Welcome to Kiddie Academy’s CampVentures 2019

Who’s excited for an amazing summer? I know we are! This could be the first time you’re attending our CampVentures Program or you’re an old friend returning. Either way, it’s time to prepare you for a fun summer. We have many new adventures planned and we are really excited to share our plans with you!

We understand summer is about fun, games, and activities… But who said we can’t incorporate learning in there, too? With CampVentures here at Kiddie Academy you get the best of both worlds. CampVentures is an all-day summer camp program that pushes the bar on excitement! Kiddie Academy’s CampVentures turns your child’s ordinary summer vacation into a summer of exploration. Our program inspires imagination through exciting activities, field trips and special visitors, while balancing the individual needs and interests of each child in our care. CampVentures at Kiddie Academy of Islip is a must for any child who wants to socialize with friends, have fun, and take part in exciting, new experiences!

Each day the Campers are served a nutritious and delicious breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. All the children have expressed their love of cooking and eating. On special snack days, we have quick and easy recipes for the children to prepare. Having the children engage in measuring ingredients, gripping the cooking utensils and mixing different ingredients together to make their own meals, helps enrich their fine motor skills, critical thinking and self-help skills.

Every week we will focus on a different theme designed to fill the children’s time full of arts, crafts, games, and adventures while enhancing each child’s cognitive and physical development as well as their fine and gross motor skills. Campers also have fun learning through play and a STEM Program, taught by qualified Camp Teachers. Every activity mixes fun with high-quality instruction that is tailored to each child’s individual need and developmental level.

A consistent part of our schedule, all summer long will be Park Monday’s, Water play Wednesday’s, Show and Share Thursday’s and Field Trip Friday’s. Every Monday we will take a walk down to Beaver Dam Park, play on the playground and engage in team sports. On Wednesday’s we will have a ton of fun with wet and wild water activities. We do ask that on Wednesdays, each child brings in their bathing suit, towel and water shoes. Thursday’s the children will have the opportunity to bring in an item from home and share it with their friends (no electronics please!). CampVentures will have one off-site Field Trip per week on Fridays! Please check the schedule for specific dates. All campers attending a field trip must wear their summer camp T-shirt, socks, and sneakers. Every child is asked to bring in non-aerosol Sunscreen, bug repellant wipes, any unwanted magazines and an old shirt to use as a smock for our summer activities!

At Kiddie Academy, STEM is an integral part of CampVentures. With the Project Approach, our children are encouraged to be scientific thinkers through hands-on experiments that allow them to discover the natural environment around them. Technology skills are enhanced through interactions with simple and scientific tools, as well as individual and group participation with an interactive Smart Board and classroom Engineering is the focus when the children are using critical thinking and problem solving skills to engage in projects that promote team work and discovery of how things work and real world engineering problems. The children are invited to participate in mathematical activities that encourage them to solve problems, increase their number sense, focus on geometry skills, practice measurement skills, and improve knowledge of spatial relationships. The Teachers will be implementing a “Daily Challenge” every week; they will have a variety of experiments to work on.

Please read on to learn about all of the weekly themes and some of the activities we’ve already planned.

Week 1: Spirit Week (July 1st – July 5th)

Welcome to Kiddie Academy’s CampVentures 2019! This week is all about getting to know each other and our camp counselors. We will be kicking off CampVentures with Rainbow Day. Make sure to wear all of the colors of the rainbow. We will also head to the park. On Tuesday, let’s dress up and wear our favorite sports team jersey, and then wear wacky socks on Wacky Sock Wednesday! Our STEM Daily Challenge is Apple Science; we will conduct a variety of experiments to compare different types of apples. We will be playing friendship games to get acclimated with each other for a fun filled summer. Please remember we are closed on Thursday, July 4th. When the children return on Friday, we will have our first field trip to Funstation USA! Please ensure the children wear socks and sneakers and send in a labeled re-usable water bottle for the field trip.

Week 2: Fun & Fitness (July 8th – July 12th)

This week will be full of fun & fitness! We’ll kick off the week with some Kickball at the park on Monday! On Tuesday we will work our way through an obstacle course. Wednesday will be focused on fruits as we learn to make a healthy fruit salad. Thursday, we will hand off the baton in our relay races. Our STEM Daily Challenge is Balloon Jets; we will make a balloon fly like a jet! We will also have fun while exercising and staying active for the remainder of Fitness week. To round out our week, our field trip this Friday will be to Adventureland! The children will need to wear socks and sneakers to the field trip and please remember to bring your labeled re-usable water bottles to stay hydrated!

