Junior Camp

Learning to measure, mix, and bake are the goals in cooking activities – and eating the finished product of course! Campers bake muffins, biscuits, and make ‘dirt’ pudding.

The art room is a creative place with young artists expressing themselves artistically with projects like scrapbooks, cloth puppets, crazy character hair planters (stockings filled with seeds and decorated to look like a character which grow hair when the seeds sprout!), paper mosaics in the shapes of lizards, butterflies and fish, sequin butterfly pictures, and fluorescent painted fans. Sewing, weaving, and tie-dying are also popular. After the campers complete their daily project, the campers are free to explore activities in watercolors, drawing, stencils, and beading.

Campers learn to hammer and nail as well as drill and screw safely using foam and then move on to creating, decorating, and painting wood items such as door hangers, bobble heart note holders, bead bracelets, and craft stick people.

Science classes always start with a question such as “What kinds of living things are in our natural habitat?” Campers then take a nature walk to our creek and the surrounding areas on campus, observe living things, and identify insects and native trees. Campers also explore many scientific areas through a variety of experiments and hands-on activities in the classroom.

Campers have fun and develop athletic skills through many different kinds of team games and activities. Organized sports games during the Specials period will be a team sports (i.e. t-ball or soccer). Before each game, campers will participate in short drills to practice basic skills like dribbling, catching and throwing. Green Acres favorites like freeze tag, parachute games, balloon relay races, and gaga will continue to be offered as Choice Time activities in the afternoon.

Campers embark on a musical journey into exploring rhythm and melody and creating new songs of their own. We start by learning to sing and move to a song, and then isolate specific parts to use in creating new compositions of our own. Campers enjoy creating rhythms to play with different instruments and making their own melody patterns.  Campers have fun playing new rhythms on different instruments and forming a band with overlapping rhythms. On the rhythmic front, campers used three different percussion instruments in groups to create a rhythm ensemble that included different patterns that all fit together into a unified whole. Being part of a group like this is a wonderful way to experience the music and see how each member adds to the whole! 

All of the Junior Camp units open directly on the playground for easy access. There are two dedicated play areas for junior campers with swings, several play houses, sand box and numerous climbing structures and slides. It is shaded, too!

Weekly assemblies are very popular at Green Acres. Shows featuring singing puppets, dog tricks, reptiles, and storytellers were a big hit last summer. We also have a 4th of July Parade and Fun Run, Fun Fridays, Spirit Days, a Staff Vaudeville Show, and a Special Day.