Summertime is about fun, games and exploring.  Camp Adventure is an all day summer camp program that pushes the bar on excitement.  Campers are served a nutritious and delicious Breakfast and Lunch as well as Morning and Afternoon Snack each day.  Camp Adventure provides school age children time to enhance what they have learned in school. At the same time, the program is packed with activities and field trips that spark the imagination.  Camp Adventure  is a must for any child who wants to socialize with friends, have fun and take part in interesting, new experiences.

Welcome to Camp Adventure 2011!

Camp Calendar

Camp Enrollment Agreement

Whether you are joining us for the first time or you are an old friend coming back to Kiddie Academy, you are sure to have a great summer!  We have many new adventures planned and we are really excited to share our plans with you!  We’ve made a few changes this year, taking all of our campers “favorites” into account. 

 We know that the children want summertime to be about fun, games, and exploring. Camp Adventure is an all day summer camp program that pushes the bar on excitement. Campers are served a nutritious and delicious breakfast and lunch as well as morning and afternoon snack each day.   We’ve got some really cool activities planned and related to fun themes each week…so get ready for lots of fun!  We’re most excited for our Late Night Royal Ball where we will be staying at camp until dark so we can do all sorts of fun “prince and princess activities” during our Once Upon A Time week!  We’ve also reserved seats for a Long Island Duck Game on August 9^th at 7PM.  We hope your family will join us there!  Seats will be $9.00 so mark it on your calendar!  More information will be available at a later date!

Camp Adventure provides school age children time to enhance what they have learned in school, so we’re sneaking in the academics each and every week!  At the same time, the program is packed with activities and field trips that spark the imagination. Camp Adventure at Kiddie Academy of Greenlawn is a must for any child who wants to socialize with friends, have fun and take part in interesting, new experiences! 

Our permits for West Neck Beach in Lloyd Harbor and Caumsett State Historic Park have been approved and are currently pending for our Friday Field Trips!  We’ll also have two in house field trips in July!  Please see the camp calendar for more information.  Most weeks, we will be bringing along theme related activities to the above mentioned locations. The children will have a choice in which activities they want to participate in or they can choose to make their own fun in the sun. 

 We all love cooking and eating, so we’ll have 2 days per week where we will be creating snacks and meals!  On special snack days, we have quick and easy snacks for the children to prepare.  On cooking days, things get a little more involved with recipes “from scratch” so, we need to learn how to read and write recipes and measure or double ingredients.  We’ll experience cooking terms like chopping, grating, whipping, kneading, straining, squeezing...the list goes on and on because we have many delicious ideas!

 This year, we’re going to try Happy Feet, a traveling soccer program that will adjust their classes according to our ages and abilities!  They will be coming each week over the summer on Mondays with their Renegade program to teach the children all about soccer!  They incorporate fun games and activities based on our weekly themes, while introducing and/or mastering the fundamentals of the sport!

 This year, we are going to have an ongoing Newspaper Club, so the children can create weekly publications!  We’ll need writers, editors, photographers and columnists to report on weekly events!  We’ll also start our Pen-Pal letters with our friends at Kiddie Academy of Islip!  We’ll get to know each other very well over the course of the summer and then we’ll all meet at a picnic at Beaver Damn Park in Islip Terrace, just down the block from Kiddie Academy of Islip on the last day of camp!  We’re also planning a special play that we will begin working on the first day of camp!  We’ll need to write a script, make back drops and costumes and then we’ll have a huge production for all of our friends and families! 

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

We’re looking forward to another great summer!  

Week 1:  Sports and Olympics 

Every day of the week, we’ll have relays, races and Olympic Activities.  On Monday, we’ll be tie dying beach bags that we’ll bring to the beach all summer long!  On Monday, Happy Feet will start their season with us!  Our special snack… Rainbow Italian Ices will be served on Tuesday!  We’ll be going to the Greenlawn Family Restaurant for Breakfast and then head off to Commack Lanes for Bowling on Wednesday!  On Thursday, we’ll be cooking Olympic Sized Quesadillas for Lunch!  We’ll certainly have an Olympic sized appetite after our bike/scooter relay races!  On Friday, we’ll be heading

out to Caumsett State Park for some field games and relays!