Week 3: Happy Holidays (July 15th-19th)

This week we will celebrate all different holidays! On Monday the children will hop right into Easter! We will be having an egg hunt to celebrate this holiday. Our STEM Daily Challenge is Marshmallow Challenge; we will build the tallest possible freestanding structure with available materials that can support a large marshmallow at the top of the structure. On Tuesday, we will celebrate the Fourth of July; the children should wear red white and blue. On Wednesday we will celebrate Valentine’s Day by making cards and sending Valentine’s to our fellow campers. Thursday the children will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Remember to wear green on Thursday when we’ll do a St. Patrick’s Day craft. The week will commence with a trip to the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead where the children will have the opportunity to see various different sea creatures. Please make sure the children wear socks and sneakers. Labeled re-usable water bottles are necessary for this field trip.

Week 4: Wild for Wildlife (July 22nd-26th)

This week we will be wild for wildlife! Our first wild art project will be on Monday when we make Panda Art. On Tuesday the children will have the opportunity to make and enjoy Banana Splits! We will continue to be wild for wildlife on Wednesday by playing Animal Charades. Our STEM Daily Challenge is Animal Adaptations; we will invent a new animal and its ideal habitat. Thursday we will do an art project with a Lion King theme. Finally, on Friday, we will head to the movies to see the Lion King! The children will need to bring their labeled re-usable water bottle and wear socks and sneakers on this field trip.

Week 5: Fiesta! (July 29th – August 2nd)

This week will be full of Fiesta! On Monday we will be playing salsa music freeze dance. We will be having Tacos on Tuesday to celebrate Taco Tuesday. The children will be able to assemble their own tacos with a variety of different toppings. Our STEM Daily Challenge is the sound of music; we will use the recyclable materials to design and create music instruments that we’ll play in our band. On Wednesday we will see who can smash the piñata open! The children will be able to collect any of the goodies that fall from the piñata. On Thursday we will have fun making Sombrero Art. The children will learn about the sombrero and get creative with different patterns on their own version of the Sombrero. Field trip Friday will be to Xplore! The children must wear socks and sneakers and bring their labeled re-usable water bottle.

Week 6: Get Creative! (August 5th – August 9th)

This week we will be getting creative! Monday we’ll all have our own canvas to do a canvas painting. On Tuesday we will get creative with Popsicle art. Our STEM Daily Challenge is 100! What can we make with 100 items? We will be making sun catchers on Wednesday and having fun with watercolor art on Thursday. For field trip Friday we will be continuing our theme of creativity with a trip to Key to My Art where the children will attend a guided painting class. Please ensure children wear socks and sneakers.

Week 7: Kids Culinary Academy (August 12th-August 16th)

This week we will be chefs! There are so many different recipes that we’ll make this week. Monday we will create our own snack mix choosing our favorite ingredients. Tuesday we’ll have a pizza party! For Wednesday, we will make dirt cup pudding. We will be serving up ice cream sundaes on Thursday and our STEM Daily Challenge is Candy Chemistry; the campers will test what happens to candy when dropped into different liquids. On Friday, we will close out our week of cooking with a trip to What’s Cooking where we will learn to make different recipes and enjoy our tasty treats. Please ensure the children wear socks and sneakers.

Week 8: In the Game (August 19th – August 23rd)

We will start off the week with some balloon games on Monday. Our STEM Daily Challenge is Deal Me In; we’ll be creating different games with a deck of cards. On Tuesday we’ll be playing our version of the game show “Jeopardy”. The children will be split into teams and have to use their critical thinking skills to give the best question to the proposed answer. We’ll be playing with our favorite board games on Wednesday while we work together and use our critical thinking skills. On Thursday we will be playing some Party Games. Field trip Friday will be to @ Play Amusement! The children must wear socks and sneakers and bring their labeled re-usable water bottle.

Week 9: Saying Goodbye (August 26th- August 30th)

We will be so sad to see our campers go after their last week of camp. On Monday we’ll be making friendship necklaces to share with our friends we made during Summer Camp. On Tuesday, we will take a trip down memory lane. Our STEM Daily Challenge is Popcorn Magic; we’ll perform some “magic” using popcorn and other materials. On Wednesday, we’ll all get autograph books for our friends to sign. Thursday we will be handing out camp awards to all of our campers. Friday we will have our end-of-Summer Camp party where we’ll say goodbye to our new and old friends after a fantastic summer of fun and learning.

In addition to all our Field Trips we have weekly surpise guests! Mr. Softy, Magicians, Face Painting, Teddy Bear Clinics, Karate Instructors, DJ Barabra and Dance lessons.

We are so excited to see you all!