White pine, Maine’s state flower, and Red pine, are ubiquitous throughout the state and provide a vital pool of resources for human and nonhuman Mainers alike. Pine needles are beautiful and strong! They can be coiled and sewn together to make hats, lovely usable baskets, and/or adorably tiny ones. Learn to identify, regeneratively gather and harvest, properly store and process, and weave with pine needles. We'll cover the basics of coiled basketry, which is a global, ancient human skill, and create a wonderful pine-needle basket. Every participant will make a basket to take home.

Learn the basics of creating jar candles using 100% soy wax and fragrances infused with essential oils. You'll learn how to blend fragrances to create your own unique scent, melt and pour candle wax, and find the right materials to make long-lasting, strong-smelling and clean-burning candles. You'll leave class with one custom candle that you’ve designed!

If you took Factory 3's Intro to Welding class or have some welding experience, you're ready to apply and grow your skills with a small project.

With clothes designed to fall apart and be replaced, learning how to mend your favorite garments keeps them out of the landfills longer while saving you money. You’ll learn the basics of mending, both on woven and knit fabric, by hand stitching or by machine. Hand sewing experience is helpful, but not required. You are encouraged to bring your own item of clothing in need of repair, but fabric for mending samples is provided.

This is open to all players going into grades 8 through 12. The summer league is coached by Leavitt Girls Basketball Head Coach Kyle Rines and his assistant coaches, Morgan Hixson and Jenika Kelley.  

The league will run from Monday, June 16th through Thursday, July 31st, with the week of July 4th off.  This program will include 12 practice sessions for players to get better at individual skills and at least 14 games for players to participate in.  

Practices will be Monday and Wednesday mornings from 10:00AM-12:00PM at the Leavitt HS gymnasium.

Most games will be located at Spruce Mt. High School in Jay, ME on Thursday evenings. 

Players participating will need to bring water, good basketball sneakers, and a practice jersey if they have one.

The fee for the course will go towards the practices sessions, league and tournament fees, and a summer shirt provided by the coaching staff.

In this reading and writing course, students will strengthen their understanding of the interconnected relationship between reading and writing for academic purposes. Students will apply their comprehension of paragraph and essay structure to analyze and produce narrative, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and persuasive writing. Students will gain digital literacy skills through working with online learning technology. At the completion of this course, students’ work will be analyzed to determine readiness for ENGL 080 or ENGL 100.

English 040

Instructor: Alexandra Requena

Tuesdays & Thursdays: 6/16 - 8/16

Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm

English 080

Instructor: Anna Patkus

Tuesdays & Thursdays: 6/23 - 8/16

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Location: SMCC

Fee: Free, but must pre-register

Run Club Summer Camp Are you in grades 2-6 and enjoy being active outdoors?

If you do, Running Club might be for you! Come join Mrs. Knowlton every Monday morning for some running! Parent pickup will be promptly at 10:30am at the TES playground. The practices will consist of warm ups, goal setting, running on the TES playground or Leavitt track, fun games and a cool down.

JUNE 16-JULY 28 MONDAYS 9-10:30am $75

 

It’s summertime, and for Ed Higgins’ students that means one thing: plein air season is here. Ed thinks nothing is more healthy for artists than to get outside and work in the wild. We will meet at a different location in and around the midcoast. In case of extreme weather, we’ll have an alternate indoor location, but for light drizzle and such, we’ll try to meet at spots with a covered shelter option. Material requirements are a plein air easel or French paint box or pochade, palette and palette knives, brushes, Liquin original gel oil painting medium, odorless thinner in a sealable plein air container, a set of oil paints (landscape colors), and plenty of rags. Wear a hat and old clothes, bring sunscreen, insect repellent, hydration, and lunch. **Special note about art materials: Please do not call our office about materials. Come to the first class with your favorite sketchbook and drawing pencils & pens. Suggested materials will be discussed by the instructor on the first day of classes. Thank you.