 

Week 2:  Safari

We’re going on Safari this week!  In groups, we’ll be choosing and researching jungle animals.  Each group will prepare a Safari animal with related clues for our Safari Walk at the end of the week.  While we visit our Safari Walk, we can learn all about the safari animals each group researched!  For special snack, we’re making a special art collage with a jungle theme that we’ll eat!  And, we’ll also be preparing dirt and insects…yum!  On Wednesday, we’re going roller skating, which is sure to be a blast!  On Thursday, we’re baking jungle animal cookies from scratch—they are going to be delicious!  On Friday, we’ll go on our Safari Walk and then meet real animals when the Pet Den visits us on Friday! 

 

Week 3:  Pirates

Ahoy Mates!  We have a pirate theme this week!  We’ll work together in groups to create treasure maps and then we’ll be hiding treasures for other groups to find!  Monday is Wacky Hat Day, so be sure to bring your wackiest hat to camp!  We’re having a Pirate Party on Tuesday! We’ll be making bandanas and pirate hats to go along with the pirate costumes we’ll be making!  We’ll have Pirate Booty and Pirate Root Beer Floats for special snack. We’re going to Bounce U for our field trip this week.  On Thursday, we’re baking Pirate Cupcakes from scratch!  On Friday, we’ll be going to the beach to build a pirate ship out of the sand, complete with sails, a walking plank and a Kiddie Academy Flag!  When we get home from the beach, we’ll watch the movie “Hook”.

 

Week 4:  Under The Sea

This week, we’ll be exploring lots of exciting things from under the sea!  This Wacky Monday, we’ll need to come in to camp “Mis-Matched”.  Will you wear two different socks?  A crazy outfit?  We can’t wait to see how you accessorize!  We’ll be making Under The Sea creatures from sea shells.  For water play, we’ll be making Sponge Ball, Square Arms.  Later in the week, we’ll be using them for a sponge painted mural, where we will display our Sponge Bob, Square Pants creations!  We’ll have Pearly Bites for special snack.  We’ll be making individual under the sea themed bottles.  We’ll write secret messages and place them in Floating Bottles…you’ll get to pick a bottle and guess who wrote the message!  We’re heading out to Atlantis this week to see some real sea life—it’s always one of our favorite trips!  We’re going to create our own “Sponge Bob” treats for our cooking activity!  At the beach on Friday, we’ll go on a nature walk and see what we can find from under the sea! 

 

Week 5:  Carnival Week

It’s carnival week!  And we’re going to have lots of fun!  We’ll be working on exciting new carnival games all week for our Kiddie Academy Carnival on Thursday.  We’ll have lots of games, face painting and attractions to share with our younger Kiddie Academy friends!  Monday is Wacky Sock Day…the crazier the better!  On Tuesday, we’ll be making “make shift water slides” for our water play activity.  We’ll be making funnel cakes for special snack, along with our famous “Popcorn Bar”.  We’re going to Adventure Land on Wednesday—another camp favorite!  On Thursday we’ll be making fruit pizza.  On Friday, Magic Bob will be coming to do a magic show for us.

 

Week 6:  Once Upon A Time

This week is going to be so fun!   We’ll start off a little bit wacky on Monday by coming to camp in rainbow colored clothes!  Then, we’ll spend the next few days prepping for our Prince and Princess Ball and create our own Fairy Tale story in small groups…do you think that they will all end with “happily ever after”?  We’ll plan our Thursday evening Royal Ball  including our menu and activities during our Tuesday Tea Party—you guessed it…we’re serving foods that start with the letter T—can you think of any yummy T foods? 

We have arranged to visit Oheka Castle in Huntington for our field trip this week.  In February, Oheka’s event coordinator said this Wednesday was available, but there is a chance we could get bumped, as they host several outings and events over the summer.  If we are not able to go to Oheka, we’ll do our best to transform our classroom into a ball room within a castle—we may need a little help from our Fairy Godmother!  Either way, we’ll need to make decorations and Royal Crowns!  We’ll be preparing special hors d’oevres and fancy drinks for the ball on Thursday evening.  So, remember to bring in your fanciest clothes and then we’ll dance until dark! 

