This summer, all my kids attended some kind of camp...which made it nearly impossible to have a regular summer school program. So, what I did instead was just let my kids do there own camps...with occasional worksheets and activities from me that would (hopefully) keep their brains from turning to sausage over the break.
I did put together a week-long summer camp for my Girl Scouts, since the Day Camp put on by the Service Unit was canceled this year. This was my agenda...we crammed A LOT in...we earned all the patches, but RARELY had time for the "Time Busters" I planned...I guess it's always better to be OVER prepared rather than UNDER prepared, right?
- a. Make Sun Tea and Sun Jam Outdoors in the City #6 30 minutes
- b. Make a camp t-shirt Art to Wear # 5 1 hour
- c. Decorate tote bags Art to Wear # 10, Prints and Graphics #2, 3, & 4 1 hour
- d. Make a camp “scrapbook” to record the weeks adventures, go over cameras Write All About It #1 & 2, Camera Shots #1, 2, 3, 4,7 & 8 1 hour
- e. Make water bottle straps 30 minutes
- f. Lunch 30 minutes
- g. Learn about our great state Florida (state bird, flower, animal, tree, etc.), publically elected officials, capital, etc. Make a map of our state, with rivers, lakes, and other topographical features. Label the capitol, major cities, oceans, rivers, etc. Talk about poisonous plants and reptiles in our area. Wildlife # 1 & 5 1 ½ hour
- h. Create a travel brochure for Florida. Highlight your favorite places. Globe-Trotting #2 1 hour
- i. Snack (tea and jam on toast) Lets Get Cooking #1 & 2 15 minutes
- j. Talk about healthy choices and lifestyles, pool safety, present chart race, and do warm-ups Fun and Fit #1, 2, and 3, Environmental Health #1, Safety First #7 30 minutes
- k. Go swimming Swimming #1, 2, 4, & 7, Water Fun #1, 4, & 5, Fun and Fit #6 1 hour
- l. Cool down and stretch Fun and Fit #4 & 5 15 minutes
- m. TIME BUSTER: Talk a walk to the park. Look at all the things in our city, collect flowers to press. At park – draw, paint, or sketch something pretty on art paper, take landscape pictures Outdoor Creativity #1 & 4, My Community #1, Camera Shots #4, Outdoors in the City #7, Outdoors in the City #3 2 hours
- n. TIME BUSTER 2: Write in your journals/scrapbooks about the days adventures, what you’re looking forward to at camp, and what you want to learn about. Include drawing and art. Write All About It # 1 & 3 1 hour
Tuesday, July 13: Butterflies!!!
- a. Find out about the Life Cycle of a butterfly, and label the parts of a butterfly and color it. Talk about what makes up butterfly wings. Butterflies # 2, 4, 5 & 9 1 hour
- b. Take a field trip to Butterfly Gardens (have lunch there) Butterflies #8, Camera Shots #2,3, and 4, Wildlife #2, 6, 7 & 8, Outdoor Creativity #7 4 ¾ hours
- c. Snack Lets Get Cooking # 7 30 minutes
- d. Write 3 kinds of butterfly poems…haiku, free verse or rhymed, anagrams or sonnets Butterflies # 6, Outdoor Creativity # 3, Write All About It # 9, Outdoor Fun #10 1 hour
- e. Do warm-ups, strength training exercises, update chart Fun and Fit # 1, 2, 3, 5, & 8 30 minutes
- f. Go swimming, Learn to snorkel Swimming # 3 1 hour
- g. Cool down and stretch Fun and Fit # 4 & 5 15 minutes
- h. TIME BUSTER: Butterfly craft
Wednesday, July 14: Hurricanes!!
