Summer Camps Archives - Pear Tree Education

Vancouver Courier article about Pear Tree’s Summer Camps

Pear Tree’s Summer Camps discussed in today’s Vancouver Courier In today’s issue (May 27th) of the Vancouver Courier, Pear Tree Education make an appearance on pages A16-A17 as part of the newspaper’s Summer Camp-o-Rama article. Journalist, Shannon Lynch, was interested to know more about the benefits of kids attending Pear Tree’s summer camps, considering that…

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Pear Tree Summer Camps Mentioned on Global TV

Pear Tree Summer Camps Mentioned on Global TV Early this morning, Christine Pilkington from Vancouvermom.ca went on Global TV to announce the release of their Top 100 summer camps, as well as their featured summer camps. As part of the interview, Pear Tree’s summer camps were mentioned. Christine highlights that Pear Tree has opened two…

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Summer Camps 2014 Highlights!

Firstly, we would like to thank our students, their parents, and our instructors for helping us make summer 2014 the biggest and best yet! From the following pictures from 2014, 2013, and 2012, you’ll have a good idea of how popular our summer camps have become. We have been almost completely full for 9 weeks…

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Summer Camps: Week 4 Highlights

Just when you thought you knew Pear Tree Education! Week 4 saw the introduction of Pear Tree’s new Legends & Fairytales summer camp. Admittedly, parents and kids didn’t know quite what to expect from this course. Would they just read fairy tales? Of course not!! In true Pear Tree style, the kids did so many…

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Summer Camps: Week 3 Highlights

What a bumper action-filled week! We’re a little late posting information about Week 3, but that doesn’t mean that the week wasn’t amazing! Quite the opposite, in fact! Urban Gardener students had a truly hands-on week, planting beans and flowers. They did flower dissections, and created clay diagrams of the different parts of a plant….

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Public Speaking in Pear Tree Education's 'Kids Can Cook!' Course

Pear Tree’s ‘Kids Can Cook!’ course isn’t just about kids cooking! In true Pear Tree style, the kids will be giving daily mini PowerPoint presentations to the other classes about the day’s Hot Lunch (today is Turkey Chilli). They’ll be explaining the main ingredients, the nutrition and what this does for the body. So, this…

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Summer Camps: Week 2 Highlights

Every Pear Tree summer camp is action packed, but this week especially so! For each day of the Super Scientists course, students studied different sub-themes, which included polymers, eggs, bubbles, and density. There were so many great moments throughout the Super Scientists course, but probably the highlight was the Sink or Float game. This really exemplified…

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Summer Camps: Week 1 highlights

Pear Tree Education’s summer camps have got off to a great start! The kids are having fun, making friends, and learning lots of cool things Week 1’s camp themes included Westcoast Creatures and Photography. Below you can see some of the learning that is taking place at Pear Tree, and we’ll be posting more photos…

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Thank you Pear Tree summer camp students!

We would like to thank students, parents, and teachers for making Pear Tree’s first summer camp such an amazing one! It was incredible not only how many but also how lovely you all are! We felt great pride in offering Pear Tree courses to each and every one of you. In turn, we were treated…

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Week 6: Animation Movie Studio

The last week of Pear Tree’s summer camps included the Animation Movie Studio course. Working with a variety of materials including coloured card, clay, and Lego, the students made a different mini slowmation video every day of the week. At the end of the week, the students took home a CD with a copy of…

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