 

Week 7:  Happy Holidays!

This week we will be celebrating, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day.  We’ll also have a Happy Un-Birthday Party to celebrate all of the birthdays that don’t fall in August!  A birthday party wouldn’t be a party without favors and gifts, so we’ll organize a Book Swap so each of our friends will receive a book!  You can purchase an inexpensive paperback, or bring in a gently used favorite from home!  We will need to make lots of decorations to help us set the scene for each of our holidays.  On Monday, we’ll wear Wacky T-shirts to camp—or green for our St. Patrick’s celebration!  For “St. Patrick’s Day”, we’ll make Irish Soda Bread and we’ll be seeing and wearing lots of green!  Do you think that crazy Leprechaun will come out of the forest and cause chaos at camp?  We’ll go Trick or Treating and have a Spooky Walk for “Halloween” on Tuesday.  On Wednesday…we’re heading out to Splish Splash!  We’ll prepare a “Thanksgiving Feast” with all of the trimmings for Thursday!  For our February celebration, we’ll make snow, and create sweet confections for special snack!  On “Valentine’s Day”, we’ll prepare home made gifts and Valentines for a friend.

 

Week 8:  Chef Week

Since we all love to cook and enjoy preparing our special snacks each week, we thought it would be cool to have a Master Chef Baking Challenge, inspired by Chef Gordon Ramsey!  We’ll start of Monday with Wacky Hair Day…(in honor of Chef Ramsey, who has wacky hair)!  We’ll have an outside picnic after making fruit kabobs and create a few recipes in small groups.  We’ll be creating recipe books based on recipes we create within small groups.  Each group will have a budget, shop for ingredients and prepare a recipe.  Then, we’ll taste each finished product and vote on our favorites!  On Wednesday, we’ll go to Little Chefs where we will do some more cooking activities!  On Thursday, we will have a Master Chef Baking Challenge, where each team will need to bake a cake from scratch and prepare a home made filling.  On Friday, after we come back from the beach and make sand cakes… each team will put their real cakes together and decorate them with pastry bags and decorating tools!  Then, take a taste of each cake and vote on our favorites within three categories!

 

Week 9:  Around The World

This week is all about learning the cultures of different countries!  We’ll kick this week off by making wacky necklaces, inspired by international design!  We’ll introduce several different countries/cultures so you can decide which country you would like to learn about!  You’ll be working in small groups with others who want to learn about the same country!  Together, you will research and discover the foods, music and cultures of your country.  Your group will create a KWL Chart:  what you know about the country, what you want to learn, and then share what you have learned with the other groups!  You will choose and prepare a special snack, native to your country to share with the other groups.  During the week, Miss Nicole, Assistant Director at Kiddie Academy of Islip, will be coming over to teach us about international dance styles!  We’ll be making Nachos for a special snack.  On Wednesday, we’re going to Fun 4 All—which is certainly going to be fun!  On Thursday, we will all taste sushi and try to make sushi from special treats for dessert! 

 

Week 10:  Outer Space

We’re starting this week off with Backwards Day on Monday.  We’ll need to wear our clothes backwards...but we have a feeling that the whole day may end up upside down and inside out!  This week we’ll be learning about outer space and working with lots of alien slime!  It’ll be in our sensory table and we’ll need it for our paper mache planets!  We’ll be making Glow In The Dark Space Mobiles and bake Alien Face Cookies!  Things will get complicated when we attempt a Rocket Ship cake later in the week.  We’re going to play Monster Mini Golf in Deer Park on Wednesday.  This Friday, we’ll finally have the chance to meet Pen Pals from Kiddie Academy of Islip, when we gather for a picnic at Beaver Damn Park with Miss Cassie and all her friends, just down the block from Kiddie Academy of Islip! 

 

 

 

 

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