Summer School

IN-DISTRICT FAMILIES: K-8 ENROLLMENT WILL OPEN ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2026

SUMMER JOURNEY DATES:

June 2-June 26 (no school on June 19)

8:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. at MRH Elementary School

To enroll in summer school, communicate your interest by completing the steps in PowerSchool.

1. Login to your PowerSchool Account.

2. Click on the Forms icon on the left side.

3. Complete the Summer Journey Interest Form.

4. When this form is complete, you will see a green check next to the form.

**IMPORTANT NOTE-IF YOUR CHILD ATTENDED SJ IN PREVIOUS YEARS THIS WILL ALREADY HAVE A GREEN CHECK YOU MUST RESUBMIT A NEW FORM EACH YEAR AND UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION, PLEASE BE SURE TO CLICK THE FORM AND SUBMIT**

If you have questions, please contact your school office or email: sjadmin@mrhschools.net

Parents will be notified by Summer Administrators upon official enrollment. All enrollment is dependent upon sufficient staffing availability.

Need more help? Click this link for more help with PowerSchool.

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OUT OF DISTRICT FAMILIES/NOT A CURRENT MRH STUDENT:

Please use this Google form to let us know you are interested in Summer Journey. This form will open on February 11.

Kindergarten

Animals All Around

Join us to explore the captivating world of animals! In this course, students dive into various habitats, discovering species and behaviors through hands-on activities like creating animal masks, nature walks, and imaginative play. The course emphasizes literacy with animal-themed stories, fosters creativity through art projects, and incorporates music and movement to mimic animal behaviors. Students also explore basic science concepts, such as life cycles and conservation, while practicing counting and math skills with animal-themed materials.

Nooks, Nests, and Burrows

Ready to be a zoologist? This course takes students on an exciting journey through the animal kingdom, exploring bugs, reptiles, and aquatic creatures in habitats like Australia, the Everglades, and the Sonoran Desert. After a short rest, young adventurers engage in imaginative play, song, and dance, including an “animal orchestra” and storytelling. Each day concludes with center activities that develop artistic, gross-motor, literacy, and social skills, making learning a fun, hands-on experience.

Morning Core Courses

1st Grade

Up, Up, and Away & To the Moon and Beyond

Students are propelled into space, learning about the solar system and space exploration. They discover how Earth, the moon, and the sun move and interact with each other. Concepts like gravity, day and night, and the changing seasons, help students understand Earth’s place in space. Hands-on activities include solar system models, star chart observations, simple rocket crafts, and space-themed art. The concept of space exploration, highlighting the achievements of astronauts and space missions, is introduced in an age-appropriate manner. Through interactive read-alouds and imaginative play, students gain a sense of wonder about the universe and an appreciation for the achievements of space explorers.

2nd-3rd Grades

Reading/Language Arts: Game On!

This course welcomes students to the exciting world of sports through lively stories and informational texts. From discovering the history of basketball, watching sisters win a close soccer game, and even learning how to build a bowling alley at home, students strengthen comprehension and vocabulary through whole-group, small-group, and independent activities. The course concludes with a creative team challenge where students invent and present their own new sport, building confidence in speaking, listening, and collaboration.

Comic Book Creators

This course takes students into the exciting world of comic books, turning them into “superwriters”! Through mini-lessons and hands-on activities, students build vocabulary, experiment with language, and practice the writing process as they craft their own comic book adventures. Along the way, they explore the elements of comics in wholegroup, small-group, and independent work. The course concludes with students presenting their finished comic books, strengthening their creativity and speaking and listening skills.

Math: Adventures in Addition and Subtraction

In Adventures in Addition and Subtraction, students dive into addition and subtraction, sharpening their skills while exploring game play and design. Throughout the course, they unlock the secrets of 10-frames, number lines, base-10 blocks, and number bonds, discovering how these tools can make math more approachable. Students play games to strengthen skills and maintain engagement. At the end of the course, students become game designers—creating their own math-inspired game for classmates to play.

Science/Social Studies: Feel the Force

Students dive into the exciting realm of forces, the amazing powers that make things move, stop, and change direction in Feel the Force. From standard pushes and pulls to the invisible tug of gravity, students unravel the mysteries of friction and magnetism to discover how these affect the way objects move. As a final challenge, students learn to think like engineers as they design a car that they can push and pull through an obstacle course using only a magnet.

