Fitness Blender Kids Workout * Simon Says * Red Light, Green Light __________________________________________________________
Camp Themes Field Trips - Safety First *NOTE: FAELA camps may not participate in weekly field trips, but will offer activities such as fitness, gymnastics, arts & crafts, sports, special events, and outdoor water sports.
Week 1 - 4: SHOW US YOUR CAMP SPIRIT - Show us your Camp Spirit. Outdoor sports, Aquatic Center (sprinklers). Campers explore their creative side (making: door knob hangers, crazy / wacky animals with movable eyes, minute to win it games, friendship circles, trail mix, wacky relays, water sports (balloons). *Field trip / Fun Day - Sharing/Caring (Falls Lake)
Week 5: SHOW US YOUR CAMP SPIRIT (STEAM - Art Consultant) Students will create bird houses with emphasis on creativity. *Field Trip: create rockets, tour Dr Goddard’s Lab, and view the Hall of Space Museum.
Week 6: BACKYARD BASH / SPACE AVENGERS - Enjoy the great outdoors as we partake in summertime classic games like tug-of-war, kickball, foursquare, hopscotch, lawn games, nature crafts, picnics to end the week. (Parents invited) *Field trip: Grove Park Lakeside Character Challenge: Responsibility Wacky Wednesday: Crazy hat
Wed. (Science, Art, Math) Campers will follow the schedule below to complete activities. Campers will work collaboratively in groups and independently. Campers will work in groups by grade levels.
We will not deviate from the schedule to control our environment. This keeps everyone on task and allows for more structure.
Our meal times are specific and everyone must adhere to it. This helps to keep our center neat and clean, at all times.
1. Make the planets 2. The links are an example of the size of each plant. Mercury — marble Venus — walnut Earth — golf ball Mars — acorn Jupiter — basketball Saturn — soccer ball Uranus — soft ball Neptune — small grapefruit Pluto — kidney bean
Week 7: WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE - Join us for our Rockin’ Beach Party with hula hoop games, water balloon piñata, duck duck splash, water slides, water gun wars and a watermelon contest with Luau on Friday. (Deaf & hard of hearing week at FAELA) *Field trip: NC Life and Science Museum, Character Challenge: Caring Wacky Wednesday: Luau gear
Week 8:SUPERHEROES - Meet and salute real life superheroes, take the Superhero character challenge, dress up as favorite superhero, Superhero games/crafts and lend a hand as we pay it forward thru community service and create the hero in all of us. *Field trip: TBA, Character Challenge: Respect Wacky Wednesday: Dress-up as a superhero
SURVIVE IT - Can your team survive it? Create Team Flags, Decipher codes, Scavenger Hunts, Noodle tag, Got It, ultimate Frisbee, Ty-Dye bananas, Tug of War, Tribal team competitions and Immunity Challenges, Color Wars. *Field trip: TBA, Character Challenge: Responsibility Wacky Tuesday: Costumes
*Field Trip: Life and Science Museum, Character Challenge: Honesty Wacky
** Field Trip(s) SPACE STATION VACATION - 3, 2, 1…Blast-off as campers learn about the solar system through hands-on activities involving the planets, stars, and moon.
08:30 am Puzzle Maze Online Puzzles Mega Mech Assembling Make Robot1, Dress Robot2 09:00 am Literacy Enrichment(s) K-5 Site Words * Site Words 1 (K) * Site Words 2 (K) * Site Words - 1st Grade * Vocabulary Builder - 2nd Grade * Song Word Builder- 2nd Grade 09:30 am STEAM Mon. (Maze - Paper Plate Marble Maze) In this STEM activity, campers will use loose parts and play materials to create mazes, structures, and obstacles for their Hexbugs.
This activity promotes all kinds of learning: planning, problem solving, engineering. building and creativity. Creating Mazes and Structures Campers will use all kinds of materials. Tues. (Rockets) Wed. (Kites) Thurs. Water Sports (Balloon Challenge Games) 10:00 am Snack 10:15 am DEAR Read Aloud-1 Read Aloud-2 (Other) Select a book (Grd 3 - 7) 11:00 am Video - Flight Technology (Literacy Skill Development, Cognitive / Motor Skills) (Grd K - 2) Comic Creator (Grd 3 - 7) Powtoon - Create Movies 11:30 am Lunch GK - 7 EdFun G3 - 7 Connect 4 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Mon. Lego Challenge - Race / Mini Car Maze
LEGO BALLOON CAR: MAKE IT GO AND SIMPLE SCIENCE! Blow up the Balloon and let your LEGO car go! How far will your balloon car travel? Grab a measuring tape and see whose car went the farthest! MATHEMAZE. Why do you think this car went farther? Why do you think this car was slower? What if we tried it on a rug? What happens if the balloon is blown up more or less?
Tues. Coding A platform for students to learn computer science while playing through a real game.
Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners. Learn Python or JavaScript as you defeat ogres, solve mazes, and level up. Games * Combat * Game Menu - Dungeons
02:30 pm Snack Outdoor Sports Tugga War Apple Bobbing 03:00 pm Mathmaze K-5 Grd K - 7 K-3 Basic Math MS Pre-Algrebra DEAR Read a Book 04:00 pm Legos / Jenga Lego Academics 04:30 pm K-2 JumpStart Learning G2 - 7 Free Play / Movie
Week 11: DECADES OF FUN - Travel back with us to days of root beer floats, wild west days with a gold rush, explore caveman drawings as you dinosaur egg hunt, relive the hippie days and disco, and more. *Caring Wacky Wednesday
CAMPER SKILLS - Calling all superstars to step into the spotlight and showcase your talents through skits, games, dance, music and creative arts, as well learn about sounds and circuits. Enter the Talent Show and show us the Next Big Thing. (Parents are welcome to attend Talent Show)
(Mon. - Tues.) 08:30 am Puzzle Maze (search based on days activity / change total number of pieces) Online Puzzles Mega Mech Assembling Make Robot1, Dress Robot2 09:30 am Food science is the study of the physical, biological, and chemical makeup of food; and the concepts underlying food processing. Food technology is the application offood science to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution, and use of safe food.
