Love animals? Love making art? This class is all about spending a month drawing, printing, painting, and building animal-inspired artwork in fun, hands-on ways. Students will be drawing, carving and printing images, sculpt with papier-mache, and bringing animals to life with paint.

Explore clay through sculpture, hand building, and pottery on the throwing wheel. We will make clay heads, animal sculptures, functional hand-built pottery, Native American style pots, along with wheel thrown pots. Painting and Glazing the work you made.

This is an opportunity for students to receive some extra reading and math reinforcement to prepare students for their next grade level. Students will receive phonemic awareness instruction, fluency practice, reading comprehension practice, writing reinforcement, as well as related critical math skills related to common core curriculum. Instruction will be from highly trained DCES Teachers. This program will give students added confidence in their reading and math skills and provide them with a successful jump start for the next school year. Students must be enrolled in DCES for the 2026-2027 school year to attend.

We will explore color through different mediums in different ways. We will use colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and printmaking to create colorful works of art. We will be creating portraits, doing stain glass inspired designs, painting landscapes, creating Pop Art comic book characters, and learning how to paint on a canvas using formal painting techniques.

This is an opportunity for incoming kindergarteners to get comfortable in their new learning environment, get to know teachers, meet new friends, and learn important skills needed for kindergarten. This instruction will be from highly trained DCES Teachers. Students will get to tour their new school, and learn pre-reading/writing activities, counting and skills like cutting and gluing. Students must be enrolled in DCES Fall 2026 and five years of age by Sept. 1

This is an opportunity for current DCES students that were not enrolled in Mandarin during Kindergarten that will be joining Mandarin DLI in First grade or 2nd grade transfer students for the 26-27 school year. Students will have an introduction to Mandarin learning the language with vocabulary and math skills.

Interested in photography but want to experiment beyond just digital? We will be spending a month learning how to create bold, dynamic, and visually engaging works using the dark room, print pictures on fabric, and use the sun to create photographic prints.