- a. Learn to read a weather map, read clouds, understand hurricane tracking, talk about weather trends, discuss what causes hurricanes and why Weather Watch #1, 3, 5, 6, & 9, Storm Ready #11 2 hours
- b. Learn/review basic first aid and build a pot-holder first aid kit First Aid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, Outdoor Fun #2 & 5, Storm Ready #1 & 7, Hiker #3 2 hours
- c. Lunch 30 minutes
- d. Make a Storm Safe binder for important documents, list of jobs for each family member, maps to closest evacuation shelters, etc. Discuss how you will take care of pets in severe weather. Plan 3 non-cook meals and make a grocery list for those items. Make plans for games and activities, and add to binder. Learn how to purify water. Storm Ready # 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9, Outdoor Cook #7 & 10 2 hours
- e. Snack Let’s Get Cooking #8 30 minutes (pink hurricanes @ Family Fun)
- f. Do warm-ups, strength training exercises, update chart Fun and Fit # 1, 2, 3, 5, & 8 30 minutes
- g. Go swimming, work on water first aid Swimming # 1, 4, 5, and 6 1 hour
- h. Cool down and stretch Fun and Fit # 4 & 5 15 minutes
- i. TIME BUSTER: Make pickle barrels or backpacks for each girl/ 72 hour kits (have a list or supplies), do hurricane worksheets…
- j. TIME BUSTER: Go out in the kayak, practice water/small craft safety
Thursday, July 15: Water!!
- a. Learn about the water cycle and make rain Water Wonders #1 and Weather Watcher #10 45 minutes
- b. Learn about where we get our drinking water, do water comparisons, and find out the many ways that salt water and fresh water are different Water Wonders #2, 9, & 10 1 ¼ hour
- c. Talk about the drought in our state and how it affects us, learn about other areas in the world that suffer from drought and what they are doing to fix the problem Water Wonders #3, Serve to Preserve #1, Water Fun # 7, Environmental Health #3, Eco-Action #3 30 minutes
- d. Go to the beach (Lunch at the beach)!!! Take pictures, draw pictures, do crafts. Practice snorkeling. Make a beach snack. Camera Shots #2, 3, & 4, Outdoor Creativity #10, Swimming #3, Water Fun #2, Water Wonders #5, Wildlife #7 & 8, Serve to Preserve #5, Outdoor Cook #3, Puzzlers #3 4 hours
- e. Divide in to patrols and start an environmental newspaper… one group writes about water conservation, and another about endangered butterflies and how to help them Eco-Action #1 & 5, Environmental Health #7, Write All About It #10, Serve to Preserve #3 1 hour
- f. Write a fictional story in scrapbooks using one of our beach-y story starters Write All About It #2 & 5 1 hour
Friday, July 16: Giving Back and Getting Wet
- a. Plant a Butterfly Garden Butterflies #1, Eco-Action #2, Outdoor Creativity #6 3 hours
- Go to C.B. Smith Park (lunch there!!) 5 hours
- c. In journals, write a “how-to” on planting a butterfly garden. Include pictures. Write All About It #4 1 hour
- d. TIME BUSTER: “Trashy Art” Craft, Decorate Paper Sacks Eco-Action #6 & 7
2 hours
Saturday, July 17: Helping our State
- a. Discuss what “biofuels” are, how they are made, and talk about energy and alternative energy in the state of Florida Serve to Preserve #2 30 minutes
- b. Learn about fossil fuels, and how plants and animals became the oil we use today, show where most major deposits are found. Talk about products use petroleum, and how to use less of them. Oil Up #2, 3 & 10 30 minutes
- c. Discuss the Gulf Oil Spill. Make and try to clean up an oil spill. Show how oil affects a beach. Oil Up #5 & 6 30 minutes
- d. Make Earth keychain 30 minutes
- e. Learn about what rescue workers and scientists do to save animals affected by an oil spill, discuss our local endangered species that would be affected once the oil enters our waters Oil Up #1 30 minutes
- f. Continue newspaper. Have one patrol write about a Florida endangered species, and have the other write about the Gulf Oil Spill. Together, work on a comic strip that explains what happens to one of the drops from the spill. Add pictures, photographs, and print up a copy for everyone. Oil Up #8, Eco-Action #1 & 5, Environmental Health #7, Write All About It #10, Serve to Preserve #3 2 hours
- g. Lunch 30 minutes
- h. Put pictures in scrapbooks, decorate with stickers and papers. Write about favorite activity, and what you hope for next year. 2 hours
- i. Snack 15 minutes
- j. Do warm-ups, strength training exercises, update chart Fun and Fit # 1, 2, 3, 5, & 8 30 minutes
- k. Go swimming, play water games, practice diving Swimming # 8, Water Fun #5 1 hour
- l. Cool down and stretch Fun and Fit # 4 & 5 15 minutes
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