Money Mission
Money Mission introduces students to the exciting world of money management through playful, hands-on activities. As they become savvy spenders, smart savers, and budding entrepreneurs, students explore needs and wants, budgeting, bartering, and buying and selling goods. Engaging games, role-plays, and mini-lessons build financial vocabulary and critical thinking skills while making learning fun. The course concludes with a lively classroom marketplace, where students create and sell their own handcrafted goods, applying their learning in an authentic

4th-5th Grades

Reading/Language: Arts Food for Thought

Food for Thought serves up a feast of stories and informational texts, all centered on the theme of food. From family tales like “Frosting on the Cake” and “Maple Street Muffins” to texts loaded with fun facts like “Munching at the Movies” and “The Microwave Oven”, students explore both narrative and informational writing. Along the way, they strengthen comprehension and vocabulary through engaging activities. Creative projects invite them to design cakes, write popcorn poetry, and plant gardens, culminating with a lively studentcreated relay course.

Uncharted Adventures

Uncharted Adventures invites students to become storytellers as they craft their own thrilling adventure tales. Through brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing, students develop narrative writing skills while exploring key story elements like characters, setting, and plot. Tools such as story maps and editing checklists guide them through each stage of the writing process. The course concludes with students sharing their stories aloud in small groups and presenting them in an “Adventure Story Gallery Walk.”

Math Fraction: Fanatics

In Fraction Fanatics students experience the challenging and entertaining world of fractions, honing their skills while exploring a mix of popular and unique sports. Utilizing tools such as fraction tiles, tape diagrams, and number lines, students explore unit fractions, operations, equivalency, and the magnitude of fractions. The course uses real-world sports contexts to make fractions feel relevant and accessible. By the end of the course, students showcase their skills in a series of fractions- and sports-inspired games.

Science: Survival Secrets: Life in Nature

In Survival Secrets: Life in Nature, students examine the features that help plants and animals survive and thrive within their ecosystems. They explore plant and animal characteristics and interdependent relationships by building models, creating artwork, and engaging in interactive activities. The course culminates in a multiday project where students design and build a model trap for an invasive species that does not harm other plants or animals or the greater environment.

Social Studies Trailblazers

Trailblazers introduces students to groundbreaking Americans who shaped history through courage, creativity, and conviction. Each lesson highlights influential figures from different eras, showing how their ideas and actions sparked change and innovation. Students then bring history to life through engaging activities by mapping discoveries, pitching inventions, experiencing the perspective of a child laborer, and designing signs for a community cause. The course concludes with students creating trading cards of their favorite Trailblazers, celebrating the people who inspired them most.

6th-8th Grades

Reading: Canyons

Students will read Gary Paulson’s novel Canyons in which Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, finally gets to take part in his first raid. More than a hundred years later, 15-year-old Brennan finds an old human skull on a camping trip. The skull has been pierced by a bullet. Brennan learns about the fate of the young Apache Indian who was shot by soldiers in 1864. Themes include self-awareness and coming of age, history and historical research, and investigative science, among others. Lessons focus on problem/solution, characterization, note-taking skills, making inferences, and foreshadowing. Reading level should be comfortable for most sixth graders and interest level goes far beyond, captivating all ages.

Language Arts: Building on Basics

In Building on Basics, students explore the features and purposes of magazines as they work toward creating their own group magazines. Through games and activities, they practice basic grammatical and punctuation skills. They participate in the shared writing of different types of texts. Students learn to create catchy openings for their articles and how to use descriptive vocabulary that encourages their readers’ engagement. Putting it all together, students write, edit, revise, and publish their own group magazines that they can share with the class.

Math: Hands-on Equations Algebra

This course is an abstract but fundamental skill with which many middle school students struggle. It integrates and extends a highly successful curriculum using innovative manipulatives to provide students with concrete experiences in pre-algebra and algebra. The manipulatives and instructional method take the mystery out of variables as students learn new strategies for solving complex linear equations.

Science: Force and Motion

Force and Motion will use investigative inquiry and fun activities to drive this physical science course on force and motion. Lessons cover topics such as rate/time/distance, motion and rest, acceleration, friction, and transfer of momentum, in addition to others. This course provides a wealth of materials and dynamic lessons.

Social Studies: Westward Expansion

Students consider the westward expansion of the United States from multiple perspectives in this intriguing social studies course. Lessons examine major 19th century events and migrations, including the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Trail of Tears, and the California Gold Rush. Students are asked to reflect the viewpoints of various Americans—white settlers, enslaved people, members of native tribes, and more—as they engage in activities that spur creativity and critical thinking. Whether they are reading primary sources, writing plays and petitions, or creating signs for a rally, students will enjoy recreating and investigating the “Wild West.”

