Welcome to Kiddie Academy’s Camp Adventure 2010  

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. 

Since our trips to the beach were such a huge hit every Friday, we’ve decided to do it again!  This year, the Town of Huntington recommended West Neck Beach in Lloyd Harbor.  So we have put in our permits, which are pending for every Friday through the summer!   This will give the children time outdoors and allow them to reconnect with nature.  Most weeks, we will be bringing along theme related activities. 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.  

Since we all love cooking and eating, we 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!

Those of you have been in our School Age Program/Vacation Club this year, know Miss Carol.  She taught art in the Westbury School District for many years and served as their Art Chairperson.  Over the course of the year, Miss Carol has shared her talent and introduced our school aged children to many different mediums and artists.  Miss Carol will be coming in on Mondays for “art workshops” and will gear activities for the children to match and enhance the weekly themes.  Miss Carol is not afraid to get messy and always encourages creativity…we can’t wait to see what happens in the art workshops!

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…so get ready for lots of fun!  We’re most excited for our Late Night Luau where we will be staying at camp until dark so we can do all sorts of fun “luau activities”. 

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 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.

Weekly Adventures

Week One:  “A Fire Cracking Summer Kick Off”

We’re off to a fire cracking good start this summer!  Everyone loves Koosh Balls…but we bet you’ve never used them to make fireworks!  We’ll be rolling Pigs In A Blanket for our special snack this week.  Wednesday’s field trip will start at the Greenlawn Family Restaurant for a hearty breakfast.  We’ll need lots of energy because we’re going bowling and after that, we’re going to Elwood Park!  On Thursday, we’ll be baking homemade Flag cupcakes with fresh whipped cream and berries…Yummy!  And, of course we can’t forget to celebrate America’s birthday!   We’ll spend the week decorating the classroom for the 4^th of July.  On Friday, we’ll be celebrating by wearing red, white and blue.  We’ll also be making birthday cards for America!

Week Two:  Olympic Week! 

Our week is filled with Water Olympic Games and Relays, complete with team colors and vibrant tie dyed “shirts” that we’ll be making!  Our special snack this week is Gold Medal Sundaes, with all of the fixings!  We’ll be going to Pump It Up for our Wednesday field trip and we’ll also be stopping at Elwood Park before heading back to Kiddie Academy.  We’ll be cooking huge cheese quesidiallas.  But, cheese is just the beginning!  We’ll make a list of our favorite ingredients and shop for them at Waldbaum’s.  Then we’ll prepare them for the Olympic Sized Quesidiallas bar!

Week Three:  How Things Work  

This week is all about science; predictions, hypothesis and cool concoctions!  We’re old enough to start figuring out how things work and to make our own inventions and experiments.  It’s sure to be ooey-gooey fun!  We’ll be visiting the Long Island Children’s Museum to explore many cool exhibits.   We’ll try a totally new experiment with candle wax and get down and dirty for snack… is anyone hungry for “worms and dirt”?

Week Four:  Luau

Have you ever been to a luau?  Now’s your chance to have a late night adventure at Kiddie Academy with all of our friends!  We’ll need plenty of decorations and delicious party foods to get the party started!  So, we’ll be busy cooking and making decorations.  We’ll be making Hawaiian Pizza from scratch for our cooking activity!  We’ll also be making a tropical fruit salad!  We’ll be visiting many rescued animals at the Brookhaven Ecology Site for our field trip and we’ll have a picnic lunch while were out!  We’re also going to stop at Elwood Park, before heading home to Kiddie Academy.

Week Five:  Winter Holiday Extravaganza!

We’re not sure if Santa will be visiting us…we hear he’s on vacation!  But, we’re going to do many fun things that usually happen in winter!  We’ll have an ice skating relay, play with snow and bake holiday cookies from scratch!  We’re also going to Little Chef’s to make our own lunch and dessert and we’ll go to Elwood Park if time allows!  We’ll need to decorate the room for our holiday party.  We’re going to wrap plenty of “presents”—we’re going to need them for our unwrapping relay!  We may even have a Secret Santa or Grab Bag if everyone is interested in participating…more details to follow! 

Week Six:  Wet and Wild

Splish Splash is our field trip this week!  You are sure to get splished and splashed on all of those fun water rides!  We’ll be working on a top secret paper mache project until it is finished—we’ll probably be working on it until the end of the week, and maybe even into Week 7!  We’re going to bake…well, not bake, but make an ice box cake!  We’ll have a Baked Potato Skin Bar with all the fixings for special snack. 

Week Seven:  Under The Big Top

Everyone loves the circus!  Especially the younger children in the center!  We’ll continue our work with paper mache to create circus acts, props and costumes, because we’re bringing the circus to the rest of the center!    We’ll be experimenting with homemade hot pretzels for special snack and we’ll be cooking home made macaroni and cheese!  We’ll be visiting Green Meadow Farms for our field trip    

Week Eight:  Once Upon A Time

This week is all about fairy tales!  We’ll re-tell some old favorites and create new ones!  We’re going to have a fancy Prince and Princess Ball complete with Shirley Temples and finger foods served on silver platters.  We’ll have glass slippers and magic wands…but we can’t tell you why just yet!  During the week, we’ll be making smoothies with ingredients from our Smoothie Bar.  Our field trip this week is to Adventure Land, another camp favorite! 

Week Nine:  Penny Carnival

Start collecting your pennies now!  We’ll need an awful lot to have a Penny Carnival!  We’ll be creating lots of carnival games for the rest of the center, but with a new twist!  They all revolve around pennies!  We’ll be making funnel cakes and home made brownies for our cooking activities this week.  We’re going to have a super water slide come to Kiddie Academy, instead of going out on a field trip this week. 

Week Ten:  Summer Bash

Of course summer wouldn’t be summer without S’mores…so we’ll be making an old favorite…but in a new way!  We’re going to have mozzarella sticks for special snack this week, yummy!  We’ll be visiting the Fire Island Lighthouse for our last field trip.  We’ll have a picnic lunch on the stone terrace and take a walk down to the bay.

We have decided that the last week of camp should be “kid’s choice”!  We have a feeling that the activities will revolve around the many talented campers we have here at Kiddie Academy!  You know we’re always ready for a School Aged Talent Show with audience participation and teacher performances too!  We can’t wait to see what the kids come up with…or what they want to try again!

We’re sure to have another fun filled summer!

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