Food for the brain Yoga (Animal Creatures) Fun for kids and great for health and fitness
08:30 am Puzzle Maze (search based on days activity / change total number of pieces) Online Puzzles Mega Mech Assembling Make Robot1, Dress Robot2
09:00 am Food science is the study of the physical, biological, and chemical makeup of food; and the concepts underlying food processing. Food technology is the application offood science to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution, and use of safe food.
Food for the brain Yoga (Animal Creatures) Fun for kids and great for health and fitness
09:30 am STEAM (See Below) In the STEM activity, campers will use loose parts and play materials to create mazes, structures, and obstacles for their Hexbugs. This activity promotes all kinds of learning: planning, problem solving, engineering. building and creativity. Creating Mazes and Structures Campers will use all kinds of materials. Create Kites after completing movies. 1. Movie (Liam, Oscar, Selena) work together 2. Draw / trace / color - pics of animal creatures (William, Joel, Emmy, Hashly) take turn 10:00 am Snack Everyone stop working Remain seated in area until everyone is done eating before completing projects. No one should be walking around with food or drink(s). 10:15 am D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) Read Aloud-1 Read Aloud-2 (Other) Select a book (Grd 3 - 7) 10:45 am Complete Movie Educational Technology GK - 7 EdFun G3 - 7 Connect 4 11:15 am Lunch (wash hands) Everyone stop working Remain seated in area until everyone is done eating before completing projects. No one should be walking around. 12:00 pm FREE play outside (frisbees, hula hoop, relay race, soccer ball) Outdoor Sports Tugga War Apple Bobbing Create Kites after completing movies. 1. Movie (Liam, Oscar, Selena) work together 2. Draw / trace / color - pics of animal creatures (William, Joel, Emmy, Hashly) take turns
(S.T.E.A.M.) Mon. - Wed. Virtual Field Trip (Website - Spotlight and showcase your talent ) (Art, Story, Poem, Rap, Song, Game of videos) Build Kites (Only after completing Movie(s) Thurs. * Tour Dr Goddard’s Lab, and * View the Hall of Space Museum * Mustache Day (Wacky Wednesday, Cowboy/Cowgirl) Make and eat moon rocks Create rockets Fri. Hovercraft: 01. Use CD, Use a label to write your name and use a ballpoint pen. 02. Poke another hole in the center of the bottom of a film canister. 03. Put the film canister over the hole in the plate and use poster putty to stick it on. 04. Blow up a balloon and twist the opening so that air doesn't come out. 05. Stretch the opening of the balloon over the film canister. 06. Make sure that the opening of the balloon lines up with the hole in the film canister. 07. Put the Hovercraft on a smooth, flat surface, let go of the balloon and give it a flick. 08. The Hovercraft will glide across the surface on a cushion of air. 09. The air in the balloon has to go somewhere. 10. So, it flows out of the balloon and goes under the plate. 11. The layer of air under the plate takes up space so it keeps the plate and table from rubbing on each other. 12. When objects rub against each other, they create friction. 13. Friction drags on each object and slows it down. 14. The Hovercraft has very little friction because it rests on air. Friday (Excursions) AM (EdGames) PM Just for Fun
Week 12: AROUND THE WORLD - Get your passport stamped as we travel around the world visiting different cultures/countries/customs through games, crafts and food. Track where we are traveling daily and celebrate international customs/diversity with a Carnival. *Field trip: Frankies / Wheels, Character Challenge: Respect Wacky Wednesday: Mannequin Challenge
Mon. - Thurs. (S.T.E.A.M.) Mon. Spotlight and showcase your talent (Art, Story, Poem, Rap, Song, Game/Maze(add elements (dinosaurs, eggs) Dinosaur Egg Hunt Slime adventure Coding A platform for students to learn computer science while playing through a real game.
Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners. Learn Python or JavaScript as you defeat ogres, solve mazes, and level up. Games * Combat * Game Menu - Dungeons
** MESSY OLYMPICS - Join us as we kick-off the Olympic games of goo, slime, slop, goop, and gunk. Campers will compete in games designed to be messy - ding dong baseball, flour wars, and Olympics of the mouth will highlight this gross time of fun. ( tshirt to tye-dye) *Field Trip: TBA, Character Challenge: Honest, Wacky Wednesday, Thurs: Favorite Sports Team
** AARGH MATEY! - Have some swashbuckling pirate fun! Use maps to find lost treasure, pirate hats/eyepatches/sand art, try shipwreck stew, capture the pirate flag, and survive the cannonball attacks through the obstacle course to find your way safely home. *Field trip: Falls Lake, Character Challenge: Respect, Wacky Wednesday, Thurs: Pirate/Princess Day
** STEM AND SUPER SOUND - Explore the fascinating world of science and technology through hands-on experiments including exploring how sound waves look and travel through different mediums. *Field trip: NC History Museum, Character Challenge: Respect, Wednesday: Crazy Sock Day, Thursday: Backwards Day
Week 13: CELEBRATIONS - It’s time to wrap us the summer with all our friends. Celebrate each day with favorite moments like Shipwreck Stew, Slimy Activities, Water Gun Wars, Rootbeer Floats, Sports Clinics, and a Color War. Character Challenge: Responsibility Wacky Wednesday: 80s Day