Afternoon Explore Courses

1st-3rd Grades

Lights, Camera, Imagine!

Lights, Camera, Imagine! introduces students to theater in an engaging, supportive environment. Through playful activities, students explore acting, storytelling, and performance while developing communication skills. In the first half of the course, students practice script-acting by performing the Reader’s Theater folktale “How Much Money for a Smell?” Later, they learn improvisation through interactive activities that culminate in a performance of their own original stories. Along the way, students design props, costumes, and scenery to bring their creative ideas to life on stage.

Bugs & Slugs

Bugs & Slugs is designed for curious first through third graders and blends science, art and active play to spark creativity and critical thinking. Throughout camp, campers become bug detectives and budding entomologists as they uncover how bugs use unique traits and special skills to survive. Through hands-on investigations, creative crafts and imaginative games, this camp keeps minds buzzing and bodies in motion.

BrickLAB: Brain Builders Let’s build better brains!

Using hands-on manipulatives to enhance learning, BrickLAB Brain Builders focuses on communication and teamwork as students tackle exercises in social studies, geography, history and biology, all while constructing, collaborating and learning together. Engage in stimulating science and engineering challenges as learners determine patterns, construct unique designs and translate abstract ideas into concrete models! From structures to puzzles, BrickLAB Brain Builders is a surefire way to introduce fun and interactive learning into any setting.

Mission Control

Mission Control invites students to blast off on an exciting adventure full of rockets and space exploration. In this hands-on course, students investigate rocket shapes, learn about the forces involved in lift-off, and engage in experiments using rockets they create. As their astronaut training continues, students imagine what it is like to live and work in space and take on creative challenges. Students test their engineering skills in a final mission: designing and launching a rocket to carry much-needed supplies to a space station!

Cubelets® BOT Builder

In Cubelets® BOT Builder, students build a variety of fully functional robots or design their own using Cubelets, the modular robotics building blocks. From the Waddle- Bot that runs in circles to the Rodeo-Bot that bucks like a bull, Cubelets BOT Builder has learners harness the power of STEM to make robots move, sense and adapt to their surroundings. Get ready to introduce your youngest roboticists to a lifelong love of STEM!

Abracadabra Academy

Abracadabra Academy invites students into the enchanting world of magic, where they learn to present tricks and illusions in a supportive, engaging environment. Budding magicians explore props, costumes, and classic tricks using everyday items like cups, coins, and cards. They experiment with illusions, such as making a coin disappear, while developing communication and presentation skills. Along the way, students craft props—including wands, hats, and colorful bags—while creating magic words, names, and posters. The course culminates in a dazzling final project: their very own magic show!

4th-5th Grades

Strings & Beads

Students use strings and beads to design and create projects, participate in games, and enrich skills in several academic areas. Activities such as constructing dream catchers, transforming a piece of bread into colorful beads, and engaging in the art of jewelry making allow students the opportunity to explore these basic materials. From yarn paintings to ancient bead bartering, strings and beads are used to make this course a memorable experience.

Flight & Aerodynamics

Take to the skies with dynamic, hands-on aviation activities. Combine the engineering design process, creative thinking and hands-on STEAM learning to investigate the wonders of flight. Create hot air balloons, planes, helicopters and rockets, all while examining concepts like energy conservation, buoyancy and the four forces of flight. Fly alongside the aviation experts of history and their extraordinary flying machines in Flight & Aerodynamics!

Oceanic Exploration

Journey from the tropics to the poles, inspect arctic food webs, simulate coral reef adaptations and survey everything from the great river deltas to the Mariana Trench. Collaborate to bring the California sea otter back from the brink of extinction and track great white sharks across the open ocean, answering crucial ecological sustainability questions. Through actionpacked activities, discover the physical and geological sciences that underpin all ocean life. With Oceanic Exploration, STEM education is your oyster!

Build a Better World

Explore the power of engineering to protect ourselves from natural disasters! In this hands-on program, students collaborate on structural challenges as they model earthquake stability, hurricane winds, system integrity and so much more on their quest to understand how buildings are designed to resist outside forces. Through this combination of earth science, the engineering design process and 21st-century skills in creativity, collaboration and critical thinking, students are exposed to the power of engineering to do good in the world!

Rockets Junior

Students design paper rockets and other paper aircraft as they explore a number of exciting scientific investigations While building rockets, they discover Newton’s Laws of Motion, Principles of Flight, and Simple Aerodynamics. To test theories learned, students fire a rocket over 1,000 feet in the air.

