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| Summer Camp Specialty Camps This year there are over 25 specialized camps for your child to choose from. Every instructor brings years of experience to their chosen camp. Each week a child can choose to be creative or active. Enrich your child’s imagination by taking arts and crafts, dance, science, photography/nature walks. For the active child, physical sport camps such as golf, tennis fishing, basketball, football and cheerleading are offered. All PRICES INCREASE $20 after 5/12/08
Specialty Camps run from 9:00 am-12:00 Noon. Drop-off can begin at 8:00 am. Early drop-off is available beginning at 7:30 am for an additional $35 a week. Extended day is also available from 12 Noon-6:00 pm for an additional Please see below for the Specialty Camp schedule. Following the schedule will be the specialty camp descriptions.
Specialty Camp Descriptions: Creative Camps:
Gr. K-2) Learn how to draw Animae - the Japanese art of drawing. Learn about the basics of drawing people, animal animae and more. Play Japanese games. The Anime Guide Book will help you through the steps to creating our own anime characters. Keep the book and your kit materials to further explore this unusual art form. Classes help children develop both skills and confidence! Class enrollment is limited to 8 (on-site)
Green kids care about the environment. Create remarkable art using recycled items such as CD's, plastic bottles, packaging, paper tubes and more. Our recyclers will learn about reusing common everyday items and turning them into masterpieces. There’ll be lots of 3-D projects such as creating French Santons statues and fuzzy animals and puppies, as well as using reusable items for painting and drawing! Join our colorful world and put the emphasis on GREEN! Museum Magical Mystery (Gr. 2-6) Who is our mystery artist? You will be a sleuth and collect clues while exploring artwork of great artists like Cezanne, Korky Paul, O’Keeffe and more. We will travel virtually to museums around the world where we’ll learn new techniques,art words, facts and create our own masterpieces! There will be games, activities, artist trading cards and the Abrakadoodle Studio 2 Challenge Book as well as take home materials for you to use to create at home! Zoo Doodle Safari (Gr. K-1) Photography (Gr.2-6) Campers will work with cameras; shooting, processing, and printing pictures, as well as visiting a shop to see how film is developed. Hiking is incorporated in order to experience the beauty of our many parks and wildlife refuge. They will create a photo album from their week long experience. (Loantaka Park, Jockey Hollow, Great Swamp, and a local camera shop)
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learn routines, combinations, and choreography as well as common cheers. The values of teamwork, fair play, and integrity are always incorporated. (on-site)
Opening stretches, basic stretches and varied movements such as yoga. The creative movement class includes props where the child is encouraged to use their imagination. Jazz/Hip Hop class will be tons of fun. There will also be choreography workshop, letting the child explore how dances are put together, while choreographing their own dance routine. Science Camps: Botball Robotics (Gr.2-6) You will build and take home your very own Botball robot. The soccer-playing, remote-control Botball can kick and move in any direction. Up to four robots can take part in the action as students learn how to control the ball, hold it, and kick it with an infrared remote controller. It’s a challenge, but easy to do if you are ready to think. The weasel is sleek, smart, and simply amazing. It has two motors, a three speed gearbox, and WOW can it go fast!Two photo sensors allow it to see a line or feel its way along walls. Watch it as it travels. It’s all yours to make and keep. Learn about gears, sensors, electronic components, circuit boards and much more. You will also get to build other things. Campers will learn to utilize everyday materials while participating in interesting experiments. Making slime, crystals, and play-doh are just a few of the fun ideas to be carried out.
This camp is a combination of sports and arts and crafts. Campers will play different sports throughout the week and bring an art project home with them each day. (Blake Center)
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cast and unhook fish. These basic skills are taught in a safe environment such as Sunrise Lake and Loantaka Pond. (off-site)
miniature golf courses. Throughout the week they will learn the fundamentals of golf, golf etiquette and receive one-on-one instruction from an experienced golfer. (off-site)
fundamental ball skills. The last two sessions start with more advanced skills. Each day ends with a game where players are taught to use their skills in a group. (Mennen Field)
while playing against fellow campers of same ability. Serving, volleying, net play and scoring will be emphasized. (off-site)
the importance of teamwork. Different sports that will be played are, soccer, basketball, baseball and more. (on-site) YMCA campers do their pre-season football training right here in Morris County. Coaches will be onhand to instruct your 4th through 6th grader on the finer points of football in this non-contact, week-long clinic. (off-site)
Play ball! Throughout the week children will learn the following fundamentals of baseball: throwing, catching, hitting and running the bases. (off-site)
approach to help kids learn to read music. Many different activities in each class help teach the children: timing, fingering, music theory and much more. Kids use state of the art Casio keyboards and play in ensembles and solo. (on-site)
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