SUMMER CAMP 2☀️2☀️

Arrival, greeting time (9:30 AM*): Children will be dropped off at a designated location in the park. Families will be screened, have an opportunity to connect with our teachers, get settled, and engage in an opening activity.

Group meeting Drum Circle & plan: Children and instructors come together for a meeting where they will sing songs, dance, and discuss the day’s happening.

Free play & enrichment activities: Children will be free to explore the class space, play and collaborate with others. Instructors will set out activities based on the camp theme and support children in completing them if they choose.

Snack & story: Please provide a healthy snack (usually a fruit/veggie and a grain). Snack is a great time for us to tell a story or meet together.

Adventure or explore time: Teachers will lead an adventure out into the park or forest and stop to play at one of the park’s many features (not playgrounds).

Lunch & free play: We’ll have lunch out of our lunch boxes, either in the class space or on our adventure.

Half Day Campers Pick up (1:20-1:30*): Children are picked up in a designated area in the park.

Full Day Campers Rest Time (1:30-2:00): Children needing to take a nap will be given their own individual, sanitized sleeping mat.

• Guardians to supply the outdoor sleeping mat / cot /hammock, clean sheets and bedding for the mat /cot. 
• Guardians will take home, wash and sanitize the bedding, sheets and /or hammock daily, hand them to the teachers at the start of each day, handed back by the teachers at the end of each day at pick-up.
• Mats /cots will be kept in the Teachers’ vehicles, dropped off on the first day of the start of the camp selected and returned to the guardian at the end of their child’s last camp day, unless needed back earlier for any reason.
• Teachers will spray, wipe and sanitize mats and cots. 
• No pillows nor blankets required.
• Children will wear their clothing and possibly shoes during nap time.
• Nap mats will be placed 10 feet apart, at a covered area for resting. 
• Non-Nappers get a half hour to do other activities such as reading and journalling. 

Non-nappers will be read to from a chapter book (Roald Dahl; Enid Blighton; The Secret Garden...) and given materials to create and keep a journal.

Wild last 90 minutes: Full Day Children have one BIG, FUN SURPRISE task / game /collaboration to complete, specific to the theme of the camp, then Drum Circle Farewell near the designated pick up area.

Full Day Pick up (3:20-3:30*): Children are picked up in a designated area in the park.

CAMP GRADUATION CERTIFICATES FOR CHILDREN WHO ATTEND ALL 7 CAMPS will be given in a team-building ceremony on the last day of the 7th camp, from 2:30-3:15pm.