August 12-16 | August 19-23
Cost: $500
Camp Times: 9 am – 12 pm
- Identifying Individual Learning Styles
- Organization & Planning
- Time Management
- Note-Taking Skills
- Reading Skills
- Test-Taking Skills
- Goal-Directed Persistence
- Flexibility and Improvising
- Working Memory and Mnemonics
- Metacognition and Wrap Up
Fick Educatinoal Services has improved my grades through tutoring weekly over the last year. I would recommend this service for anyone who has some trouble in school and wants to get better grades.
SAT Prep Course
Prepare for the August 28th or October 2nd SAT Test Dates!
This SAT prep course will show you the strategies and give you the skills needed to get your optimal score when taking the SAT. Our small group setting allows for individual attention to focus on the areas most needed by each student. Broken down into four, two-hour sessions, we will cover the following:
Session 1: Building an effective Strategy for the SAT format
Session 2: Applying Critical Thinking and Algebra to SAT Math
Session 3: Reading and Language in the SAT
Session 4: Putting it all Together: Practice Test Workshop and Individualized Skill-Building
Cost: $550 (includes all materials)
Time: 6 PM – 8 PM
Course Dates:
July 22 – 25
July 29- August 1
August 12 – 15
All sessions held at 790 E. Market St., Suite #300, West Chester, PA
Middle School Math Refresher
This math course is an innovative Algebra refresher course for children entering 6th – 9th grades in the coming year. This crash course will get your child’s brain back in gear so they can start the new school year with the confidence they need to succeed in math. Our three-session course will meet for 2 hours each day and improve your child’s math skills through:
- An individual assessment of each child’s skill level
- Grouping according to grade and mathematical knowledge
- Practice individual skill gaps as well as preparation for fall curriculum they will be entering
This course is being taught at the following times:
July 22 -24, 6-8 PM | August 12 – 14, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm | August 19 – 21, 6-8 PM
The cost is $325 (includes take home materials).
CHEMISTRY PREP COURSE
Alongside Algebra, Physics, and Reading, Chemistry remains ones of the most frustrating courses for students. If your child struggles with chemistry, is about to take chemistry this upcoming year, or just has a passion for science you want them to explore, this course is for you!
This chemistry prep course will provide a foundation in metric conversions, balancing equations, atomic theory and the mole. The final session include an introduction to stoichiometry. The small group settings will allow for individuals to focus on the areas most needed by each student. Broken down into five, two-hour sessions, we will cover:
Session 1: Measurements
Session 2: Atomic Theory
Session 3: Chemical Reactions
Session 4: The Mole
Session 5: Stoichiometry
Cost: $400, includes all materials
Dates:
August 12-16, 1 PM – 3 PM
August 19-23, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Social Skills GroupS
How do you start up a conversation? What should you say if a friend is upset? How do you ask to borrow something? In society, these are typical questions asked on a daily basis and for several are not easily answered. The Social Skills Group provides a small group environment to help your child answer these types of questions. Group sessions tailored to suit your child’s needs help them learn how to interact appropriately with others their age. The multi-faceted approach used to teach social skills will help improve your child’s conversational, problem solving, verbal presentation, and friendship skills. Each session is supplemented with resources and strategies to be practiced at home and school.
Our summer sessions will adapt from our regular social skills programs, including:
- Multiple types of approaches weekly to teach social skills with generalization for everyday life.
- Sessions tailored specifically to suit child’s needs.
- Fun summer activities to make new friends
- Excellent resources given to practice new skills at home and school.
- Individual progress reports are given as requested.
- Social Thinking Curriculum
- Individual and group sessions
- Sensory processing needs addressed
- Lego building recreation groups
- Yoga and dance movement groups
- Self Awareness
- Verbal presentation and conversation skills
Cost: $400
All session occur 9 AM – 12 PM
Dates:
June 24 – June 28
August 5 – August 9
August 12 – August 16