Music to Our Ears

Get ready for a rhapsody of music and activities. Music appreciation will come to life as clay sculptures are created, magic tricks are performed and a puppet play is presented. A virtual white water rafting trip is sure to provide a fresh “twist” on classical music. Your ears will be tickled during this engaging experience into music

6th-8th Grades

3D Art Camp

All art projects in this course are above the plane and definitely beyond the plain! Students sculpt, create modern art, construct balloon sculptures, and form masks in this fun course. These and other projects all involve three-dimensional creations. Students assuredly gain a new perspective on art.

BrickLAB: Genetics

Use hands-on manipulatives to guide inquiry-driven explorations of the fascinating world of genetics and heredity. With each scaffolded lesson, students learn more about the basics of human inheritance and trait variations. Through hands-on activities, watch as the intricate coding of genes and the impacts of DNA mutations come to life. With BrickLAB Genetics, students assemble their understanding of the unique processes that make up the world around them!

Eggs-traordinary Physics

Which came first, the chicken or egg-citing physics challenges? In this fast-moving program, students turn the study of motion and mass into engineering design projects and team-building challenges! They’ll spin, toss, race and design while studying the ideas of motion, such as velocity, speed and the significant role gravity plays. Each day, learners meet the challenges of Eggs-traordinary Physics head-on with teamwork, application-based learning, active demonstrations and a whole lot of eggs-treme fun!

60 Seconds or Less

In this kinesthetic learning enrichment program, students channel their inner competitive spirit and reinforce STEM through 60-second challenges. In each lesson, learners collaborate to utilize household items and micro-challenges to practice the engineering design process and explore the expansive world of STEM. As the challenges progress, students need to problem-solve, move quickly and apply the real-world principles they’ve learned.

Just Golf

Students take a swing at a game that has been a favorite pastime for centuries when they participate in Just Golf. This adventure course provides opportunities for students to experiment with some of the skills necessary to play golf as well as participate in circuit challenges right at school. This course should provide the motivation to enjoy this sport for a lifetime.

Game Show!

Get ready, get set for Game Show! Participate in various TV games and contests like Up Against Time, Wheel Wizard, and Clue Control. The course includes the use of a buzzer system so bring your “brain game.” Can you beat the clock in this fast-paced course?

Dear Students and Parent(s)/Guardian(s),

Below you will find more information about our 2026 Summer School, including dates and times, as well as a brief overview of what learning will look like during this time. We are partnering with Launch, a high-quality virtual learning platform for the state of Missouri. This platform will allow students to access more courses to help them recover credits or advance their credits toward graduation. Our school counselors will make sure your student is enrolled in the appropriate course(s) to stay on track to graduate. Students will have the opportunity to earn up to one (1) credit in the courses available. 

To enroll in the 2026 MRH HS Summer School Program, please complete this form by Wednesday, May 20, 2026.  
Credit recovery courses are for students who have taken but not successfully passed the class. Students in credit recovery courses will attend in person and receive in-person support from certified teachers to guide them through the Launch program. Once students successfully complete their course, they will no longer be required to attend in person. 

Summer School Enrollment Form

 If you have any questions or concerns about enrollment, please feel free to reach out to Mrs. Huffman (MRH High School Head Principal), your school counselor, Mrs. Kravitz (9th/10th), Mr. Harcharic (11th/12th), or Dr. McGee (MRH Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction)

Program Dates:  June 1 - June 26 (Session 1) or July 6 - July 31 (Session 2)         
Registration Closes: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
On-Campus Support Location:  MRH HS/MS
 

Credit Acquisition courses are for students seeking credit for courses they have not taken; the options are Personal Finance and PE. Students in PE or Personal Finance will be completely virtual (no in-person classes) through Launch and will need to log in starting June 3rd for Session 1 and July 8th for Session 2.

Credit Recovery courses are for students who have failed the course previously and are seeking to make up the credit.  Courses Offered include:

• Personal Finance
• Algebra I
• Algebra II
• Pre-Calculus
• Geometry
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Intro to Physics
• English I
• English II
• English III
• 20th Century Studies (US History)
• World History: Freshman Humanities

MRH is committed to student success in credit acquisition and credit recovery.  Mrs. Tonja Robinson and Mr. Bob Busby will be on-site with students, supporting them in their summer success.

Stay tuned for additional information on how they can support your students!

               Tonja Robinson                                                                                                                    Robert Busby