About our Ages 5 to 12 Summer Camp in Colonia, NJ

Focus: We stimulate the curiosity and develop the learning of even our smallest campers.

Activities foster creativity and build on skills your 2-year-old already knows, while recognizing the need to use their bodies as they explore new skills. Our hands-on activities relate to familiar themes. Teachers use finger plays, songs, movement activities and age-appropriate children’s literature – including books that promote sign language and Spanish – to enrich the summer camp experience for 2-year-olds.

Activities

• Developing fine motor skills and practice writing by creating Scribble Journals.
• Discovering which toys float and which sink by playing with them in the water table.

Learn On^®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

• Help your child create a Scribble Journal where they can practice writing to develop fine motor skills.
• Discover which toys float or sink while playing in the pool or tub.

Focus: We examine real-world topics.

Our teachers use a project-based approach to involve your child in directing their own learning and investigating topics they help choose. 3 and 4-year-olds participate in activities focusing on language arts, math, science, technology, creative arts, drama, music, movement and character education that help prepare them for kindergarten. The project concludes with an event or project that displays their work and celebrates their achievements.

Activities

• Making paper airplanes, measuring how far they fly and making a chart to compare the results.
• Matching numbers to strengthen number recognition.

Learn On^®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

• Help your child make paper airplanes, then measure how far they fly and make a chart to compare the results.
• Make paper boats and sails, matching the numbers on each to strengthen number recognition.

Focus: We allow your child to direct their learning to their interests.

The project-based approach allows children to select their own learning experience as they explore topics that interest them. Teachers are encouraged to follow each child's lead as they plan activities, like creating an art gallery or preparing a museum. Each 5-year-old to 12-year-old student will arrange a culminating event or project and celebrate their work.

Activities

• Planting and tending a vegetable garden to learn how plants grow.
• Using clay to make a bug sculpture to help learn the different parts of insects.

Learn On^®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

• Plant a vegetable garden at home and let your child help tend the plants and harvest the vegetables. Ask them to show you the different parts of each plant.
• Help your child come up with questions and use a digital audio recorder to interview family members to learn about their family history. You can also show them on a map or globe where your family comes from.

Focus: Keeping your child healthy and safe.

Health Essentials is a set of CDC-based standard operating procedures that can help mitigate the spread of potential infection throughout our Academy. Health Essentials is a key part of our overall COVID-19 response, expanding upon existing disinfection and health protocols that offer parents and staff peace of mind and demonstrates our commitment to creating a healthy and safe environment for learning and working.

1. Wellness Education

The solution starts with an understanding.

• Children learn how following proper hygienic practices can keep them healthy
• Academy staff receives training and must abide by enhanced health and safety practices outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2. Enhanced Hygiene

Soap and water is the best solution.

• Soap and water offer the simplest solution to combat infection
• Staff increase handwashing frequency
• All children must wash their hands upon entering their room at the start of each day and all recommended times thereafter in addition to following standard Academy handwashing procedures

3. Healthy Environment

A clean facility keeps families safe.

Academies adhere to advanced cleaning procedures:

• Nightly cleaning
• Daily laundering of soft items and bedding
• Limiting items brought into the Academy

4. Symptom Monitoring

Keeping a watchful eye

• Temperature monitoring at the Academy entrance.
• Track symptoms using AcademyLink^®
• Isolate symptomatic children from others immediately upon observation
• Contact parents for pickup from the Academy
• Daily health check is completed upon arrival